Apparatus for shredding value documents

An apparatus for shredding value documents, comprising:

• at least two mutually counter-rotatable roller-shaped cutting devices which are disposed opposite each other with reference to a transport path for the value documents and each of which have on their surface a multiplicity of cutting edges,
• wherein the cutting edges of the at least two cutting devices mutually engage with each other on mutually facing front sides of the at least two cutting devices in order to cut the value documents fed along the transport path with the aid of the cutting edges into a multiplicity of value document shreds,
• wherein to each of the at least two cutting devices, a stripper is allocated which has several stripper elements which are arranged to be mutually parallel and so arranged that the stripper elements engage between the cutting edges of a respective cutting device in order to remove the value document shreds from the cutting edges of the respective cutting device,
• wherein a shape of the stripper elements is chosen such that the stripper elements engage between the cutting edges of the respective cutting device at the front side of the respective cutting device, said front side facing the transport path of the value documents,
• wherein the shape of the stripper elements is chosen such that a distance monotonically increases along a direction of rotation of the cutting device starting from an overlapping angle portion in which the stripper elements and an outer contour of the respective cutting device overlap and said distance being between the stripper elements and the surface of the respective cutting device.