Abstract:
Nungu is one of the seasonal fruit produced in the Asian countries. The major
problem related with the processing of Palm fruit is seed separation. Manual
separation of seeds using traditional tool is time consuming, labour intensive,
cause drudgery and only a skilled person can separate the seed. Therefore a simple
hand operated tool which is easy to operate, portable, gender friendly and
economical was fabricated. The equipment consists of a knife and a U-shaped
cutting blade. The knife removes top and bottom portion which makes further
seed separation easy. Then U-shaped blade inserted along the sides of the seed
and pulled out the husk. The designed tool has a capacity of about 95 fruits/h and
material loss of 2.4 percentage.
