The pickled mango peeling machine using fruit rotating shaft

Abstract

The objective of this research was to design and construct a pickled mango peeling machine using fruit rotating shaft for peeling in the mango process industrial. The peeling machine of pickled mango using fruit rotating shaft consisted of 4 main parts that were a rotating fruit holding shaft set, a screw shaft of sliding knife arm, a blade set and a power transmission set. The testing experiment of the pickled mango peeling machine using rotating shaft, the rotating fruit holding shaft set at the speed of 70, 85, 100 and 115 rpm and the screw shaft of sliding knife arm at the speed of 120, 150, 170 and 190 rpm were tested. It was found that the optimum condition was at the speed of the rotating fruit holding shaft at 100 rpm and the speed of the screw shaft of sliding knife arm at 190 rpm obtained the percentage of pickled mango peeling 97.10%, the capacity rate for peeling the pickled mango was 72.21 kgh^-1, the percentage of loss from peeling the pickled mango was 6.23%, the depth and width of peeling the pickled mango were 0.87 mm and 5.40 mm respectively.