Design and Fabrication of a Hydraulic Press for the Production of Kiln Shelves
Keywords:
Beneficiation, ceramics, design, fabrication, machine and processAbstract
Prototype manual hydraulic press was designed and fabricated for the
production of ceramic kiln furniture. The design and fabrication of the
machine was done according to laid down engineering and industrial
design procedures ethics and codes. Standard design calculations were
used to develop the drawings and specification. The design drawings
were then used in the fabrication of the machine. The design functional
machine components were either fabricated as designed or purchased as
scrap from the market. The machine has a length of 250 mm, width of 700
mm and height of 1700 mm. The machine is able to produce four to five
and seven to eight shelves using semi and the fully motorized mechanism
respectively per hour. Eight props could also be produced per hour using
the semi motorize approach mechanism. Both the semi and the fully
motorized mechanisms all have higher production capacities over that
of the manually rammed approach that could possibly produced two to
three shelves per hour.
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