Combination lawnmower and edger

Claim 1

In the combination of a lawnmower and edger, the lawnmower having a rotary grass-cutting blade supported by a vertical shaft and the edger having a rotary edging blade supported by a horizontal shaft, a motor powering said shafts, a lawnmower body supporting said shafts, and a guiding handle attached to and rising from said body, the improvement, comprising: (a) a lever pivotally mounted on an upper portion of said guiding handle and a flexible tension member having its upper end connected to said lever, the lower end of said flexible tension member having edger lowering means and braking and belt tightening means, an arm supporting said horizontal shaft and pivotally movable between a first inoperative upper edger position and a second operative lower edger position and spring means normally biasing said arm to its first inoperative upper edger position and said flexible tension member pulling said arm to said second operative lower edger position as said lever is operated, and (b) a pulley on said horizontal shaft and a pulley on said vertical shaft and belt means connecting said pulleys and an idler belt tightening pulley engaging said belt means and a brake engageable with said belt means and said braking and belt tightening means being connected to said idler pulley and to said brake and spring means normally biasing said brake to operative position thereof and normally biasing said idler pulley to belt loosening position and said flexible tension member pulling said brake to inoperative position thereof and pulling said idler pulley to belt tightening position thereof as said lever is operated.