Grass cutter wagon for outdoor toy railway - has cutter reciprocated by crank drive connected to electric motor inside wagon

摘要

The garden model railway uses a wagon (2) which carries a grass cutter (5) at the front to remove grass growing up between or close to the rails (3, 6, 7). The cutter is driven by an electric motor (8) mounted inside the wagon. The motor has a belt drive (9, 10, 11) which rotates an eccentric forming part of a crank drive which reciprocates the cutter. This cutter can be toothed strip shaped blade, or in an alternative design, has two blades in V-formation, driven by a double crank system.