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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:
Jan. 27, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Troy M Deal, Winter Park, FL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
440 73 ; 416122 ; 416176 ;
Abstract
A self cleaning attachment for a propeller shaft having a gear box mounting parallel stub shafts driven in the same direction by a common gear, screw propeller surfaces on the shafts with teeth on the outer edge of each propeller surface and having weed shearing clearance with the shaft of the other surface, and stub shear bars supported in fixed relation to the box and disposed radially outward and parallel to the shafts with which the teeth also have weed shear clearance with the bars.