CONSTRUCTION OF SOAP CUTTING DEVICE

CONSTRUCTION OF SOAP CUTTING DEVICE

ABSTRACT

The aim of the project is to construct a soap cutting device capable of size-remaining the soap produced into regular bars and tablets without error in shapes and sizes.

Soap cutting devices are used to size reduce or cut the bulk of soap produced into bars and tablets.  Soap cutting devices facilitate the process of cutting the produced soap to a required size that can be handled.  It is a kind of modern technical way of size reducing the already produced soap in a modern and easy way.

Hardwood (Mohagany) and wire was selected for the construction of the project.  Methodology of the construction involved marketing out operation which involved the dimensioning of the table and cutter (wire) – 760mm, width of the table -570mm, lenfth used as an 250mm etc.

Other operations carried out in the construction process includes, cutting, surface smoothening, grooving, nailing, and wine installation.

Finally a manual soap cutter with table was constructed with the following turbance, resistance to impact load / disturbance and branding  force, reliability and accuracy.

CHAPTER ONE

1.0    INTRODUCTION

1.1    BACKGROUND OF STUDY

The project entitled construction of soap cutting device is aimed at producing equipment for the size-reduction of manufactured soap into shape, size, design and patterns.

Soap cutting device is the equipment used for cutting or size-reducing of soaps. It is the tool used for cutting, size reducing and slicing bulks of much trial and error, soap catter of various size and shape used in larger production of soaps are being designed, and example is the current professional custom cutter.  The cutter has satisfied the needs of many soap makers around the world.

Other soap cutter types includes; electrical embossing and cutting machine, pneumatic chain cutting machine, cutter with wooden tuble cutting mould guided soap cutter, straight blade  cutter,  wavy   blade   cutter. (Willow,  1996).  All  these cutters serve   the purpose  of   soap  cutting  and   packaging   in various soap  electrical  industries . for  instance   the  electrical  embossing and   cutting   machine   can  be  used  to  emboss  and  cut all  kinds   of  toilet  and  laundry  soap  fast  and     accurate. In  the case  of  toilet soap  production , this  machine   will  cut  the soap  billets  from  the plodder   into  long  bars  to  faced into  laundry  soap production,  a complete  set  of  embossing  mechanism  can  be  install  at  the  front   so that  the  machine  can  emboss  and  cut  the  soaps  at  the same  time  to  produce  finished  product  for  down  stream  packaging. 

CONSTRUCTION OF SOAP CUTTING DEVICE