Design And Fabrication of Spices Powdering Machine (SPM)

Abstract

It is well known that small scale industries are growing day by day in India. Homemade spices making industries is one of them, so survey was made and observed that workers are manually powdering the spices by hand like turmeric, chilli etc. It had leads to problems like back, hand and shoulder pain to workers. To overcome all these kinds of problems, this further reduces man hours spent on actual production. It was decided to design and fabricate a small portable electric motor operated handed by single person. Such machine will support small scale cottage industries and reduce pains of workers and improve their health and thus increase productivity of industry. Such machines developed will reduces  human efforts, increase rate of production and can work for 24 hours continuously. The major components of proposed machine are metallic frame, electric motor, power transmission belt, pulley, shaft, cam and bowl for powder. A completely new mechanism is formed which consist of three bar mechanism with two movable links with line contact and higher pair. The capacity of machine is 2 Kg/ Hr.  Red chillies, Coriander, Cumin seeds, Fenugreek,  Black pepper were powdered.