Patents Assigned to Foley United, LLC
  • Patent number: 11819974
    Abstract: One example provides a grinding positioning plate for a reel-type mower unit including a cutting reel having a rotational axis. The grinding positioning plate includes a main body including a pivot element having a pivot axis, and at least one pair of clamping assemblies, each clamping assembly to clamp to a corresponding mounting flange of the reel-type mower unit to mount the main body to reel-type mower unit such that the pivot axis is in parallel with the rotational axis and at a known horizontal distance from the rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Foley United LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Veenendall, Matthew Hauser
  • Patent number: 11638975
    Abstract: A mower reel grinding system a plurality of mower unit types, including a grinding wheel shaft, the grinding wheel shaft at a fixed position in an x-y plane. A mounting plate includes a number of predetermined fixed mounting positions on the mounting plate, each predetermined fixed mounting positions corresponding to at least one type of mower unit of the plurality of mower unit types, a mounting bracket to receive a mower unit, the mounting bracket selectively moveable to the predetermined fixed position corresponding to the mower unit type to be received thereby, and a pivot point about which the mounting plate rotates to adjust a position of the mounting bracket in the x-y plane relative to the grinding wheel shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Foley United LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Veenendall, Matthew Thomford
  • Publication number: 20200246932
    Abstract: One example provides a grinding positioning plate for a reel-type mower unit including a cutting reel having a rotational axis. The grinding positioning plate includes a main body including a pivot element having a pivot axis, and at least one pair of clamping assemblies, each clamping assembly to clamp to a corresponding mounting flange of the reel-type mower unit to mount the main body to reel-type mower unit such that the pivot axis is in parallel with the rotational axis and at a known horizontal distance from the rotational axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: Foley United LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Veenendall, Matthew Hauser
  • Publication number: 20190240797
    Abstract: A mower reel grinding system a plurality of mower unit types, including a grinding wheel shaft, the grinding wheel shaft at a fixed position in an x-y plane. A mounting plate includes a number of predetermined fixed mounting positions on the mounting plate, each predetermined fixed mounting positions corresponding to at least one type of mower unit of the plurality of mower unit types, a mounting bracket to receive a mower unit, the mounting bracket selectively moveable to the predetermined fixed position corresponding to the mower unit type to be received thereby, and a pivot point about which the mounting plate rotates to adjust a position of the mounting bracket in the x-y plane relative to the grinding wheel shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Foley United, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Veenendall, Matthew Thomford
  • Publication number: 20190193227
    Abstract: A mower reel grinding apparatus for a plurality of types of mower units, the apparatus including a grinding wheel having a grinding wheel axis, and an enclosure including a table having a plurality of integral mounting channels. Each mounting channel is at a predetermined fixed position relative to the grinding wheel axis and each corresponds to at least one type of mower unit of the plurality of mower unit types, each mounting channel to receive a pivot element of one of the corresponding mower unit types such that when the pivot element is seated in the mounting channel a cutting reel of the mower unit is positioned at a desired position relative to the grinding wheel axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Foley United, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory A. Veenendall, Andrew R. Chollett