EP0298228B1 - Motor driven garden waste shredder - Google Patents

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EP0298228B1
EP0298228B1 EP88108088A EP88108088A EP0298228B1 EP 0298228 B1 EP0298228 B1 EP 0298228B1 EP 88108088 A EP88108088 A EP 88108088A EP 88108088 A EP88108088 A EP 88108088A EP 0298228 B1 EP0298228 B1 EP 0298228B1
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02CCRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
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    • B02C18/08Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives within vertical containers
    • B02C18/083Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives within vertical containers with a disc rotor having generally radially extending slots or openings bordered with cutting knives
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02CCRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C18/00Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments
    • B02C18/06Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives
    • B02C18/08Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives within vertical containers
    • B02C18/12Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives within vertical containers with drive arranged below container
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02CCRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C18/00Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments
    • B02C18/06Disintegrating by knives or other cutting or tearing members which chop material into fragments with rotating knives
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    • B02C18/2291Feed chute arrangements
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
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  • the invention relates to a motor-driven garden shredder, with a knife housing arranged on a frame supporting the drive motor and a feed hopper and surrounding a lower ejector chamber, in which there is a knife carrier disc which is to be driven around a substantially vertical axis and which has radially extending through slots.
  • a knife carrier disc which is to be driven around a substantially vertical axis and which has radially extending through slots.
  • flat knives arranged in the manner of planer knives and centrally arranged, upright pre-comminution knives are provided, wherein an abutment surface is further provided in the knife housing, which at the bottom fits into a flat, lower lower cutting edge interacting with the flat knives and on the inside into an inner, obliquely upward, interacting with the pre-comminution knives Shear bar runs out.
  • Garden shredders of the above type are known, for example, from DE-OS 29 34 792. They are usually provided with V-shaped pre-shredding knives and an approximately triangularly contoured abutment plate located between their orbit and the flat knife, which is attached to the knife housing wall essentially upright. The underside of this abutment plate acts as a lower shear bar with the flat knives and its inside, which runs obliquely from the outside inwards downwards, acts as an inner shear bar with the V-shaped pre-shredding knives.
  • Another abutment is formed by a branch feed tube which is guided laterally obliquely downwards through the wall of the cylindrical feed container, the obliquely cut lower end of which cooperates with the flat knives as the lower shear bar and whose obliquely rounded upper side reaches the orbit of the V-shaped pre-shredding knife.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object of providing a garden shredder of the type mentioned at the outset which does not have the abovementioned shortcomings, rather has a high shredding power and manages with low drive energy, works extremely quietly and does not require separate supply of waste which can be comminuted differently, the latter moves in automatically and calmly and is also comparatively insensitive in its tarnishing properties.
  • abutment surface is inclined at an acute angle to the orbit of the flat knives and its lower shear bar forms the tangent to a circle which is concentric with the circumferential axis of the knife carrier disc and which has a larger diameter than that of
  • the cutting edges of the circumferential flat knives have a tangentially enclosed enveloping circle, and that the circumferential cutting edges of the pre-comminution knives continue to form an upwardly tapering, frustoconical enveloping surface and, with a top-down cut, run past the inner shearbar that comes close to the conical enveloping surface.
  • a garden shredder equipped with such a knife mechanism and counter-cutting edges interacting with it can be driven at an extraordinarily low speed and therefore correspondingly low noise with a comparatively low drive power.
  • the chopped material that is fed in unsorted via the feed hopper is sorted by the knife mechanism, as it were, in such a way that the knives, which are larger or thicker in diameter, are pressed radially outwards by the flat knives and shredded into planes in the form of disks, while the thinner knot is and branch material from the revolving flat knives in cooperation with the lower counter-cutting edges of the abutment surface is pressed inwards to the pre-shredding knives, where it is shredded or shredded more quickly. In this way it is ensured that the comminution or.
  • Cutting length of the unsorted to be given up Chopping material is, as it were, in inverse proportion to its thickness, whereby even comparatively thick branches up to 50 mm in diameter and more can be neatly cut off in comparatively thin slices.
  • the thinner branches and twigs are conveyed to the center and fed to the pre-shredding knives there, which in turn cause the chipping material to be cut or shredded accordingly.
  • the abutment surface forms part of an abutment wall which is installed obliquely in the knife housing with respect to the feed hopper and the other part of which is one of the first abutment surface by a the gate-like opening spanning the pre-comminution knife forms a separate second abutment surface which, like the first, is provided with a lower and inner counter-cutting edge, the two lower counter-cutting edges lying in the knife housing half facing away from the feed hopper and the two inner counter-cutting edges immediately adjoining them forming the side gate opening edges .
  • the drive motor and the drive gear leading to the knife carrier disk can be designed so that the knife carrier disk with a under 300rpm. lying speed can be driven. This makes it possible to work extremely quietly while at the same time protecting the knife mechanism to a great extent. Blockages in the knife mechanism or in the ejector chamber practically do not occur. There are also no start-up problems whatsoever, even with stronger branch material already present in the feed hopper.
