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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1981
Filed:
Aug. 23, 1979
John H Marto, Oshkosh, WI (US);
J. I. Case Company, Racine, WI (US);
Abstract
An ignition system control for garden tractors is disclosed which includes a single control switch actuator interconnected with independently movable mower drive and transmission drive control linkages. The tractor engine will start only if both drive control linkages are in their disengaged positions which closes the control actuator switch. The control switch includes an elongated cantilevered contact which is engageable by a control wire member. The control wire member is responsive to movement by either the mower drive linkage or the transmission drive linkage. It is held in a transverse bridge-like fashion between the mower drive linkage and transmission drive linkage and above the cantilevered switch contact. The drive control linkages may move independently of one another, but only when both drives are disengaged does the control wire member compress the contact sufficiently to close the switch and permit engine starting.