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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.
Intermedio
4 hours
Istruzioni
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Win the cutting wheel
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.
Materiali per questo passaggio:
Tagliatubi1 pezzoStrumenti necessari:
Morsa da banco
Occhiali di sicurezza trasparenti2
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Make the feed wheel
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.
Materiali per questo passaggio:
Assortimento di bulloni a testa esagonale1 set
Assortimento di dadi e rondelle1 setStrumenti necessari:
Lima per metalli
Seghetto per metalliMorsa da banco3
3
Body and crank
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.
Materiali per questo passaggio:
Pannello di compensato1 pezzoStrumenti necessari:
Sega a mano
Trapano a batteria
Riga in acciaio4
4
Open a can
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.
Materiali per questo passaggio:
Barattolo di latta2 pezziStrumenti necessari:
Occhiali di sicurezza trasparenti5
5
Measure both openers
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.
Materiali per questo passaggio:
Barattolo di latta2 pezziStrumenti necessari:
Dinamometro (bilancia a molla)
Cesoie da lattoniere6
6
Forces and wheel sizes
Forces and wheel sizes
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History & Context
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.
Materiali
5- Tagliatubi10% commissione1 pezzoSegnaposto
- Assortimento di bulloni a testa esagonale10% commissione1 setSegnaposto
- Assortimento di dadi e rondelle10% commissione1 setSegnaposto
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