NAGARATNA,RAMACHANDRA C T,AMBRISH GANACHARI,ROOPA BAI R S,SUNIL SHIRWAL,UDAYKUMAR NIDONI,SHARANGOUDA HIREGOUDAR
申请号：
IN201641034991
公开号：
IN201641034991A
申请日:
2016.10.13
申请国别(地区):
IN
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
ABSTRACT OF THE INVENTION The Aloe plant belongs to a member of the family Liliaceae, which comprises more than 360 different species. Aloe vera has a number of uses and mainly they are used as a food preservative and herbal medicine. In manufacturing of whole leaf Aloe vera powder, slicing is one of the important unit operation after trimming. Presently, manual slicing is most commonly followed in Indian Aloe industries, which is time consuming, tedious, unhygienic, expensive and sometimes hazardous. The design and development of Aloe vera leaf slicing machine is to solve the aforementioned problems. This machine mainly consist of belt conveyor, feed and conveyor roller, chain sprockets, knives, power transmission mechanism and frame. The performance evaluation of the machine was evaluated under three belt conveyor speed (0.251, 0.188 and 0.125 m.s) and three No. of knives (2, 4 and 8). It was found that 0.251 m.s1 belt conveyor speed with 8 No. of knives was optimized condition. The machine is simple in construction, easy to operate and does not requires special skill. Results of the test carried out showed that the time required to slice equal length of Aloe vera with the machine is 24 times less than the manual process. This machine has slicing efficiency of about 90.46% with effective capacity of 648.21 kg.h1. The results shows that the capacity of the machine was 24 times morethan manual slicing.
