Patent ID: 6986238

Claim:
A mower with an universal trimmer mount assembly for removing vegetation about a grass covered ground area comprising: a motorized riding mower having a mower deck with cutting means for mowing the grass; a trimmer having a lower cutting device for removing the vegetation connected to a gas powered engine with an elongated cylindrical shaft, a base member attached to a top surface of said mower deck, said base member having laterally extending, longitudinally spaced plates forming a laterally extending slot; an adjustable length support arm member having a lower end provided with a lower aperture; a first pair of opposed apertures in the spaced plates of said base member; a first pin member received in said apertures of said lower end and said spaced plates for pivotally connecting said support arm to said base member whereby said support arm is received in said slot and laterally supported by said spaced plates for inward and outward lateral movement; sets of opposed openings formed in an array in said spaced plates outward of said first pair of apertures in said plates; a second pin member disposed in a select set of said opposed openings in said array contacting and vertically inclining said support arm; a lower bracket member having spaced side walls; means for pivotally connecting an upper end of said support arm to said lower bracket member for rotation about a generally vertical fixed axis; an inverted U-shaped upper bracket member having spaced side walls overlying and slidably engaging said spaced side walls of said lower bracket member; means for pivotally connecting said lower bracket member to said side walls of said upper member for rotation about a generally horizontal fixed axis; a control handle having a forward end connected to said upper bracket member and a rearward end projecting rearwardly of said upper bracket member for manual control by an operator on said riding mower; a clamping member fixedly connected to said upper bracket member, said clamping member having opposed semi-cylindrical sections for directly engaging said shaft of said trimmer; means for releasably engaging said sections of said clamping member against said shaft of said trimmer thereby permitting adjusting the position of the trimmer and the cutting device whereby the operator may position the cutting device by select movement accommodated solely by said fixed axes to remove undesired vegetation by selective cojoint movement to the trimming device about said axes.