Foot-operated paper shredder
OwnerHua-Chang WUinventor
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Abstract
A foot-operated paper shredder includes a housing, a driving mechanism mounted in the bottom of one side of the housing and including a base, a foot pedal mounted on the base and biasable up and down relative to the base and a composite gear mounted on the base and rotatable by the foot pedal, a spindle mounted on the base and rotatable by the composite gear, and a cutter module mounted in the top side of the housing and including a cutting shaft and a transmission gear fixedly connected to one end of the cutting shaft and drivable by the spindle to rotate the cutting shaft. Thus, the foot-operated paper shredder can be operated by foot, and allows replacement of a different cutter module to meet different shredding needs.
Claims14
A foot-operated paper shredder, comprising:
- a housing;
- a driving mechanism mounted in a bottom of one side of said housing, said driving mechanism comprising a base, a foot pedal mounted on said base and biasable up and down relative to said base, and a composite gear mounted on said base and rotatable by said foot pedal;
- a spindle mounted on said base and rotatable by said composite gear;
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- a cutter module mounted in a top side of said housing, said cutter module comprising a cutting shaft and a transmission gear fixedly connected to one end of said cutting shaft and drivable by said spindle to rotate said cutting shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.