Shree Siddaganga Education Society (R)

SIDDAGANGA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

(An Autonomous Institution Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University-Belagavi, Approved by AICTE,
Programmes Accredited by NBA, New Delhi & ISO 9001:2008 Certified)
Tumakuru-572103, Karnataka India

MINI PROJECT WORK REPORT ON

“AUTOMATED CLOTH FOLDING MACHINE”

In partial fulfilment of the requirements for the VI Semester of Bachelor of

Engineering
In Mechanical Engineering

Submitted By:
AKASH BIRADAR 1SI19ME004

AKSHAY G M 1SI19ME005

DAYANAND H R 1SI19ME032

KARTHIK B M 1SI19ME061

Under the Guidance Of:

Mr. JATADHARA G S
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Siddaganga Institute of Technology,
Tumakuru
ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-22

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 Shree Siddaganga Education Society (R)
SIDDAGANGA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(An Autonomous institution Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University-Belagavi, Approved by AICTE,
Programmes Accredited by NBA, New Delhi & ISO 9001:2008 Certified)
Tumakuru-572103, Karnataka India
Department of Mechanical Engineering

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Mini Project work report entitled “AUTOMATED CLOTH
FOLDING MACHINE” is prepared and presented by AKASH BIRADAR (1SI19ME004),
AKSHAY G M(1SI19ME005), DAYANAND H R(1SI19ME032), KARTHIK B
M(1SI19ME061) in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Third year of Bachelor of
Engineering in Mechanical Engineering at Siddaganga Institute of Technology-Tumakuru,
during the academic year 2021-22. The report has been approved as it satisfies the academic
requirements for the Bachelor of Engineering Degree.

Signature of the Guide: Signature of the HOD:

Mr. Jatadhara G S Dr. H R Purushothama

Associate Professor Professor & Head
Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Siddaganga Institute of Technology,
Tumakuru Tumakuru

Name and signature of the Examiners

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 SL.NO CONTENTS PG.NO

01 INTRODUCTION 4

02 OBJECTIVE 4

03 FLOWCHART 5

04 LITERATURE SURVEY 6

05 SCOPE AND MOTIVATION 7

06 COMPONENTS DETAILS 8-10

07 METHODOLOGY 11

08 CAD DIAGRAM AND WORKING SPECIFICATIONS 12-13

09 COST ESTIMATION AND GANTT CHART 14

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 INTRODUCTION
Cloth folding machine is an automatic motor controlled cloth folding machine powered by
a Arduino system. The aim of this project is to fold T-shirt merely by pressing a button.
The folding machine is fully automatic where one has to place the T-shirt on the folding
tray and press the button. It will then fold the T-shirt by itself. Usually, a person uses
conventional method to fold the cloth which by hand folding. People nowadays have been
living with tight schedule in their daily life. Household chorus despite gender discrepancy
has been a burden for many. This work is a burden for many and sometimes tiring
depending on the amount of clothing and number of people in a house.

OBJECTIVES
To develop prototype of cloth folding device capable of folding a t-shirt.

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Fig. no -1

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 LITERATURE SURVEY

• N. Gomeshal et. Al Photovoltaic powered t-shirt folding machine offers an

excellent solution to these work by providing a automated machine which folds a t-
shirt approx. in 2 seconds .Finally, the t-shirt folding machine has been more
efficeints as compared to manual folding.

• Suraj Shah et. Al takes one jump against automation by folding the t-shirts
by sorting mechanism. Folding has been automated by the usage of micro-
controller which can be easily replaceable and easily available in shops.

• Xudong li et. Al works on the safety of people during the folding of clothes,
they include photo sensors and infrared sensor to track the human invasion, they
also found solution on power supply.

• Mukesh P. Mahajan et. Al works on using mechanical gear motors in folding

machine whereas same as the photovoltaic t-shirt folding machine. To overcome this
conventional task it can be used in household .This will result on the past complex
designs and rare failures.

• Bansari Shetye, Pooja Randive, Snehal Shedbale T-shirt folding process is not
difficult to use and very useful process in this world. The main intension of this
project is to fold t-shirt b just pressing a button. This folding machine is fully
automatic where one have to just place the t-shirt on the flip board and push the start
button and within fraction of seconds the t- shirt will get folded.

• Yiwei Liu et. Al deals with the process and design, the main motive of this machine
is to reduce human interference by using folding machine. It must have two place of
patterns and also completes in just 20 seconds.

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 SCOPE AND MOTIVATION

• The product will come in handy to people of all ages and will make their lives easier
by folding their clothes for them. This product folds t-shirts and shorts for an average
sized human being.

• This product will reduce the work for people with larger families and
save them a lot of time and it can be automated for industrial
application.

