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2. Hamilton Beach Brands - Wikipedia

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   Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company is an American designer, marketer and distributor of home appliances and commercial restaurant equipment marketed primarily in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, including blenders, mixers, toasters, slow cookers, clothes irons, and air purifiers.

3. Proctor Silex - Wikipedia

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   Proctor Silex electric can opener. Proctor Silex Co. was created in 1960 with the merger of Proctor Electric and the Silex Company. [1] In 1966, SCM Corporation bought out Proctor-Silex. In 1988, Proctor Silex was acquired by NACCO Industries, Inc. [2] In 1990, NACCO also acquired Hamilton Beach Brands as a subsidiary and merged the two ...

4. William Lyman (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   The top of the can was cut by pressing the cutting wheel into the can near the edge and rotating it along the can's rim. [5] The need to pierce the can first was a nuisance, and this can opener design has not survived. In 1925, a modern-style opener, equipped with an additional serrated wheel, was invented to improve Lyman's design. [3]

5. Can opener - Wikipedia

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   A can opener (North American and Australian English) or tin opener (British English) is a mechanical device used to open metal tin cans. Although preservation of food using tin cans had been practiced since at least 1772 in the Netherlands, the first can openers were not patented until 1855 in England and 1858 in the United States. These early ...

6. Ezra Warner (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   A drawing from the can opener patent No 19063 by Warner. Ezra J. Warner of Waterbury, Connecticut was an American inventor, who patented his design of a can opener in 1858. A crudely shaped bayonet and sickle combo, his design was widely accepted by the U.S. military during the period of the American Civil War.

7. P-38 can opener - Wikipedia

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   A Vietnam War-era P-38 can opener, with a U.S. penny shown for size comparison.. The P-38 (larger variant known as the P-51) is a small can opener that was issued with canned United States military rations from its introduction in 1942 to the end of canned ration issuance in the 1980s. [1]