Attachment for rotary lawn mower

Claim 1

IN A POWER-OPERATED ROTARY-TYPE LAWN MOWER, IN COMBINATION, A HOUSING HAVING A HORIZONTAL TOP WALL MARGINALLY SURROUNDED BY A VERTICALLY DEPENDING COMPLEMENTAL SKIRT-LIKE WALL, A ROTARY POWER-DRIVEN SHAFT DEPENDING FROM A CENTRAL AXIAL PORTION OF SAID TOP WALL INTO THE WALL ENCLOSED SPACE OF SAID HOUSING, AND A DEAD LEAF GATHERING, DISINTEGRATING AND MULCHING ATTACHMENT, SAID ATTACHMENT COMPRISING A RIGID HORIZONTAL BAR MOUNTED INTERMEDIATE ITS ENDS ON A LOWER END OF SAID POWER DRIVEN SHAFT, SAID BAR REPLACING THE CONVENTIONAL REMOVABLE MOWER BLADE AND DISPOSED PARALLEL TO SAID TOP WALL AND CONFINED IN SAID SPACE, SAID BAR HAVING TERMINAL END PORTIONS TERMINATING SHORT OF SAID SPACED RADIALLY INWARD FROM THE ENCOMPASSING SHIRT-LIKE WALL, LEAF AGITATING, BEATING AND PULVERIZING FINGERS DETACHABLY, ADJUSTABLY MOUNTED ON THE TERMINAL END PORTIONS OF SAID BAR, EACH OF SAID FINGERS COMPRISING A SPRING STEEL ROD HAVING INNER AND OUTER ENDS BOTH OF WHICH ARE DISPOSED RELATIVE TO SAID TERMINAL END PORTIONS AND WALLS OF SAID HOUSINGS TO DISINTEGRATE AND MULCH LEAVES TRAPPED IN SAID SPACE.