Rancang Bangun Mesin Pembersih Batok Kelapa Genjah

Abstract

Genjah coconut tree is commonly used as a decoration in the home’s park because of average shape of the trees are short and the coconut fruit has a small size with an interesting color. In addition the genjah coconut generally also utilized only for consumed water and flesh of the fruit. Genjah coconut average has 110 diameter [mm], weight of 750 – 800 [gram], and the contents of the water volume 520 [ml]. The smaller size makes the genjah coconut easily gripped by the hand so as to allow for the choice of the young coconut drinks with small size. To make the genjah coconut has a higher value, the display of the genjah coconut be made more beautiful. Genjah coconut will be pared from his fibers, and presented in the form of whole shells. However, after the process of stripping the genjah coconut fibers, there is still the rest of the fibers that attach to the coconut shell. This makes needed coconut shell advanced cleaning to be done to make the genjah coconut appearance is more beautiful, clean and smooth the surface of his shell. Manually cleaning with brush, resulting in a surface that is still likely to be rough and it is not effective at the time and energy for large quantities. Therefore required a cleaning machine for genjah coconut shell to clean the rest of the fibers sticking and simultaneously able smoothing the surface of the shell. In this development, the genjah coconut fibers already peeled for processed in shell intact condition. Cleaning machine of genjah coconut using static cleaners is grater sized 4 [mesh] which is shaped a tube, genjah coconut is placed on coconut holder then genjah coconut will be rotated using at speeds ranging from 102 [rpm], movements using electric motors empowered 1 [HP]. At one process capacity of machine are 4 coconuts and needed 3 minutes.