Patent ID: 7025293

Claim:
A shredder comprising: a seat having a pivot guide comprising an upwardly facing recess; a shredder housing including a pivot mount pivotally receivable in the upwardly facing recess of the pivot guide; a shredder mechanism including a motor and cutter elements, the shredder mechanism enabling articles to be shredded to be fed into the cutter elements and the motor being operable to drive the cutter elements so that the cutter elements shred the articles fed therein, the shredder mechanism being mounted in the shredder housing; the shredder housing being constructed to be removably mounted to the seat in a generally horizontal orientation with the pivot mount removably and pivotally received in the upwardly facing recess of the pivot guide; the pivot mount and the pivot guide being constructed to pivotally mount the shredder housing for pivotal movement between the generally horizontal orientation and a generally vertical orientation.