Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 29th July, 1890-Accepted, 6th Sept., 1890
Figure 1 is a plan view of a lawn-mower, with my attachment secured thereto, in
operative position.
Figure 2 is a detail inside view of the forward part of my attachment, showing the
lawn-mower in dotted lines.
Figure 3 is a side elevation of my device attached to a lawn-mower.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 are details.
A represents the handle of a lawn-mower, and B the handle-yoke, the latter being
provided with the usual slots b, for attachment to the lugs a on the wheels C of the
machine, which may be of any ordinary kind, such for example as shown in the
drawings with the usual roller D, suspended from rearward projecting brackets c, and
hangers d, knives E, and cutter-bar or shear-plate e or of any other construction
preferred. F is a border-wire preferably bent into a general U-shape, but with its
front portion bent downward into such shape as will conform to the general con-
figuration of the adjacent rear portions of the lawn-mower, at each side and thence
continued from side to side in a straight line, forming a bar f¹ parallel with the
roller D. This border-wire F is welded or otherwise united so as to be practically
continuous, and to it are secured the edges of a sheet of wire-gauze or other suitable
material, forming a grass-basket, or receptacle G, best secured to the border-wire F,
by loops of wire g, as shown in Figure 6. His a clamp, consisting of a bar or plate
with a pair of hook-arms h, which straddle the handle A, and receive the rear part of
the border-wire F, a set-screw I passing through a screw-threaded bore in the bar or
plate of the clamp H, and bearing against the upper surface of the handle A. J J are
similar clamps whose hook-armsj straddle the ends of the handle-yoke B, and receive
the forward portions of the border-wire F, and by means of the set-screws K K and
screw-threaded bores k k in the bars or plates of the clamps J, draw said portions of
the wire F (and the basket G secured thereto) against the outer side of the yoke ends,
as shown.
The operation of my device will be apparent from the foregoing description of its
construction. The grass, etc., as fast as it is cut, falls into the basket G and as the
latter is everywhere free from any frame, except the border-wire, it always lies on the
ground, ready for service, no matter at what elevation or inclination the bandle may
be held. Again, as the basket is attached solely and directly to the handle and its
yoke, by raising said handle the basket can be elevated so as to clear any obstruction,
and yet be kept sufficiently low, at the front, to receive the grass, and as the basket G
is not attached to the machine proper, in any manner, it can be more freely and
readily dumped than is the case with baskets secured to the roller axles, or their
brackets, or other parts of the lawn-mower itself.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is:
1. In a lawn mower, the combination with the handle of a border wire formed of a
single continuous piece of wire, adjustable clamps for securing the same to the handle,
and a basket suspended from the wire.
2. The combination with a lawn-mower. handle and its yoke, of a horizontally
disposed border wire, a basket or receptacle secured to, and suspended from the
border-wire, and a series of adjustable clamps and set-screws for holding said border-
wire tightly against the said handle and yoke.
3. The combination with a lawn-mower and its handle and handle-yoke, of a border-
wire of general U-shape, bent at its forward portions to conform to the configuration
of the adjacent rear portions of the mower, and clamped directly to said handle and
yoke, and a grass-basket secured directly to said border-wire, and free from contact
with any part of the mower proper.
DAL VINs on day of July fo
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.