Patent ID: 9068301
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: E01C,E04F

Abstract:
1. A manually steered riding trowel comprising; a frame; engine means secured to said frame for powering the trowel; a pair of downwardly projecting, pivoted rotors that frictionally contact concrete; a pair of steering levers that may be grasped by a user and pushed forwardly or pulled rearwardly to tilt at least one of said rotors and cause forward or rearward trowel movement; at least one of said steering levers adapted to be moved laterally side to side to tilt at least one rotor to cause lateral trowel movement; and, a transformation link adapted to be connected between said steering levers thereby enabling both steering levers to move laterally together, said transformation link adapted to be selectively disconnected from one of said steering levers while remaining connected to the other of said steering levers and connected to the trowel frame to suppress lateral movements of the other of said steering levers.