Patents Assigned to Agri-Fab, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9027189
    Abstract: A lawn sweeper including a housing may have a plurality of first markings, a brush height adjustment assembly including an arm moveable between a setting orientation and a sweeping orientation and a gauge connected to the arm including a plurality of second markings that corresponds with the first markings such that when the arm is disposed in the setting orientation a grass height associated with one of the second markings determines an adjustment of the brush height assembly to the sweeping orientation to one of the first markings that corresponds with the one of the second markings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Hickenbottom, Michael R. Newman
  • Patent number: 8955188
    Abstract: A lawn sweeper including a swing arm rotatably connected to a wheel axle including a first end connected to a biasing element and a second end including a rotatably connected idler gear that meshingly engages a wheel gear in a first position and is disengaged from the wheel gear in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Hickenbottom, Doug Moore
  • Publication number: 20140165308
    Abstract: A lawn sweeper including a housing may have a plurality of first markings, a brush height adjustment assembly including an arm moveable between a setting orientation and a sweeping orientation and a gauge connected to the arm including a plurality of second markings that corresponds with the first markings such that when the arm is disposed in the setting orientation a grass height associated with one of the second markings determines an adjustment of the brush height assembly to the sweeping orientation to one of the first markings that corresponds with the one of the second markings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Hickenbottom, Michael R. Newman
  • Patent number: 8646141
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Evan T. Ward, Miroslav Vuckovic
  • Patent number: 8640294
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Evan T. Ward, Miroslav Vuckovic
  • Publication number: 20130276249
    Abstract: A lawn sweeper including a swing arm rotatably connected to a wheel axle including a first end connected to a biasing element and a second end including a rotatably connected idler gear that meshingly engages a wheel gear in a first position and is disengaged from the wheel gear in a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: AGRI-FAB, INC.
    Inventors: Ronald Hickenbottom, Doug Moore
  • Patent number: 8549689
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with a tilt-able hopper frame and hopper bag that includes a handle such that an operator may tilt the hopper frame and hopper bag, using the handle, to empty the hopper bag contents. The hopper bag and hopper frame are connected to a lawn sweeper unit using a hopper rod which is inserted into two slots at the ends of two hopper support bars and secured within the slots by two corresponding latch plates, one latch plate at each end of the two hopper support bars. The latching mechanism allows the hopper frame and hopper bag to be easily removed from the lawn sweeper unit for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Ronald Hickenbottom
  • Publication number: 20130212817
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Evan T. Ward, Miroslav Vuckovic
  • Publication number: 20130180060
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Evan T. Ward, Miroslav Vuckovic
  • Publication number: 20130145566
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with a tilt-able hopper frame and hopper bag that includes a handle such that an operator may tilt the hopper frame and hopper bag, using the handle, to empty the hopper bag contents. The hopper bag and hopper frame are connected to a lawn sweeper unit using a hopper rod which is inserted into two slots at the ends of two hopper support bars and secured within the slots by two corresponding latch plates, one latch plate at each end of the two hopper support bars. The latching mechanism allows the hopper frame and hopper bag to be easily removed from the lawn sweeper unit for storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Ronald Hickenbottom
  • Publication number: 20130139331
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Evan T. Ward, Miroslav Vuckovic
  • Publication number: 20130118139
    Abstract: A height adjustment assembly for a lawn sweeper may include a clip that may have a body portion with an aperture, a tab that extends into a slot on the lawn sweeper and a projection that engages the lawn sweeper, a shaft that engages the body portion and a fastener to movably secure the clip to the lawn sweeper in a desired position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronald Hickenbottom
  • Patent number: 8393039
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with a tilt-able hopper frame and hopper bag that includes a handle such that an operator may tilt the hopper frame and hopper bag, using the handle, to empty the hopper bag contents. The hopper bag and hopper frame are connected to a lawn sweeper unit using a hopper rod which is inserted into two slots at the ends of two hopper support bars and secured within the slots by two corresponding latch plates, one latch plate at each end of the two hopper support bars. The latching mechanism allows the hopper frame and hopper bag to be easily removed from the lawn sweeper unit for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Ronald Hickenbottom
  • Patent number: 8376250
