International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)
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Volume: 04 Issue: 02 | Feb -2017
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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF COTTON BOLL PICKER MACHINE Aditya Dhokne1, Manoj Zingare2, Akshay Mahure3, Prof. Sandeep Lutade4 1Student,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur 3Student, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur 4Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Engineering and Research, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India 2Student,
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Abstract – In this paper we have design a cotton boll picker machine, this machine is useful for harvesting cotton. Cotton plays an important role in our lives, most of the things are made of containing cotton. Cotton is the most abundantly produced natural fibre in the world. This machine will help small scale farmers for harvesting cotton. Nowadays there are machines available in market which is very costlier, which small scale farmers can’t afford. But these machine small farmers can easily afford, and can perform harvesting. In India entire cotton is handpick by labor. There are internationally available machine for cotton boll picking which is costlier. By using the available machines the strength of the cotton fibre is get reduced. In this machine the strength of the fibre will not be affected, and it will provide the human comfort while performing cotton picking operation. And will reduce the wastage of money for harvesting machine. In this machine only the cotton boll is picked, which will not affect the cotton. As there are the machine in which along with the cotton so many unwanted material like burr, leaves, are get collected in collector tank but by the use of this machine only the cotton is get collected in the collector thank. Almost 1/3rd of the cotton produced in the world is mechanically picked and about 2/3rd is picked by hand, but increasing labour cost of farmers. This makes more countries to considered machine picking. This machine is fully mechanically operated and save the costs of small farmers which they spends on labour for harvestings. Key Words: DC Geared Motor, Rollers, Battery, Load Cell, Potentiometer, Collector Tank.
harvesting. As more money is required in farm for labour work and the harvesting of cotton is performed in some intervals of time. This makes small scale farmers to spend money on the labour for harvesting. Therefore this machine will save the money of small scale farmers; it will reduce the effort required will performing the picking operations.
2. SYSTEM USED FOR PICKING COTTON
There are machines which are so much costlier for harvesting the cotton. The system used for picking cotton is
2.1 Stripping Strippers have rollers or mechanical brushes that remove entire bolls from the cotton plant and also along with the cotton boll it collects a lot of cotton plants material like leaves, burr, and branches of plants.
2.2 Spindle Spindle pickers pull the cotton boll from the plant which has the open bolls, the boll which is fully mature. It uses a revolving spindle that rolls fibre in spindle and releases them softly so that is to be carried to the basket. Now this type of picking system affects the cotton boll. If we see the strength of the cotton boll by using this machine, we get the cotton having poor quality of strength. In this strength is getting reduced.
3. BLOCK DIAGRAM
1. INTRODUCTION Cotton is most important commodity in world and it is cultivated by large areas in India. Cotton picking is done mostly by hands in India primarily by women. Cotton is picking from cotton boll by human hands. Generally workers go to field in the morning to start picking and continuously work till evening. Generally a white open flower takes 5055days to develop to the stage where white and harvestable lint is showing. Higher heat accelerated the cotton boll maturity level but does not result in genetic improvement. So we aim to utilize the best knowledge of science to design such efficient machine which can do perform work in field and reduces human efforts. This machine pick cotton in farm and will reduce the excess manpower required while cotton Š 2017, IRJET
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Fig -1: Block Diagram of Cotton Boll Picker Machine
3.1 Hardware Description 1) Battery: In this project we have use battery to operate our machine, in this machine battery is the main source for the other components to perform their functions. ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal
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