Rotary lawn mower with improved grass collector

Claim 1

In a lawn mower including means for collecting grass cuttings, said lawn mower having a deck including a skirt downwardly dependent therefrom to enclose a cutting chamber, an electric motor mounted on said deck, vertical drive shaft means drivingly interconnected with said motor, a cutting blade mounted on said drive shaft for rotary movement in said chamber, said deck having an opening therein for the egress of grass cuttings from said mower, said mower including wheel means located adjacent four corners of said deck to support said deck for movement across a ground surface, the improvement wherein said means for collecting grass cuttings comprises a grass collector mounted on said deck to lay substantially within the wheel base of said wheel means, said grass collector having a base, walls upstanding from said base including an outer annular wall, an annular inner wall spaced from said outer wall said inner wall forming a conduit for the passage of cooling air to said motor and a baffle wall interconnecting said outer and inner walls, at least said outer, inner walls and said base being constructed from an air directing material, said collector having an opening in the base thereof adapted to be connected to said deck opening and lid means enclosing the space between said inner and outer walls.