Patent ID: 7516602

Claim:
A lawnmower attached edger/trimmer, the lawnmower having a housing, a handle, a power source, a cutting blade, a shaft having the cutting blade secured to a bottom end of the shaft, wherein upon activation of the power source said shaft begins to spin which in turn causes said cutting blade to spin, said lawnmower attached edger/trimmer comprising: a cutting member secured to the housing of a lawnmower, said cutting member having a rotatable cutting element; a drive member having a substantially planar upper surface secured to a blade support shaft of the lawnmower above a point where the cutting blade is secured to the shaft and below the power source; a contact member having a rotating portion, said contact member secured to the housing; a first rotatable cable having a first end and a second end, said first end of the first cable secured to the cutting member and the second end of said first cable secured to said contact member; an operating lever secured to a handle of a lawnmower; a second cable having a first end and a second end, said first end of the second cable secured to the operating lever and a second end of the second cable secured to the contact member; wherein upon activating power to the lawnmower the shaft begins to spin which causes said drive member to spin; wherein when the lawnmower is activated upon squeezing of said operating lever moves said contact member such that the rotating portion contacts the upper surface of said spinning drive member causing said first rotatable cable to spin which in turn causes the cutting element of said cutting member to spin.