Bag-supporting means for mowers

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING A BAG AT THE PORT END OF A DISCHARGE CHUTE FOR A MOWER FOR RECEIVING GRASS CLIPPINGS OR THE LIKE DISCHARGED FROM SAID CHUTE, SAID BAG HAVING A BODY PORTION ADAPTED TO BE SUPPORTED ADJACENT THE MOWER AND AN OPEN MOUTH PORTION ADAPTED TO BE ALIGNED GENERALLY WITH THE PORT OF SAID CHUTE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE CHUTE, SAID CHUTE HAVING AN UPPER WALL EXTENDING TO THE PORT END OF SAID CHUTE, COMPRISING THE COMBINATION OF A BRACKET MEMBER HAVING A PLATE PORTION, A SOCKET PORTION AND A FLANGE PORTION, SAID PLATE PORTION BEING ADAPTED TO BE SECURED TO THE SAID TOP WALL OF A CHUTE, SAID SOCKET PORTIONS BEING DISPOSED WITH ITS AXIS DIRECTED GENERALLY HORIZONTALLY AND BEING OPEN TOWARD SAID PORT END OF THE CHUTE, AND SAID FLANGE PORTION EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID PLATE PORTION AT A DISTANCE FROM THE SAID AXIS OF THE SOCKET PORTION AND BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID PORT END OF THE CHUTE AND A GENERALLY VERTICAL REFERENCE PLANE EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE TO SAID AXIS, AND A BAGSUPPORTING MEMBER HAVING AN UPPER END PORTION ADAPTED TO SUPPORT THE BODY PORTION OF SAID BAG ADJACENT A SAID MOWER AND A LOWER END PORTION EXTENDING THEREFROM TO BE POSITIONED ADJACENT SAID CHUTE, SAID LOWER END PORTION HAVING A TERMINAL PORTION ADAPTED TO BE INSERTED INTO SAID SOCKET PORTION UPON THE AXIS OF THE TERMINAL PORTION BEING ALIGNED WITH THE AXIS OF THE SOCKET PORTION AND THE TERMINAL PORTION MOVED AXIALLY INTO SAID SAID SOCKET PORTION, AN ARM MEMBER EXTENDING RIGIDLY FROM SAID TERMINAL PORTION AT AN ANGLE TO THE AXIS THEREOF AND SWINGABLE IN AN ARC ABOUT THE AXIS OF SAID TERMINAL PORTION IN SAID REFERENCE PLANE, SAID ARM MEMBER IN LOWERED POSITION BEING ADAPTED TO REST UPON SAID PLATE PORTION ALONGSIDE SAID FLANGE PORTION OF THE ARM MEMBER WHEREBY THE TERMINAL PORTION IS HELD AGAINST WITHDRAWAL FROM SAID SOCKET PORTION BY SAID FLANGE PORTION AND MAY BE WITHDRAWN FROM SAID SOCKET PORTION UPON SWINGING OF SAID ARM UPWARDLY TO CLEAR SAID FLANGE PORTION, AND A FRAME MEMBER CARRIED BY SAID LOWER END PORTION AND AT A DISTANCE FROM SAID ARM MEMBER AND ADAPTED TO ENGAGE AND HOLD OPEN SAID MOUTH PORTION OF SAID BAG, THE FRAME MEMBER BEING GENERALLY IN A PLANE TRANSVERSE TO THE AXIS OF SAID TERMINAL PORTION AND DISPOSED TO ALIGN THE ENGAGED MOUTH PORTION OF SAID BAG WITH SAID PORT UPON SAID TERMINAL PORTION BEING IN SAID SOCKET PORTION AND SAID ARM MEMBER IN SAID LOWERED POSITION.