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2014 ; 51
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Development of a lemon cutting machine
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Hrishikesh Tavanandi A
; Deepak S
; Venkateshmurthy K
; Raghavarao KS
J Food Sci Technol
2014[Dec]; 51
(12
): 3846-53
PMID25477652
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Cutting of lemon and other similar fruits is conventionally done manually by
sharp knife, which is labor intensive and often un-hygienic. In the present work,
a device has been designed and developed for cutting of lemon hygienically into
four pieces of similar shape based on stationery cutters and rotating
centralizing/locating slit plate concept. Machine has a unique knife assembly
consisting of two bird wing shaped knives, joined by welding perpendicularly to a
vertical knife, so that the lemon can be cut into four pieces in a single sweep.
Six numbers of rotating centralizing/locating slit plates are welded on to the
side plates and the plates carry a groove on its inner face, to enable the wing
shaped knife to complete the horizontal cut. The rotating slit plates, having
centralizing angle of 90°, are rotated by an electric geared motor. The prototype
machine has capacity of over 5,000 lemons/h with a power consumption of 0.11 kW.