Patent ID: 6490851
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
A housing structure for a lawn mower comprising:a cut-grass discharge passage for discharging cut grass from a cutter blade housing accommodating a cutter blade, said cut-grass discharge passage having a bottom closed with a discrete bottom plate; a bridge member disposed adjacent and along a width of an entrance of said cut-grass discharge passage and having a concave portion for insertion and retention therein of a front end portion of said bottom plate, the concave portion being defined by upper and lower flanges of said bridge member; and a back plate disposed adjacent and along a width of an exit of said cut-grass discharge passage and having a locking recess or hole, said bottom plate having, on a rear end portion thereof, a projection for fitting engagement with the locking recess or hole of said back plate, wherein said bottom plate is secured to a body of said housing with the front end portion inserted in the concave portion of said bridge member and the projection on the rear end portion fitted in the locking recess or hole of said back plate.