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A Anspitzer (also: ) Mechanical equipment is pointed, with which one can anspitzen a pin consisting of mine and wood coat. Usually are this pencils and colored pencils
In 17 became original. Century of invented pencils with a measurer sharpened. With increasing number of offices at the beginning 19. Century increased also the need at pins, whereby the time requirement represented an enormous economic loss to the Anspitzen of these pins. Considering the arising industrialization the need a machine to sharpening these pins developed to invent. First of these pointed machines decreases/goes back on the Frenchman Berne pool of broadcasting corporations leaving, which he presented in the year 1828. In the further process of the century to today well-known pencil sharpeners with let in hole and small measurer were then also invented.
Here there are two sorts: The small open pencil sharpener (made of plastics, wood or metal) and that, which a container, usually from plastics, for which catching the pointed waste possesses as appendix. For thicker colored pencils usually a second larger pointed hole is let in in the latter.
While in former times the lead and colored pencils with a measurer were angespitzt, in a pencil sharpener by a sharp at the housing bolted on, up to two centimeters long, narrow Messerchen, the wood skin of the pin is scraped off finely and evenly. The pin with a hand is turned and the pencil sharpener with the other one is kept firm. The mine is sharpened at the same time thereby. Briefly before their break it is however advisable to end with sharpening. In offices there are also pointed machines with crank handle enterprise or also electrically propelled pin pencil sharpeners.
In drugstores special pencil sharpeners for making up pins are available.
| Simple pencil sharpener | Anspitzer from brass | Anspitzer with crank handle | Pencil sharpening machine "Jupiter 1" of Guhl & Harbeck Hamburg (around 1920) |
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