Ariens Company

Andrew L Donati

William Tenorio

Jason Dong

Brian Vickery

John Adams

Scot A Koehler

Brent P Berglund

Daniel J Gindt

Fredric D Schreiner

William D Maile

Michael J Holeton

Craig Key

Jeffrey M Berchem

Thomas E Phillip

Matthew P Schuller-Rach

Trenton J Meyer

Grant Gierosky

Scott M Lyman

Derek Mikula

Christopher Forrest

Michael Rukamp

Rebecca Vissers

Aric Hamburg

Cory Petersen

Battery pack

A lawn mower includes a seat plate movably coupled to the frame. An operator seat is coupled to the seat plate. An armrest is laterally spaced from the operator seat and includes an elongated support, an arm support surface, and a control panel. The elongated support has a first end fixed to the seat plate and a second end. The arm support surface is coupled to the second end and can support a user's arm. The control panel is positioned between the arm support surface and the second end of the elongated support. The control panel is fixed to the elongated support for movement with the seat plate such that the control panel remains stationary relative to the seat plate. The control panel includes an actuator to control a function of the lawn mower. The actuator is configured to be actuated while the user's arm is on the support surface.

Lawn mower including a control panel and movable seat

Battery pack cap

A utility machine, such as an outdoor power equipment unit such as a lawn mower, includes a work unit performing work in addition to motive power for the utility machine and a trailer occupied by an operator in a standing position. The operator may seamlessly step onto the trailer to operate the machine in stand-on mode and step off the trailer to operate the machine in walk-behind mode. The trailer remains in the deployed condition in both stand-on mode and walk-behind mode.

Utility machine operable in stand-on and walk-behind modes

Lawn mower

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Andrew L Donati