Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Cylinder Lawn Mower

Okokpujie, Imhade P. and Okokpujie, Kennedy O. and Ajayi, O. O. and Azeta, Joseph and Obinna, Nwoke N. (2017) Design, Construction and Evaluation of a Cylinder Lawn Mower. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. pp. 1254-1260. ISSN 1816-949X

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Abstract

A manually operated mechanical machine for cutting grass was design, fabricated and tested. The machine was design with an internal gear system which transfers the torque to the mower mechanism. The machine's performance test evaluation was conducted in delta state sports stadiwn Asaba. Area of grass cut 2.1 m2 , desired height of cut 20m, time taken 2 min, area of grass cut to desired height 1.92 m2 which gave the cutting efficiency of the cylinder lawn mower 91% with 0.244 KN hwnan effort were obtained. The cutting effectiveness was achieved with a total power of 579.6 W at a rotary speed of 135 rpm of shaft. Its friendly to the environment because it does not emits carbon monoxide into the environment and the noise level is drastically reduced. The machine is considered highly efficient and is readily adaptable to different cutting conditions.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Lawn mower, cylinder mower, shaft, cutting efficiency, Nigera
Subjects:	T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	22 Jun 2017 15:05
Last Modified:	22 Jun 2017 15:05
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/8446

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