ABSTRACT

• The aim of the project is to fabricated cloth folding prototype. It can fold the cloth by
pressing button. It consists of three servomotors to control the motion of the folding
part.
• The servo motor (MG995) controls the folding motion and rotates according to a
program which uses Arduino board based on ATmega328p microcontroller.
• Result shows that by using this system, it comes up with the features of low
manufacturing cost and minimum complication in design.

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 COMPONENTS AND DETAILS

MG995 High Speed Metal Gear Dual Ball Bearing Servo

Fig.no-2(SERVO MOTOR)

The unit comes complete with 30cm wire and 3 pin ‘S’ type female header connector that fits
most receiver, including Futaba, JR, GWS, Cirrus, Blue Bird Arrow, Corona, Berg, Spektrum
and Hitec.

This high-speed standard servo can rotate approximately 120 degree (60 in each direction).
You can use any servo code, hardware or library to control these servos, so it’s great for
beginners who want to make stuff move without building a motor controller with feedback
and gear box, especially since it will fit in small place. The MG995 Metal Gear Servo also
comes with a selection of arms and hardware to get you set up nice fast.

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 SPECIFICATIONS OF SERVO MOTOR
• Weight: 55 g
• Dimension: 40.7 x 19.7 x 42.9 mm approx.
• Stall torque: 8.5 kgf·cm (4.8 V), 10 kgf·cm (6 V)
• Operating speed: 0.2 s/60º (4.8 V), 0.16 s/60º (6 V)
• Operating voltage: 4.8 V a 7.2 V
• Dead band width: 5 µs
• Stable and shock proof double ball bearing design
• Temperature range: 0 ºC – 55 ºC

ARDUINO UNO

Fig No-3 Arduino Uno

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The word "uno" means "one" in Italian and was chosen to mark the initial release of Arduino
Software. The Uno board is the first in a series of USB-based Arduino boards; it and version
1.0 of the Arduino IDE were the reference versions of Arduino, which have now evolved to
newer releases. The ATmega328 on the board comes pre programmed with a bootloader that
allows uploading new code to it without the use of an external hardware programmer.

ARDUINO UNO R3 SPECIFICATION

The Arduino Uno R3 board includes the following specifications.

• It is an ATmega328P based Microcontroller

• The Operating Voltage of the Arduino is 5V
• The recommended input voltage ranges from 7V to 12V
• The i/p voltage (limit) is 6V to 20V
• Digital input and output pins-14
• Digital input & output pins (PWM)-6
• Analog i/p pins are 6
• DC Current for each I/O Pin is 20 mA
• DC Current used for 3.3V Pin is 50 mA
• Flash Memory -32 KB, and 0.5 KB memory is used by the boot
loader
• SRAM is 2 KB
• EEPROM is 1 KB
• The speed of the CLK is 16 MHz
• In Built LED
• Length and width of the Arduino are 68.6 mm X 53.4 mm
• The weight of the Arduino board is 25 g

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 METHODOLOGY
• Connections- PC- USB-Arduino Board-Breadboard-Servomotor.
• The Arduino Board is used to program the servomotor.
• The 3 servomotors mounted on the inner cardboards plays a main role
in Folding the cloth.
• The foam board attached to the servo motor ,which flips a part of a
cardboard where the T shirt gets folded by 1 fold.
• Breadboard is used to make quick electrical Connection between
electrical components.
• The electrical components are connected Using jumper wires .
• The Arduino board is programmed By Arduino IDE in such a way that
the servomotors Rotate by 180 degrees at right intervals of time as per
requirement from the PC.
• This PC is connected to the Arduino board Via USB cable where the
Program is fed as an input.

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 Fig No - 4
CIRCUIT CONNECTION

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Fig.No-5(CAD Drawing)

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PROGRAM
#include <Servo.h> //library for servo motor
Servo myServo1;
Servo myServo2;
Servo myServo3;
Void setup() {
myServo1.attach(9);
myServo2.attach(10);
myServo3.attach(11);
}
Void loop() {
myServo1.write(0);
myServo2.write(0);
myServo3.write(0);
delay(2000);
myServo1.write(180);
delay(2000);
myServo1.write(0);
delay(2000);

myServo2.write(180);
delay(2000);
myServo2.write(0);
delay(2000);

myServo3.write(180);
delay(2000);
myServo3.write(0);
delay(2000);}

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REQUIREMENTS FOR FABRICATION AND
COST ESTIMATION

GANTT CHART

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 REFERENCES
• Arduino for dummies by JOHN NUSSEY (Published by John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd)

• Arduino coarse for beginners-Open source Electronics platform

(YouTube June 2021) 240 minutes coarse.(Freecodecamp.org)
https://youtu.be/zJ-LqeX_fLU

• https://www.engineeringchoice.com/servo-motor/ for servo motors.

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