Holding it together

PLASTIC COIL CUTTER CRIMPER

Rhin-O-Tuff is a Boise-based company that designs and manufactures machines for binding paper products. The current designs to crimp plastic coil binding ends involve prohibitively expensive, automated machines or cheap, but inconvenient, hand-held tools. Rhin-O-Tuff requested a middle-ground solution to achieve more automation without the inconvenience of the hand tools at a lower cost. The design our team developed imitates the hand-tool mechanism while reducing the number of parts and streamlining the design for machining, and can be made hand-operated or electric-powered. The final design included protections from pinch points and use of more rigid materials to give the device a long service life.

Client: Rhin-O-Tuff / Performance Design, LLC

Student Team Members: Mohammad Alsubaie, Riley Browning, William Burdge, Joshua Jacobsen, Ronnie Sechrist