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US 5,474,241 AGranted
Portable apparatus for creating mulch
OwnerBrian L. Kennedyinventor
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Abstract
A portable apparatus for mulching paper and paper products including a hopper having a gage bar limiting the thickness of the material entering the hopper, a cutting chamber where a cutter bar and a mulcher bar, operated by an electric motor, rotate and mulch the material and eject it into a chute and a bag at the end of the chute. The apparatus is easily clamped to a table.
Claims6
A portable apparatus for creating mulch from soft biodegradable material products comprising:
- a hopper, having an input end and an output end;
- a chamber in the hopper;
- means for cutting and means for mulching, in the chamber, in operative association with the output of the hopper;
- the means for cutting and means for mulching being cross shaped;
- the means for cutting and means for mulching comprise a cutting and mulching tool, having tungsten steel blades for cutting and tungsten steel teeth for mulching;
- an output chute means, attached to the hopper output end, for directing discharged cut and mulched material from the chamber;
- a protective plate attached to the hopper;
- a protective screen attached to the protective plate;
- and gage bar, attached to the protective screen, limiting the thickness of the material entering the hopper;
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- a driving means, connected to the means for cutting and means for mulching for turning the means for cutting and means for mulching.
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