Device for automatically shredding thin sheets

US4346851A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• GAO Gesellschaft für Automation und organisation mbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Bernardi · Arget, DE
• Gerd von Aschwege · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 24, 1980
• Grant date: Aug 31, 1982
• Expiry date: Jan 24, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/783
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A shredder device for selectively shredding paper sheets, such as bank notes, in the form of an interchangeable module for a conveying system includes a conveyor movably mounted within the module, means disposed along a feed path for directing selected sheets onto the conveyor and a pair of shredding cylinders mounted rotatably in the module so as to receive and shred sheets mounted on the conveyor.