These and other modifications and advantages will become even more apparent from the following detained description of a preferred embodiment of the invention and from the drawings in which:
With reference to the drawings,
As shown, a paper shredder basically includes a cutter assembly 11, a casing 12 encasing the cutter assembly, and a wastebasket 13 for collecting paper shreds. The cutter assembly 11 includes two rotary shafts 111 that are parallel to and driven to rotate towards each other by a motor and gear box so as to shred paper passing through the rotary shafts into strips by shear forces, or to further shred the strips into fragmented chips. The casing 12 encases the cutter assembly therein and includes a paper feeding opening and a paper drop opening 121 exactly at a top and bottom end thereof and parallel to the shafts 111, for guiding paper through the two shafts 11 of the cutter assembly, and guiding the paper shreds into the wastebasket 13 through the paper drop opening 121.
The features of this invention reside in that, the casing 1 of the paper shredder 1 is provided at the paper drop opening 121 thereof with at least one brush-off device 14. The brush-off device 14 includes bristles 141 extending towards the shafts 111. In practice, the paper drop opening 121 of the casing 12 includes a sliding rail 122 neighboring its periphery, and the entire brush-off device 122 is mounted in the sliding rail 122, such that the brush-off device 122 is capable of sliding reciprocally along the shafts 111 of the cutter assembly in an axial direction. As such, the user is able to actuate the brush-off device 14 so as to remove shreds 2 caught between the shafts 111. The brush-off device includes bristles extending towards the shafts. The entire brush-off device is able to slide reciprocally along the shafts along the axial direction, so as to allow the user to actuate a brush-off device so as to remove shreds caught between two shafts at appropriate timing, thereby resolving the problem found in the conventional paper shredder where the paper shreds caught between two shafts may affect smooth shredding operation.
Since the user is able to remove shreds by actuating the brush-off device, this invention enhances convenience in performing the shreds removing operation, prevents the user's fingers from being slashed by the cutters mounted on the shafts, and significantly improves safeness in removing the shreds. Furthermore, as shown in
While the present invention has been described in connection with what is considered the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is understood that this invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiment but is intended to cover various arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and equivalent arrangements.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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095208780 | May 2006 | TW | national |