Project: Automatic Can-Crusher

Automatic Can Crusher consists of five different parts in which the main part for crushing is motor. Motor of Can Crusher should be powerful enough to crush the can. The Motor used in this project is taken from car. This motor is connected to fly wheel. Fly wheel is then connected to piston which placed on a stand where the cans are crushed. The brackets are used to hold the whole project and to maintain balance. Piston used in this project was extended as the handle of the piston was too small and it was striking the fly wheel with the short handle. Therefore it was welded using the material rod. Can crusher is a tool that is used for crushing empty aluminum cans for easier recycling. It is a tool for everyday usage and is especially useful for those, who use a lot of cans, for example, drinking soda from aluminum cans. The most common type of cans that people use regularly are soda cans. If you are a common soda drinker, you probably have a large bag of empty cans lying on floor in your kitchen or garage. Compressing all those cans with your hands or feet would not only take a lot of time, but also would be very exhausting. Uncompressed cans can take up a lot of space, especially larger 16 and more oz. cans. Can crusher is able to compress cans to just 1 inch height. For example, if size of an average 16 oz can is approximately 9 inches than aluminum can crusher will compress 16 oz can 9 times smaller. This way you will have a free room for 9 more cans in your garbage disposal. The size of a regular 12 oz can is approx. 4.75 inches, which means that is can be compressed down 4 times of its usual height with a can crusher.