Auto Trip Mechanism for CTC Machine

In tea production process, CTC machine (cut, tear, curl) plays a vital role in the quality of tea produced. CTC machine has two rollers which rotate at different speeds are cut, tear and curled to required shape. The overloading happens due to the stagnation of the leaves in the conveyor by the improper spreading, due to the stones and other foreign materials present during plucking and due to the improper interface between the CTC and withering machine. Due to the overloading of the leaves by the above said reasons, the rollers of the CTC machine gets jammed disengaging of the rollers must be done manually, which incurs loss in production time, damage of the teeth of rollers etc. This project describes the development of an auto tripping mechanism which automatically disengage the rollers at the time of overloading to minimize the discomfort mentioned above and to develop a miniature of the CTC machine with all the parts of it and to incorporate the above said auto trip mechanism in it.