US Patent Issued to VOGELSANG on Aug. 19 for "Dual-shaft shredder with a horizontal maintenance concept" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,814, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to VOGELSANG GMBH & CO KG (Essen, Germany).

"Dual-shaft shredder with a horizontal maintenance concept" was invented by Torsten Burhorst (Essen/Oldb., Germany) and Stephen Tapken (Essen/Oldb., Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-shaft shredder includes a shredder housing, a first cutter disc unit, and a second cutter disc unit. The first cutter disc unit has at a first axial end a first bearing unit with a first bearing housing and at a second axial end a second bearing unit with a second bearing housing. A first cutter disc block is rotatably mounted about a first axis of rotation. The s...