Patent ID: 8522912

Claim:
A riding type mower including a self-propelled vehicle and a mowing apparatus, the self-propelled vehicle having a driver step provided to a front portion of the vehicle body, an engine provided to a rear portion of the vehicle body, a left and right pair of rear wheel drive apparatuses provided on a front side of the vehicle body with respect to the engine and on a rear side of the vehicle body with respect to the driver step and transmitting drive force from the engine to each of a left and right pair of rear wheels, and a left and right pair of rear wheel brakes separately provided to the left and right pair of rear wheel drive apparatuses, the mowing apparatus being raisably and lowerably provided on the front side of the vehicle body with respect to the left and right pair of rear wheel drive apparatuses below the driver step, the riding type mower comprising: a cutting blade housing; a plurality of driving cases; a plurality of cooling fans; a plurality of input pulleys; a guiding pulley; a propelling output pulley; a cutting blade output pulley; a cutting blade transmission belt; a drive transmission belt; a coupling mechanism coupling a brake pedal provided to the driver step with operation portions of the left and right pair of rear wheel brakes, the coupling mechanism including: a relay shaft; a pedal coupling rod; a left brake coupling rod; and a right brake coupling rod, the relay shaft being rotatably provided in a lateral direction of the vehicle on the rear side of the vehicle body with respect to the mowing apparatus and on the front side of the vehicle body with respect to the left and right pair of rear wheel drive apparatuses, the pedal coupling rod extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body above the mowing apparatus and connecting to the brake pedal and to the relay shaft, the left brake coupling rod extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body and connecting to a left end of the relay shaft and to the operation portion of the left rear wheel brake, and the right brake coupling rod extending in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body and connecting to a right end of the relay shaft and the operation portion of the right rear wheel brake, and wherein: the relay shaft is arranged in a longitudinal direction of the riding type mower posteriorly to the cutting blade housing and the guiding pulley, and anteriorly to the plurality of driving cases, the plurality of cooling fans, the plurality of input pulleys, the propelling output pulley, the cutting blade output pulley, and the drive transmission belt, and the relay shaft is arranged in a vertical direction of the riding type mower above the cutting blade housing, the cutting blade transmission belt, the guiding pulley, the plurality of driving cases, and the cutting blade output pulley, and below the plurality of cooling fans.