• Balappa B.U

India is well known for its cultural, traditions and influenced on crafts. Flower garlanding is one such skill that is developed over centuries. Flowers are used in every occasion and has its own demand in day in day out. Flower garlanding business depends on the supply and demand. There are lot of factors like flower delicacy, transportation, occupational ergonomics, influences the reduced productivity in flower stringing and results in lower profits. Hence there is a need of a low-cost Flower Stringing Machine, that can help a labor class family to sell more and earn more to afford today’s costly life. In present work, instead of reinventing a new method or mechanism to string the flowers, exiting sewing machine is considered as bench mark and studied in detail to understand the multiple types of cloth stitches and respective machine mechanisms. The flower stringing machine is conceptualized based on the existing cloth sewing machine and added multiple kinematic mechanisms to drive the flower feeding and stringing. Current stringing machine needs operating skills like machine speed control, adjusting thread tension, needle and bobbin mounting. These factors are considered and designed the flower stringing machine components specifications and are derived using standard machine design calculations. Finally, the machine is fabricated and evaluated for its functionality and analyzed for quality of strung flowers, process time and compared against the current manual method of flower stringing.

Flower Stringing, Flower Garlanding, Flower knotting, Cloth Sewing Machine, Gear Transmission Mechanism

"Design and Development of Flower Stringing Machine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.18-23, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBT06004.pdf

"Design and Development of Flower Stringing Machine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp18-23, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBT06004.pdf