Patent ID: 7828235
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: B02C,B65H

Abstract:
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; a tray for holding a stack of paper sheets to be fed into the cutter elements; a moveable paper feed mechanism positioned above the tray, the moveable paper feed mechanism having an exterior paper engaging surface that is at least in part air permeable and rotatable; a vacuum generator for applying a vacuum to an interior of the moveable paper feed mechanism to draw air through the exterior paper engaging surface, thereby lifting at least a top sheet from atop the stack, and a feed driver system constructed to drive the feed mechanism by rotating the exterior paper engaging surface to feed the at least lifted top sheet to the cutter elements.