Document shredding devices
AssigneeGeneral Binding Corporation
InventorsTodd Henreckson, Nicholas M. Nanos, Gregory Holderfield
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Abstract
The present invention provides document shredding devices mountable on various waste receptacles for shredding paper. The document shredding devices have a housing defining a paper shredding passageway. A paper shredding mechanism is contained within the housing and extends into the paper shredding passageway. A mounting support adjustably extends from a waste receptacle mounting side of the housing while remaining housing sides are free of waste receptacle mounting supports. The mounting support has a position retracted into the housing which defines a substantially linear mounting channel and another position extended outward from the housing which defines a nonlinear mounting channel.
Claims16
A document shredding device mountable on a waste receptacle comprising:
- a housing defining a paper shredding passageway and having a waste receptacle mounting side;
- a paper shredding mechanism within the housing and extending into the paper shredding passageway;
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- a mounting support adjustably extending from the waste receptacle mounting side of the housing while remaining housing sides are free of waste receptacle mounting supports, the mounting support having a first position which defines a substantially linear mounting channel and another position which defines a non-linear mounting channel;
- the mounting support having a first side defining a first opening, a second side apposite the first side and defining a second, and a backside defining a backside opening, the substantially linear mounting channel projecting through the first and second openings, and the non-linear mounting channel projecting through the first, second and backside openings.
A document shredding device removably and alternatively mountable on a first waste receptacle having a substantially linear mounting edge and a second waste receptacle having a non-linear mounting edge, the document shredding device comprising:
- housing defining a paper shredding passageway and having a waste receptacle mounting side;
- a paper shredding mechanism within the housing and extending into the paper shredding passageway;
- a mounting support adjustably extending from the waste receptacle mounting side of the housing in incremental adjustments while remaining housing sides are free of waste receptacle mounting supports, the mounting support having a position retracted into the housing which defines a substantially linear mounting channel and another position extended outward from the housing which defines a non-linear mounting channel;
- the mounting support having a first side defining a first opening, a second side opposite the first side and defining a second opening and a backside defining a backside opening, the substantially linear mounting channel projecting through the first and second openings, and the non-linear mounting channel projecting through the first, second and backside opening;
- at least one first incremental adjustment member connected to one of the housing and the mounting support;
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- at least one second incremental adjustment member connected to the other of the housing and the mounting support;
- wherein the first and second incremental adjustment members are engaged with each other such that the mounting support is incrementally adjustable relative to the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.