Scrap chopper

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION WITH A SIDE TRIMMING SHEAR FOR SHEARING A MARGINAL PORTION FROM STRIP-LIKE MATERIAL MOVING IN A SELECTED PATH, WHEREIN SAID SIDE TRIMMING SHEAR INCLUDING A PAIR OF COOPERATIVE SIDE TRIMMING KNIVES, THE CUTTING EDGES OF WHICH ENGAGE AND SHEAR THE MATERIAL IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF THE MATERIAL, A SCRAP CHOPPER SHEAR FOR CUTTING INTO LENGTHS A MARGINAL PORTION PREVIOUSLY TRIMMED FROM THE MATERIAL BY SAID SIDE TRIMMING SHEAR, SAID SCRAP CHOPPING SHEAR INCLUDING A PAIR OF COOPERATIVE KNIFE HOLDERS, EACH CARRYING A KNIFE AND AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH IS DISPLACED TO EFFECT A CUTTING OF A MARGINAL PORTION FED BETWEEN THE KNIVES, SAID KNIFE HOLDERS BEING ARRANGED SO THAT THEIR CUTTING KNIVES ENGAGE EACH OTHER TO CUT THE MATERIAL AT A LOCATION VERTICALLY DISPLACED FROM THE PATH OF TRAVEL OF THE MATERIAL, THE PLANE CONTAINING THE AXIS OF SAID DISPLACED KNIFE HOLDER BEING INCLINED RELATIVE TO THE ADJACENT TRIMMED EDGE OF THE MATERIAL, AND SAID KNIFE HOLDERS TERMINATING SO AS NOT TO INTERFERE WITH THE TRIMMED PORTION OF THE MATERIAL AND WHEREIN THE PORTION OF THE UPPERMOST KNIFE HOLDER CARRYING THE KNIFE THEREOF EXTENDS TO ONE SIDE OF THE PORTION OF THE MATERIAL AND WITHIN AN AREA DEFINED BY THE WIDTH OF THE MARGINAL PORTION.