13-06-2013 дата публикации
Номер: US20130146693A1
A shredder is disclosed. The shredder includes a housing having a throat for receiving at least one article to be shredded, and a shredder mechanism received in the housing and including an electrically powered motor and cutter elements. The shredder mechanism enables the at least one article to be shredded to be fed into the cutter elements. The motor is operable to drive the cutter elements so that the cutter elements shred the articles fed therein. The shredder also includes a detector that is configured to detect a thickness of the at least one article being received by the throat, and a controller that is operable to perform a predetermined operation responsive to the detector detecting that the thickness of the at least one article is at least equal to a predetermined maximum thickness. 1a shredding mechanism with at least one blade capable of shredding paper;a delivery mechanism configured to deliver an agent to the at least one blade; anda reservoir in communication with the delivery mechanism, the delivery mechanism selectively drawing the agent from the reservoir for delivering the agent to the at least one blade of the shredding mechanism; anda mechanism that tracks the quantity of material passed through the shredder since the agent was last delivered to the shredding mechanism.. A paper shredder comprising: This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/732,899, filed Mar. 26, 2010, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/770,223, filed Jun. 28, 2007, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,712,689, which is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/444,491, filed Jun. 1, 2006, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,631,822, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/177,480, filed Jul. 11, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,661,614, the entire contents of each of which are incorporated herein by reference with priority claimed. This application is also a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12 ...
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