Patent ID: 8205815

Claim:
A shredder comprising: a housing having a throat for receiving at least one sheet of paper to be shredded; a shredder mechanism received in the housing, the shredder mechanism including a motor and cutter elements, the shredder mechanism enabling the at least one sheet of paper 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 sheet of paper fed therein into shredded particles; a plurality of sensors provided along the throat and each configured to sense insertion of the at least one sheet of paper into the throat; and a controller coupled to the motor and the sensors, the controller being configured to perform a predetermined motor control operation of the motor responsive to the sensors sensing the at least one sheet of paper inserted into the throat at an angle above a predetermined angle threshold.