Diseño de prototipo para remover corteza de coco

Abstract

The purpose of the present degree project is to make known an alternative of the debarking process of the mesocarp of the fruit of the coconut palm. This membrane or bark commonly known as bast or coir is made up of fibers that are not easy to tear, and to do so, very rudimentary techniques are currently used. The conventional way of removing the coconut shell is to use cutting tools such as machetes or picks made of wood or metal. There is an interest in the technification of defibering the coconut shell and as a first step it has been thought to design a prototype that is capable of removing it starting from the analysis of the techniques used by the farmer to defibrate the fruit manually. An example of this is the way they manually make incisions around the tow with machete to divide the shell into several sections and then remove it with the same hands. Such task could be replaced when designing a knives system with components that allow cutting and tear the coir. This is not the only alternative that is taken into account since during the exploration and information search stage surely mechanisms will appear to which you can make some improvement and then select the one that best suits the solution of the problem raised.