  • the garden shredder shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 has a frame 2 which contains an electric or internal combustion engine drive motor (not shown) and a lower ejector chamber 1, which is equipped at one end with casters 3. On the frame is provided with a lower flange 4 ' Feed hopper 4 attached through which the garden waste material, such as strong but also thinner branches and twigs and the like. In a non-pre-sorted form, they are jointly abandoned and fed to the knife housing 5 surrounding the knife mechanism. As shown in FIGS. 8 to 11, the feed hopper 4 is mounted on the frame 2 so that it can be folded down about a horizontal hinge axis 6 facing it.
  • two substantially the hinge axis 6 forming T-shaped hinge tabs 2 ' are present at the upper edge of the frame 2', which are gripped like a fork by the lateral projections 4 'on the edge flange 4' provided at the lower end of the feed hopper.
  • three plug-in elements in the form of centering plates 7 are provided on the edge flange 4 'of the hopper 4, which are inserted into the long holes 8 present on the top of the frame, correspondingly long, but kept wider.
  • centering plates 7 and the hinge forming T-shaped retaining tabs 2 'and the projections 4' engaging under them allow the load forces acting on the lower end of the feed hopper, in particular also the torques occurring during the shredding work, to be effectively absorbed.
  • the plug-in elements 7 with the openings 8 ensure that they locate or center themselves when the feed hopper is put on or closed.
  • the hinged hinge is also able to absorb comparatively large forces and not only enables the feed hopper 4 to be folded down but also to be easily detached, which advantageously consists of sheet metal in its lower part and suitable plastic in the upper part.
  • FIG. 3 to 5 show, in the lower part of the knife housing 5, the knife carrier disk 9 is accommodated, which is attached to the upper end of the upright drive shaft 10 and by the drive motor and a correspondingly designed gearbox with a comparatively low speed of approximately 250 U. / min. be driven all round can.
  • the knife carrier disk 9 is provided with radially extending through slots 11 and flat knives 12 arranged above it in the manner of a plane knife.
  • a base plate 13 of a square outline is fastened in the center of the knife carrier disk 9, around which the four flat knives 12 are grouped in a cross shape. Your cutting edges 12 'run essentially in the extension of the associated side edges 13' of the base plate 13.
  • the pre-comminution knives in the form of two knife plates 14 are fastened on the base plate 13. They are inclined like a roof. Their cutting edges 14 'located in the direction of rotation are offset from one another in vertical planes running through the opposite edges 13' of the base plate 13.
  • the cutting edges 14 'of the pre-comminuting knife plates 14 describe an upwardly tapering frustoconical envelope surface 16, which is indicated by dash-dotted lines in FIG. 3.
  • the two pre-comminution knife plates 14 extend only over half the side length of the square base plate 9 and are correspondingly offset from one another.
  • an inclined abutment wall In the knife housing 5 or in the lower region of the feed hopper 4, an inclined abutment wall, generally designated 17, is installed opposite it. In its center, this has a gate-like opening 18 which overlaps the pre-comminution knives 14 and two abutment surfaces located on both sides thereof, the first generally designated 19 and the second 20.
  • the first abutment surface 19 consists of two partial surfaces 19 ', 19 ⁇ , which are bent towards each other around the bending edge 19 ′′′.
  • the abutment partial surface 19 ' which is less inclined with respect to the orbit of the flat knives 12, has on its underside a horizontally running lower shear bar 21 which interacts with the circumferential flat knives 12, while the abutment partial surface 19' on the inside has an obliquely upwardly extending inner shear bar 22 which with the Pre-shredding knives 14 cooperates.
  • the second abutment surface 20 is also provided on the inside with an inner shear bar 23 and on the underside with a lower shear bar 24 which cooperate with the pre-comminution knives 14 and the flat knives 12.
  • the two inner counter cutting edges 22, 23 form the lateral edges of the gate opening 18 in the abutment wall 17. Like the lower counter cutting edges 21, 24, they lie in the knife housing half facing away from the feed hopper 4, that is to say in the housing half on the left in FIGS. 3 and 4 .
  • the lower shearbar 21 of the first abutment surface 19 is arranged so that it forms a tangent to the dash-dot circle K1, which has a larger radius R1 than the smaller, dash-dot circle K2 with the Radius R2.
  • This circle K2 is the closed circle of the blades 12 'of the flat knife 12 in its orbit.
  • first shearbar 21 which cooperates with the flat knives 12
  • the above-described design or arrangement of the first shearbar 21, which cooperates with the flat knives 12, is so important for the invention because, with each pulling cut, the stronger knot material 25 is conveyed radially outward and is planed or machined in thin slices, whereas thinner ones Branch material and branches 26 are conveyed inwards and fed to the pre-comminution knives 14 rotating here, which effectively pre-comminute or tear them. This results in an automatic separation of the chopped material that has been fed in with regard to its heavier and lighter material Crushability with correspondingly improved efficiency. It is also important that - as Fig.
  • FIG. 7 shows - the lower abutment 21 carrying the first abutment surface 19 inclined to the orbit of the cutting edges 12 'of the flat knife 12 at an acute cutting angle ⁇ , whereby the automatic drawing in of the chopping material and its previously described Sorting during shredding is favored accordingly.
  • the flat knives 12 are inclined rearward on their upper side so that they form a clearance angle ⁇ .
  • the obliquely upward and descriptive cutting edge 14 'cutting edges 14' of the pre-shredding knife 14 so past the inner counter-cutting edges 22, 23 that there is a pulling from top to bottom, which makes the abandoned easier to shred Waste is effectively drawn in and pre-shredded.
  • the material pre-shredded on the inner shear bar 22, provided that it does not subsequently reach the ejector chamber 1 via the through-slots 11, can either be shredded again on the second inner shear bar 23 or further shredded on the second lower shear bar 24.

