Patent ID: 7857249

Claim:
An apparatus for chopping up used tires comprising: a press having upper and lower members with an array of closely spaced punches and mating dies mounted respectively on said upper and lower members said punches and dies arranged in staggered rows, each row of a length to sufficient substantially extend completely across major diameter of a tire lying flat on a working platform on said lower member; a feed mechanism acting on said each tire to be incrementally linearly advanced between said rows of punches and dies to present successive sections extending completely across said tire lying flat beneath punch array; and a press actuator for repeatedly advancing said punch array so that said successive sections of said tire are advanced beneath said punches so as to cause said punches to penetrate successive sections extending completely across said tire lying flat to cause a progressive chopping up of said successive sections of said tire by punching through said sections of said tire extending completely across said tire thereof when lying flat to completely cut up said tire with said punches.