Patent ID: 8186135
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. An assembly for use in a lawn maintenance machine having a frame and a motor, the assembly comprising: a cutting head member; and an implement selection hardware set; wherein: the cutting head member is operatively connectable to the motor and mechanically connectable to the frame so that, when the cutting head member is operatively connected to the motor and mechanically connected to the frame, rotation of the motor will drive the cutting head member to rotate in the first angular direction about its central axis; the implement selection hardware set comprises an implement selection member and a first cutting implement; the implement selection member is rotatably mechanically connected to the cutting head member so that it can rotate with respect to the cutting head member about a selection member axis; the first cutting implement of the first type is rotatably mechanically connected to the implement selection member so that it can rotate with respect to implement selection member about an implement connection axis; and when the assembly is connected to the frame, the first cutting implement can rotate in all of the following ways: (i) with respect to the frame, about the central axis of the cutting head member along with the implement selection member and the cutting head member, (ii) with respect to the cutting head member, about the implement selection axis along with the implement selection member, and (iii) with respect to the implement selection member, about the implement connection axis.