Wire rope cutting attachment for chain saws

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A CHAIN SAW HAVING A CUTTER WHEEL JOURNALLED ON ITS GUIDE BAR AND DRIVINGLY CONNECTED TO THE PRIME MOVER OF SAID CHAIN SAW, A WIRE ROPE CUTTING ATTACHMENT COMPRISING A FRAME, MEANS MOUNTING SAID CHAIN SAW ON SAID FRAME FOR MOVEMENT OF SAID CUTTER WHEEL RELATIVE TO SAID FRAME IN A PATH GENERALLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID CUTTER WHEEL, AND MEANS CARRIED BY SAID FRAME ADAPTED TO STATIONARILY SECURE A LENGTH OF WIRE ROPE THERETO IN THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF SAID CUTTER WHEEL, SAID MOUNTING MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF GENERALLY L-SHAPED SUPPORT ARMS EACH INCLUDING FIRST AND SECOND LEGS, SAID GUIDE BAR AND EACH OF SAID FIRST LEGS HAVING A PLURALITY OF LONGITUDINALLY SPACED MOUNTING APERTURES FORMED THERETHROUGH, SAID FIRST LEGS BEING REMOVABLY SECURED TO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID GUIDE BAR BY MEANS OF FASTENERS SECURED THROUGH REGISTERED CORRESPONDING ONES OF SAID APERTURES, THE FREE END PORTIONS OF SAID FIRST LEGS PROJECTING FORWARDLY OF THE FORWARD END OF SAID BAR AND HAVING AN ARBOR ASSEMBLY ROTATABLY MOUNTED THEREBETWEEN BY WHICH A SPROCKET WHEEL IS ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST LEGS, SAID CUTTER WHEEL BEING ROTATABLY SUPPORTED FROM SAID ARBOR ASSEMBLY, SAID SECOND LEGS BEING GENERALLY PARALLEL AND PROJECTING LATERALLY AND OUTWARDLY OF SAID GUIDE BAR AND PIVOTALLY SECURED TO SAID FRAME AT THEIR FREE ENDS FOR MOVEMENT ABOUT AN AXIS EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF AND BETWEEN SAID SECOND LEGS.