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Development of a lemon cutting machine.

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Relation http://ir.cftri.com/11689/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13197-012-0908-4
 
Title Development of a lemon cutting machine.
 
Creator Hrishikesh, A. Tavanandi
Deepak, S.
Venkatesh Murthy, K.
Raghavarao, K. S. M. S.
 
Subject 02 Engineering & allied operations
 
Description Cutting of lemon and other similar fruits is conventionally
done manually by sharp knife, which is labor
intensive and often un-hygienic. In the present work, a
device has been designed and developed for cutting of
lemon hygienically into four pieces of similar shape based
on stationery cutters and rotating centralizing/locating slit
plate concept. Machine has a unique knife assembly consisting
of two bird wing shaped knives, joined by welding
perpendicularly to a vertical knife, so that the lemon can be
cut into four pieces in a single sweep. Six numbers of
rotating centralizing/locating slit plates are welded on to
the side plates and the plates carry a groove on its inner
face, to enable the wing shaped knife to complete the horizontal
cut. The rotating slit plates, having centralizing angle
of 90°, are rotated by an electric geared motor. The prototype
machine has capacity of over 5,000 lemons/h with a
power consumption of 0.11 kW.
 
Date 2014
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/11689/1/Journal%20of%20Food%20Science%20and%20Technology%2C%20Vol.%2051%2C%20No.12%2C%202014%2C%203846.pdf
Hrishikesh, A. Tavanandi and Deepak, S. and Venkatesh Murthy, K. and Raghavarao, K. S. M. S. (2014) Development of a lemon cutting machine. Journal of Food Science and Technology, 51 (12). pp. 3846-3853. ISSN 0022-1155