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An attachment for a conventional lawn mower provides shredding or pulverizing of lawn materials, including leaves, limbs and the like. The attachment includes an arcuate closure wall secured to the cutting blade housing of the lawn mower over the discharge opening in the housing. The attachment incl

An attachment for a conventional lawn mower provides shredding or pulverizing of lawn materials, including leaves, limbs and the like. The attachment includes an arcuate closure wall secured to the cutting blade housing of the lawn mower over the discharge opening in the housing. The attachment includes a plurality of cutting members arranged in preselected groups thereof. Each cutting member includes a plurality of radially extending cutting elements which are configured so as to be self-cleaning and effect pulverizing or shredding of the lawn material. The placement and positioning of the cutting members on the closure wall may be readily varied.

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For use with a lawn mower of the type including a housing, a cutting blade rotatable within the housing about a central axis for cutting the lawn and a discharge opening in the housing for allowing lawn material cut by the blade to be discharged from the housing, an attachment for shredding or pulve

For use with a lawn mower of the type including a housing, a cutting blade rotatable within the housing about a central axis for cutting the lawn and a discharge opening in the housing for allowing lawn material cut by the blade to be discharged from the housing, an attachment for shredding or pulverizing said lawn material, said attachment comprising: a closure removably mountable on said housing over said discharge opening for closing said discharge opening, said closure including an arcuate wall extending along and generally facing a portion of the path of travel of said blade; and, a plurality of cutting members on said closure wall and within said housing in closely spaced relationship to said cutting blade, each of said cutting members including at least a first plurality of cutting elements radially spaced respectively at successively greater distances from said central axis for shredding or pulverizing said lawn material.