Abstract: An improved cutting unit specially suited for grooming turf includes a frame supporting a conventional horizontally mounted driven reel having a number of spirally arranged blades. The cutting unit is supported on the ground by front and rear rollers. The front roller is a slotted expunger roller having numerous annular slots along its axis. Immediately behind the expunger roller is mounted a knife roller which includes numerous vertically oriented knife blades aligned with the circular slots of the expunger roller. As the expunger roller rolls along turf, horizontally lying plant material is pulled or puckered up by the expunger roller into the circular slots. The knife roller, driven at a high rate of speed about its own axis, pulls up and slices through the pulled up plant material.

Abstract: An apparatus for edging and mowing lawns. A rotary lawn edger is demountably attached to a rotary lawn mower for being driven by the motor of the mower through a power take-off, a positive first speed increaser drive and a slippable second speed increaser drive.

Abstract: An edger is provided with a rotatable cutting blade for trimming grass, weeds, and the like, wherein the angular orientation of the cutting blade is quickly and easily adjusted to a selected one of several cutting positions. The cutting blade is driven by a motor mounted within a motor housing which is in turn supported for rotation about a longitudinal axis between a front wheel assembly and a rear wheel assembly. A locking mechanism carried by the motor housing has a pair of spring-biased lugs normally received into locking recesses in the front and rear wheel assemblies to lock the motor housing at a selected rotational position and thereby lock the cutting blade at a selected angular orientation. The locking mechanism is manually retractable to withdraw the lugs simultaneously from their respective locking recesses to permit rotation of the motor housing simultaneously with respect to the front and rear wheel assemblies to alter the angular orientation of the cutting blade.

Abstract: A universal grass edger and trimmer attachment is disclosed utilizing a rotary flexible drive shaft whose operating end is supported by a multipositional boom.

Abstract: A self-contained battery-energized, cordless lawn edger. This device includes a frame supported on at least three wheels which frame securely carries, for example, one or more rechargeable wet-cell batteries as well as a pivotally mounted sub-assembly having a heavy-duty series wound drive motor, a rigid edger blade mounted on the drive motor output shaft and a blade guard. Recharging may be accomplished by interconnection to a conventional automotive charging system, a battery charger, or to a 115 V.A.C. power source. The blade is positioned to rotate in a plane generally perpendicular to the ground. A blade positioning lever is pivotably attached to the main guide handle for vertical positioning of the blade. A drive motor on-off switch attached to the handles is also provided. A removable cover may also be provided for protecting the battery energizers. One or more of the wheels may also include drive means.

Abstract: A trimmer supported on a dolly, each of which has a handle. The operator holds the dolly handle in one hand and the trimmer handle in the other hand. The trimmer is pivotally connected to the dolly whereby movement of the handle of the trimmer relative to the dolly handle changes the approach angle of the trimmer relative to the movement of the dolly. The pivotal connection is forward of the dolly wheels whereby raising and lowering the dolly handle effects lowering and raising of the trimmer and the corresponding depth of cut. The connection includes adjustment means to adjust the positions of the trimmer relative to the dolly.

Abstract: A garden trimmer has a housing containing a motor whose output is rotatable about a motor axis and is connected to a cutter line which lies in a plane perpendicular to this axis when the output is rotated. A handle shaft extends at an acute angle to the motor axis from the housing and has an outer end provided with a Y-shaped handle having a central Y-leg fixed concentrically on the outer shaft end and a pair of Y-arms, with the legs and arms generally angularly equispaced at about 120.degree.. The handle is formed on the leg adjacent the intersection of the arms and legs with a throughgoing window in which is exposed the actuation button of an on-off switch for the motor. Thus either Y-arm of the handle can be grasped by either hand of the user, with the respective pointing or index finger engaged through the window to operate the switch, so that the tool can comfortably be used with the cutter-line plane either vertical or horizontal.

Abstract: A balanced self-propelled and manually guided lawn edger is disclosed in which an edging cutter blade is positioned near the inner side and rearwardly of the larger of two traction wheels of unequal diameters on a common drive axle. The smaller traction wheel can be axially adjusted relative to the larger wheel to regulate the angle of cut adjacent to a side wall or curbing.

Abstract: An accessory for a rotary lawnmower for the trimming of lawn edges and comprising a channelled elongated frame provided with clips near opposite ends for attaching the frame beneath the baseplate of the lawnmower, a drive pulley on the frame having spaced upright posts engageable by a collar secured to the lower end of the lawnmower drive shaft for rotation of said pulley, a housing supported upright from one end of said frame and containing a transfer pulley, a belt drive between said pulleys, a trimmer blade belt driven from the transfer pulley to rotate in a vertical plane, and a canopy for said blade connected to said housing and free to pivot on two axes to provide adjustment of height of cut and angle of cut of said trimmer blade.

