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press & sweep

Item: Garlic press

College: The Hong Kong Community College of PolyU

Background: Garlic always trapped in the tiny holes of traditional garlic press which is difficult to be cleaned.

Design: The garlic press is redesigned and consist of four parts -- garlic container, hammer, stopper, sweeper. It enables easy cleaning and food saving.

The Hammer

The Stopper

The Garlic Container

The Sweeper

1
Lift up the Hammer (red arrow) and put some garlic inside.

The Stopper remains inside the Garlic container (blue arrow).

2

Move the Hammer up and down alternatively to break garlic into pieces.

3
Push the Sweeper and sweep the garlic granules out.

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