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AUTOMATIC WAX CANDLE FILLING MACHINE S.Santhosh1, Dr.G.Balamuruga Mohan Raj2, R. Mounishwar3,M.Bharanidharan4 2Head of Department, Department of Mechatronics, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College,
Puducherry, India 1,3,4U.G.Student, Department of Mechatronics, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College,
Puducherry, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract - Our main objective is to design and fabricate
checks whether the container has reached or not and if it has reached it would stop the conveyor. As for the next step, the amount of wax to be filled is filled inside the container. The filled quantity is checked through a load cell which is kept in the filling portion of the machine. After it has reached the desired quantity, the container is moved to the next conveyor belt, which moves it to the end of the part where it can be left to cool down. This process is repeated until there is a stop command given manually. There will also be a function to show if there are no containers left to be filled.
an automatic wax candle-filling machine that can fill candle containers of various shapes and sizes with the highest accuracy and precision. It would greatly help many small-scale industries by reducing a lot of manual labor and time required to fill a large number of candles. It is also done in such a way that it helps to reduce the amount of wax wastage through this controlled process Key Words: Wax, Candles
1. INTRODUCTION
In this way, a lot of candles can be easily filled by the machine which also greatly benefits the industry.
The demand for wax candles in India has been steadily increasing due to various factors such as religious and cultural festivities, decorative purposes, aromatherapy, and power outages in certain regions. This has led to a lot of small-scale industries developing and making their candles and sell in the market. But one of the major problems they face as a whole is the amount of time required to fill a large quantity of candles in a single day which is held back by the tiring work done manually. So we have developed an Automatic wax candle machine, which helps to fill a large number of candles and also reduces the amount of time and the wastage of wax in this automated process. In this machine, we have also added the feature of filling any type of shape or size.
2. WORKING
Fig -1: Working block diagram
3. METHODOLOGY
The Automatic wax candle filling machine has a simple working and it can be easily understood. First of all the molten wax is poured inside a hopper of the machine. As wax can easily cool down an induction coil is paired up with a thermostat to keep and maintain its temperature above 100 degrees Celsius. Then the amount of weight is entered through the keypad which can verified via the display. The value of weight given as the input is the value that needs to be filled inside the container and not the weight along the container itself.
In the iterative development journey of our candle production machine, we encountered several formidable challenges necessitating innovative solutions to ensure seamless operation. The foremost challenge confronted pertained to the imperative of maintaining the wax at a steadfast temperature of 100 degrees Celsius throughout the production continuum. To mitigate this challenge, we instituted an intricate system comprising an induction coil heater in tandem with a thermostat mechanism. The thermostat, serving as the linchpin of temperature regulation, enables precise calibration of the desired temperature, orchestrating the activation or deactivation
After the value is entered, a conveyor belt moves up the container near the load cell which is kept in the filling part of the machine. An infrared sensor is fixed which
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