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US 6,471,569 B1Granted
Rotary mower blade grinder
OwnerStephen Geoffrey Bernhardinventor
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Abstract
A device for grinding a rotary mower blade (16), the device comprising an adjustable support for receiving a rotary mower blade, means for fixing the blade relative to the support, means for feeding the support and blade both axially and transversely relative to a grinding wheel (4), and for pivoting the support towards and away from the grinding wheel.
Claims18
A device for grinding a rotary mower blade which device comprises (i) an adjustable support having a fixed element and a slidable element;
- (ii) means for feeding the adjustable support and blade both axially and transversely relative to a grinding wheel and for pivoting the support towards and away from the grinding wheel;
- and (iii) a blade engagement element connected to the adjustable support for engaging the blade which adjustable support is adjusted to cause the blade to be moved about the blade engagement element at a substantially central point of the blade between a first grinding position for grinding one edge of the blade and a second grinding position so as to grind the opposite edge of the blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.