Abstract:
A mulching apparatus is described for converting green waste, including tree branches, small limbs, leaves, and grass clippings into a pulverized mulch. The apparatus comprises a green waste agitator hopper in the shape of an inverted, truncated cone, the hopper having a plurality of first blades fixed to an inner wall and projecting toward a vertical axis of the hopper. A waste agitator arm is rotatably mounted in the hopper through a bottom of the hopper for rotational movement about the vertical axis. The waste agitator arm has a plurality of second blades fixed thereto so as to intermesh with the hopper blades when the arm is rotated. A conduit is connected to a side region of the hopper to enable feeding waste material from the hopper to a fan mulching pulverizer disc rotatably installed in the conduit. The fan mulching pulverizer disc reduces the hopper waste material to a pulverized mulch and then blows the pulverized mulch out of the apparatus through a discharge duct.
Abstract:
A chopper has a rotatable cutting tool provided with a plurality of cutting teeth, a stopping body having a surface which faces the cutting teeth and guides the chopping product. The surface extends substantially in an axial direction of the cutting teeth and is arranged at a distance from the cutting teeth. The cutting teeth during a cutting process are in operative connection with the chopping product. A rotatably supported pressing roller which is arranged in a distance-free manner relative to the cutting tool and forms a gap between the pressing roller and the cutting tool, while the stopping body having a working side which extends in the gap between the pressing roller and the cutting tool.
Abstract:
A discharge assembly controls the discharge of shredded and macerated materials from a chipper/shredder device. A discharge screen of the discharge assembly has a pair of fasteners on opposing ends of the discharge screen for removably mounting the screen on the chipper/shredder housing. An operator engageable handle is affixed to one end of the screen for handling the screen during installation and removal and a locator tab is affixed to the end of the screen opposing the handle and is received in aperture formed in the chipper/shredder housing for alignment of the discharge screen with the housing. A discharge tunnel is formed on a side of the housing and in communication with the discharge screen, and a service door is formed on a top side of a discharge tunnel allowing access to the tunnel for installation and removal of the discharge screen.
Abstract:
A leaf and vegetation shredder is formed by a power driven rotary blade cupped fan rotating in a fan housing connected in trailer fashion with a riding rotary lawn mower and operatively connected with the lawn mower vegetation discharge opening for increasing the air blast through the fan housing. Friction bars on the fan blades and an arc of the fan housing wall shred leaves and vegetation centrifugally forced therebetween.
Abstract:
In the context of a device for chopping up garden waste or the like of the type comprising a housing mounted on support legs and having at least one ejector opening, a preferably vertical charging passage mounted on the housing, a carrier disk adapted to rotate in the housing about an upright axis and mounted on the shaft of a motor attached to the housing so that the disk shuts off the housing at a lower end thereof and at least one generally radially aligned knife on the disk which is placed on a trailing edge, i.e. the edge which is to the rear in the direction of rotation, of a slot in the disk, the knife being arranged to cooperate with a stationary support bolster in the form of a circumferential part, extending transversely in relation to the direction of rotation, of the charging passage under which the knife moves, the invention seeks to achieve an improved functional performance and a compact construction insofar as in at least a lower part thereof the charging passage has a cross section which extends from the edge part of the carrying disk towards its center provided with a deflector mounted thereon and which is provided with at least one circumferential inward protrusion, whose trailing side respectively forms a stationary support bolster for supporting the waste being chopped, and furthermore the motor is carried on the floor part, overlapped by the carrier disk, of a housing chamber, which at its circumference has a number of ejection openings equal to the number of inward protrusions, whose axis is in a projection generally perpendicular to the projection of the side, which forms the respective associated stationary support bolster, of the corresponding circumferential inward protrusion of the charging chamber.
Abstract:
A size-reduction apparatus, especially for twigs and branches of trees and shrubbery is disclosed. The apparatus is provided with a loading chute, a chopping chamber having a chopping blade which rotates about a vertical axis, a shredding chamber having a cutting blade which rotates about a vertical axis, a feed tube which opens into the shredding chamber, a drive motor, and a respective discharge chute or conduit for each of the shredding and chopping chambers. The chopping blade and the cutting blade are driven separately by a respective shaft, and the chopping chamber and the shredding chamber are disposed next to one another.
Abstract:
A mulching stand for a rotary lawnmower of the type wherein rotary blades are mounted on a vertical shaft inside a housing and coupled to a motor positioned on the housing, is disclosed. The mulching stand comprises a frame for supporting the lawnmower upright a certain distance above the ground, a duct mounted in the structure for guiding material to be mulched upwardly into the path of the rotary blades, a piston device for pushing out of the duct the material remaining therein at the end of the mulching operation.
Abstract:
A shredder attachment converts a rotary power mower into a shredder for chopping or shredding leaves, clippings, twigs, small limbs, and other lawn and garden waste. The attachment includes a material receiving apron, an intake duct, and a plate which tightly engages the bottom of the mower housing to form a shredder chamber. An intake opening extends through the plate for admitting material to be shredded from the intake duct to a region of the chamber in which the rotary blade does not advance in the direction of the intake duct opening. A folding leg may be extended to raise the apron and duct so that the shredder attachment may be fed from an elevated position. In first and second embodiments, the intake opening is at the rear side of the mower and the duct extends rearwardly of the mower; in a third embodiment, the intake opening is at the rear side of the mower and the duct extends forwardly of the mower from the intake opening.
Abstract:
Mechanism for shredding vegetation and such material, including leaves, grass, twigs and the like. There is a chute for supplying the material to the shredding mechanism and a hopper positioned over the chute into which material may be placed. The mechanism includes an impeller, a rotatable blade, and flails carried by the impeller which drive material through spaced fingers carried by the housing.
Abstract:
A comminuter for reducing articles to small particles which has an upright housing with vertically spaced intake and discharge openings. Rotatable cutting blades have a vertically downwardly extending housing floor scraper with off-set scraper teeth on at least a pair of blades and upwardly extending splitting wedges. The blades are rotatably mounted within the housing and actuated by a hydraulic motor. A hydraulic pump powered by an internal combustion engine or the like is coupled with the hydraulic motor via a valve that permits the reversal of the direction of rotation of the motor and cessation of its rotation.