Patents by Inventor Paul W. Mullet

Paul W. Mullet has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10631459
    Abstract: A stand-on mower may have a deck with at least one deck wing. The mower may include a stand-on operator platform, a rear wheel axis positioned forward of the stand-on operator platform, a main deck having main deck blades with rotational axes positioned forward of the rear wheel axis, one or more deck wings, and front wheels positioned forward of the rotational axes of the main deck blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: EXCEL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Paul W. Mullet, Brian R. Funk, Robert C. Esau
  • Publication number: 20180249630
    Abstract: Aspects hereof relate to a stand-on mower having a deck with at least one deck wing. The mower may include a stand-on operator platform, a rear wheel axis positioned forward of the stand-on operator platform, a main deck having main deck blades with rotational axes positioned forward of the rear wheel axis, one or more deck wings, and front wheels positioned forward of the rotational axes of the main deck blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: PAUL W. MULLET, BRIAN R. FUNK, ROBERT C. ESAU
  • Patent number: 10051786
    Abstract: Aspects hereof relate to a stand-on mower having a deck with at least one deck wing. The mower may include a stand-on operator platform, a rear wheel axis positioned forward of the stand-on operator platform, a main deck having main deck blades with rotational axes positioned forward of the rear wheel axis, one or more deck wings, and front wheels positioned forward of the rotational axes of the main deck blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Mullet, Brian R. Funk, Robert C. Esau
  • Publication number: 20180014460
    Abstract: Aspects hereof relate to a stand-on mower having a deck with at least one deck wing. The mower may include a stand-on operator platform, a rear wheel axis positioned forward of the stand-on operator platform, a main deck having main deck blades with rotational axes positioned forward of the rear wheel axis, one or more deck wings, and front wheels positioned forward of the rotational axes of the main deck blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: PAUL W. MULLET, BRIAN R. FUNK, Robert C. ESAU
  • Patent number: 6073430
    Abstract: A multi-blade mower deck having a center right and left blade chambers, which are partially connected to each other, each blade chamber including a rotary mounted cutting blade with lifting sails thereon for rotating and lifting the air into each blade chamber, a front skirt defining portions of said blade chamber; a continuous rear skirt wrapping around rear portions of each of said blade chambers; and a fan chamber positioned above the cutting deck and concentrically aligned over the center blade chamber and having an opening into the center fan chamber including concentrically mounted impeller blades for driving air and clipping from the fan chamber through a exhaust passage positioned over the cutting deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Mullet, Elmer D. Voth, Brian L. Nebel
  • Patent number: 5913802
    Abstract: The invention is a self-propelled drivewheel steering power mower which can be operated in a standing or sitting position, including a pair of variable flow hydrostatic pumps with tiltable swash plates, each of which drives one of a pair of drivewheels. A vertically mounted steering shaft is rotatably supported on the mower for rotation about an axis concentric with said shaft; and a T-shaped steering handle bar is rotatably journaled to the end of said steering shaft for twisting about an axis concentric with said handle bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Mullet, Elmer D. Voth, Royce A. Steinert, Harlan J. Bartel
  • Patent number: 5090512
    Abstract: A four-wheel mobile vehicle including provision for controlling the steering position of each of the four (4) wheels so that every wheel's rolling axis will intersect at a common point around which the vehicle will turn. The control is provided by a pair of cables, one on each side of the vehicle which interconnect a pair of front and back wheels to turn each pair through similar angles in the opposite direction.The variance in angular turning between wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle is caused by wrapping the cables on each side around an identical cam pulley, one on each side, both of which are mounted on a common shaft so that their angular rotation is always identical while their winding radius is changing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Mullet, Elmer D. Voth
  • Patent number: 4916887
    Abstract: A rotary type lawn mower and mulcher for mounting a tractor characterized by an open-bottom housing with a discharge opening having two or more cutting blades rotatably journaled in the housing and moving in a common cutting plane, a plurality of high speed mulching blades mounted on a single spindle at various heights positioned in the downstream paths of the cutting blades, the individual cutting blades having a longitudinal cutting edge therealong with lateral corrugations throughout the cutting length thereby increasing the cutting plane depth of each blade whereby the vertical height within the housing above the cutting blades is substantially filled with the cutting planes of the mulching blades whereby the grass clippings from the cutting blades are finely cut and discharged at increased velocities through a discharge opening and a deflection chute positioned downstream thereof with a variable height dam extending into the discharge path of the mulching blades whereby the finely-cut clippings are defle
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1990
    Assignee: Excel Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul W. Mullet, Elmer D. Voth