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A garden chopping/shredding apparatus has a frame provided with an upwardly open intake hopper on the frame having a lower end in which is in turn provided a generally horizontal blade plate and formed about the axis with a plurality of angularly spaced apertures. Respective flat blades carried on the blade plate have cutting edges above the apertures and a plurality of prechopping blades carried on the blade plate projecting upward therefrom have cutting edges inclined upward and inward toward the axis. The drive rotates the plate and the blades in a predetermined direction about the axis so as to define with the cutting edges of the flat blades a generally planar and circular orbit perpendicular to the axis and having an inner periphery offset radially outward from the axis and to define with the cutting edges of the chopping blades an upwardly tapered frustoconical orbit centered on the axis and having a small-diameter upper end and a large-diameter lower end. A deflector or abutment plate fixed against rotation in the lower end of the hopper has a panel with a lower cutting edge juxtaposed with the orbit of the flat blades and an inner edge juxtaposed with the orbit of the prechopping blades. This panel forms an acute angle open backward into the direction of rotation with the orbit of the flat blades and its lower cutting edge extends generally tangentially to a circle centered on the axis and having a greater diameter than the inner periphery of the orbit of the flat blades.

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Die Erfindung bezieht sich auf einen motorisch angetriebenen Gartenhäcksler, mit einem auf einem den Antriebsmotor und einen Aufgabetrichter tragenden sowie einen unteren Auswerferraum umgebenden Gestell angeordneten Messergehäuse, in welchem eine um eine im wesentlichen senkrechte Achse umlaufend anzutreibende Messerträgerscheibe vorhanden ist, die mit radial verlaufenden Durchtrittsschlitzen, oberhalb davon hobelmesserartig angeordneten Flachmessern und zentral angeordneten, aufrechtstehenden Vorzerkleinerungsmessern versehen ist, wobei weiterhin im Messergehäuse eine Widerlagerfläche vorgesehen ist, die unten in eine mit den Flachmessern zusammenwirkende, flach verlaufende untere Gegenschneide und innenseitig in eine mit den Vorzerkleinerungsmessern zusammenwirkende, schräg aufwärts verlaufende, innere Gegenschneide ausläuft.The invention relates to a motor-driven garden shredder, with a knife housing arranged on a frame supporting the drive motor and a feed hopper and surrounding a lower ejector chamber, in which there is a knife carrier disc which is to be driven around a substantially vertical axis and which has radially extending through slots. Above it, flat knives arranged in the manner of planer knives and centrally arranged, upright pre-comminution knives are provided, wherein an abutment surface is further provided in the knife housing, which at the bottom fits into a flat, lower lower cutting edge interacting with the flat knives and on the inside into an inner, obliquely upward, interacting with the pre-comminution knives Shear bar runs out.

Gartenhäcksler obiger Art sind z.B. durch die DE-OS 29 34 792 bekannt. Sie sind zumeist mit V-förmig angeordneten Vorzerkleinerungsmessern und einem zwischen ihrer Umlaufbahn und der der Flachmesser gelegenen, etwa dreieckig konturierten Widerlagerblech versehen, das im wesentlichen hochkant stehend an der Messergehäusewandung befestigt ist. Die Unterseite dieses Widerlagerblechs wirkt als untere Gegenschneide mit den Flachmessern und ihre schräg von außen nach innen unten verlaufende Innenseite als innere Gegenschneide mit den V-förmigen Vorzerkleinerungsmessern zusammen. Ein weiteres Widerlager wird dabei von einem seitlich schräg nach unten durch die Wandung des zylindrischen Aufgabebehälters hindurchgeführten Astzufuhrrohr gebildet, dessen schräg abgeschnittenes unteres Ende als untere Gegenschneide mit den Flachmessern zusammenwirkt und dessen schräg verlaufende, gerundete Oberseite an die Umlaufbahn der V-förmigen Vorzerkleinerungsmesser heranreicht. Obwohl dabei wegen des vorhandenen Astzufuhrrohrs auch im Durchmesser stärkeres Astmaterial hobelmesserartig zerspant und das über den oberen Aufgabetrichter herangeführte leichter zerkleinerbare Gartenabfallgut von den Vorzerkleinerungsflügeln und nachher auch von den Flachmessern verhältnismäßig gut zerkleinert werden kann, haften diesem Gerät doch noch mancherlei Mängel an: So muß hier das leichter zerkleinerbare Abfallgut vom schwereren starken Astmaterial getrennt zugeführt und damit auch entsprechend vorsortiert werden. Weiterhin muß dabei die Messerträgerscheibe mit verhältnismäßig hoher Drehzahl angetrieben werden. Das bedingt nicht nur eine entsprechend hohe motorische Anstriebsleistung sondern auch eine starke Geräuschbildung und schnellen Verschleiß der Messerschneiden, die bei den meisten bekannten Gartenhäckslern als sehr störend empfunden wird. Auch treten vielfach Anlaufschwierigkeiten auf, insbesondere dann, wenn das Messerwerk durch unzerkleinert gebliebenes Astmaterial verstopft bzw. blockiert ist.Garden shredders of the above type are known, for example, from DE-OS 29 34 792. They are usually provided with V-shaped pre-shredding knives and an approximately triangularly contoured abutment plate located between their orbit and the flat knife, which is attached to the knife housing wall essentially upright. The underside of this abutment plate acts as a lower shear bar with the flat knives and its inside, which runs obliquely from the outside inwards downwards, acts as an inner shear bar with the V-shaped pre-shredding knives. Another abutment is formed by a branch feed tube which is guided laterally obliquely downwards through the wall of the cylindrical feed container, the obliquely cut lower end of which cooperates with the flat knives as the lower shear bar and whose obliquely rounded upper side reaches the orbit of the V-shaped pre-shredding knife. Although, because of the existing branch feed pipe, the diameter of the branch material, which is thicker, is cut like a plane knife, and the garden shredder that can be shredded more easily through the upper feed hopper can be relatively well shredded by the pre-shredding blades and subsequently by the flat knives, this device still has several shortcomings the waste, which is easier to shred, is fed separately from the heavier, strong branch material and thus also pre-sorted accordingly. Furthermore, the knife carrier disk must be driven at a relatively high speed. This not only requires a correspondingly high motor drive power, but also a high level of noise and rapid wear on the knife edges, which is perceived as very annoying in most known garden shredders. Start-up problems also often occur, particularly when the knife mechanism is blocked or blocked by branch material that has remained unreduced.

