摘要 |
Disclosed is an apparatus for shredding a block of material having a width, a height and a front face defined by the most downstream cross-section of the height and width of the block, the apparatus comprising a shredding unit having a plurality of blades, the blades revolving about an axis, wherein the blades are mounted between and connected with a pair of plates, a drive unit that rotates the cutting blades around the axis, and a feed unit that moves the block of material on a feed plane toward the shredding unit in a feeding direction, the feed unit disposed upstream of the shredding unit, and the feeding direction being generally perpendicular to the axis about which the blades rotate, the blades cutting shreds of material from the front face of the block.
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