Cutting blade piece protective structure, blade guard and lawn mower

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11737388-B2
Application number	US-201916667919-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 30, 2019
Priority date	Oct 31, 2018
Publication date	Aug 29, 2023
Grant date	Aug 29, 2023

Abstract

A cutting blade piece protective structure that prevents an obstacle from coming into direct contact with a blade portion of a cutting blade piece, saving light weight, saving a replacement cost at the time of breakage, and inhibiting lawn mowing performance by the cutting blade piece, is provided, and the lawn mower that includes the blade disk to be rotationally driven and at least one cutting blade piece attached to the outer peripheral portion of the blade disk, a blade guard for preventing an obstacle from coming into contact with the blade portion of the cutting blade piece is provided on the cutting blade piece. Preferably, the blade guard is attachable to and detachable from the cutting blade piece.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A blade guard in a lawnmower comprising a blade disk to be rotationally driven and a cutting blade piece attached to an outer peripheral portion of the blade disk,
wherein
the blade guard is attachable on the cutting blade piece for preventing an obstacle from coming into contact with a blade portion of the cutting blade piece,
the blade guard is detachable from the cutting blade piece when the cutting blade piece is attached to the outer peripheral portion of the blade disk,
the blade guard is configured to be attached
to the cutting blade piece to protect the blade portion of the cutting blade piece during a mowing operation in which the cutting blade piece is rotated with the blade disk,
the blade guard includes
a first protrusion protruding outward in a lateral direction of the blade guard,
a second protrusion protruding outward in the lateral direction of the blade guard, and
a recess between the first and second protrusions in a longitudinal direction of the blade guard, the recess being configured to expose a part of the blade portion of the cutting blade piece.

2. The blade guard according to claim 1 , wherein
the first protrusion of the blade guard is adapted to protrude, relative to the blade portion, forward in a rotation direction of the blade disk and at a position corresponding to a tip end of the blade portion.

3. The blade guard according to claim 2 , wherein the second protrusion is located on a rear side of the first protrusion,
the second protrusion is adapted to protrude, relative to the blade portion, forward in the rotation direction of the blade disk, and
the second protrusion includes adjacent second protrusions configured such that the blade portion extends between the adjacent second protrusions.

4. The blade guard according to claim 3 , wherein an interval between the adjacent second protrusions is an interval to prevent a golf ball as the obstacle from coming into contact with the blade portion.

5. The blade guard according to claim 1 , wherein the blade portion and the blade guard are disposed in both forward and reverse rotation directions of the blade disk.

6. The blade guard according to claim 1 , wherein
the blade guard further comprises a cutting blade piece receiving portion and a cutting blade piece engaging portion,
the cutting blade piece engaging portion is configured to lock the at least one cutting blade piece in a state in which the cutting blade piece is received in the cutting blade piece receiving portion, and
the blade guard is configured to be elastically deformed to unlock the cutting blade piece from the cutting blade piece engaging portion.

7. A lawnmower comprising the blade guard according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Yamabiko Corp

Inventors

• Nakano Kenji
• Yamada Ryota

Classifications

• A01D34/73 Primary

  Cutting apparatus · CPC title

• A01D34/008

  for automated or remotely controlled operation · CPC title

• A01D2101/00

  Lawn-mowers · CPC title

• A63B57/50

  specially adapted for course maintenance · CPC title

• A01D34/736 Primary

  Flail type · CPC title