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machine will automatically count the number of spoons and glue it together without
any human effort. A person just has to install the spoons in the storage system of
the machine and rest all the operations will be performed by the machine itself.
With this machine, we can also avoid the use of plastic spoons which will be the
great contribution towards the global warming. This is a one-time investment for
the ice cream company and it will highly reduce the labour cost and time and was
experimentally proved by successful testing of the machine practically.
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