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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2015
Applicant:
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Inventor:
Kevin Stones, Durham, GB;
Assignee:
BLACK & DECKER INC., New Britain, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 3/053 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A01G 3/053 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vegetation cutting device having a housing and a motor mounted in the housing to drive a drive gear. A rotatable eccentric cam mounted on the drive gear. A reciprocating blade assembly having a first blade and a second blade, wherein the first blade is coupled to the rotatable eccentric cam and is arranged to reciprocally move when driven by the rotatable eccentric cam. A cam adjustment mechanism for varying the eccentricity of the rotatable eccentric cam with respect to the drive gear to thereby vary the distance through which the first blade moves.