Patent ID: 6886258

Claim:
A vegetation trimmer comprising: a housing; a motor contained within said housing; a rotatable drive shall extending from said housing and operably connected to said motor; a rotary cutter mounted on said drive shaft for rotation therewith; a shroud removably attached to said housing for covering said drive shaft and said rotary cutter, said shroud having an opening for feeding vegetation to said rotary cutter and an expulsion duct extending in a direction generally tangential to a rotational direction of said rotary cutter; wherein said shroud includes a first piece having a hood portion and a semi-cylindrical first half-collar portion integrally formed with said hood portion, and a second piece having a semi-cylindrical second half-collar portion removably attached to said first half-collar portion for releasably clamping said shroud on said housing and a flange portion integrally formed with said second half-collar portion and arranged to be flush against said hood portion of said first piece.