Coconut Milk Machine (Combination between Extracting and Grater Coconut Machine)

• Main Authors: H. Azmi, M.S. Mohd Nasir, A.B. Mohd Kahirul Fadzli
• Format: Conference Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Combination; Automated; Design; Mechanical and Electrical Mechanism
• Online Access: http://ddms.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/6117

The purpose of this research was to design, construct, and evaluate a prototype ot Coconut Milk Machine which combined those two existing machines to produce the coconut milk. In current practices on the market today, to produce the coconut milk must be used two separate machines such as coconut grater machine to get the small pieces of coconut and then use the coconut extracting machine to get the coconut milk. Have two works must be done before getting the coconut milk. One big problem occurred during the grater the coconut kernel in the existing machine is not constant in order to produce the small pieces of coconut. In this project, first the research needs to focus on the design of the knife mill inside the existing coconut grater machine. It is important to get the small pieces of coconut in constant operation. Second the mechanism used to operate this machine such as mechanical and electrical devices and lastly how to automate that machine in order to reduce the operating time and to increase the productivity. Therefore, the proposed research is aimed to study the existing coconut machines available and investigated the problem occurred during the grater and extracting operation. In this research the study will be conduct in mechanical mechanism area and electrical mechanism. The mechanical mechanism, the important is how to design the gears, rotating screw, hopper, body of machine and etc. And then the electrical mechanism such as motor, hard wire, switch and indicator must be design to control the machine in auto operating mode. The materials that will use in this project are fully stainless steel as required for food industry and the target market for this product is the Small and Medium Industry.