Method of feeding a film granulator

The method of feeding sheet material to a granulator including a chamber, a rotor mounted for rotation about an axis within said chamber, cutting means affixed on said rotor, bed knife means mounted for projection into said chamber at least on the downstroke side thereof for cooperative cutting relationship with said cutting means as said rotor is driven, means forming a lower portion of the boundary of said chamber whereby material reduced in size by said cooperative cutting relationship passes through said means and is discharged from said chamber, said chamber being substantially closed except for means for introducing said material in the top thereof, said means for introducing said material extending longitudinally along said axis and opening into said chamber on the downstroke side of said rotor, comprising,

• at least partially filling said chamber with partially granulated material and
• thereafter forcing further sheet material into said closed chamber in a generally radial direction towards said rotor on the downstroke side thereof and simultaneously diverting a major portion of said partially granulated material carried by the rotational movement of the rotor from contacting said sheet material so as to prevent possible deflection of such sheet material away from said rotor.