Combination of a rapidly removable lawn edger and a rotary lawnmower

Claim 1

In a rotary lawn mower having a deck, a power means to rotate a vertical power drive shaft extending below said deck and to which is fastened a rotary cutting bar operable in a horizontal plane, the improvement comprising a removable lawn edger means, comprising: a horizontal shaft, said shaft rotatably supported to an arm, said arm extending transversE to the axis of said horizontal shaft; a rotary edger blade on one end of said horizontal shaft; a first pulley means on the other end of said shaft; a support means, one end of which is pivotally mounted, forward of said vertical power drive shaft, to said deck of said mower so as to pivot, in a vertical plane parallel to the forwardrearward axis of said mower, between an upright position to a forward position, said support, at its other end, including spline means to receive said arm for axial movement only; spring means between said support and said arm to normally bias said arm axially outwardly from said other end; a second pulley means attached to said vertical drive shaft between said deck and said cutting bar; and a single belt interconnecting said first and second pulleys such that when said support means is in said upright position said belt is slack, while in said forward position said belt is tensioned against said spring bias to rotate said edger blade.