US 5,493,783 AGranted

Grass trimming device

OwnerWilliam E. Oostendorpinventor

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Abstract

A grass trimming device for removal of grass which overgrows a concrete doughnut positioned on the ground surrounding a sprinkler head of an underground lawn sprinkler system. The device is connectable to a lawn trimmer having a rotating upright output shaft and includes a horizontal support member having a cylindrical strengthening and protecting ring which defines an outer circular perimeter of the device. The device also includes a plurality of freely rotatably mounted cutting blade members connected and downwardly extending from a lower surface of the support member by a threaded bolt, shaft or the like. Each blade member has an inverted L-shape with the horizontal leg thereof rotatably mounted by the bolt to the support member. The upright leg has a lower distal edge which is slightly larger than the doughnut and cooperates in grass cutting action with the lower distal ends of the blade mounting shafts to provide two separate circular cuts into grass grown over the doughnut, one cut being adjacent and slightly larger than the outer edge of the doughnut and the other being slightly larger than the central hole through the doughnut.

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Dependent claims

A grass trimming device for a lawn trimmer having a rotary output shaft, said device for trimming grass which grows over a doughnut positioned around a lawn sprinkler head, comprising:

a flat support member having a central means for connecting said support member to an output shaft of a lawn trimmer;
a cylindrical strengthening and impact ring connected to said support member perimeter;
a plurality of blade members each connected for free rotation about a blade mounting shaft downwardly extending orthogonally from said support member about a blade mounting circle concentric with an upright axis of rotation of said support member;
each said blade member having a horizontal and an upright leg which downwardly depends from a radially outwardly end of said horizontal leg;
each said horizontal leg having a mounting hole therethrough positioned nearer to a radially inner end of said horizontal leg for receiving said blade mounting shaft;
each said blade member also including a diagonally disposed brace member extending generally between a point just above a lower distal end of said upright leg and said mounting hole in said horizontal leg;
each said lower distal end of each said upright leg defining a grass cutting circle slightly larger in diameter than that of the doughnut and smaller in diameter than that of said cylindrical ring.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.