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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1981
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1979
Joseph E Scanland, Savannah, GA (US);
Roper Corporation, Kankakee, IL (US);
Abstract
A deck construction for a rotary mower which includes a shallow cylindrical blade housing with horizontal aprons extending fore and aft therefrom. Integral wheel supporting plates extend vertically along the respective lateral edges of the aprons and at right angles thereto. Each wheel supporting plate has a cantilevered tip portion which extends to the sidewall of the blade housing and which is welded to the sidewall at a region which is spaced substantially upwardly from the lower edge of the housing. The tip portion of each blade supporting plate is of flaring shape defining a generally triangular relief space thereunder and so that the plate forms a downwardly angled brace between housing and apron. The wheel supporting plates and apron are mutually reinforced by a narrow flange extending continuously around the edges thereof between the welded tip portions.