Design of Mango Cutting Machine

 Raw mangoes in India are mostly used as pickles and chutneys.  Almost In every house, mangos are used for making pickles and chutneys .In Gujarat, many household manufactures have grown an prosper through pickle industries. Basic operations like, cutting, slicing, peeling and grating, dicing, and handling manually and in unhygienic way are performed in Gujrat. All these operations are done by men and women by hands only in the industry and they are also tedious and labor intensive. So, these operations are needed to be performed automatically and rapidly. Slicing and cube cutting is one of the most important steps in processing of raw mango fruits. Mechanical slicing and cube cutting is capable of more precise than manual mango cutting operation. It reduces the operation time and improves the efficiency and accuracy of raw mango slicing and cube cutting. However, only limited work have been done and published, on the development of slicing and cube cutting machines. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to develop an appropriate, efficient slicer and cube cutter for mechanizing the pickle processing industry. Various physical properties namely; size, shape, unit mass, sphericity and bulk density, and engineering properties namely firmness, of freshly harvested mango fruit of cultivar “Rajapuri” were determined.