Design and Fabrication of Prototype Hand Operated Can Crusher

The importance of recycling in the area of engineering and technology increasing day by day. The amount of waste generated in tremendous quantity in the form of tiny cans are the important products are to be recycled on increasing scale. For performing recycling, can crushers are used where the tiny cans are designed for durability, flexibility, light weight, strong and recyclable. The tiny cans are the most recycled of any beverated containers till today. The amount of research work carried out in this paper focuses on the design and fabrication of a prototype can crusher with the aim to reduce the scrap volume and make use of the cans to be recycled easily. The single slider crank mechanics is designed and applied for reducing the volume of the cans to 70%.The mechanism make use of converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion. The applied methodology make use for automatic removal of can crusher from the crushing site without human intervention. Even though there are several types of can crushers are available in the market the completion of the new model provides a more practical usage than the previous one.