Riding type mower

Claim 1

A riding type mower comprising a vehicle body having a front and a rear, an operator seat located on said vehicle body, a mower mounted to a front part of said vehicle body and being lower than said operator seat, a fuel tank, an engine, a cooling fan and a radiator being positioned on said vehicle body in that order rearwardly of said operator seat, said cooling fan being constructed to conduct cooling air from the front to the rear of said vehicle body, a bonnet covering said fuel tank, said engine, said cooling fan, and said radiator, said bonnet comprising a top side and two lateral sides which extend over and along the sides of said fuel tank, said engine, said cooling fan and said radiator, said bonnet also comprising a rear side which shields the rear of said radiator, bottom sides which extend between the vehicle body and bottom edges of said lateral sides, and a front side having an opening, said fuel tank being disposed inside said opening for closure thereof, said bonnet being pivoted below said rear side to said vehicle body so that said rear side and said top side are pivotally movable together, cooling air intake openings are disposed in said lateral sides and in said bottom sides forwardly of said cooling fan, and a cooling air discharge opening formed in said rear side of said bonnet.