Banana Transportation

Problem

Bananas are fragile fruits and it is necessary to take multiple precautions to transport them. Unnecessary contact stresses the banana fruit as bananas are very sensitive to knocks, pressure, and friction with other objects.

Solutions

An Indigenous portable and dismantlable channel conveyor for the field transportation of bananas. It comprises of i) a plurality of runway channels, (ii) a roller bearing wheel setup, and (iii) legs and a channel support system.

Brief description

Bananas are fragile fruits and it is necessary to take multiple precautions to transport them. From the harvesting point of the bananas up to the retail point of sale, the bunch and the bananas are placed on different means for their transportation, process, and storage. The use of many transportation means demands handling of bunches which involves hand contact with the banana fruit. This contact stresses the banana fruit as bananas are very sensitive to knocks, pressure, and friction with other objects. The transporting of the bananas in this manner by hanging the entire bunch results in a considerable amount of damaged or lost bananas, by the time the bunch reaches the packing area. The banana bunches can swing into stationary objects while being transported, such as supports for the cableway, causing bananas to bruise or separate from the bunch. The unsuitability of current means of transport of bananas generates a considerable loss, specifically during transport from the plantation to the place of sorting and packaging. The present invention is directed towards the need in the art to develop a device for transporting bunches of bananas which is portable, dismantlable, flexible, and simple to use. The instant invention satisfies these needs, as well as others, and generally overcomes the deficiencies found in the background art. The handling of the banana bunches through the channel conveyor of the present invention totally avoids cuts and wounds on the surface of the fruit which in turn increases the lifetime of banana, especially for export.

Innovator:  Rajamanikandan T

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