Design of a Corn Shelling Machine with an Elastic Collision System Using Iron Chains

Abstract

Corn is an agricultural product that is in great demand among farmers, because the process and care methods are not too difficult and the lifespan of corn from planting to post-harvest is 2 months. In the general production process, during shelling, many farmers still use the method of shelling using their hands or simple tools, so it requires quite a long production time. The reason people still shell them using their hands or tools is because the price of the machines is too expensive and they don't even know about corn shelling machines. The machine designed to develop a simple corn sheller for use by farmers in Merauke Regency has a capacity of ± 300 kg/hour. The impact system is used in this shelling machine to reduce the impact on the corn kernels. For this reason, in corn shelling, iron chains are used that can move elastically and flexibly.