Patent ID: 7281675

Claim:
A portable spreader/blower comprising: a housing enclosure, the housing enclosure including a bin therein for holding material to be spread, the housing enclosure further having a discharge nozzle thereon; a centrifugal distributor disk rotatably mounted in said housing enclosure in an enclosure space region below said bin, the bin having an outflow aperture located therein above a face part of said distributor disk so that material discharging from said bin through said outflow aperture falls onto said distributor disk face part; a material flow guide tube extending downwardly from said bin outflow aperture to a location proximal the face part of said distributor disk; a rotary screw crushing means for crushing any agglomerated material mass present in outflow thereof from said bin; a closure member operable to selectively alter an effective bin outflow aperture size from between a zero opening size to a full opening size; means for rotating said distributor disk; and a shroud encasing said distributor disk, said shroud having an outlet in communication with said discharge nozzle so that material falling onto said rotating distributor disk face part is propelled by said distributor disk out of said housing enclosure through said discharge nozzle.