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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1994
Robert M Williams, Jr, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Robert M Williams, Sr, St. Louis County, MO (US);
Williams Patent Crusher & Pulverizer Company, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Material shredding apparatus for reducing scrap vehicle tires to produce two sub-products of rubber and of rubber free steel wire in which the apparatus has a shaft driven set of blocks in which each block has cutting teeth in circumferentially spaced relation, the respective blocks are keyed to the shaft so the cutting teeth on the blocks are circumferentially distributed along the shaft at 15.degree. spacing to assure that the cutting teeth perform a cutting function one at a time to avoid excessive power consumption and the material being shredded is distributed along the set of blocks on the shaft to reduce local areas of wear.