Development of Automatic Bundle Machine for Vegetables(I) : Mechanism Design

채소 자동결속기의 개발(I) : 메커니즘 설계

  • 김용석 (울산대학교 대학원 기계자동차공학과) ;
  • 박태표 (월드테크(주)) ;
  • 김재준 (울산대학교 기계자동차공학부) ;
  • 박성호 (경일대학교 기계자동차학부) ;
  • 양순용 (울산대학교 기계자동차공학부)
  • Published : 2009.04.15

Abstract

The bundling process is the final step in vegetable manufacturing, however, the process is a little difficult to be automatized, because vegetable has the physical properties of roughness, softness, and fragility etc. In this paper, we proposed an automatic bundling mechanism for vegetable based on the heat melt sticking. The proposed mechanism consists of three modules, one module is the moving part for aligning of the vegetable shape and adjusting of the vegetable tension, second module is the arm driving part for the vegetable binding and the band roll releasing, and third module is band joining, band cutting, and band feeding part for the vegetable binding continuously. Through this research, Using the SMO(SimDesigner Motion) module, we optimize condition of mechanical movement of the bundling mechanism. This bundling system designed in order to binding 288 bundle/hour.

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