Patent ID: 8215091

Claim:
A lawnmower gearbox assembly comprising: a. a gearbox housing having an input shaft and output shaft; b. a lawnmower deck disposed below the gearbox housing; c. a spindle housing operatively mounted below the lawnmower deck and including a passage disposed below the gearbox housing and communicating with the gearbox housing; d. the output shaft extends below the gearbox housing and through the lawnmower deck and into the spindle housing; e. the input shaft has a bevel gear attached thereto for rotating a bevel gear attached to the output shaft; and f. the input shaft includes spaced bearings and the bevel gear is at the inner end thereof; g. the output shaft includes spaced bearings within the gearbox housing and a bearing disposed within the spindle housing and the bevel gear attached to the output shaft is disposed between the spaced bearings and meshing with the input shaft bevel gear; and h. bracket means attached between the gearbox housing and the lawnmower deck including a plurality of opposed pairs of elongate outrigger arms extending outwardly from a mid portion of the bracket means and operatively attached to the gearbox, the arms including horizontal ends operatively turned at right angles and attached to the lawnmower deck and the arms between each end being clear of the deck while the turned arm ends are operatively seated on the deck parallel with the deck to provide means of seating the gearbox on the deck.