Design and Development of Low Cost Orange Sorter

The present review provides brief information about various types of innovations done in orange grading equipment’s. The basic objective of grading operation is to grade oranges into different sizes as per the requirement. The farm and food industries were using manual sorting to grades the fruits based on their sizes and colour quality but this method was time consuming, laborious and suffers from the problem of inconsistency and inaccuracy due to involvement of huge human worker. Now a days huge machine are too costly, because of this many small scale industries cannot afford them and also these machines require large space. Thus at present, sorting of the fruits become very difficult industrial process and issues of concern. The main objective of this project is to design a system for grading orange. To design such a system fruits weight, sizes and surface area need to be found. In this project we are using mechanical sorter to grade the oranges. By using this system we completely eliminate manual sorting work and reduce cost and also increases production rate.