Patent ID: 9699964
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A01D,E05C

Claim:
1. A lawn care vehicle comprising: a rotatable shaft; a cutting deck housing at least one blade; and a blade mount operably coupled to the rotatable shaft and configured to releasably engage the at least one blade, the blade mount comprising: wherein the blade release assembly is configured to facilitate holding the shaped protrusion within the recess in a first position of the blade release assembly and to release the shaped protrusion responsive to movement of the blade release assembly to a second position, wherein the blade release assembly, the recess, and the shaped protrusion are disposed between the at least one blade and the rotatable shaft, wherein the shaped protrusion comprises a pin reception slot disposed at an outer surface thereof, the pin reception slot being configured to receive a retractable pin of the blade release assembly, the retractable pin retracting from the pin reception slot to release the shaped protrusion from the blade mount and extending into the pin reception slot to hold the shaped protrusion to the blade mount.