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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2015
Exmark Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, Beatrice, NE (US);
Clark S. Papke, Cortland, NE (US);
EXMARK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Beatrice, NE (US);
Abstract
A powered material broadcast spreader apparatus. The apparatus may include a granular material hopper having one or more upwardly extending walls that partially enclose an interior volume of the hopper. A first wall may define an opening passing outwardly from the interior volume. The apparatus may also include a motor surrounded by the one or more walls, and a motor cover having a contact surface congruent with a mating inner surface of the first wall. The motor cover is configured to form a motor compartment adapted to effectively isolate the motor from the interior volume, while permitting access to the motor from outside the hopper via the opening in the first wall.