Development Of Mechanized Loom For Rural Khadi Industries To Increase Clothe Productivity

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ABSTRACT In Khadi industries, cloth is produced by time consuming manual driven loom affecting the cost of production of Khadi. A survey was conducted to the nearest khadi wavers workstations in central India region to study existing manual driven loom emphasizing on rate of production of Khadi. By observation and interview with the wavers, it is revealed to develop new Mechanized Loom in order to improve the productivity of Khadi. It is observed that the looms used by weavers are conventional. About 35% of the handlooms are in the range between 30 to 40 years old, and 15.83% units are more than 50 years old. The different motions and the strokes in mechanism of loom machine were studied. The loom is redesigned based on the input and output parameters required to increase the productivity of khadi. The Pro-E software is used for modeling and simulation purpose. The new mechanized loom was fabricated based on the designed dimensions and trials were conducted at the workstations. It is observed that the production rate of Khadi cloth waving of Manual Loom for 1 day is 8 meter with 60 rpm, while new mechanized loom with 120 RPM produces 12 meter cloth per day. The production is observed to be significantly increased by 50%.

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