US 11,942,301 B2
Removable lawn mower PTO switch cover
Bryant F. Lewis, Swainsboro, GA (US)
Assigned to JENDYK MANUFACTURING, INC., Swainsboro, GA (US)
Filed by JENDYK MANUFACTURING, INC., Swainsboro, GA (US)
Filed on Feb. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/173,397.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/979,529, filed on Feb. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0262256 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. H01H 9/28 (2006.01); A01D 34/68 (2006.01); A01D 34/81 (2006.01); A01D 34/82 (2006.01); A01D 101/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 9/287 (2013.01) [A01D 34/828 (2013.01); A01D 34/6818 (2013.01); A01D 34/81 (2013.01); A01D 2101/00 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
4. Methodology for preventing unauthorized cranking of a lawn mower having push/pull mower deck or power-takeoff (PTO) switch interlocking technology to prevent cranking of the mower while the blades are in an engaged drive position thereof, comprising:
providing two reinforced components having respective internal partial cavities which when combined form an interior chamber for receiving the knob of a mower PTO switch, blocking the ability to push in the knob; and
selectively, securely joining the two components with the knob of the mower PTO switch received therein, and blocked from being pushed in to a disengaged drive position thereof; and
wherein one of the components includes a protruding metal loop, and the other of the components includes a separate interior receptacle portion formed by the other component, for the protruding metal loop to be completely inserted into the other component,
the other component further forms a separate actuator lock opening for receiving an extendable actuator lock so that actuation of said lock extendable actuator interacts with said protruding metal loop in the other component for selectively joining the two components together, and
said two reinforced components form a stop wall adjacent said interior chamber for receiving the knob of a mower PTO switch, and blocking the ability to push in the knob,
whereby the existing interlocking technology of the mower is used in order to prevent unauthorized cranking of the mower.