Patent ID: 8807467

Claim:
A file shredder comprising a cutting mechanism disposed in a housing, to which mechanism a drive unit is assigned, a control unit that stands in an effect connection with the drive unit, a feed opening that is let into the housing for feeding a data carrier into the housing in a feeding direction, said feed opening leading to the cutting mechanism, and a first sensor and a second sensor assigned to and disposed at a distance from one another in the feed opening for automatic start of the cutting mechanism, whereby the first sensor and the second sensor are connected with the control unit for automatic start of the cutting mechanism and the first sensor and the second sensor are spaced horizontally apart from each other with respect to the feeding direction, wherein the control unit sends a turn-on signal to the drive unit of the cutting mechanism only when a first signal from the first sensor and a second signal from the second sensor arrive in a circuit configuration disposed in the control unit.