Lawn debris pulverizer

A lawn debris pulverizer for comminuting leaves, twigs and garden residue comprising;

• a housing having a diverging frusto-conical inlet and a converging frusto-conical discharge openings at opposite end thereof for receiving leaves, twigs and garden residue therein, said housing having a central cylindrical member with lower and upper half-cylindrical shells cooperatively aligned and hingedly connected together for pivotally displacing the upper shell relative to said lower shell and an internal chamber and a shaft rotatably axially-supported therein, means for rotating said shaft, a debris dispersion means mounted on said shaft adjacent to said inlet in said internal chamber, a plurality of comminuting means mounted on said shaft in axial-spaced relation to said debris dispersion means and axially spaced from each other to rotate with said shaft, a series of shearing means flush mounted in said internal chamber and spaced from each other and including inverted V-shaped anvils, each of said series of shearing means having comminuting means receiving slots therebetween through which a shaft-mounted comminuting means passes to cooperate with the shearing means whereby leaves, twigs and garden residues will be comminuted progressively as they pass through said housing by the action of said comminuting means and shearing means, and means for generating a flow of air through said housing which flow of air will induce the leaves, twigs and garden residues into and through said housing for discharge therefrom.