Patent ID: 6920941
Filing Date: 2005-07-26
Classification: A01B

Abstract:
1. A grass treatment apparatus which is adapted to be coupled with a propelling vehicle in order to be moveable over the ground and which mounts a plurality of grass treatment units which are engageable with the ground in order to carry out required grass treatment operations, said apparatus comprising: a main frame having mountings by which the apparatus can be coupled with a propelling vehicle; a grass treatment unit mounted on the main frame; a side frame adjustably mounted on the main frame, and having a grass treatment unit mounted thereon; a mounting recess provided in the main frame for receiving the side frame; and a power-operated device coupling the side frame to the main frame and operative to adjust the side frame between an outwardly deployed position in which it is laterally spaced from the main frame so that the treatment units can operate throughout an extended width provided by the main frame and the side frame lying one beside the other, and an inwardly deployed position in which the side frame is received by said mounting recess so that the treatment units are located one behind the other and operate throughout a reduced width provided by the main frame only.