Machine for preparing scrap metal

Claim 1

THE COMBINATION WITH A CHARGING BOX HAVING A DELIVERY END, OF A BALING CHAMBER TO WHICH SAID CHARGING BOX OPENS AT SAID END, A CHARGING RAM HAVING MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING IT IN THE CHARGING BOX TOWARD AND FROM THE BALING CHAMBER, A SHEAR RAM HAVING MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING IT TOWARD THE BALING CHAMBER ACROSS THE DELIVERY END OF THE CHARGING BOX, A BALING RAM HAVING MEANS FOR RECIPROCATING IT IN THE BALING CHAMBER TRANSVERSELY OF THE CHARGING BOX AND THE SHEAR RAM, AND RELATIVELY FIXED AND MOVABLE SHEAR BLADES RESPECTIVELY FIXED AT THE DELIVERY END OF THE CHARGING BOX AND CONNECTED FOR MOVEMENT WITH THE SHEAR RAM FOR COOPERATION TO SEVER MATERIAL PROJECTING FROM THE OPEN END OF THE CHARGING BOX, SAID RELATIVELY FIXED BLADE COMPRISING A PORTION DISPOSED OBLIQUELY WITH RESPECT TO THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF THE SHEAR RAM AND THE BLADE CONNECTED THEREWITH, THE CHARGING BOX HAVING A BOTTOM PORTION WITH AN OBLIQUE DISPOSITION CORRESPONDING TO THAT OF SAID FIXED BLADE PORTION, THE OBLIQUE POSITION OF THE BOTTOM PORTION OF THE CHARGING BOX TENDING TO BIAS WORK IN THE CHARGING BOX TOWARD A GIVEN POSITION RESPECTING THE FIXED BLADE.