Can-opener

A can-opener is a kitchen utensil being used to open the lic cans Métal when those are deprived of simplified system of opening.

There exist many varieties of can-opener, generally handbooks, but some are electric. One often finds a function can-opener incorporated in the pocket knifes multilames.

Whereas the first cans go back to 1810, it was necessary to wait nearly 50 years to see appearing the first can-opener. Indeed the first cans were made of a relatively thick metal and required many efforts to open them, and it is the appearance of finer metal box which authorized the development of the can-opener.

It is the American Ezra Warner originating in Waterbury (Connecticut) which was the first with Brevet er such a tool. The cutting serrated roller can-opener was invented by William Lyman in 1870. The Star Edge Company of San Francisco (California) launched in 1925 a derived model to notched serrated roller. The first electric can-opener appeared in 1931.

See too

  • Can

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