The Toro Company

Exmark Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Ryan J Volovsek

Timothy J Clift

Philip C Dretzka

Chris A Wadzinski

Nicholas J Wersal

Brian M Clemens

Daniel A Phipps

Steven J Svoboda

Aaron Y Curtis

Jeffrey B Kallevig

John O Hurst

Phat T Nghiem

Merle W Gaedy

Christina O Howell

Base station

A bagger attachment for use with a stand-on lawn mower. The bagger includes, in some embodiments, an impeller, a duct, and one or more bags which are covered by a hood. The hood is attached to a pivot frame that allows movement of the hood between open and closed positions. The bagger attachment may also include a frame assembly that facilitates mounting and removal of the bagger attachment from the mower. The bagger attachment may either contain removable bags, or may include a discharge door for dumping the clippings.

Bagger for stand-on mower

Snowthrower

A linkage adjustment system adapted to adjust a linkage, and a vehicle incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the linkage adjustment system adjusts a linkage operatively connecting an input (e.g., operator control lever of a lawn mower) to an output (e.g., drive system of a first drive wheel associated with a first (e.g., left) side of the mower). An adjustment device may adjust the linkage so that the first drive wheel rotates at the same speed as a second drive wheel (e.g., on the right side of the mower) when the control levers associated with both drive wheels are in a maximum forward position. A range setting arm of the system may adjust the total output of the first drive wheel (total forward and reverse output) to match the total output of the second drive wheel.

Linkage adjustment system and vehicle incorporating same

A walk power mower has a mower deck that encloses a pair of rotary cutting blades with the grass clippings from the blades being discharged through a rearwardly extending grass discharge tunnel in a rear bagging mode of operation. The blades are powered by a timed drive system that is carried by a horizontal apron that is part of a cast aluminum engine mount. The engine mount and the apron are bolted to a stamped steel deck shell that forms the cutting chamber in which the blades rotate. The mower has a side discharge mode in which a side discharge chute is releasably mounted over a side discharge opening. The chute carries a flow cutoff baffle having an inwardly protruding inner end that sticks through the side discharge opening to intercept and direct the clippings out through the side discharge opening and through the chute in the side discharge mode.

Walk power mower with flow cutoff baffle carried by a side discharge chute

Dual bladed walk power mower with timed blade drive system carried on an apron of a power source mount

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Inver Grove Heights, MN, United States of America

Ryan J Volovsek