US 5,687,555 AGranted

Apparatus for mowing, aerating, and/or collecting

AssigneeAmazone Machines Agricoles S.A.

InventorLaurent Klein

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Abstract

An apparatus for mowing, aerating and/or collecting includes a cultivation device, formed preferably as a mowing assembly, and disposed movable in a vertical direction relative to the frame, with guide elements disposed in front of and behind the cultivation device and adjustable relative to the cultivation device for setting the cutter level or the operating level of the cultivation device. In order to allow a uniform distance guide of the mowing assembly relative to the ground surface, even in case of an extremely uneven terrain, it is provided that the guide elements, disposed in front of and behind the cultivation device, are disposed at at least one common traverse. The traverse is disposed and swivelable in an upwardly aligned plane around a horizontally disposed axis, running perpendicular to the direction of travel.

Claims17

Dependent claims

An apparatus for mowing and for at least one of aerating and collecting comprising a frame;

a cultivation device having a casing and disposed movably in a vertical direction relative to the frame;
an adjustable front guide element having a first continuous contact with a ground surface, wherein the adjustable front guide element is disposed in front of the cultivation device;
a rear guide element having a second continuous contact with the ground surface, wherein the rear guide element is disposed in rear of the cultivation device, wherein the adjustable front guide element and the rear guide element set an operating level of the cultivation device;
a control mechanism attached to the casing;
an axle running perpendicular to a direction of travel of the cultivation device and supported by the control mechanism in an area of the cultivation device such that a vertical position of the axle is set with the control mechanism;
a first common traverse disposed between the adjustable front guide element and the rear guide element and pivotably attached to the control mechanism for pivoting around the axle, wherein the adjustable front guide element and the rear guide element are rotatably supported by the first common traverse.

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