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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Li-Hsiung Liu, Tucson, AZ (US);
McCulloch Corporation, Tucson, AZ (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to an impeller for use in a centrifugal fan that also includes a housing and a drive shaft. The impeller is mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith within the housing. The impeller further includes a disk-shaped back plate and an axis of rotation extending through the center of the circular back plate. A plurality of circumferentially spaced fins or blades extend generally radially of the axis of rotation, selected blades including mulching parts and the remainder of the blades being devoid of the mulching parts. The mulching parts are adjacent the radially inner portions of the selected blades and the mulching parts extend substantially axially of the impeller and into an air intake opening of the housing. The selected blades having the mulching parts are circumferentially spaced and are separated by at least one remaining blade which is devoid of a mulching part.