Der Erfindung liegt daher die Aufgabe zugrunde, einen Gartenhäcksler der eingangs erwähnten Gattung zu schaffen, der die vorerwähnten Mängel nicht aufweist, vielmehr eine große Häckselleistung besitzt und dazu mit geringer Antriebsenergie auskommt, außerordentlich geräuscharm arbeitet und keine getrennte Zufuhr von unterschiedlich zerkleinerbarem Abfallgut erfordert, letzteres selbsttätig und ruhig einzieht und auch in seinen Anlaufeigenschaften vergleichsweise unempfindlich ist. Diese Aufgabe wird ausgehend von einem Gartenhäcksler der gattungsgemäßen Beschaffenheit erfindungsgemäß dadurch gelöst, daß die Widerlagerfläche unter spitzem Schnittwinkel zur Umlaufbahn der Flachmesser geneigt verläuft und ihre untere Gegenschneide die Tangente zu einem konzentrisch zur Umlaufachse der Messerträgerscheibe gelegenen Kreis bildet, der einen größeren Durchmesser als der von den Schneiden der umlaufenden Flachmesser tangential umschlossene Hüllkreis besitzt, und daß weiterhin die umlaufenden Schneiden der Vorzerkleinerungsmesser eine sich nach oben verjüngende stumpfkegelige Hüllfläche bilden und mit von oben nach unten ziehendem Schnitt an der die Kegelhüllfläche nahe heranreichenden inneren Gegenschneide vorbeilaufen. Ein mit einem solchen Messerwerk und damit zusammenwirkenden Gegenschneiden ausgestatteter Gartenhäcksler kann mit außerordentlich niedriger Drehzahl und daher entsprechend geräuscharm bei vergleichsweise geringer Antriebsleistung angetrieben werden. Das über den Aufgabetrichter unsortiert aufgegebene Häckselmaterial wird durch das Messerwerk gleichsam selbsttätig sortiert, und zwar in der Weise, daß das im Durchmesser größere bzw. stärkere Astmaterial von den Flachmessern radial nach außen gedrückt und dort hobelartig in Scheibenform zerkleinert wird, während das dünnere Ast- und Zweigmaterial von den umlaufenden Flachmessern im Zusammenwirken mit den unteren Gegenschneiden der Widerlagerfläche nach innen zu den Vorzerkleinerungsmessern gedrückt wird, wo es schneller zerkleinert bzw. zerrissen wird. Auf diese Weise wird dafür gesorgt, daß die Zerkleinerungs-bzw. Zerspanungslänge des unsortiert aufzugebenden Häckselmaterials gleichsam in umgekehrtem Verhältnis zu dessen Stärke bzw. Dicke steht, wobei auch noch vergleichsweise dicke Äste bis zu 50mm Durchmesser und mehr in vergleichsweise dünnen Scheiben sauber abgehobelt werden können. Das dünnere Astmaterial und Zweige werden zur Mitte gefördert und den dort vorhandenen Vorzerkleinerungsmessern zugeführt, die dann ihrerseits eine entsprechend unterschiedliche Zerspanung bzw. Zerschnitzelung des Häckselmaterials bewirken. Wesentlich ist dabei auch, daß durch die entsprechende Schräganordnung der Widerlagerflächen in Bezug auf die Flachmesser und die Vorzerkleinerungsmesser das Häckselmaterial weitestgehend selbsttätig in das Messerwerk eingezogen wird und praktisch so gut wie gar nicht herausgeschleudert wird.The invention is therefore based on the object of providing a garden shredder of the type mentioned at the outset which does not have the abovementioned shortcomings, rather has a high shredding power and manages with low drive energy, works extremely quietly and does not require separate supply of waste which can be comminuted differently, the latter moves in automatically and calmly and is also comparatively insensitive in its tarnishing properties. This object is achieved on the basis of a garden shredder of the generic type according to the invention in that the abutment surface is inclined at an acute angle to the orbit of the flat knives and its lower shear bar forms the tangent to a circle which is concentric with the circumferential axis of the knife carrier disc and which has a larger diameter than that of The cutting edges of the circumferential flat knives have a tangentially enclosed enveloping circle, and that the circumferential cutting edges of the pre-comminution knives continue to form an upwardly tapering, frustoconical enveloping surface and, with a top-down cut, run past the inner shearbar that comes close to the conical enveloping surface. A garden shredder equipped with such a knife mechanism and counter-cutting edges interacting with it can be driven at an extraordinarily low speed and therefore correspondingly low noise with a comparatively low drive power. The chopped material that is fed in unsorted via the feed hopper is sorted by the knife mechanism, as it were, in such a way that the knives, which are larger or thicker in diameter, are pressed radially outwards by the flat knives and shredded into planes in the form of disks, while the thinner knot is and branch material from the revolving flat knives in cooperation with the lower counter-cutting edges of the abutment surface is pressed inwards to the pre-shredding knives, where it is shredded or shredded more quickly. In this way it is ensured that the comminution or. Cutting length of the unsorted to be given up Chopping material is, as it were, in inverse proportion to its thickness, whereby even comparatively thick branches up to 50 mm in diameter and more can be neatly cut off in comparatively thin slices. The thinner branches and twigs are conveyed to the center and fed to the pre-shredding knives there, which in turn cause the chipping material to be cut or shredded accordingly. It is also important that the appropriate inclined arrangement of the abutment surfaces in relation to the flat knives and the pre-shredding knives means that the chopping material is largely automatically drawn into the knife mechanism and is practically not ejected at all.

Als besonders vorteilhaft hat es sich bei schräg zur Messerträgerscheibe verlaufendem Messergehäuse und Aufgabetrichter erwiesen, wenn nach einem weiteren Merkmal der Erfindung die Widerlagerfläche den einen Teil einer in das Messergehäuse gegenüber dem Aufgabetrichter schräg eingebauten Widerlagerwand bildet, deren anderer Teil eine von der ersten Widerlagerfläche durch eine die Vorzerkleinerungsmesser übergreifende torartige Öffnung getrennte zweite Widerlagerfläche bildet, die ebenso wie die erste mit einer unteren und inneren Gegenschneide versehen ist, wobei die beiden unteren Gegenschneiden in der dem Aufgabetrichter abgewandten Messergehäusehälfte liegen und die beiden sich daran jeweils unmittelbar anschließenden inneren Gegenschneiden die seitlichen Toröffnungskanten bilden. In diesem Fall erfolgt eine jeweils doppelte Vor- und auch Nachzerkleinerung des zu häckselnden Gartenabfalls, und zwar durch die jeweils zu zweit vorhandenen, miteinander zusammenwirkenden Zerkleinerungsmesser und die zugehörigen Gegenschneiden. Wie die Praxis gezeigt hat, können dabei der Antriebsmotor und das zur Messerträgerscheibe führende Antriebsgetriebe so ausgelegt werden, daß die Messerträgerscheibe mit einer unter 300U/min. liegenden Drehzahl angetrieben werden kann. Dadurch kann außerordentlich geräuscharm gearbeitet werden, bei zugleich weitgehender Schonung des Messerwerks. Verstopfungen des Messerwerks oder im Auswerferraum treten praktisch nicht auf. Auch gibt es keinerlei Anlaufschwierigkeiten, selbst bei im Aufgabetrichter bereits vorhandenem auch stärkerem Astmaterial.It has proven to be particularly advantageous in the case of a knife housing and feed hopper which runs obliquely to the knife carrier disk if, according to a further feature of the invention, the abutment surface forms part of an abutment wall which is installed obliquely in the knife housing with respect to the feed hopper and the other part of which is one of the first abutment surface by a the gate-like opening spanning the pre-comminution knife forms a separate second abutment surface which, like the first, is provided with a lower and inner counter-cutting edge, the two lower counter-cutting edges lying in the knife housing half facing away from the feed hopper and the two inner counter-cutting edges immediately adjoining them forming the side gate opening edges . In this case, double pre-shredding and subsequent shredding of the garden waste to be chopped takes place, namely through the two cooperating shredding knives and the associated shearbars. As practice has shown, the drive motor and the drive gear leading to the knife carrier disk can be designed so that the knife carrier disk with a under 300rpm. lying speed can be driven. This makes it possible to work extremely quietly while at the same time protecting the knife mechanism to a great extent. Blockages in the knife mechanism or in the ejector chamber practically do not occur. There are also no start-up problems whatsoever, even with stronger branch material already present in the feed hopper.

