The Toro Company

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David S Klis

Walter J Petersen

Scott Michael Coffin

Dennis J Berndt

Gerald J Pomerening

Bruce A Granger

Richard M Olson

A plurality of annular collars are provided formed from collar halves. The collar halves are at least partially separable from one another to allow the collar halves to be slipped into and around a groove in a grooved roller for a reel-type cutting unit. The collar halves can then be abutted and secured together to substantially fill in the roller groove. When collars are placed into the last two or three grooves on each end of a grooved roller, a non-shouldered grooved roller is thereby converted into a shouldered grooved roller without having to remove and replace one set of rollers with another.

Method for providing grooved roller with variable shoulders

An improved clutch assembly is described which includes a safety spring member which is adapted to engage the free end of a broken clutch spring so that the clutch will continue to operate in normal fashion.

Clutch assembly

A foot pedal is mounted on a control lever operatively connected to a hydrostatic transmission mechanism for a vehicle, for controlling forward and rearward movement of the vehicle. A damping member, operatively associated with the control lever, frictionally engages the pedal to restrain movement of the pedal and control lever, which movement may be caused by heavy vibration of the vehicle during travel over uneven terrain.

Traction control mechanism for hydrostatic transmission

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Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

David S Klis