Leaf vacuuming attachment for rotary lawn mowers
OwnerSalvatore T. Grecoinventor
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Abstract
Conventional rotary lawn mowers have a rotating cutter blade traveling at high velocity. This invention relates to an attachment for forming an enclosed housing containing the conventional mower components to create a vacuum chamber with a single input port which may be coupled to a flexible conduit to suck up leaves and other debris within an extended area for collection in conventional bags.
Claims10
A leaf vacuuming attachment for rotary lawn mowers which include a horizontal cutting blade rotating within an inverted housing with a circumferential vertical side wall containing a discharge port therethrough that is substantially tangential to said side wall, said attachment comprising:
- a closure pan having a circumferential vertical side wall substantially conforming to that of said housing, the upper edge portion of said pan side wall being configured for butting contact with the lower edge of said housing side wall;
- an input port in said pan side wall;
- and means for fastening said edges together to form an enclosed housing for said cutting blade, with said input port being below said cutting blade and rotated at least 90.degree. upstream of said discharge port relative to the direction of rotation of said cutting blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.