Design and construction of pineapple peeler-cum-ring slicer.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine design and construct a manually operated pineapple peeler-cum- ring slicer. Manually peeling and slicing of pineapple is a time consuming and labor intensive process. Pineapple peeler and slicer are required for reducing the size, obtaining uniform thick slices. proper shape finishing and further processing of pineapple quickly. Therefore, a peeler-cum-slicer was designed with slicing plate of diameter 7 cm and core diameter of 2.5 cm. It removes the core and produces pineapple rings or uniform thickness & diameter in a single motion. This is a hand operated peeler-cum slicer which works satisfactorily with easy operation. Twenty numbers of pineapple fruits can easily be peeled and sliced by skilled worker in one hour with this designed device. The designed peeler-cum-slicer has also proved to have high peeling efficiency of 56%.