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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2022
Exmark Manufacturing Company Incorporated, Beatrice, NE (US);
Michael Shane Fredenburg, Hickman, NE (US);
Valerie Jinright, Beatrice, NE (US);
EXMARK MANUFACTURING COMPANY INCORPORATED, Beatrice, NE (US);
Abstract
A grounds maintenance vehicle has a vehicle frame, an implement coupled to the vehicle frame, and a height selection tool configured to change a vertical position of the implement relative to the vehicle frame. The height selection tool has a manually engageable mechanism pivotably coupled to the vehicle frame. Pivoting the manually engageable mechanism relative to the vehicle frame changes the vertical position of the implement relative to the vehicle frame. A locking rail is coupled to the frame, extends adjacently to the pivot pathway, and defines a plurality of latch openings along the pivot pathway. A pawl pivotably coupled to the manually engageable mechanism has a latching end configured pivot into each latch opening to selectively fix the manually engageable mechanism to the locking rail at each of a plurality of incremental locations along the pivot pathway. Each incremental location corresponds to a particular latch opening and defines an operating height of the implement.