DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF MECHANISM BY USING PNEUMATIC DRIVE FOR BAMBOO STICK (AGARBATTI STICK) CUTTING MACHINE

Abstract

Bamboo sticks are the major raw materials used in the Agarbatti industry. The Agarbatti
production generally involves the strips cut from the bamboo sticks. Earlier these processes was
carried out by tribal people who make strips and sticks by conventional methods of using knives
which is very tedious, time-consuming and risky. After that the hydraulic splitter machine came into
existence which can produce the stick within a single machine. But in that machine two different
dies were used so the stick could not be cut in a single operation. Hence to avoid this problem one
mechanism has been suggested which could cut the stick in a single operation. Furthermore the
selection procedure for the pneumatic drive is also mentioned in this paper.