PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

As we know, drinking young coconut water and eating the tender meat give many benefit to the body for its nutritious value rather than its taste; but do we realize that it requires a dangerous tasks in processing it. The process of trimming requires skills which only can be obtained by those who run the work daily. Thus, a portable apparatus which has the capabilities of reducing the hazardous tasks and fasten the time consumed for processing the young coconut fruit has been proposed and developed. The development of the product begins with collecting and analyzing the data of 30 young coconut fruits. Then, it is followed by designing the whole product at main and component level. The conceptual design is done initially using freehand sketching technique. Next, the 3D solid modeling relies totally on the CATIA V5R19 software. Finally, a complete details drawing is produced using CAD software. In this work, the design focuses on the blade slicing and punch bit head to reduce the hazardous tasks during processing of the young coconut. The blade is designed to allow the slicing movement to be maneuvered during the husk removal process. Meanwhile, the puncher has replaced the usage of chopper in creating an opening at the top of the endocarp. Thus, the device developed will reduce the hazardous task by eliminating the chopping process and replacing it with the slicing process. Therefore, the tendency to get caught in accidental injury during the chopping process can be significantly reduced.