Patent Application
20220061214
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The disclosure relates to blade devices and more particularly pertains to a new blade device for enhancing efficiency of a lawnmower.
The prior art relates to blade devices. The prior art discloses an elastomeric lawn mower blade. The prior art discloses a variety of different lawn mower blades, each having a centrally positioned hub that engages an output shaft of a lawnmower. Additionally, the prior art discloses a variety of different lawn mower blades each comprising a set of blades that are attachable together.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a plurality of blades that each intersects each other at a central point having the plurality of blades radiating outwardly from the central point. The central point is mountable to an output shaft of a lawnmower thereby facilitating the plurality of blades to be rotated by the output shaft. Each of the plurality of blades has a cutting edge that faces the rotational direction of the output shaft to cut grass when the output shaft rotates. The plurality of blades is evenly spaced apart from each other around the central point thereby facilitating the plurality of blades to produce centripetal force that is balanced with respect to the central point wherein the plurality of blades is configured to enhance smoothness of the rotation of the output shaft.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The blades 12 are evenly spaced apart from each other around the central point 14 thereby facilitating the plurality of blades 12 to produce centripetal force that is balanced with respect to the central point 14. In this way the plurality of blades 12 enhance smoothness of the rotation of the output shaft 16. Moreover, the plurality of blades 12 develops greater inertia than a single blade thereby enhancing the efficiency of the output shaft 16 with respect to fuel consumption of the lawnmower's motor.
Each of the blades 12 has a distal end 22 with respect to the central point 14 and each of the blades 12 has a front edge 24 that faces the rotational direction of the output shaft 16. A shaft hole 26 extends through the central point 14 and the shaft hole 26 insertably receives the output shaft 16. In this way each of the blades 12 extends along a line that is oriented perpendicular to a rotational axis of the output shaft 16 when the plurality of blades 12 is positioned on the output shaft 16. The cutting edge 20 is positioned on the front edge 24 of a respective one of the blades 12 and the cutting edge 20 extends from the distal end 22 of the respective blade toward the central point 14. Additionally, the plurality of blades 12 is oriented at a right angle with respect to each other.
In use, the plurality of blades 12 is positioned on the output shaft 16 of the lawnmower 18 such that the front edge 24 of the blades 12 faces the rotational direction of the output shaft 16. In this way the cutting edge 20 on each of the blades 12 can cut grass when the lawnmower 18 is being employed. The plurality of blades 12, in conjunction with the perpendicular orientation of the blades 12 with respect to each other, increases the centripetal inertia that is created when the output shaft 16 rotates. In this way the plurality of blades 12 enhances efficiency with which the grass is cut and reduces vibrations in the lawnmower 18 compared to a traditional, single blade.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
