Patent ID: 7175119

Claim:
The method of shredding wet chip materials into granular wet chips with a shredder apparatus comprising: a frame; a shaft attached to said frame, said shaft having a length and a first end and a second end; a bearing assembly disposed on said shaft and located inwardly from said shaft ends; a rotatable cylindrical shaped rotor having a first end and second end and a length less than said shaft length, said rotor being disposed on said bearing assembly; a plurality of spaced first shredder members attached to said rotatable with said rotor; a plurality of spaced second shredder members attached to said frame, said second shredder members being positioned relative to said first shredder members whereby a first shredder member and a second shredder member are adapted to cooperate to shred wet chips; and, a drive assembly for rotating said rotor while said shaft remains in a fixed position whereby upon actuation of said drive assembly, said rotor will rotate causing said first and second shredder members to cooperate to shred wet chip material in said shredder apparatus; said method including the steps of: directing wet chip materials to be shredded in a first direction toward said shredder apparatus; rotating said rotor in a direction opposite said first direction whereby said first shredder members contact said wet chip materials to be shredded and lift said wet chip material upward; and, delivering said wet chip material to a shredder location where said first and second shredder members engage and cooperate to shred said wet chip material.