Lawn and garden chipper shredder vacuum apparatus

Lawn and garden maintenance equipment for collecting and shredding debris as well as chipping branches and the like comprising:

• a housing supported for movement on groud engaging wheels,
• said housing having a top deck portion provided with depending exterior sidewalls extending downwardly from said deck portion and provided with upwardly extending sidewalls from said deck portion and forming the sidewalls of a work chamber;
• a top closure for the work chamber;
• drive means supported on the top closure, said drive means having a shaft rotating about a vertical axis and extending into said work chamber;
• a disc mounted on said shaft for rotation therewith, said disc being disposed proximate to the top closure;
• said disc having generally radially and downwardly extending air moving blades affixed thereto, the tips of said blades being circumferentially spaced from the sidewalls of the work chamber;
• said disc having a slot extending inwardly of the disc circumference and a sharpened chipping blade mounted adjacent the trailing edge of the slot in the direction of rotation and on the top surface of the disc;
• an aperture extending through the top closure of said work chamber and radially positioned to be vertically aligned with said chipper blade at least once each disc revolution;
• a bottom closure for said housing engaging the lower edge of the depending sidewalls and secured thereto, said bottom closure substantially closing the housing bottom but being peripherally spaced from the depending sidewalls in one area to create an air and debris inlet opening adjacent the ground;
• and an aperture formed in the work chamber as an exit opening for leaves and debris drawn through the inlet into the work chamber by rotation of the disc mounted blades and for the chips removed from twigs and limbs inserted into the upper surface aperture in said top closure.