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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1997
Filed:
May. 24, 1996
Phillip Orland Swenson, Beaver Dam, WI (US);
Ronald Lee Reichen, Horicon, WI (US);
Larry Neil Smith, Beaver Dam, WI (US);
Donald Emil Niosi, Prior Lake, MN (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A drive mechanism for a shiftable reel mower brush, the mechanisms including a drive gear driven by the power source, a driven gear fixed with the brush, and an idler gear for transmitting rotational motion from the drive gear to the driven gear. The idler gear is shiftable to remain meshed with the drive gear and driven gear as the brush shifts. A first pivot member is pivotal about the drive gear's axis of rotation, and the idler gear is operatively coupled with the first pivot member for keeping the idler gear in mesh with the drive gear when the brush shifts. A second pivot member is pivotal about the driven gear's axis of rotation, and the idler gear is coupled with the second pivot member for keeping the idler gear in mesh with the driven gear when the driven gear shifts relative to the drive gear.