CAN CRUSHER MACHINE

PROJECT REFERENCE NO.: 39S_BE_0859

COLLEGE : G M INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DAVANGERE
BRANCH : DEPARTMENT OF MECHANCIAL ENGINEERING
GUIDE : DR. SRINIVASA C V
STUDENTS : MR. SAGAR S NESARAGI
MR. SAIFULLA S
MR.SHASHI BHUSHAN CHOURASIA
MR.SAYED WASEEM T

KEYWORDS:
Scotch Yoke Mechanism, Can Crusher Machine, Tinny Cans
INTRODUCTION:
Nowadays in India, recycling is one of the areas which are rapidly increasing day by
day. The amount of waste coming is in a tremendous quantity in the form of tinny cans are
one of the important products which are being recycled on an increasing scale. For carrying
out this recycling can crushers are used. The tinny can today is the most recycled of any
beverage container. These tinny cans are durable, flexible, lightweight, strong and recyclable.
In order to crush these tinny cans in a less time, a crusher is required we are designing a can
crusher machine using scotch yoke mechanism having multi or two side crushing ability. A
can crusher machine is used for crushing aluminium soda cans for recycling purpose and also
for easy storage in recycling bins. The scotch yoke mechanism converts the rotating motion
into reciprocating motion; this is the principle which we are using in our can crusher machine.

OBJECTIVES:
The objective s of the project is to design and fabricate a can crusher machine to crush
tinny cans at low cost, less time with minimum crushing force to reduce the pollution of the
environment. Thus helps to create a better environment.

METHODOLOGY:
1. To make a detailed literature reviews regarding can crusher technology being used in
the industry and to study the merits and demerits
2. To make detailed plan to design and fabricate a can crusher machine to crush tinny
cans at low cost, less time with minimum crushing force
3. Design and drawing of can crushing machine
4. Fabrication of can crushing machine
5. Performance studies and reporting
 Fig 1: Assembly of Can Crusher Machine

RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:

From the present study, it is observed that by arranging different mechanical
components used in machine that can be made automatic one to crush the aluminium as well
as tinny cans solely to reduce the volume. Thus human efforts can be reduced as well as time
also, because electrical motor, cylinder-piston with gear system is installed there is to crush
the tins and cans to reduce the human fatigue. As above results shows that the volume can be
reduced to a large extent i.e. nearly about 70% to 85% can easily be reduced. Thus the
transportation volume can be increased and transportation cost can be reduced to a large
extent and can made these crushed can be reused with optimum recycling cost.
The above design procedure is been adopted for the fabrication of Automatic Can
Crusher machine which will make the product durable for long time as well as make it
efficient and also helps to understand the concept of design process. Thus, with the help of
this design and some other components makes easier to fabricate an automatic can crusher
machine to simply reduce the volume of cans as well as to reduce the human fatigue.

SCOPE FOR FUTURE WORK:

1. The current developed can crusher machine can crush the tinny cans only low strength
tinny cans made of aluminum, copper, brass, bronze etc. The machine can be modified
to crush tinny cans which are made of medium strength materials
2. Presently the machine can crush two cans at a time. In order to increase the efficiency
of the machine, the machine needs to be modified to crush multiple tinny cans at a
time by changing the Scotch Yoke Mechanism to some other kind of mechanism
where for single stroke multiple can (more than two at a time) be crushed.