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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1977
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerald H Wick, Galesburg, IL (US);
Assignee:
Outboard Marine Corporation, Waukegan, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
56 113 ; 192 / ;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a lawn mower comprising a cutter blade housing supported for movement along the ground, a cutter blade assembly including a cutter blade, and a gear housing fixed to the cutter blade and including therein a first pinion and a second pinion in mesh with the first pinion, a drive shaft extending into the gear box and having fixed thereon the first pinion, and mechanism mounting the second pinion in the gear box about a rotary axis fixed with respect to the gear box, which mechanism is operable to selectively prevent and permit rotation of the pinion relative to the gear box.