CAMEROON

PEACE-WORK-FATHERLAND REPUBLIQUE DU
MINISTRY OF HIGHER CAMEROUN
PAIX-TRAVAIL-PATRIE
MINISTRE DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT
SUPERIEUR

EDUCATION

THEME: Design and simulation of a melon shelling

machine

PRESENTED BY:
BATE FOKEU STIVE BRONDON
MBINDI KOKE LIONEL
SUPERVISOR:
EGBE DANIEL/ TCHIKDJE PRUDENCE

ACADEMC YEAR: 2019/2020

 CONTENT OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION

PROBLEME STATEMENT

OBJECTIVE

FUNCTIONAL
REQUIREMENT

WORK PLAN

CONCLUSION
MELON SHELLING MACHINE
 INTRODUCTION
Melon (Colocynthiscitrullus.L.) is an extensively cultivated and consumed
oil seed crop in Nigeria and West Africa . As reported by Aguayo, it is the
fourth most important crop in the world in terms of production (18 metric
tons), after orange, banana and grape . These seeds are vastly nutritious,
furnishing the human diet with good quality proteins . It contains about
41.51% essential amino acids and other essential nutrients . Melon seed is
also a good source of minerals, vitamins, oil and energy in form of
carbohydrates . The inability to effectively shell melon in order to meet the
requisite capacity necessary for industrial utilization, has been a hindrance to
its use for large scale production of various commodities . The conventional,
traditional or manual method of shelling melon is inefficient, tedious and
time consuming, thus limiting the availability of their products in the
market .
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
 One of the greatest problems affecting technologically development and indeed agricultural
development is the absence of cheap processing equipment . They noted that the present
agricultural processing machines or equipment are very expensive and can not therefore be
conveniently afforded by many local farmers . Invariably, melon cultivation and processing
is affected by this problem of non-availability of cheap processing equipment especially
those for peeling the melon seeds. Although there are several designs on melon peeling
machines (or melon peelers), it is observed that the present designs are relatively more
sophisticated and expensive hence they cannot be affordable by many local farmers.

 It is also observed that the present designs of melon peeling machines are very heavy and
cannot be carried about easily. Moreover, existing designs of melon peeling machines do not
have a mechanism for separation the seeds from the shells or seed coats after peeling. The
seed therefore has to be separated from the shells either by blowing with the mouth which
may eventually injure the blower's eyes or by hand picking method which is very laborious
and time consuming.
 Furthermore, the economy has been adversely affected by its over dependency on
imported item . The absence of cheap and portable machine for peeling and separating
melon seeds accounts for the persistent use of the manual or hand method for peeling
melon seeds despite its attendant problems of much time consumption, high energy
consumption and lower rate of productivity.

 Besides, it is very laborious and enervating. Since the use of locally design and
constructed machines can greatly reduce the hard work and drudgery associated with farm
work, increase the productivity of agriculture, improve the nation's economy as well as
enable technical and vocational education students to acquire more skills in the area of
design and construction, it has become necessary to design and construct asimple cheap
machine for peeling and separating melon seeds.
 OBJECTIVES

In view of the prevailing challenge, the objectives of this

work were to design and develop an efficient melon shelling
machine with a double-action that would work on the
principle of impact and shear forces powered by an electric
motor; to determine its shelling efficiency, and seed
breakage percen-tage of the machine.
The main purpose of the study is to design and construct a
simple, cheap electrically operated machine for peeling and
separating melon seeds. The study will specifically attempt
to:
1. Design a simple, cheap electrically operated
machine for peeling and separating melon seeds.

2. Develop a working drawing of the designed machine.

3. Construct the different parts of the machine using metal

pieces and other locally sourced materials.

4. Assemble the different parts and materials together using

such processes as welding, soldering and the use of bolts,
nuts and screws.
5. Test the machine to establish its functionality.
 FUNCTIONAL
REQUIREMENTS
This is the description of the functions of a system with the view of
its realisation. Functional requirements describes in details the ways
by which all the exigences will be taken into consideration.
we can define 3 types of functional requirements that is; primary
function wthout which the system does not exist, the secondary
function which optimises the design and finally the constraint
function.The functional requirements can also be illustrated using the
octopus diagram and the horned beats.
 HORNED BEAST REPRESENTATION
Local
 To expres the need we have to melon
farmer Melon
answer the questions; seeds
 Who will this design serve?
 What will it act on? Melon
 What is the goal? shelling
machine

PEEL
THE
MELON
SEED
 OCTOPUS REPRESENTATION

Melon seed
Melon seed shelling
PF1

SF5
Price
Melon shelling SF4
SF6 machine Blower unit

SF2
Matierial
SF1 SF3 Frame

ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE
ENERGY
Function type Function description criterous

Primary functional Shell melon seed About 5kg ped on hopper

Secondary functional (frame) Support machine hold the Shedded and strong
electric motor rienly in position

Secondary functional (Energy) Driving peeling rotors and 1.5 gauge coil wire; speed 1400
blower rpm and AC curent

Secondary functional Maintain sheller machine The use of bolt and nuts is to
( maintenance ) tucilitate easy detachment of the
parts for easy maintenance

Secondary functional (blower Blows the outer melon shell Made from mid steel
unit)
 WORK PLAN

DIMENSIONING

DESIGN AND
STIMULATION

CHOICE OF MATERIAL

REALISATION

CONTROL
conclusion