Weitere Merkmale nach der Erfindung seien anhand eines in den Zeichnungen dargestellten vorteilhaften Ausführungsbeispiels beschrieben. Dabei zeigen

Fig. 1 und 2
den neuen Gartenhäcksler in schaubildlicher Seiten- und Rückansicht,
Fig. 3
einen senkrechten Schnitt durch das Messergehäuse,
Fig. 4
einen Schnitt nach der Linie IV-IV der Fig. 3,
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eine Schnittansicht in Richtung des Pfeiles A der Fig. 3,
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eine schematisch gehaltene Draufsicht auf die Messerträgerscheibe bei geschnittener Widerlagerwand,
Fig. 7
einen senkrechten Teilschnitt durch ein auf der Messerträgerscheibe flachliegend angeordnetes Flachmesser und die zugehörige Widerlagerfläche,
Fig. 8
eine teilweise geschnittene Draufsicht auf die Messerträgerscheibe und das untere Ende des Aufgabetrichters, während die
Fig. 9, 10 und 11
jeweils Schnitte nach den Linien IX-IX bzw. X-X und XI-XI darstellen.
Further features according to the invention are described with reference to an advantageous embodiment shown in the drawings. Show
1 and 2
the new garden shredder in side and rear view,
Fig. 3
a vertical section through the knife housing,
Fig. 4
a section along the line IV-IV of Fig. 3,
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3 shows a sectional view in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 3,
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2 shows a schematic top view of the knife carrier disk with the abutment wall cut,
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a vertical partial section through a flat knife arranged flat on the knife carrier disc and the associated abutment surface,
Fig. 8
a partially sectioned plan view of the knife carrier disc and the lower end of the hopper, while the
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represent sections according to lines IX-IX or XX and XI-XI.

Der in Fig. 1 und 2 schaubildlich wiedergegebene Gartenhäcksler besitzt ein einen nicht dargestellten elektrischen oder auch brennkraftbetriebenen Antriebsmotor enthaltendes sowie einen unteren Auswerferraum 1 umgebendes Gestell 2, das am einen Ende mit Fahrrollen 3 ausgerüstet ist. Auf dem Gestell ist der mit einem unteren Flansch 4′ versehene Aufgabetrichter 4 angebracht, über den das Gartenabfallmaterial, wie z.B. starke aber auch dünnere Äste und Zweige u.dgl. in nicht vorsortierter Form gemeinsam aufgegeben und dem das Messerwerk umgebenden Messergehäuse 5 zugeführt wird. Wie die Fig. 8 bis 11 zeigen, ist der Aufgabetrichter 4 auf dem Gestell 2 um eine ihm zugewandt liegende, horizontale Scharnierachse 6 abklappbar gelagert. Hierzu sind am oberen Rand des Gestells 2 zwei im wesentlichen die Scharnierachse 6 bildende T-förmige Scharnierlappen 2′ vorhanden, die vom am unteren Ende des Aufgabetrichters vorhandenen seitlichen Vorsprüngen 4˝ am Randflansch 4′ gabelartig untergriffen sind. Weiterhin sind am Randflansch 4′ des Aufgabetrichters 4 drei Einsteckelemente in Form von Zentrierplatten 7 vorgesehen, die in auf der Gestelloberseite vorhandenen, entsprechend lang bemessenen, jedoch breiter gehaltenen Langlöchern 8 eingesteckt sind. Diese Zentrierplatten 7 sowie die das Klappscharnier bildenden T-förmigen Haltelappen 2′ und die sie untergreifenden Vorsprünge 4˝ erlauben es, die auf das untere Ende des Aufgabetrichters wirkenden Belastungskräfte, insbesondere auch die bei der Zerkleinerungsarbeit auftretenden Drehmomente wirksam aufzufangen. Dabei stellen die Einsteck elemente 7 mit den Öffnungen 8 sicher, daß sie sich beim Aufsetzen bzw. Zuklappen des Aufgabetrichters selbst suchen bzw. zentrieren. Das Klappscharnier vermag auch vergleichsweise große Kräfte aufzunehmen und ermöglicht nicht nur ein Abklappen, sondern auch leichtes Aushängen des Aufgabetrichters 4, der zweckmäßig in seinem unteren Teil aus Metallblech und im oberen Teil aus geeignetem Kunststoff besteht.The garden shredder shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 has a frame 2 which contains an electric or internal combustion engine drive motor (not shown) and a lower ejector chamber 1, which is equipped at one end with casters 3. On the frame is provided with a lower flange 4 ' Feed hopper 4 attached through which the garden waste material, such as strong but also thinner branches and twigs and the like. In a non-pre-sorted form, they are jointly abandoned and fed to the knife housing 5 surrounding the knife mechanism. As shown in FIGS. 8 to 11, the feed hopper 4 is mounted on the frame 2 so that it can be folded down about a horizontal hinge axis 6 facing it. For this purpose, two substantially the hinge axis 6 forming T-shaped hinge tabs 2 'are present at the upper edge of the frame 2', which are gripped like a fork by the lateral projections 4 'on the edge flange 4' provided at the lower end of the feed hopper. Furthermore, three plug-in elements in the form of centering plates 7 are provided on the edge flange 4 'of the hopper 4, which are inserted into the long holes 8 present on the top of the frame, correspondingly long, but kept wider. These centering plates 7 and the hinge forming T-shaped retaining tabs 2 'and the projections 4' engaging under them allow the load forces acting on the lower end of the feed hopper, in particular also the torques occurring during the shredding work, to be effectively absorbed. The plug-in elements 7 with the openings 8 ensure that they locate or center themselves when the feed hopper is put on or closed. The hinged hinge is also able to absorb comparatively large forces and not only enables the feed hopper 4 to be folded down but also to be easily detached, which advantageously consists of sheet metal in its lower part and suitable plastic in the upper part.

