Rubber Tree Tapping Machine

By a process called rubber tapping we obtain rubber latex from tree.

Rubber tree tapping machine.

An incision is made in the bark of a rubber tree which cuts through the planting cycle to optimise the latex yield. Here a helical cut is made in the tree approximately four feet from the ground and circling about half the tree. So this paper discusses about a low semi automatic rubber tree tapping machine sart which can be used by an unskilled labor to perform tapping on the rubber tree by preserving the tree health. The machine will help to increase the life of the rubber tree by upto 15 years as the cut on the bark of the tree is perfect and adjusted exactly from 1 5 mm to 3 0 mm tapping depth with the help of inbuilt sensors.

You can have a rest and please slide to verify. Rubber tapping is the process by which the sap rubber is gathered. The machine is capable to perform the tapping task automatically according to the programmed time. It s currently a bit busy.

Semi automatic rubber tree tapping machine abstract. You have clicked a page that seems to be very popular. Every day workers scrapes away the caked latex and a thin layer of bark in the early morning. The proposed machine is fabricated and tested on the tree.

Hevea brasiliensis rubber tree is considered to be the most predominant plantation crop in kerala which was found to be the major source of income for the 11 5 lakh planters within kerala.