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US 12,471,524 B2Granted
Single line weed vegetation trimmer and/or edger with continuous line feed
AssigneeMTD Products Inc
InventorsShalom Levin, Assaf Levin, Shai Abramson
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Abstract
A line trimmer or edger includes a trimmer head configured to rotate a portion of a trimmer line comprising a cutting end of the trimmer line; a trimmer motor configured to drive the rotation of the trimmer head; a continuous line feed mechanism configured to continuously feed the trimmer line into the trimmer head while the continuous line feed mechanism is active; and one or more line feed activation mechanisms configured to control an activation and a deactivation of the continuous line feed mechanism.
Claims13
A weed and vegetation trimmer, comprising:
- a trimmer head configured to rotate a portion of a trimmer line comprising a cutting end of the trimmer line;
- a trimmer motor configured to drive rotation of the trimmer head;
- a continuous line feed mechanism secured to the trimmer motor and configured to continuously feed the trimmer line into the trimmer head by a line feed motor while the continuous line feed mechanism is active, wherein the continuous line feed mechanism comprises a pair of wheels or a pair of gears that grip the trimmer line in place and comprises a release mechanism that facilitates release of the pair of wheels or pair of gears from the trimmer line;
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- one or more line feed activation mechanisms configured to control an activation and a deactivation of the line feed motor of the continuous line feed mechanism, wherein the release mechanism comprises a spring to maintain the pair of wheels or pair of gears in contact with the trimmer line and a lever or button to separate the pair of wheels or pair of gears from the trimmer line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.