Estudo e conceito de um sistema de colheita de frutos de árvores da família Arecaceae

Abstract

This work initially presents a need in the market, specifically the lack of mechanisms that facilitate the operation of harvesting fruit from trees of the Arecaceae family. It discusses the reasons for investing in the mechanization of this process through market data of these cultures, in addition to the analysis of the inventions already created for this by means of the existing literature and its available patents. Subsequently, concepts applied in product development are present, added to technical data referring to mechanical data of palm woods, technical data of existing equipment and concepts of static mechanics and classical physics. As a result, it determines the concept of an equipment for harvesting palm fruit, in addition to defining some limit parameters of the mechanism used in coconult and in açaí cultures, such as minimum speed, contact area between machine and tree, minimum energy dissipated. fruit and maximum mass of the equipment.