Wie die Fig. 3 bis 5 zeigen, ist im unteren Teil des Messergehäuses 5 die Messerträgerscheibe 9 untergebracht, die am oberen Ende der hochkant stehenden Antriebswelle 10 befestigt ist und durch den Antriebsmotor sowie ein entsprechend ausgelegtes Getriebe mit vergleichsweise niedriger Drehzahl von ca. 250 U/min. umlaufend angetrieben werden kann. Die Messerträgerscheibe 9 ist mit radial verlaufenden Durchtrittsschlitzen 11 sowie oberhalb davon hobelmesserartig angeordneten Flachmessern 12 versehen. Weiterhin ist auf der Messerträgerscheibe 9 in deren Zentrum eine Grundplatte 13 von quadratischem Grundriß befestigt, um dic sich die vier Flachmesser 12 kreuzförmig gruppieren. Ihre Schneiden 12′ verlaufen im wesentlichen in Verlängerung der zugehörigen Seitenkanten 13′ der Grundplatte 13.3 to 5 show, in the lower part of the knife housing 5, the knife carrier disk 9 is accommodated, which is attached to the upper end of the upright drive shaft 10 and by the drive motor and a correspondingly designed gearbox with a comparatively low speed of approximately 250 U. / min. be driven all round can. The knife carrier disk 9 is provided with radially extending through slots 11 and flat knives 12 arranged above it in the manner of a plane knife. Furthermore, a base plate 13 of a square outline is fastened in the center of the knife carrier disk 9, around which the four flat knives 12 are grouped in a cross shape. Your cutting edges 12 'run essentially in the extension of the associated side edges 13' of the base plate 13.

Auf der Grundplatte 13 sind die Vorzerkleinerungsmesser in Gestalt zweier Messerplatten 14 befestigt. Sie sind dachartig zueinander geneigt angeordnet. Ihre in Umlaufrichtung vorn gelegenen Schneiden 14′ liegen zueinander versetzt in durch die gegenüberliegenden Kanten 13′ der Grundplatte 13 verlaufenden senkrechten Ebenen. Bei der Umlaufbewegung der Messerträgerscheibe 9 in Pfeilrichtung 15 beschreiben die Schneiden 14′ der Vorzerkleinerungs-Messerplatten 14 eine sich nach oben verjüngende stumpfkegelige Hüllfläche 16, die in Fig. 3 strichpunktiert angedeutet ist. Die von den oberen und unteren Enden der umlaufenden Schneiden 14′ gebildeten Hüllkreise 16′ bzw. 16˝ sind in Fig. 4 strichpunktiert dargestellt. Die beiden Vorzerkleinerungsmesserplatten 14 erstrecken sich etwa nur über die Hälfte der Seitenlänge der quadratischen Grundplatte 9 und sind entsprechend seitenversetzt zueinander angeorndet.The pre-comminution knives in the form of two knife plates 14 are fastened on the base plate 13. They are inclined like a roof. Their cutting edges 14 'located in the direction of rotation are offset from one another in vertical planes running through the opposite edges 13' of the base plate 13. When the knife carrier disk 9 rotates in the direction of arrow 15, the cutting edges 14 'of the pre-comminuting knife plates 14 describe an upwardly tapering frustoconical envelope surface 16, which is indicated by dash-dotted lines in FIG. 3. The enveloping circles 16 'and 16' formed by the upper and lower ends of the circumferential cutting edges 14 'are shown in phantom in FIG. 4. The two pre-comminution knife plates 14 extend only over half the side length of the square base plate 9 and are correspondingly offset from one another.

In das Messergehäuse 5 bzw. in den unteren Bereich des Aufgabetrichters 4 ist ihm gegenüber eine generell mit 17 bezeichnete schräge Widerlagerwand eingebaut. Diese weist in ihrer Mitte eine die Vorzerkleinerungsmesser 14 übergreifende torartige Öffnung 18 sowie zwei beidseitig davon gelegene Widerlagerflächen auf, denen erste generell mit 19 und deren zweite mit 20 bezeichnet ist. Die erste Widerlagerfläche 19 bebesteht aus zwei Teilflächen 19′, 19˝, die um die Biegekante 19‴ gegeneinander abgebogen sind. Die gegenüber der Umlaufbahn der Flachmesser 12 weniger stark geneigte WiderlagerTeilfläche 19′ besitzt an ihrer Unterseite eine horizontal verlaufende untere Gegenschneide 21, die mit den umlaufenden Flachmessern 12 zusammenwirkt, während die WiderlagerTeilfläche 19˝ innenseitig eine schräg aufwärts verlaufende innere Gegenschneide 22 aufweist, die mit den Vorzerkleinerungsmessern 14 zusammenwirkt. Auch die zweite Widerlagerfläche 20 ist innenseitig mit einer inneren Gegenschneide 23 und unterseitig mit einer unteren Gegenschneide 24 versehen, die mit den Vorzerkleinerungsmessern 14 bzw. den Flachmessern 12 zusammenwirken. Die beiden inneren Gegenschneiden 22, 23 bilden die seitlichen Kanten der Toröffnung 18 in der Widerlagerwand 17. Sie liegen ebenso wie die unteren Gegenschneiden 21, 24 in der dem Aufgabetrichter 4 abgewandten Messergehäusehälfte, also in der in den Fig. 3 und 4 jeweils linken Gehäusehälfte.In the knife housing 5 or in the lower region of the feed hopper 4, an inclined abutment wall, generally designated 17, is installed opposite it. In its center, this has a gate-like opening 18 which overlaps the pre-comminution knives 14 and two abutment surfaces located on both sides thereof, the first generally designated 19 and the second 20. The first abutment surface 19 consists of two partial surfaces 19 ', 19˝, which are bent towards each other around the bending edge 19 ‴. The abutment partial surface 19 ', which is less inclined with respect to the orbit of the flat knives 12, has on its underside a horizontally running lower shear bar 21 which interacts with the circumferential flat knives 12, while the abutment partial surface 19' on the inside has an obliquely upwardly extending inner shear bar 22 which with the Pre-shredding knives 14 cooperates. The second abutment surface 20 is also provided on the inside with an inner shear bar 23 and on the underside with a lower shear bar 24 which cooperate with the pre-comminution knives 14 and the flat knives 12. The two inner counter cutting edges 22, 23 form the lateral edges of the gate opening 18 in the abutment wall 17. Like the lower counter cutting edges 21, 24, they lie in the knife housing half facing away from the feed hopper 4, that is to say in the housing half on the left in FIGS. 3 and 4 .

