Design And Fabricate The Model Of An Innovative Plucking Device For Salak Fruit

Siti Najatul Aishah, Majid (2015) Design And Fabricate The Model Of An Innovative Plucking Device For Salak Fruit. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

The main purpose of this project is to design an innovative the Salak Fruit Plucker as such kind of the device has not been design yet. Although there are a few problem occur during picking process of this fruit, there are no solution has been discuss to overcome the problem. This is due to the lack exposure about this exotic fruit as it only planted at certain places in the world. This project primarily focus on development of salak plucker within the good design characteristic such as ergonomic, easy to fabricate, with aesthetic value with the lowest price and etc. The provision of mechanical salak plucking device, as aforesaid which is small in size and simple enough to be hand held and manually operated by the usual farm laborer whether such laborer be a man, woman or child. Nowadays, a variety of fruit plucker have been design and exist in the market. Unfortunately, there are no suitable fruit plucker can be used to pluck the salak fruit because the plucker has long pole and the hook does not strong enough to cut the stem. Normally, the farmer just use the knife to pick the fruit but it is inconvenient. Salak plucker with efficiently mechanism will be developed through this project and will meet customer requirement where can helps people easily pluck the salak fruit without getting hurt by its thorn.

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