Design and construction of a poultry meat deboning and mincing machine.

Abstract

Poultry meat is one of the essential food required in a human deity. it has got proteins. minerals, vitamins and low content of fats. The fat content is a. great deal to a person's life as it can be used by the pregnant mothers -mincing poultry meat. is one of the way of preserving and increasing products of the poultry meat in Uganda, it can be in form of sausages, hot cakes etc. which can be used by any person regardless of age that is to say even babies. However, the deboning technologies especially for poultry meat that exist have not been efficient enough to cope up with such increasing. demands of the minced meat. One of the most common method in Uganda is using hands which is too tiresome, labor costly sharp is used which causes injuries to workers hence contamination of the meat. Its time consuming. The aim of this study was to design a poultry meat deboning and mincing machine which is easy operate with an improved efficiency. Designing and constructing of the various components of the deboning and mincing machine involved, calculating speed of cutting knives. Force analysis led to selection of proper materials to withstand the forces to avoid failure. Engineering-drawings of the various components of the deboning were designed before the machine was constructed and assembled. The performance of the poultry meat deboning and. mincing machine after construction was evaluated taking into consideration its capacity, efficiency and power requirement. Therefore, it is recommended that. this deboning_ machine should be manufactured and popularized for adoption. Uganda to meet the increasing demand fly minced meat.