Patent ID: 6928801
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
1. A lawn mower blade stop for securing a blade against rotation relative to a deck of a rotary lawn mower, the deck having a skirt with a bottom edge, said stop consisting of: a U-shaped right angled channel with spaced first and second fixed sidewalls connected by a bottom wall for receipt of a bottom edge of a skirt with the first sidewall being on the outside of the skirt and the second sidewall being on the inside of the skirt; said second sidewall and bottom wall making at least three-point contact with the skirt; a threaded member threadedly received and passing through the first sidewall for making at least one-point contact with the skirt; said three-point contact between the second sidewall and bottom wall and the skirt and one-point contact between the threaded member and the skirt fixing the blade stop in a plane with respect to the skirt; and a single plate formed as an integral flange on the second sidewall and serving as a barrier to rotation of the blade.