Wie insbesondere das Schema in Fig. 6 zeigt, ist die untere Gegenschneide 21 der ersten Widerlagerfläche 19 so angeordnet, daß sie eine Tangente zu dem strichpunktiert eingezeichneten Kreis K₁ bildet, der einen größeren Radius R₁ besitzt als der kleinere, strichpunktiert eingezeichnete Kreis K₂ mit dem Radius R₂. Dieser Kreis K₂ ist der von den Schneiden 12′ der Flachmesser 12 bei deren Umlaufbahn geschlossene Hüllkreis. Die vorbeschriebene Ausbildung bzw. Anordnung der mit den Flachmessern 12 zusammenwirkenden ersten Gegenschneide 21 ist deswegen für die Erfindung so wesentlich, weil dadurch mit jeweils ziehendem Schnitt das stärkere Astmaterial 25 radial nach außen gefördert und dabei in dünnen Scheiben abgehobelt bzw. zerspant wird, wohingegen dünneres Astmaterial und Zweige 26 nach innen gefördert und den hier umlaufenden Vorzerkleinerungsmessern 14 zugeführt werden, die sie wirksam vorzerkleinern bzw. zerreißen. Hierdurch erfolgt eine selbsttätige Trennung des aufgegebenen Häckselmaterials hinsichtlich seiner schwereren und leichteren Zerkleinerbarkeit mit entsprechend verbessertem Wirkungsgrad. Dabei ist zugleich von Bedeutung, daß - wie Fig. 7 zeigt, -die die untere Gegenschneide 21 tragende erste Widerlagerfläche 19 zu der Umlaufbahn der Schneiden 12′ der Flachmesser 12 unter spitzem Schnittwinkel α geneigt verläuft, wodurch das selbsttätige Einziehen des Häckselmaterials und seine vorbeschriebene Sortierung beim Zerkleinern entsprechend begünstigt wird. Darüber hinaus sind die Flachmesser 12 auf ihrer Oberseite nach rückwärts geneigt ausgebildet, so daß sie einen Freiwinkel β bilden.As shown in particular in the diagram in Fig. 6, the lower shearbar 21 of the first abutment surface 19 is arranged so that it forms a tangent to the dash-dot circle K₁, which has a larger radius R₁ than the smaller, dash-dot circle K₂ with the Radius R₂. This circle K₂ is the closed circle of the blades 12 'of the flat knife 12 in its orbit. The above-described design or arrangement of the first shearbar 21, which cooperates with the flat knives 12, is so important for the invention because, with each pulling cut, the stronger knot material 25 is conveyed radially outward and is planed or machined in thin slices, whereas thinner ones Branch material and branches 26 are conveyed inwards and fed to the pre-comminution knives 14 rotating here, which effectively pre-comminute or tear them. This results in an automatic separation of the chopped material that has been fed in with regard to its heavier and lighter material Crushability with correspondingly improved efficiency. It is also important that - as Fig. 7 shows - the lower abutment 21 carrying the first abutment surface 19 inclined to the orbit of the cutting edges 12 'of the flat knife 12 at an acute cutting angle α, whereby the automatic drawing in of the chopping material and its previously described Sorting during shredding is favored accordingly. In addition, the flat knives 12 are inclined rearward on their upper side so that they form a clearance angle β.

Für die Vorzerkleinerungswirkung ist weiterhin wesentlich, daß die schräg aufwärts stehenden und eine stumpfkegelige Hüllfläche beschreibenden Schneiden 14′ der Vorzerkleinerungsmesser 14 so an den inneren Gegenschneiden 22, 23 vorbeilaufen, daß sich dabei ein von oben nach unten ziehender Schnitt ergibt, wodurch das aufgegebene leichter zerkleinerbare Abfallgut wirksam eingezogen und vorzerkleinert wird. Das an der inneren Gegenschneide 22 vorzerkleinerte Material kann, soweit es anschließend nicht bereits über die Durchtrittsschlitze 11 in den Auswerferraum 1 gelangt, bei weiterem Umlauf entweder an der zweiten inneren Gegenschneide 23 erneut vorzerkleinert oder aber an der zweiten unteren Gegenschneide 24 nachzerkleinert werden.For the pre-shredding effect it is also essential that the obliquely upward and descriptive cutting edge 14 'cutting edges 14' of the pre-shredding knife 14 so past the inner counter-cutting edges 22, 23 that there is a pulling from top to bottom, which makes the abandoned easier to shred Waste is effectively drawn in and pre-shredded. The material pre-shredded on the inner shear bar 22, provided that it does not subsequently reach the ejector chamber 1 via the through-slots 11, can either be shredded again on the second inner shear bar 23 or further shredded on the second lower shear bar 24.