Abstract: This invention is a device for attachment with a line trimmer to convert it to an edge trimmer. The device has a collar with support legs attached to it and wheels attached to the support legs. A U-shaped brace is attached between the support legs holding them at an angle to each other. The collar is placed loosely around the handle of an existing line trimmer, the line trimmer is inverted in order to make its face perpendicular to the ground, the legs are inserted into the collar and the collar is then secured to the handle with the head of the line trimmer between the ends of the U-shaped brace.

Abstract: A lawn edger attachment for power driven vehicles consisting of a rolling coulter blade carried for rotation on a horizontal axis transverse to the line of travel of the vehicle at one end of an arm pivoted at its opposite end to the vehicle on a parallel axis. Power means are provided for pivoting the arm. The blade is cup-shaped in order that earth pressure thereagainst will force it to follow the edge of a paved surface. The blade may be reversed so that the vehicle may operate either on the grass or on the pavement. The arm may be extended either forwardly or rearwardly from its pivot, for convenience in various situations. The arm is a horizontal parallelogram linkage, so that the blade can follow the pavement edge even if the vehicle is not steered precisely parallel to this edge.

Abstract: A herbage trimmer has a larger, toothed rotatable cutting blade provided with a circular array of bosses. A smaller, toothed rotatable cutting blade lies flat against the larger blade and is positioned within the tooth tip circle of the larger blade so that some of its teeth overlap with some of the teeth of the larger blade. The bosses on the larger blade are in gear-tooth relationship with the teeth of the smaller blade so that the blades counter-rotate to produce a continuous shearing action between the over-lapping teeth of the blades.

Abstract: A grass edger and trimmer attachment for a power mower including a vertical trimmer shaft mounted in a bearing fixed to the side of the mower housing, the trimmer shaft being driven by a pulley which is belt-driven by the mower engine, and the trimmer shaft supporting a trimmer hub carrying flail members at a level below the skirt of the mower housing, and the attachment further including an arm hinged to the housing and carrying an edger shaft with a drive roller thereon and an edger hub at its outer end with flail members fixed to the periphery of the hub, the drive roller engaging the trimmer drive pulley and being driven thereby when the arm and the edger shaft are substantially horizontal, but the arm being tiltable about the hinge to an elevated position wherein the roller is disengaged and the edger hub and flail members are raised out of operative position.

Abstract: A rotary filament attachment to replace the rigid steel cutter blade on a conventional grass edger device, the attachment comprising a pair of disc members, having central openings and opposed inwardly directed peripheral flange portions or projections to define an annular cavity therebetween for storage of a filament line supply when the discs are installed through the central openings on the drive spindle of the edger. A plurality of locking catches or holes are provided in the disc flanges or projections for extension therethrough of end cutting lengths of filament from the respective end portions of the filament line supply when the discs are bolted on the drive spindle.

Abstract: A grass cutting machine having blades which themselves constitute air impellers and which have outer edges sloping outwardly away from shaft bearings in both an axial direction and a radial direction so as to deflect grass growing alongside the fence into the path of the cutter blades.

Abstract: An edger blade uniquely designed to cut into the surface of the ground thus loosening a portion of the dirt, lifting the loosened dirt from the ground, and throwing the dirt to one side. The blade is adaptable for mounting on most home garden edgers powered by internal combustion engines. The blade has a central hub portion provided with a shaft hole adapted to permit the blade to be mounted on the edger shaft. Two arms extend from opposite sides of the central hub portion to form hoe portions that perform the hoeing operations of the invention.

Abstract: A lawn edger attachment for moving vehicles consisting of a rolling coulter blade carried for rotation on a horizontal axis at the rearward end of a trailing arm pivoted at its forward end to the vehicle on a generally vertical axis. Mechanism is provided for pivoting the arm vertically to raise or lower the blade, and also to cause the arm to trail normally at different lateral spacings from the vehicle, although said arm may also be pivoted laterally by manual force. A broom or scraper is also provided, in trailing relation to the blade, for sweeping the cuttings of the blade either to the pavement, or to the grass, adjacent the juncture line between the pavement and the grass.

Abstract: An improved cutter assembly adapted for use with a rotary edger comprising a circular spool for storing peripherally thereon a plurality of plastic filaments, such spool being receivable within a circular retainer which in turn is provided with a plurality of radially extending peripheral openings formed to direct the corresponding filaments to the exterior of the retainer. The spool and the retainer are secured for rotation on the mounting arbor of the rotary device, the retainer furthermore including an exteriorly directed peripheral groove around the circumference thereof arranged to include the filament openings. The spool itself includes a plurality of filament securing openings to facilitate assembly. In an alternative embodiment, the exterior face of the spool is cut out with a plurality of radial notches through which the filaments are passed to permit insertion of the spool into the retainer.

Abstract: An edger attachment for a lawn mower having a means for engaging and disengaging the attachment readily and completely from the mower and wherein the attachment is provided with a blade rotatable by the mower driving means in a normal vertical plane but which may be quickly and easily adjusted for trimming without turning the blade to the conventional horizontal position.