Product Concept

Product Concept number 1

Designer(s) James Sills

Product Description
This design is for a moving conveyor that runs a shoe into a blade that cuts the sole from the
rest of the shoe. The parts are then separated on a platform to be sorted.

Operation
To use it the user would place the shoe on the device and clamp it down to secure it. They
would then turn it on and let the machine do the work of cutting and sorting the shoe.

Justification
This helps solve the issue of shoe waste because one of the main reason
shoes are wasted is because they are hard to take apart and recycle. This
device helps Solve that issue by taking the shoe apart to be used for
recycling

Sketch or Model

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