Im Rahmen der Erfindung sind mancherlei Änderungen möglich. So kann es für eine wirksame Zerkleinerung bei vergleichsweise ruhigem Maschinenlauf schon ausreichen, wenn nur die erste Widerlagerfläche 19 mit ihrer unteren Gegenschneide 21 und der inneren Gegenschneide 22 vorhanden wäre, die zweite Widerlagerfläche 20 mit innerer Gegenschneiden 23 und unterer Gegenschneide 24 also entfallen würde. Allerdings hat die Praxis gezeigt, daß durch das Vorhandensein beider Widerlagerflächen 19, 20 mit ihren beiden unteren und inneren Gegenschneiden eine noch wesentlich bessere Zerkleinerungsarbeit bei geringer Drehzahl und äußerst geräuscharmem Lauf der Maschine erreichbar ist.Various changes are possible within the scope of the invention. Thus, for effective comminution with a comparatively quiet machine operation, it would be sufficient if only the first abutment surface 19 with its lower counter cutting edge 21 and the inner counter cutting edge 22 were present, the second abutment surface 20 with inner counter cutting edges 23 and lower counter cutting edge 24 would therefore be omitted. However, practice has shown that the presence of both abutment surfaces 19, 20 with their two lower and inner counter cutting edges means that much better grinding work can be achieved at low speed and extremely quiet running of the machine.

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  1. Motor-driven garden chopper, with a blade housing (5) which is arranged on a frame (2) bearing the drive motor and a feed hopper (4) and surrounding a lower ejector chamber (1), in which a blade-bearing disc (9) is provided which can be driven so that it revolves about an essentially vertical axis and which is provided with radially extending slots (11), flat blades (12) arranged like planing knives above them and upright primary breaking blades (14), and in which there is also provided in the blade housing (5) an abutment surface (19) which terminates at the bottom in a flat lower counter-blade (21) which cooperates with the flat blades (12) and on the interior in an inner counter-blade (22) which co-operates with the primary breaking blades (14) and extends obliquely upwards, characterized in that the abutment surface (19) runs at an acute cutting angle (α) to the path of revolution of the flat blades (12) and its lower counter-blade (21) forms the tangent to a circle (K₁) lying concentric with the axis of revolution of the blade-bearing disc (9), this circle having a greater radius (R₁) than the envelope circle (K₂) enclosed tangentially by the blades (12' ) of the revolving flat blade (12), and furthermore the revolving cutting edges (14') of the primary breaking blades (14) form an envelope surface (16) which tapers upwards in the shape of a truncated cone and run with a cut drawing from the top downwards past the inner counter-blade (22) which reaches to near the conical envelope surface (16).
  2. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 1, in which the blade housing and feed hopper are arranged inclined with respect to the blade-bearing disc, characterised in that the abutment surface (19) forms one part of an abutment wall (17) built into the blade housing (5) opposite the feed hopper (4), the other part thereof forming a second abutment surface (20) which is separated from the first abutment surface (19) by a gate-like opening (18) which extends over the primary breaking blades (14) and which, just like the first, is provided with a lower and an inner counter-blade (24, 23 respectively), so that the two lower counter-blades (21, 24) lying in the half of the blade housing facing away from the feed hopper (4) and the two inner counter-blades (22, 23) immediately adjacent thereto form the lateral gate opening edges. (Figures 3, 4)
  3. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that the first abutment surface (19) consists of two part-surfaces (19', 19'') which are bent about a bending edge (19''') running through the common cutting point of the appertaining lower and inner counter-blade (21, 22) and in which the part-surface (19'') bearing the inner counter-blade (22) is more greatly inclined than the part-surface (19') which terminates in the lower counter-blade (21). (Figures 4, 5)
  4. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 2, characterised in that the primary breaking blades consist of two blade plates (14) which are arranged inclined towards one another like a roof on a square base plate (13) and in which the cutting edges (14') lying at the front in the direction of revolution lie offset with respect to one another in vertical planes running through the opposite edges (9') of the base plate (19). (Figures 3, 4, 5, 8).
  5. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 4, characterised in that the primary breaking blades (14) extend approximately over half of the side length of the square base plate (9) and are arranged correspondingly laterally offset with respect to one another.
  6. Garden chopper as claimed in one of claims 1 to 5, characterised in that four flat blades (12) are disposed in cross formation about the base plate (13) and their cutting edges (12') lie essentially in an extension of the appertaining side edges (9') of the base plate (9). (Figure 4)
  7. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 6, characterised in that the flat blades (12) arranged on the blade-bearing disc (9) have an inclined surface forming a clearance angle (β).
  8. Garden chopper as claimed in one of claims 1 to 7, characterised in that the drive motor and the drive transmission means leading to the blade-bearing disc (9) are so designed that the blade-bearing disc (9) is to be driven at a speed below 300 revolutions per minute.
  9. Garden chopper as claimed in one of claims 1 to 8, characterised in that the feed hopper (4) is mounted on the frame (2) so that it can be tilted down about a horizontal hinge pin (6) which lies facing it. (Figures 8-10)
  10. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 9, characterised in that two T-shaped hinge lugs (2') which essentially form the hinge axis (6) are provided on the upper edge of the frame (2), and lateral projections (4'') at the lower end of the feed hopper (4) engage like a fork under these hinge lugs. (Figures 8, 10)
  11. Garden chopper as claimed in one of claims 1 to 10, characterised in that the feed hopper (4) is provided with a lower edge flange (4') and several insert elements (7) which are distributed about the periphery thereof and which extend so as to be self-centering into insertion openings (8) on the upper face of the frame. (Figures 8, 9)
  12. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 11, characterised in that the insert elements consist of centering plates (7) and the insertion openings which receive them consist of slots (8) in the upper face of the frame which are dimensioned so that they correspond in length but are wider. (Figure 8)
  13. Garden chopper as claimed in claim 11, characterised in that the insert elements consist of conically pointed insertion bolts and the insertion openings consist of round holes which have a diameter corresponding to the cylindrical portion of the insertion bolts.
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