Design And Development Of A Portable Innovative Operation Stripping Device (PIOSD)

Abstract

A “PIOSD” (Portable Innovative Operation Stripping Device) was designed and developed to answer the pressing needs of the abaca farmers in the province of Catanduanes. The issues considered was the ability to process abaca fibres right in their abaca plantation and maximize their time and fibres production, address the low quality of traditionally extracted fibre production, and generate employment for the people interested in the community. The device is portable and compressed in size, it is made from locally available materials, and its weight is five (5) times lighter than the modern stripping machines available in the site of study. The device has three (3) major parts, and it has a capacity to operate simultaneously. The device has three (3) replaceable blades, can strip three different tuxes with a stripping pressure of two (2) small tensional spring with different sizes. 17 A 12 VDC high speed motor and has a large amount of torque needed to produce fibres. The abaca fibre produced is classified as a good cleaning with grades of I, and G. The device has recorded daily capacity of 25 kg dried abaca fibre output by the age (60 years 20 and above) senior citizen farmers operator and 50 kg by age of (below 60 years old) junior farmers operator.