Design and Development of Coconut Dehusking Machine

  Roopashree C R

Generally, coconuts are dehusked manually using a hand cutting tool. These methods require skilled labor which is difficult and painstaking process. Attempts made so far in the development of dehusking tools have only been partially successful and not effective in replacing manual methods. The reasons stated for the partial success of these tools includes unsatisfactory, incomplete dehusking, breakage of the coconut shell. Based on this a power - operated coconut dehusking machine is being designed and fabricated to solve the existing problems. To reduce the human efforts, the power operated machine is designed and developed. The new power operated de husking machine works on the principle of gear mechanism. Here the labor efforts and the time consumption for the de husking are reduced.

Keywords- Coconut, dehusking, tynes, power transmission, pitch.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1703029
Page Number(s) - 194-200
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 3 | July 2017
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Roopashree C R,   "Design and Development of Coconut Dehusking Machine", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 3, pp.194-200, July 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1703029.pdf