Design and fabrication of a juice extractor

Abstract

This paper focused on addressing the problem of inadequate preservation of farm produce in Nigeria by designing and fabricating a manually  operated citrus fruit juice extractor using locally available materials. The extractor produced has the capacity to process 3.8kg of oranges at  76.32% efficiency. The extractor is user friendly, easy to manipulate, maintain and affordable. It is expected that with this machine, the wastage of our farm produce (particularly fruits) will be greatly  minimised, thus enhancing improvement in the income generating capacity of fruit farmers, while meeting customers’ needs of fresh fruits rich in quality and at affordable prices.

Keywords: Extraction, shaft design, volume of hopper, belt selection, juice