Design and fabrication of glass bottle cutter / Alya Amanina Mohd Ishak

The potential for commercialization of the glass bottle cutter is high as based on the current trend, the community had begins to create something using waste that are able to be reuse. The glass bottle cutter machine able to provide the community with new products like drinking glass, ashtray and vase. This machine can be place at the recycling service store or craft shop which eventually provide people who cares for saving the earth and have a lot of glass bottle waste. For instance, restaurants and bars. The design of the glass bottle cutter varies from others as
it is heavy duty and long-lasting. As compared to the existed glass bottle cutter, it is done manually which the user required to score the glass bottle with wheel cutter and immerse the glass bottle in hot and cold water for 1 minute respectively. This shows that it is such a long process and the existed product itself does not last longer for cutting a huge number of glass bottle. The fabrication process includes measuring, cutting, welding and drilling. This glass bottle cutter is made from metals, operated by DC motor as for the cutting purpose and rotation of the wheel and diamond blade as the cutting tool. The cutting tool that used is diamond blade instead of wheel cutter which helps to decrease the requirement of human forces. Test results show the glass bottle able to be cut in less than 1 minutes. The glass bottle cutter also takes shorter time taken to cut, provide less human forces and have a fine cutting edge finishing. To conclude, the fabrication of a glass bottle cutter machine based on the design and analysis of the prototype is a success. Some recommendations can be add as an initiative to improve this glass bottle cutter machine such as add safety button, apply coolant as to prevent the glass dust from shattering all over the place and provide the function of polishing the cutting edge