MOWER

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mower easily avoiding the attachment of mown weeds to wheels and also the contact of a mowing blade housing to ground by a simple structure, while capable of easily scattering the mown weeds discharged from a mown weeds-discharging port at the rear part of the mower housing to the lateral side direction of a vehicle body. SOLUTION: This mower is provided with an inclined guiding plate 35 for guiding the flow of mown weeds from the mowing blade 14 to the mown weed discharging port 19 in the mowing blade housing 12, and also a ground-contacting sled 50 at a middle part in the lateral direction of the mowing blade housing at the rear end part of the mowing blade housing. The ground-contacting sled 50 is arranged on the rear side from the inclined guiding plate 35 and at the front side from wheels 1 of a self-traveling vehicle body. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT