The document proposes the design of a mechanical paper shredder that is hand or leg operated and does not require electricity. It would be aimed at areas without reliable access to power. The goals are for it to be portable, environmentally friendly, and inexpensive while competing with electric shredders. It will shred paper, credit cards, and CDs. Design concepts will be evaluated and two concepts selected for further analysis based on meeting the constraints of costing less than $100, shredding 10 sheets per use at 36 sheets per minute within a volume of 5 cubic feet and noise level under 65dB. A quality function deployment analysis and house of quality planning were used to design the proposed mechanical system.

1. Mechanical Shredder
By
Ryon Baloo, Kendall Meyer, Mohammed Molani,
and Sultan Alshahrani
Team 10
Project Proposal
Document
Submitted towards partial fulfillment of the requirements for
Mechanical Engineering Design I – Fall 2014
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
Table of Contents
Executive Summary…………………………………………………………….…… 2
Statement of Problem ………………………………….……………..……………. 3
Goals, Objectives, and Constraints ……………………………………………….. 4
Testing Environment …………………………………………….………………… 5

2. Technical Approach ………….…………………………………………………...... 6
Engineering Analysis ………………………………………………………….…… 7
List of Parts and Prices ……………………………………………………………. 8
Conclusion ……………………………………………………….…………………. 9
References ………………………………………………………………………...... 10

3. Executive Summary
Present day paper shredders are electric driven with sensors that operate the system when
paper is detected. The goal of our team is to design a mechanical driven paper shredder that can
either be leg or hand operated. The criteria for our design include: Visibility, Meets Client
Priorities, Economic Feasibility, Program Longevity, Reasonable Timeline, and Impact for Third
World countries or areas that have limited access to electricity.
Statement of Problem
Schools, companies, and personal information are exposed to random individuals.
Tossing important documentation in trash bins is not enough to prevent stolen ideas, identities,
and frauds. Unlike the United States, Third World countries have limited access to electricity,
thereby, they do not have to pay about $65.00 /year on operating an electric shredder at $0.12 per
kW/hr. Which will lead to emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere [1]. The disadvantage
of not having electricity is disposing important information. A disadvantage of using electricity
to operate an electric shredder can be random power outages. It will occur at the most crucial
time, preventing an individual from destroying their documents.
These are aspects we have to consider to avoid this dilemma. That is why our team will
assist those in need of disposing credit cards, tax returns, company research, and CD files with a
mechanical paper shredder.
Goals, Objectives, and Constraints
The ultimate goal is to design a mechanically operated shredder that holds no source of
electrical components and is human driven. Our team is to research and communicate with our
client to perfect our design accurately. The outlined below are the specific project goals,
objectives, and constraints that show relation to designing the mechanical shredder.
Goals
● Mechanical shredder needs to be highly reliable, and portable
● Environmental friendly system

4. ● fully mechanically operated with no electrical sources .
Objectives
● Competes with present-day electrical paper shredders
● Has a container to hold shredded paper
● Mechanical shredder has to be inexpensive
● Shreds paper with minimum power (leg or hand operated)
● System has to be able to shred paper, credit cards, and CDs
● The system has to be wall mounted or standing by itself.
Constraints
● Total design cost must be less than $100.00
● Mechanical system has cut through 10 sheets per feed
● Operate and shred 36 pages per minute
● Required paper size is a standard 8.5 inches by 11 inches or less
● Volume of system is 5 𝑓𝑓3
● To operate at a noise level that is less than 65 decibel (dB)
Testing Environment
When testing the product, the 5 𝑓𝑓3
mechanical paper shredder must fit in an average
office without interfering with surrounding objects. When running the test, there are four
essential data to analyze and collect:
● The mechanical system’s runtime (how long the system takes to operate)
● How quickly the system shreds one piece of paper
● The amount of paper the system can shred in one feed
● Finally, determine if the design is silent enough for a quiet environment
These are all important information the team has to complete before presenting it to the client.

