An innovative device which has been developed by Chinese designers Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan and Chao Chen is a P&P Office Waste Processor takes in paper in your office basket and produces fully formed pencils out at the press of a button.
The designers make the clever connection between an office’s waste stream and supply needs with a satisfying design that produces something truly useful.
The literature says you simply feed a sheet of paper into the top and the device will wrap it tightly around a graphite stick, adding a bit of glue to keep the paper together. Once ready, the freshly minted pencil pops out the side.
The P&P doesn’t create pencils totally from scratch .A transparent cover allows you to see the operation which can be set for automated or manual. How it works is you fill the corresponding compartments with pencil leads (this compartment also doubles as a pencil sharpener) and glue. The user needs to supply glue and graphite sticks.
You then feed a piece of paper into the machine, which is tightly wound around the lead while glue is dispensed to make sure it all adheres tightly.
It takes in waste paper, rolls and compresses it, and then inserts a lead from a small stock kept in the machine.
Then, presto! A brand-spanking new pencil is made from the paper you just recycled!
The P&P will even pre-sharpen the pencil before spitting it out. The same hole is also an automatic pencil sharpener.
Paper is feed into a top slot, and “after a moment” according to product docs , a fully-formed pencil pops out of a slot at the end.
It is like a reverse pencil sharpener instead of taking your pencil away, it’s making you a new one.
The machine will have a bunch of warning lights that will tell users when new lead cores are needed or when the glue supply is running low, and will “only take a moment” to create a new pencil.
This clever little device will keep well stocked by quickly producing them from simple office waste paper.
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