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Rotary-Wheel Can Opener
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Rotary-Wheel Can Opener

The 1858 lever opener already published is a blade you drive into the lid and saw along by hand: it leaves a torn edge, needs real force, and slips. Charles Arthur Bunker's rung is the one still in every kitchen drawer - a toothed feed wheel that grips the can's rim and walks the can past a hardened cutting wheel, so the cut is rolled, not torn. **US 1,838,525**, "Can opener", Bunker, assigned to Bunker-Clancey Manufacturing, filed 20. May 1926, granted 29. December 1931. **You build the head** - feed wheel, cutting wheel and crank on a plywood body - and measure the force it takes against the lever opener.
Miðlungs
4 hours

Leiðbeiningar

1

Win the cutting wheel

Take the hardened wheel and its axle from a cheap tubing cutter. Keep the wheel's edge unharmed - it is the one part you cannot file yourself.

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

RörskeriRörskeri1 stykki

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

SkrúfstykkiSkrúfstykki
Tær öryggisglerauguTær öryggisgleraugu
2

Make the feed wheel

Cut a 12 mm disc from steel bar or use a hex bolt head. File 16 shallow teeth around its edge with the triangular file - deep enough to bite a rim, not to cut it.

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

SexkantboltaúrvalSexkantboltaúrval1 sett
Ró- og skinnusettRó- og skinnusett1 sett

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

MálmþjölMálmþjöl
JárnsögJárnsög
SkrúfstykkiSkrúfstykki
3

Body and crank

From 18 mm plywood cut two side plates. Mount the feed wheel on a shaft through both, with a 45 mm crank arm. Mount the cutting wheel above it on a pivoting jaw so that squeezing the handles presses wheel to rim, exactly 1.5 mm inboard of the seam.

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

KrossviðarplataKrossviðarplata1 stykki

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

HandsögHandsög
HleðsluborHleðslubor
StálreglustikaStálreglustika
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Open a can

Clamp an empty rinsed can's rim between the wheels, squeeze, and crank. Adjust the cutting wheel's height until it rolls a clean cut without jamming. Watch the fingers on the cut lid.

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

BlikkdósBlikkdós2 stykki

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

Tær öryggisglerauguTær öryggisgleraugu
5

Measure both openers

Hook the spring scale to your crank and to the lever opener's handle in turn, and record the force needed while cutting - six readings each.

Efni fyrir þetta skref:

BlikkdósBlikkdós2 stykki

Nauðsynleg verkfæri:

Kraftmælir (gormvog)Kraftmælir (gormvog)
PlötuklippurPlötuklippur
6

Forces and wheel sizes

Hleð Jupyter-vinnubók…
7

History & Context

**What the patent specifies:** a feed wheel with teeth engaging the can's rim and a cutting wheel bearing on the lid, so turning a crank carries the can past the cutter. **Modern build (derived):** a tubing-cutter wheel and a filed feed wheel on a plywood body. Later openers moved the cut to the side seam so the lid lifts out without a sharp edge, and motors replaced the crank. Its limits: the wheels must be set to the rim thickness, a bent rim stops the feed, and the cut edge of a top-cut lid is sharp.
Skref 7 - Image 1

Efni

5

Nauðsynleg verkfæri

9

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