Kubota Corporation

Benjamin A Morris

Fahmid Sharkar

Hiroyuki Tada

Hironobu Nishihara

Eric Chang

Phillip Smith

Taylor Clark

A grass mower includes a mower unit () provided on the traveling machine body (), a grass container () provided on a rear portion of the traveling machine body () for storing cut grass from the mower unit (), a rod lever unit () capable of undergoing displacement between a first operation position and a second operation position, and a swing mechanism () for swinging the grass container () between a cut grass storage position and a cut grass discharge position by utilizing operational displacement of the rod lever unit (). The rod lever unit () includes a base rod () coupled to the swing mechanism (), a grip rod () extending in a direction offset from an extending direction of the base rod (), and a coupling portion () through which the base rod () and the grip rod () are coupled so as not to be capable of being rotated relative to each other.

Grass container swing mechanism

[Summary] A mower unit includes an idler pulley unit and a single belt routed around an output pulley of a drive source, the idler pulley unit and a plurality of blade pulleys. The idler pulley unit includes a first idler pulley, a second idler pulley and a tension idler pulley. A pulley height of the idler pulley unit is set higher than a pulley height of the blade pulleys, and a forward belt portion from the output pulley and a reverse belt portion to the output pulley extend to pass over and above the blade belt portion.

Mower deck with a three-dimensional single belt transmission

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Sakai, Japan

Benjamin A Morris