Claims
- 1. In a rotary device for cutting vegetation and the like, comprising:
- an angularly shaped housing member including a motor housing on an upper surface thereof,
- motor means mounted in said motor housing, said motor means including an extending rotatable power driving shaft,
- a handle mounted on said angularly shaped housing and having means therein for accommodating control means and power delivery means for said motor means,
- a rotatable blade housing member including cutting blades, said rotatable blade housing securedly mounted to said power driving shaft, said cutting blades describing a plane generally perpendicular to said power driving shaft,
- a guard member having a plurality of spaced apart projections arranged circumferentially around and beyond the radius described by said cutting blades, said projections describing a plane generally parallel to plane described by said cutting blades, said projections separating vegetation prior to cutting, and
- said angularly shaped housing further including internal thereto, a channel defined at one end by a rdaius exceeding that of a radius described by said rotating cutting blades and at another end in a generally rectangular configuration, said rectangular configuration being located at a rearward portion of said cutting rotary device providing collection space for said cut vegetation and including means for discharging said cut vegetation.
- 2. In a rotary device for cutting vegetation and the like, comprising:
- a housing member having a forward portion and a rearward portion, where said forard portion and said rearward portion define a chamber, wherein the vertical dimension of said chamber increases in a rearwardly direction,
- motor means including a rotatable power driving shaft mounted in the forward portion thereof,
- a handle mounted on said housing member including control means and power delivery means for said motor means,
- a plurality of cutting blade units secured to said rotatable power driving shaft, wherein each cutting blade unit includes a plurality of cutting blade elements,
- a guard member for said rotating cutting blade units, said guard member having a plurality of spaced apart projections arranged circumferentially beyond a radius greater than that described by said rotating cutting blade units, said projections describing a plane generally parallel to a plane described by said cutting blade units, said projections separating vegetation prior to cutting, and
- said housing member further including a defined channel at the forward thereof defined by a radius larger than that radius described by said cutting blade units, and at the rearward thereof opening into a generally rectangular chamber for providing collection space for said cut vegetation and including means for removing said cut vegetation.
- 3. In a rotary device for cutting vegetatin and the like, comprising:
- a housing member having a forward portion and a rearward portion, where said forward portion and said rearward portion define a chamber, wherein the vertical dimension of said chamber increases in a rearwardly direction,
- motor means including a rotatable power driving shaft mounted in the forward portion thereof,
- a handle mounted on said housing member including control means and power delivery means for said motor means,
- a plurality of cutting blade units secured to said rotatable power driving shaft wherein each cutting blade unit includes a plurality of cutting blade elements,
- a guard member for said rotating cutting blade units, said guard member having a plurality of spaced projections arranged circumferentially at a radius exceeding a radius described by said rotating cutting blade units, said projections describing a plane generally parallel to a plane described by said cutting blade units, said projections separating vegetation prior to cutting, and
- said housing member further including a channel defined at the foward thereof by a radius larger than that radius described by said cutting blade units, and at the rearward thereof describing a generally rectangular chamber for providing collection space for said cut vegetation and including means for removing said cut vegetation.
- 4. The device described in claim 3 whereins aid cutting blade units describe a plane perpendicular to said rotatable power driving shaft and in which at least one cutting blade element of one cutting blade unit describes a plane perpendicular to a plane described by the remainder of said blade of said cutting blade elements in said cutting blade unit.
- 5. In a rotary device for cutting vegetation and the like, comprising:
- a housing member having a forward portion and a rearward portion, where said forward portion and said rearward portion define a chamber, wherein the vertical dimension of said chamber increases in a rearwardly direction,
- motor means including a rotatable power driving shaft mounted in the forward portion thereof,
- a handle mounted on said housing member including control means and power delivery means for said motor means,
- a plurality of cutting blade units secured to said rotatable power driving shaft and describing a plane perpendicular to said rotatable power driving shaft, wherein each cutting blade unit includes a plurality of cutting blade elements, and in which at least one cutting blade element of one cutting blade unti describes a plane perpendicular to a plane described by the remainder of said cutting blade element in said cutting blade unit,
- a guard member for said rotating cutting blade units, said guard member having a plurality of spaced apart projections arranged circumferentially such that said rotating cutting blade units can rotate freely within the circumference of said projections, said projections describing a plane generally parallel to a plane described by said cutting blade units, said projections separating vegetation prior to cutting, and
- said housing member further including a channel for directing cut vegetation to a rearward portion of said housing member, said rearward portion describing a generally rectangular chamber for providing collection means for said cut vegetation and including means for removing said cut vegetation.
- 6. The device described in claim 5 wherein said blade cutting units include a plurality of air deflectors for directing cut vegetation to said collection means.
- 7. In a rotary device for cutting vegetation and the like, comprising:
- an angularly shaped housing, including a cylindrical housing having a defined channel extending from the forward portion thereof to the rearward portion thereof, said rearward portion of said angularly shaped housing providing collection space for said cut vegetation,
- a handle mounted on said angularly shaped housing, and motor means mounted in said cylindrical housing,
- said motor means including an extending power driving shaft, said shaft being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said handle, said handle including control means and energizing means for said motor means,
- a rotatable blade housing member adapted to be driven by said power driving shaft, including at least one cutting blade member, said combination of blade housing member and said cutting blade member describing a plane generally perpendicular to said power driving shaft, and
- a plurality of radially extending tines disposed forward of said angularly shaped housing and describing a radius exceeding a radius described by said cutting blade member, said tines describing a plane parallel to that described by said cutting blade member.
- 8. In a rotary device for cutting vegetation and the like, comprising:
- an angularly shaped housing, including a cylindrical housing having a defined channel extending from the forward portion thereof to the rearward portion thereof, said rearward portion of said angularly shaped housing providing collection space for said cut vegetation,
- a handle mounted on said angularly shaped housing, and motor means mounted in said cylindrical housing,
- said motor means including an extending power driving shaft, said shaft being perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of said handle, said handle including control means and energizing means for said motor means,
- a rotatable blade housing member adapted to be driven by said power driving shaft, including at least one cutting blade member, said cutting blade member further includes a plurality of cutting segments and in which at least one cutting segment is angularly disposed with respect to the remaining cutting segments, said cutting segments further including a plurality of serrated edges on a portion of said cutting segments, said combination of blade housing member and said cutting blade member describing a plane generally perpendicular to said power driving shaft, and
- a plurality of radially extending tines disposed forward of said angularly shaped housing and describing a radius exceeding a radius described by said cutting blade member, said tines describing a plane parallel to that described by said cutting blade member.
RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of our co-pending application, Ser. No. 702,400 filed Feb. 15, 1985, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,672,744.
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