Patent ID: 6581363
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: A01D

Abstract:
A cleaning device for mounting on a lawnmower having a housing about a cutting blade, said cleaning device comprising:a tubular conduit mounted on said lawnmower and extending through the housing for conducting a cleaning fluid under pressure into the housing; a rotor rotatably mounted on said conduit for rotation inside of said housing about an axis; and said rotor having a series of fluid channels communicating with said conduit and which are arranged to discharge fluid in the same rotary direction about said axis whereby pressurized fluid from said conduit entering into the channels of said rotor causes said rotor to rotate and spray pressurized fluid in rotary streams against the inside surfaces of said housing, each of said channels including a pair of connected closed bores with one of said bores of the pair extending axially of said rotor and the other of said bores extending from the respective one bore to the outside of said rotor.