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.

Rubber tree tapping machine.

You have clicked a page that seems to be very popular. Here a helical cut is made in the tree approximately four feet from the ground and circling about half the tree. Every day workers scrapes away the caked latex and a thin layer of bark in the early morning. Semi automatic rubber tree tapping machine abstract.

Rubber tapping is the process by which the sap rubber is gathered. It s currently a bit busy. By a process called rubber tapping we obtain rubber latex from tree. Rubber trees are tapped about once every two days yielding a cupful of latex containing approximately 50 grams 1 7 ounces of solid rubber each time.

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. Automatic rubber tapping system arts automatic tapping machine or arts is an automatic latex harvester attached to the tree with the concept of bark incision. 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. The machine is capable to perform the tapping task automatically according to the programmed time.

The proposed machine is fabricated and tested on the tree.