Electric pencil sharpener

The utility model discloses an electric pencil sharpener, which comprises a pencil stopping mechanism, a transmission shaft (5) and a time delay gear box (16), wherein the pencil stopping mechanism comprises a three-stage speed reducing gear (14), a one-stage speed reducing gear (9), a one-stage speed reducing gear shaft (8) and a touch stop switch (15), the three-stage speed reducing gear (14) is provided with a convex block, one end of the one-stage speed reducing gear shaft (8) is tightly matched and connected with the one-stage speed reducing gear (9), the three-stage speed reducing gear (14) is rotatablely connected into the time delay gearbox (16), the one-stage speed reducing gear (9) is in transmission connection with the three-stage speed reducing gear (14), the touch stop switch (15) is positioned in the time delay gear box (16) and is positioned on the moving track of the convex block of the three-stage speed reducing gear (14), the one-sage speed reducing gear shaft (8) is glidingly connected with