A STORY BEHIND THIS PRODUCT
KURU TOGA was invented by the mechanical pencil team at the research development centre.
Thanks to their creativity and huge efforts, this epoch-making feature was created.
The idea of rotating the pencil leads had been thought about for a long time, but it never became a viable project until they came up with the idea of using gears for rotating. The team did not have any experience of using gears and thus it took time and effort even just to make the gear move smoothly.
After re-designing and getting a lot of feedback, KURU TOGA finally came into the market. KURU TOGA sold tremendously as soon as it was released, where sales could hardly catch up to the production speed.
KURU TOGA, started with hundreds of trial and error.
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When using a normal mechanical pencil at a typical writing angle, the lead point quickly becomes chisel-shaped. This leads to broader, less precise lines; and crumbling of the resulting sharp edge. The unique gear mechanism of the Kuru Toga rotates the lead every time it is touched to the paper, resulting in a clean cone-shaped tip, which is sharp and resistant to breaking. There are three gears in the inner parts of machinery. The middle gear attached to a lead is moving up and down using the brushstrokes of writing. The upper and lower gears are engaged diagonally to the middle gear so that the middle gear and the lead are revolving together little by little through writing.
A lead is always sharp.
