Pivotal mounting for auxiliary blower

A blower attachment usable with a mower deck having a drive pulley and an outlet opening;

• the attachment including a housing with inlet and outlet openings and an impeller rotatably carried in the housing, said impeller being drivingly connected to an impeller pulley;
• a belt tensioning pulley operatively coupled with the attachment;
• belt means entrained around the drive, tensioning and impeller pulleys;
• a tensioning release mechanism connected with the belt tensioning pulley and operable to shift said tensioning pulley between a first belt tensioning position and a second belt untensioned position;
• a pivot and sleeve carried between the deck and housing;
• the sleeve adapted to receive the pivot and permit swingable movement of the housing between a first position adjacent the deck wherein the inlet opening is adjacent to the outlet opening of the mower deck and a second position wherein one end portion of the housing is swung away from the mower deck to separate the inlet opening from the outlet opening of the deck;
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• latching means between the deck and housing for releasably securing the one end portion of the housing with the deck, said latching means being adapted to be released and permit swinging movement of the housing between its first and second positions when the tensioning pulley is in either its first or second position, and including a resilient arm releasably engagable with the catch means.