Vegetation cutting assembly

Claim 1

A vegetation cutting assembly of the type primarily designed to be driven from a lawn mower having a power drive source and operated at a substantially remote location therefrom, said cutting assembly comprising: power take-off means disposed in driven relation to the power drive source; a cutting head drivingly interconnected to said power take-off means; drive cable means disposed in drivingly interconnected relationship between the power source and said cutting head; and gear adjustment means disposed in power transmitting relation between said power take-off and said drive cable, said gear adjustment means comprising a gear assembly whereby said drive cable is driven at a different rotational speed from said power take-off; said drive cable comprising an elongated flexible configuration being attached in driven relationship at one end thereof to said gear adjustment means and being drivingly attached at the opposite end thereof to said cutting head, said power take-off means comprising a drive coupling assembly, said drive coupling assembly including a drive element, one end of said element being threadedly connected to the drive shaft of the power drive source and the opposite end of said element being matingly attached in locking engagement with a drive socket element, said drive socket element being correspondingly configured as said opposite end and said drive socket element comprising a portion of said power take-off means, whereby said drive element is disposed in interconnected relation between the drive shaft of the power drive source and said drive cable, said cutting head including a plurality of cutting elements each formed from a semi-rigid material and disposed on said cutting head in diametrically opposed relationship to at least one other of said plurality of cutting elements, whereby a counter balance relationship exists between oppositely disposed pairs of said plurality of cutting elements.