Patent ID: 9409182
Filing Date: 2016-08-09
CPC Classification: B02C,B65H

Claim Text:
1. A shredder comprising: a housing; a paper shredder mechanism received in the housing and including a motor and cutter elements, the motor rotating the cutter elements in an interleaving relationship for shredding paper sheets fed therein, the cutter elements configured for rotation about parallel and horizontal axes; a tray for holding a stack of paper sheets to be fed into the cutter elements; a paper stack separation mechanism positioned adjacent to the tray and comprising a rotatable body configured for rotation relative to the stack, the rotatable body configured such that rotation thereof in an advancing direction causes insertion of at least part of the rotatable body into at least part of the stack to separate at least an edge of at least one paper sheet therefrom and advance the at least one separated paper sheet towards the cutter elements, the rotatable body being rotatable about a rotational axis that is substantially perpendicular to the axes of the cutter elements, and a drive system constructed to drive the paper stack separation mechanism by rotating the rotatable body thereof in the advancing direction for said separating and advancing of the at least one separated paper sheet from the stack and towards the cutter elements.