University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines

C.M Recto Avenue, Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City

College of Engineering and Architecture

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Manual/Motorized Corn Threshing Machine

Authors:
Alipio, Mark Jocent
Apa, Carls Eduard
Cerio, Eugene
Felisilda, Cristal Mae Noveme C.
Galacio, Jayson
Mandacayan, John Mark N.
Zapanta, Vincent Ken J.
BSME 4A

Submitted to:
Engr. Adonis A. Closas, Ph D
Title : Manual/Motorized Corn Threshing Machine

Objectives:
1. To be able to design and construct a manual or motorized corn threshing machine.
2. To be able to thresh a corn by using the threshing machine produced.

Description:
Corn is the second most important food crop, after rice, in the Philippines, with one-
third of Filipino farmers, or 1.8 million people, depending on it as their major source of
income and livelihood. White corn or corn rice is the most important and most preferable
substitute staple in periods of rice shortage, especially for people in rural, far flung areas .
Corn is also the primary source of feed for the Philippines’ animal industry, and is being
increasingly used by the manufacturing sector. These facts made corn industry one of the
biggest industry in the Philippines.
Here in Mindanao is the country’s largest corn producer, averaging about 3.7 million
tons or 50 percent of total national production. Apart from being the largest producer of corn,
farmers from rural area still use the primitive way of corn threshing. These subsistence
farmers in far flung areas leave corn on the stalks in their fields until it dries, then they shell
it by hand, picking off the kernels with their fingers. This rudimentary, cumbersome, and
difficult method of hand threshing gives burden to these wretched and results to human
stressfulness.
The authors of this project are well informed and acquainted to these agony that our
corn farmers are facing. In order to give aid to this indispensable need, an improvised
threshing machine is designed which is the primary operation is to remove the corn grains or
kernels and leaving the cobs intact. On this machine whole corn cobs are fed in. Then, they
are pulled between two toothed wheels, made of metal. Each wheel spins the opposite
direction of the other. The teeth pull the kernels off the cob until there are no kernels left. The
kernels fall out through a screen into a container placed underneath the machine. The cob is
then ejected out, since it cannot pass through the screen. The authors aims that this machine
would made manifest and come into existence for the poor corn farmer to use. This machine
would greatly help the farmers to lessen the amount of time, manpower, and their effort for
them to be more productive.
References:
https://www.grossarchive.com/upload/1426690002.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshing_machine
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/7650/1/mp04ge01.pdf
https://psa.gov.ph/ricosit-main/corn