US Patent Issued to DEERE & Co. on May 26 for "Mower deck height of cut adjustment mechanism" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,602, issued on May 26, was assigned to DEERE & COMPANY (Moline, Ill.).

"Mower deck height of cut adjustment mechanism" was invented by Jordan A. Prax (Willow Spring, N.C.) and Seth T. Baker (Fuquay Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mower deck height of cut adjustment mechanism includes a shaft having a caster wheel mounted to the shaft, and a screw rotatably threaded to the shaft to move the shaft vertically relative to an inner cylinder to adjust a mower deck height of cut. The inner cylinder is pivotable on a vertical axis within an outer cylinder. A locking plate may lock the screw to the inner cylinder to disable adjus...