5. Technical Approach
The technical approach for this proposal involves identifying customer needs by using a
quality function deployment, house of quality, project planning, and designing a mechanical
shredder concept for this semester. The quality function deployment, house of quality, and
project planning are described in order in the following paragraphs. Designing a mechanical
shredder concept is determined by applying an averaged group decision matrix based off of eight
design concepts and selecting the two final designs.
Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Two competitors that we looked into for a mechanical paper shredder was the Premium
Connection Paper Shredder shown in Figure 1, and the Manual Paper Shredder developed by
IDEA as shown in Figure 2. Both of these mechanical paper shredders are fully mechanical, but
are not reliable enough. These shredders are close to novelty items and the client asked our group
to develop a reliable mechanical paper shredder that is going used constantly in a busy office
environment. These two shredders are the common types of mechanical shredder that you can
find on the internet.
Figure 1 Figure 2

6. As shown in our Quality Function Deployment (QFD) (Table 1), both competitors do not
properly meet with our customer requirements. They are not reliable systems and not durable
enough for the office use that is requested for this project. Trends in our QFD shows that our
system has to have a focus on reliability, being inexpensive, but also being cost effective. We
can focus on meeting these customer requirements by focusing on the weight and size of the
system and makes sure it performs its required tasks of being able to shred 36 pages per minute,
and being able to shred at least 10 sheets of paper in one cycle.
Table 1: Quality Function Deployment
House of Quality (HOQ)
Our House of Quality (Table 2) shows the common trends that we will encounter when
designing and fabricating this system. As the weight of the system goes up, that could possibly
lead to an increase of volume, but we could increase the size of the paper collection bin. If we
decide to build a bigger system that could potentially add in our cost. The categories such as:
noise level, speed, pages at a time, and shred width, all factor into the reliability of the system.
Being limited to $100.00 and a 5ft3 volume, we have to find a way to maximize reliability while
keeping to our given constraints.

7. Table 2: House of Quality
Project Planning
We have done our project planning through the use of a Gantt Chart as seen in Table 3.
We are currently at the conclusion of our product research stage and are continuing into design
research and planning. During this stage we will begin to do further research into the technology
and current designs of paper shredders, both electrical and mechanical, and find a system that we
believe to fulfill all requirements set to us. Our group will compile numerous resources and when
we feel that we have enough to work with, we will take our customer requirements, along with
our engineering specifications and start to narrow down designs that we would like to further
analyze and develop our system around
Table 3: Gantt Chart For Fall Semester

8. The next step is to bring our chosen designs into an engineering analysis phase. During
this stage we will start to calculate the different features of our designs to make sure that they do
meet the requirements for this project. This will be another step towards narrowing down our
results and choosing a few final designs. After analyzing our designs, we will put together all of
our past research and design calculations to develop a project proposal. The project proposal will
document our research from product research all through our engineering analysis and we will
have a final design that we will want to develop that meets all requirements for this project.
DesignConcept
The design was basid on an electrical shredder , by removing the motor and the elctrical
parts , the team came up with a design similar to the actuall product but it will be oprated
manually.the shredder will has rectangler shape whci is adequate to be hanging in the wall. The
final design will be less than 5 𝑓𝑡3
and that is icloude all of the part such as bin , mechanism and
the mechanism case .

9. Mechanism Design
by adding a biger ratio gear , the team will reduce the reqired turning to shredd on paper from
three turnes to one turn. the team will modified the actual gears from the electrical shreder to
make it work as mechanichal shredder . the final desgin of the shredder will be hanging in the
wall and that will be under consedration when the team building the mechanism .
Engineering Analysis
List of Parts and Prices

10. Conclusion
In conclusion, for this project, The team is designing a mechanical shredder, which meets
the customer requirements. The customer required a mechanical shredder, 5 ft3 bin size, shreds
up to 10 papers per feed,CD's, and credit cards. In addition, the team also is limited to budget of
$100.
The team agreed to convert the electrical shredder into mechanical system thats operated
manually that will save time and money. The design has to have the capability of being mounted
on a wall or stands by itself. After discussion, agreement, and analysis the team decide to design
a simple gear/crank which has to be on the side of the system due to gearing ratio in order to
operate the system manually and easily. The AmazonBasics 12-Sheet Cross-Cut Paper was our
best choice, ultimately due to its price and design. Furthermore it will meet all requirements after
the team extract parts in order to customize the system. The mechanism part will cost about
$83.00 and the shredder will cost $54.99.Consequently, it will put the team over budget by
$37.44, yet it was the best overall design meeting all of the requirements.

11. References
[1] Science Club. How Many Watts of Electricity does a Paper Shredder Use [Online].
Available: http://www.cockeyed.com/science/power_use_database/paper_shredder.html
[2] Amazon. Paper Shredder [Online]. Available: http://www.amazon.com/The-Premium-
connection-290-SHRED-Shredder/dp/b006J99PQQ
[3] Better Living Through Design. Manual Paper Shredder [Online]. Available:
http://www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com/accessories/manual-paper-shredder/
LABLE and REFERENCE all figures throughout the proposal please
(Figure 1: Competitor 1: Premium Connection Paper Shredder [2])
(Figure 2: Competitor 2: Manual Paper Shredder from IDEA[3])