The best pencil sharpener is mechanical!

Pencils - colored and graphite rods in a wooden "shirt" - people have enjoyed since the 16th century. For a long time they were sharpened with a knife, and this process is labor-intensive and slow. A special device for cleaning came up with the French in the middle of the 19th century. It was a mechanical pencil sharpener. Since then, no one using pencils disagrees with this little thing. The variety of views and design of this useful accessory is amazing.

Sharpeners of past years

These rarities can now be found in the pantries of our grandmothers and in the collectors' coin boxes. Yes, you yourself can remember plastic rockets, boats, ironing and axes with a steel blade inside. There were sharpeners in the form of small fishes and small animals. A serious competitor of these pocket copies was a massive and equipped with a pen sharpener for pencils. A mechanical model, similar to a meat grinder, was usually screwed to the table. The writing instrument was sharpened in this unit easily and beautifully.

Modern mechanisms

The industry of handy devices did not ignore such a trifle as a pencil sharpener. The mechanical model has found a fashionable "sister" in the form of an electrical device. Such a sharpener uses the same principle of rotational movements of the cutter, but works on batteries or from the network. She sharpens the pencil in a few moments. Some samples at work make the host happy with funny and melodic sounds. But the former copies, which the manufacturer aspires to equip with a convenient chip collection tank, have not lost their former popularity. "Great-grandmother" of modern instruments, the earliest pencil sharpener - a mechanical stationary design with a handle - is being perfected in the most prestigious companies for the manufacture of stationery. And this is not just a tribute to history. The fact is that such a device still demonstrates the best consumer characteristics. It sharpens quickly, much and qualitatively. In addition, such a machine is reliable, because it does not have easily broken parts. How is this pencil sharpener arranged? Its mechanical part is a cutting milling cutter and a drive handle, thanks to which the blades come into action. The clamp, by means of which the mechanism is attached to the countertop, can not be present in modern models.

How to choose a sharpener

A good pencil sharpener is not an expensive pleasure. The pencil sharpened on a high-quality machine has a perfectly smooth wafer, in other sharpeners it will be rough, the griffle will crumble. In the best devices, three cutters are installed, and in cheaper ones - one or two. A feature of elite sharpeners is that the blades are cleaned of the lead themselves.

Machines of the German company Centrum cost about 200 rubles, more expensive samples (from 300 to 600 rubles) are offered by KW-trio company (Taiwan). The cost of mechanical sharpeners of the most popular companies on the market of school stationery - the Russian brand Erich Krause and the German brand Silwerhof - ranges from 200 to 400 rubles. In expensive shops, the cost of the machine can be from 5000 to 15 000 rubles. These are desktop accessories from El Casco. But these specimens with gilding and blackening are representatives of the clerical elite. The choice is yours.