Shredding machine

A shredding machine having a housing, a first and a second parallel spaced apart rotatably driven shafts rotatably mounted in said housing at end plates fixedly attached to said housing, driving means in said housing and operably connected to said shafts to drive said shafts counter to each other, a plurality of interfitting cutters having annular cutting surfaces disposed on said shafts and locked relative to said shafts to rotate therewith by locking means, at least two support rods fixedly attached at their ends to said end plates, said support rods being parallel to each other and to said first and second shafts, a comber interposed between each said cutters, each said comber having at least two openings therethrough, one said support rod in registration with and of slightly smaller diameter than one of said openings to provide mechanical support for each said comber, said first and second shafts in registration with and of slightly smaller diameter than another of said openings in each said comber to provide further mechanical support for each said comber, each said comber free floating along the axis of said first and second shafts and said support rods to which said comber is coupled, but mechanically supported substantially perpendicular to said axis, each said comber having a tongue protruding forwardly of said cutters to comb and direct the material being fed to said cutting surfaces of said cutters, the combers disposed on said first shaft having faces opposed and generally parallel to faces on the combers disposed on said second shaft, said faces defining the shredding path through said machine.