Automatic Rubber Tree Tapping Machine Project

For validating the concept a prototype is being developed and tested.

Automatic rubber tree tapping machine project.

It is portable labor saving time saving and set the limit. This proposed machine is a battery powered tool with a specially designed cutting blade and guide mechanism supported by a sensory system which assists the operator to perform tapping of required quality and standards on all trees in a plantation. Show full abstract discusses about a low semi automatic rubber tree tapping machine sart which can be used by an unskilled labor to perform tapping on the rubber tree by preserving the tree. Drill automated rubber tapper dart is a drill powered rubber tree tapping machine.

This proposed machine is a battery powered tool with a specially designed cutting blade and guide mechanism supported by a sensory system which assists the operator to perform tapping of required quality and standards on all trees in a plantation. The machine is capable to perform the tapping task automatically according to the programmed time. It s an agricultural automation project. For validating the concept a prototype is being developed and tested.

The results were up to the expectations. A highly skilled labour needs about 40 seconds to tap a tree whereas the machine could do it in 20 30 seconds. The proposed machine is fabricated and tested on the tree. Here a helical cut is made in the tree approximately four feet from the ground and circling about half the tree.

So this paper discusses about a low semi automatic rubber tree tapping machine sart which can be used by an unskilled labor to perform tapping on the rubber tree by preserving the tree health. By a process called rubber tapping we obtain rubber latex from tree. Every day workers scrapes away the caked latex and a thin layer of bark in the early morning. An incision is made in the bark of a rubber tree which cuts through the planting cycle to optimise the latex yield.

The automated rubber tapering machine is fixed to the rubber tree and the device operation is performed.