Thursday, March 29, 2012

Line Sower

Sowing seeds in fresh land is easier and we have lot of device for the same. But for mulching and land cover purpose, sowing is difficult by going inside the existing crops. To minimise the difficulties and man power, I have designed a sower sowing seeds in a straight line and powered by 2 people.

Sower resembles olden days plough, but it is miniature version made of steel. One person has to pull the Sower (pulling is not harder, it is similar to normal walking speed), another person has to control the flow of seeds.

Speed or Area of sowing will be equal to time taken walk around your field.
I have been using it for mulching in Sugar-cane and it is every effective.



Monday, March 19, 2012

Flange cum Air Releaser

In Rain Gun or Sprinkler system it is important to release air else will lead to choking of water line. For each outlet it is mandatory to have air releaser. To have air releaser in the outlet, we need to assemble Tee-coupler, Bend, Coupling and then Air Releaser. This method has more number of components and thus increases cost, time of fitting and later maintenance.
To overcome all this pain, designed a Flange attached with a coupling, so that Air releaser can be mounted on it. It save cost and time to assemble fittings.

Quick Coupler

Rain Gun irrigation is very good but I faced a common problem,
How to easily connect and disconnect Rain Gun from the Outlet point ?
Because commonly “flange” is used but it is time consuming, tedious, adds weight to Rain Gun.
Inspired by Sprinkler irrigation system which I have used in 1990’s, created a Aluminum based coupler which makes things easier.

Highlights are,
  • Female coupler is attached to each outlet point instead of Flange
  • Male coupler is attached to Rain Gun
  • Female coupler has Rubber lining to prevent leak
  • Just pushing male coupler into female coupler will lock the unit by a hook
  • Releasing hook, unit can be disconnected
  • Door locks can be used to lock the whole unit, thus making it secure
Ultimately it is
  • Faster
  • Easier
  • Weightless
  • Corrosion free
  • Leak proof

Multi-Purpose Thrasher

In my young days, I have seen Paddy Thrasher as machine which needs operated in certain way and involves manual labour after thrashing. With my friend who owns a workshop we have designed a new model which works faster and no post-processing required after thrashing.

Advantages are,
  • Faster
  • Can be used for Paddy, Corn, Peas, Ragi, Maize and similar grain varieties
  • Powered by Tractor PTO shaft, so no separate engine required for running