Development of a blueberry sorting machine

Abstract

In the municipality of Zacatlan de las Manzanas located in the Sierra Norte of the State of Puebla, many families are dedicated to grow blueberry, basically at the time of cutting the fruit or harvesting the area is accessed with baskets for collection, then begins the process that focuses on the selection of the fruit by size, this task is very late and therefore tedious especially if it is done without using tools, on the other hand should take care of the handling of the fruit to be kept in optimal conditions. The objective of this article is the development of a blueberry sorting machine from the design of a mechanical-electrical system using CAD software and simulation, to its operation to ensure the correct selection, better handling of the fruit and reduce time and movements, in order to improve the process and scheduled delivery to the customer. With this project it is intended that the blueberry sorting machine has advantages over the manual selection of the fruit in the size classification by means of a simple system for this process.