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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1999
Christopher Scott Thorman, Beaver Dam, WI (US);
Ronald Paul Holland, Fox Lake, WI (US);
John Boyd Kuhn, Rubicon, WI (US);
Deere & Company, Moline, IL (US);
Abstract
A tensioning assembly is provided for a primary drive employed in supplying rotary power from a vehicle to at least one sheave associated with a blade on a mower deck which, upon being driven, creates a tight side and a backside in a belt on opposite sides of a sheave. A bracket is pivotably supported on the mower deck and carries rotatably thereon first and second idler pulleys on respective first and second portions of the bracket. The first pulley engages the tight side of the belt, and the second pulley engages the backside of the belt. A resilient member is operatively coupled to the bracket for biasing the first and second pulleys mounted thereon toward a tensioning position wherein each of the first and second pulleys effectively lengthen a path of the belt, thereby tensioning the belt.