Patent ID: 11918932
Assignee: nan
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A toy lawnmower assembly for facilitating a child to safely trim a lawn, said assembly comprising:
a housing having structural features being molded into said housing to define a motor portion of said housing extending upwardly from a deck portion of said housing wherein said housing is configured to have the ornamental appearance of a push type lawn mower, said motor portion having a shaft receiver being integrated into said motor portion, said deck portion having an upper wall;
a plurality of wheels, each of said wheels being rotatably coupled to said housing thereby facilitating said housing to be rolled along a support surface;
a handle being coupled to and angling upwardly from said housing wherein said handle is configured to be gripped by a child such that the child can push said housing in the convention of a lawn mower;
a drive unit being movably integrated into said housing, said drive unit being in mechanical communication with at least one of said wheels, said drive unit being rotated when said at least one wheel is rotated;
a trimming unit being coupled to said drive unit, said trimming unit being rotated when said drive unit is rotated, said trimming unit being directed downwardly on said housing wherein said trimming unit is configured to trim the lawn when said housing is pushed along the lawn; and
wherein said drive unit comprises:
a primary gear being positioned around an axle extending between a rear pair of said wheels such that said primary gear rotates about a rotational axis of said axle when said rear pair of wheels rotates, said primary gear having a front face, said front face having a plurality of teeth extending away from said front face, said teeth being spaced apart from each other and being distributed around a perimeter of said front face such that said teeth encircle said rotational axis of said axle;
a secondary gear having an upper surface and an outer surface, said outer surface tapering inwardly from said upper surface, said outer surface having a plurality of teeth being integrated into said outer surface and being distributed around said outer surface, said plurality of teeth on said outer surface engaging said plurality of teeth on said front face of said primary gear;
a first pulley being rotatably disposed on a bottom side of said upper wall of said deck portion of said housing, said secondary gear rotating said first pulley when said primary gear rotates;
a shaft having an upper end and a lower end, said shaft being rotatably disposed in said shaft well in said distal end of said shaft receiver, said upper end being positioned within said shaft well, said lower end being spaced downwardly from said distal end of said shaft receiver;
a second pulley being positioned directly around said shaft such that said second pulley rotates said shaft about an axis extending through said upper end and said lower end, said upper surface of said secondary gear being coupled to said first pulley; and
said trimmer unit comprises a trimming head having a top surface and a perimeter surface, said top surface being directly coupled to said shaft wherein said trimming head is rotated by said shaft.