Automatic French fries making machine
Automatic French Fries making machine which will be useful in the small scale industries is proposed at a low cost. The production process mainly comprises of the following steps such as Blanching, Peeling, Slicing, Frying[1][4] and the mixing process. These potatoes are washed and the skin is peeled off. Then, the potatoes are put into the hopper, where they drop onto the top of slicing blade through the tray from the hopper. There is a pushing plate connected to a lead screw which is powered by the wiper motor where the potato is sensed by the sensor and the motor is actuated and this is followed by the descending of lead screw towards the slicing blade. The lead screw is attached with a pushing plate for the complete slicing of potatoes into pieces, which then falls down to a rotating fryer set up. The side plates consists of four sub plates at right angles to each other. The outer path has a small ventilation in it, through which sliced pieces of potatoes are inserted. From there, they reach the oil pan near the base where they get heated in a heater. As the side plate continues to rotate, the heated pieces progress up, and finds the ventilation in inner circular path. Through that ventilation they travel down to a mixer unit. In the mixer unit it get accumulated in a lower plate. Once that motions is sensed, an upper vibrator motor starts vibrating. These vibrations are clubbed to a plate with holes on it and it also contains a mixture of Chilly powder and salt. Therefore, the mixture falls once they receive those vibrations, and mixes with the product. So this low cost automation in French fries making system will be a boon for bakeries in domestic level.
2016 International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT)