Patent ID: 7607244

Claim:
A snow-plowing apparatus comprising: a snow-removing member, detachably attached to an end of a holding rod, extended in forward-and-downward direction, of a hand-pushed mower including an engine, a wheel attached to a frame, and a rotation transmitting portion including a gear case and a rotation shaft portion, and being detachably attached to the snow-removing member through an attached disc portion, to which rotational driving force of the engine is transmitted and a mowing blade is detachably attached; wherein: the snow-removing member includes a snowplow rotating body rotated around a horizontal axis by the rotation transmitting portion for plowing and throwing snow, and the rotation shaft portion of the rotation transmitting portion is directed vertically when the mowing blade is attached, and directed horizontally when the snow-removing member is attached; the snow-removing member includes a shaft member that is attached to the rotation transmitting portion and rotated around the horizontal axis, and a housing member attached to the end of the holding rod and disposed near a rear side of the snowplow rotating body to lead the snow plowed by the snowplow rotating body upward; the snowplow rotating body is divided into plural short rotating bodies along the horizontal axis of the rotating body, each rotating body including a respective insertion hole to mount to the shaft member and thereby to rotate unitedly around the horizontal axis, and each of the short rotating bodies comprises respective plural snow-plowing blades disposed with a predetermined pitch in a peripheral direction; and wherein the plural short rotating bodies are mounted to the shaft member to compose the snowplow rotating body with the plural snow-plowing blades dislocated relative to each other in the peripheral direction around the horizontal axis; whereby torque on the shaft member is reduced.