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    Fiber Extracting Machine

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    Banana fiber extraction is a labor-intensive process that involves harvesting banana stems, peeling them, and using a knife to separate the fibers from the pith. It takes about 70 banana trunks to produce 1 kilo of dry fiber. The fiber is delivered in 50-kilo bales still smelling of the soil in Tamil Nadu, India where it was grown. While banana is a major cash crop, its fibers are underutilized. A fiber extraction machine uses rollers powered by an electric motor to separate banana fibers efficiently with less labor. The machine produces rough fibers and is well-suited for small-scale fiber industries.

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    Fiber Extracting Machine

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    Banana fiber extraction is a labor-intensive process that involves harvesting banana stems, peeling them, and using a knife to separate the fibers from the pith. It takes about 70 banana trunks to produce 1 kilo of dry fiber. The fiber is delivered in 50-kilo bales still smelling of the soil in Tamil Nadu, India where it was grown. While banana is a major cash crop, its fibers are underutilized. A fiber extraction machine uses rollers powered by an electric motor to separate banana fibers efficiently with less labor. The machine produces rough fibers and is well-suited for small-scale fiber industries.

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    Banana fiber extraction is a labor-intensive process that involves harvesting banana stems, peeling them, and using a knife to separate the fibers from the pith. It takes about 70 banana trunks to produce 1 kilo of dry fiber. The fiber is delivered in 50-kilo bales still smelling of the soil in Tamil Nadu, India where it was grown. While banana is a major cash crop, its fibers are underutilized. A fiber extraction machine uses rollers powered by an electric motor to separate banana fibers efficiently with less labor. The machine produces rough fibers and is well-suited for small-scale fiber industries.

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    Fiber Extracting Machine

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    Ranjith Kumar
    Banana fiber extraction is a labor-intensive process that involves harvesting banana stems, peeling them, and using a knife to separate the fibers from the pith. It takes about 70 banana trunks to produce 1 kilo of dry fiber. The fiber is delivered in 50-kilo bales still smelling of the soil in Tamil Nadu, India where it was grown. While banana is a major cash crop, its fibers are underutilized. A fiber extraction machine uses rollers powered by an electric motor to separate banana fibers efficiently with less labor. The machine produces rough fibers and is well-suited for small-scale fiber industries.

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    FIBER EXTRACTING MACHINE

    SYNOPSIS

    Banana fiber extraction is tedious and labor-intensive; sound reasons why the
    studio does not attempt processing in-house. After the hands of banana are harvested in
    the fields, the heavy, moisture-laden stems are cut down and peeled into their component
    layers or sheaths. Flattening a single sheath on the ground, a worker pins one end of it
    under a broad, straight edged knife. Then she draws the sheath firmly from under the
    blade. The watery pith matter separates, yielding a tiny handful of raw fiber. It is
    estimated that 70 full-grown banana trunks yield a single kilo of dry banana fiber. Once
    extracted, banana is a lustrous, shimmering fiber. It is delivered to the studio in 50-kilo
    bales, bundled in sacks of jute, still redolent of the warm, loamy soil of Tamil Nadu,
    where it grew.

    Bananas are a dominant cash crop in southern India. The industry leaves behind a
    fair amount of available fiber which is typically used to weave mats and baskets, to make
    cordage and craft items, and as inexpensive filler for rustic cushions and mattresses. Yet,
    banana fiber is an underutilized agricultural by-product. Pintos work in converting fiber
    to paper consumes little energy and minimal chemicals, generates much-needed jobs in a
    region plagued by chronic unemployment, and results in products that take advantage of
    the naturally beautiful and flexible working properties of the fiber. In this way, banana
    fiber fits seamlessly into Pintos environmental agenda and the ethos of her studio.

    INTRODUCTION
    In fiber extracting industry a wide range of power and hand operated machines are
    used. As the industry is a large and growing industry different type of machines are used
    for different operations.
    Fiber extracting machine is a large and growing industry. There are many special
    purposes machines used in this industry to-day. The proper selection of the machines
    depends upon the type of the work under-taken by the particular industry. There are many
    examples of banana fiber, which can be seen in our every day lives.

    WORKING PRINCIPLE

    The single phase supply is given to the induction motor, it will run. The motor
    pulley is coupled to the spur gear pulley with the help of belt. The spur gear shaft is
    coupled to knurling roller arrangement is run according to the speed of the motor. Before
    switch on the induction motor, the banana fiber is locked to the roller in the rolling main
    shaft with the help of leads screw arrangement.
    The knife is used to cut the banana fiber which is fixed to the frame with the help
    of suitable arrangement. Then sharp edged pointed rods are fixed in the frame so that
    banana fiber is separated to so many pieces of lengthy fiber. The length of the fiber is
    decided by the operator. The required length of the fiber is extracted; the single phase
    induction motor is switched OFF.

    APPLICATIONS

    Small Scale industries such as fiber extracting industry etc.


    All fiber extracting industries

    DISADVANTAGES

    This machine is used to produce ruff fiber only

    ADVANTAGES
    Easy in Construction and Working Principle
    Man power requirement is less
    High production
    Length of the coir is varied
    Production cost is reduced
    Low Cost
    Maintenance cost is very low.
    Easy to install at any were
    Less in weight

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