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<p>PCT No. PCT/GB95/00642 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 20, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 20, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 21, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/29276 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 26, 1996A can opener has two relatively pivotable body portions, one carrying a rotary cutting wheel and the other a rotary traction wheel having parallel axes, the opener being arranged to receive the rim of a can between the two wheels and to orbit the can as the traction wheel is rotated while the cutting wheel makes a peripheral cut, the traction wheel being shaped to distort the rim during cutting and the cutting wheel having an outwardly angled body portion, adjacent its cutting tip, then angled body portion being adapted to contact the outside of the rim below the cut to exert a force in the opposite direction to the traction wheel.</p> |