Patent ID: 8752780

Claim:
A shredder comprising: a shredder housing having a throat for receiving at least one article to be shredded therethrough; a shredder mechanism received in the housing, the shredder mechanism including a motor and cutter elements, the shredder mechanism enabling the at least one article to be shredded to be fed into the cutter elements and the motor being operable to drive the cutter elements in a shredding direction so that the cutter elements shred the at least one article fed therein into particles; a plurality of resilient supporting structures provided between the shredder mechanism and shredder housing; the shredder housing comprising a plurality of support surfaces, each of the plurality of supporting structures being engaged on a corresponding support surface, wherein the support structures are not fixedly connected to the support surfaces, thus allowing movement of the shredder mechanism in X, Y, and Z directions, and at least one motion limiter provided between the housing and the shredder mechanism, the motion limiter being constructed to limit the relative movement between the shredder mechanism and the housing in the at least the X, Y, and Z directions.