    Abstract: A control mechanism for a lawn spreader controls output flow of granular material out of the spreader hopper by adjusting the position of a control cable anchor point. The control mechanism includes a clamping portion for clamping to a tubular handle of the spreader. A top surface of the clamp portion, adjacent to the handle, provides a slide for a slideable cable anchor shuttle, which internally provides the anchor point for a control cable. The shuttle may be made from a plastic material. A dial housed within a dial housing, adjacent to the slide portion of the clamp, may be rotated to various indicated positions which in turn controls the position of the shuttle on the metal slide portion of the clamp, thereby adjusting the position of the control cable anchor point. The control cable extends from the end of the shuttle anchor mechanism to a hopper spring-loaded aperture cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Conner, Ronald Hickenbottom, Danney Dendy
  • Patent number: 8359694
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lawn sweeper designed to collect debris, such as grass clippings and leaves, from a surface such as a lawn, and more particularly to a lawn sweeper with an adjustable brush assembly and characteristics associated with improved storage of such a device. A user may adjust the brush assembly with respect to the housing without needing to move the wheels. The hopper assembly may include a panel movable to be placed in at least two orientations, thereby allowing a user to change the volume within which the hopper assembly may collect debris. Methods are also disclosed for adjusting the brush assembly and for storing a lawn sweeper unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: John Johnson, Evan T. Ward, Miroslav Vuckovic
  • Publication number: 20120018546
    Abstract: A control mechanism for a lawn spreader controls output flow of granular material out of the spreader hopper by adjusting the position of a control cable anchor point. The control mechanism includes a clamping portion for clamping to a tubular handle of the spreader. A top surface of the clamp portion, adjacent to the handle, provides a slide for a slideable cable anchor shuttle, which internally provides the anchor point for a control cable. The shuttle may be made from a plastic material. A dial housed within a dial housing, adjacent to the slide portion of the clamp, may be rotated to various indicated positions which in turn controls the position of the shuttle on the metal slide portion of the clamp, thereby adjusting the position of the control cable anchor point. The control cable extends from the end of the shuttle anchor mechanism to a hopper spring-loaded aperture cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Robert Conner, Ronald Hickenbottom, Danney Dendy
  • Patent number: 8056838
    Abstract: A control mechanism for a lawn spreader controls output flow of granular material out of the spreader hopper by adjusting the position of a control cable anchor point. The control mechanism includes a clamping portion for clamping to a tubular handle of the spreader. A top surface of the clamp portion, adjacent to the handle, provides a slide for a slideable cable anchor shuttle, which internally provides the anchor point for a control cable. The shuttle may be made from a plastic material. A dial housed within a dial housing, adjacent to the slide portion of the clamp, may be rotated to various indicated positions which in turn controls the position of the shuttle on the metal slide portion of the clamp, thereby adjusting the position of the control cable anchor point. The control cable extends from the end of the shuttle anchor mechanism to a hopper spring-loaded aperture cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Robert Conner, Ronald Joe Hickenbottom, Danney Dendy
  • Publication number: 20110181061
    Abstract: A bumper assembly is disclosed for selective securement to one of a plurality of different vehicles, each having a different mounting point pattern. A bumper mounting plate includes a first portion for connection to one of the vehicles and a second portion connected to a bumper. The first portion includes a plurality of discrete sets of mounting opening patterns that are not shared in connection with the mounting point patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: AGRI-FAB, INC.
    Inventor: Ronald Hickenbottom
  • Publication number: 20100283272
    Abstract: A brush guard used on a vehicle, for example, on a lawn tractor. The brush guard includes a latch mechanism that allows the brush guard to be closely mounted to the vehicle's engine cover for esthetic reasons. When an operator needs to open the vehicle's front engine cover, which typically tilts forward, the operator may release a latch mechanism and pivot the brush guard forward and away from the engine cover such that the engine cover is not blocked and may be opened. A tension spring returns a latch pin to the latched position such that no manipulation of the latch mechanism is needed when the brush guard is repositioned in an upright operating position. To reposition the brush guard into the operating position, the operator may lift the brush guard upwardly toward the vehicle engine cover, and the latch pin will reengage into its latching position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Agri-Fab, Inc.
    Inventor: Douglas Edward Schneider
  • Publication number: 20100230507
    Abstract: A control mechanism for a lawn spreader controls output flow of granular material out of the spreader hopper by adjusting the position of a control cable anchor point. The control mechanism includes a clamping portion for clamping to a tubular handle of the spreader. A top surface of the clamp portion, adjacent to the handle, provides a slide for a slideable cable anchor shuttle, which internally provides the anchor point for a control cable. The shuttle may be made from a plastic material. A dial housed within a dial housing, adjacent to the slide portion of the clamp, may be rotated to various indicated positions which in turn controls the position of the shuttle on the metal slide portion of the clamp, thereby adjusting the position of the control cable anchor point. The control cable extends from the end of the shuttle anchor mechanism to a hopper spring-loaded aperture cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: AGRI-FAB, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Robert Conner, Ronald Joe Hickenbottom, Danney Dendy