ABSTRACT

In the developing world, washing laundry is a difficult, time-consuming task the falls solely on
women. Mothers and daughter typical spend 8 hours each week scribing each piece of their
familys clothing and writing out the harsh washing solution by hand. Powered washing machine
exist, but they are impractical in rural reasons because running water and electric are expensive
or unavailable. Several groups already tried to build a machine for the regions but they have been
unsuccessful. Their machines were either to build and repair because they improved parts or they
do not wash effectively. Our invention is a low cost, pedal power washing machine that designed
around readily available parts. Its innovation is its simple design and its use inexpressive plastic
barrel and bicycle components. The parts are available locally, so we can be manufactured and
repaired in the community without depending on imported goods.
1.1 INTRODUCTION

In developing countries, rural women are among the least privileged. Women are both essential
to the family unit and integral to the economy, yet they rarely have equal opportunities for
education, career development, or social status when compared to men.
One factor behind the inequality is the long list of responsibilities that traditionally fall to
women. Not only do women perform agricultural duties and care for livestock alongside men,
but women are also responsible for many domestic chores. Usually, new technology improves
peoples ef.ciency, but women bene.t less from new technology for several reasons. First,
womens duties are neglected by technological improvement efforts because domestic chores are
often seen as cul-tural obligations for women so little effort is expended to diminish them.
Second, foreign aid in the form of appropriate technologies is unevenly distributed because
women are often considered less technically competent than men. Factors like these tend to
prevent the development of improved technology for womens uncompensated, time-consuming,
and laborious tasks.
Our team intends to directly address the plight faced by women by developing a pedal-powered
washing machine. Our target community for a proof-of-concept design is Chimaltenango, Gua-
temala. We have found a strong local partner in a non-governmental organization called
MayaPedal who currently produces and sells pedal-powered machines, or bicimaquinas. They
produce pedal-powered grain grinders, blenders, and cement-tile shakers from unusable bicycle
parts donated by partner organizations in the US, such as Bikes-not-Bombs. MayaPedal has been
successful at introducing these pedal-powered technologies to men and women in nearby rural
communities as laborsaving devices and as means of generating income.
The success of MayaPedals bicimaquinasis proof that pedal power is effective and applicable to
their community. Womens cooperatives that use MayaPedals blender to make and sell fruit
drinks or aloe shampoos in the market have actually requested a pedal-powered washing
machine that would allow them to spend more time on pro.table tasks and less time doing chores.
An average woman may do two to three loads per week for a family of about .ve children and her
husband. It generally takes at least 8 hours of washing time, not including the extra time needed
to walk to the public washing reservoir or hang up clothes to dry. Additionally, while washing
clothes
by hand, women spend hours leaning over a concrete basin. Clothes are washed by laboriously
scrubbing each section of cloth over a cement washboard with their hands immersed in
detergents that are harmful to the skin.
A pedal-powered washing machine would allow women to wash clothes faster and with less
strain. When asked what they would do with their free time, women said that they would try to
generate income by making crafts or food to sell. Young daughters who help their mothers with
domestic chores may also have the opportunity to concentrate more on their studies. Laundromat
micro-enterprises may even arise if our washing machines are successful. Conditions vary in
developing countries, but women in many regions are washing clothes manually while they
could be doing more pro.table or rewarding work elsewhere.

1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT

Men or Women in general wash clothes manually, but the detergents are chemically harmful to
their hands, and the motion of scrubbing is straining to the muscles. Our goal is to design an
inexpensive and durable pedal-powered washing machine for use in rural areas to gently wash
clothes. Due to cost constraints, the washing machine is to be shared among several families or
can be used by a local entrepreneur to run a laundering service. The washing machine must be
easy to build and maintain locally with local materials, easy to operate (minimal required steps),
and easy to power by women or children. It must also be more comfortable to use than manual
methods .

2.1 WORKING PRINCIPLE

In our developing country, rural women are among the least privileged. Women are both essential
to the family unit and integral to the economy, yet they rarely have equal opportunities for career
development, or social status when compared to men. One factor behind the inequality is the
long list of responsibilities that traditionally fall to women. Not only do women perform
agricultural duties and care for livestock alongside men, but women are also responsible for
many domestic works. Usually, new technology improves peoples efficiency, but women
benefits less from new technology for several reasons. First, womens duties are neglected by
technological improvement efforts because of domestic works are often seen as cultural
obligations for women little efforts is expended to diminish them. Second, foreign aid in the
form of appropriate technologies is unevenly distributed because women are often considered
less technically competent than man. Factors like this these tend to prevent the development of
improvement technology for womens uncompensated, time-consuming, and laborious task. Our
team intends to directly address the plight faced by laborious task. Our team intends to directly
address the plight faced by women by developing a pedal-powered washing machine. An average
woman may do two to three loads per week for a family about four children and her husband. It
generally takes at least 8 hours of washing time , not including the extra time needed to walk to
the public washing machine reservoir or hang up clothes to dry. Additionally, while washing
machine clothes by hand, women spend hours learning over a concrete basin. Clothes are
washing by laboriously scrubbing each section of clothes over a cement washboard with their
hands immersed in detergents that are harmful to the skin.
The pulley works like the wheel on the bike. The belt attaches it to the generator. This allows the
work done on the bike to be translated to the generator. The belt and the pulley are each one of
six simple machines, commonly used for all sorts of mechanical projects.

On pedal power devices the type of pulley needed is divided between whether the pedal-power
device replaces a motor device (as in the case of the washing machine), or if the pedal power
device generates electricity (as in the pedal-powered television) The motor-replacing devices
commonly use a shaft-mounted drive pulley. However the pulley for electricity-generating
devices uses a fan belt.
2.2 BALL BEARING

A ball bearing is a type of rolling-element bearing that uses balls to maintain the separation
between the bearingraces. The purpose of a ball bearing is to reduce rotational friction and
support radial and axial loads. It achieves this by using at least two races to contain the balls and
transmit the loads through the balls. In most applications, one race is stationary and the other is
attached to the rotating assembly. As one of the bearing races rotates it causes the balls to rotate
as well. Because the balls are rolling they have a much lower coefficient of friction than if two
flat surfaces were sliding against each other.
Ball bearings tend to have lower load capacity for their size than other kinds of rolling-element
bearings due to the smaller contact area between the balls and races. However, they can tolerate
some misalignment of the inner and outer races.
2.3 BI-CYCLE PEDAL
2.4 BOLTS & NUTS

A nut is a type of fastener with a threaded hole. Nuts are almost always used opposite a mating
bolt to fasten a stack of parts together. The two partners are kept together by a combination of
their threads' friction, a slight stretch of the bolt, and compression of the parts. In applications
where vibration or rotation may work a nut loose, various locking mechanisms may be
employed: Adhesives, safety pins or lock wire, nylon inserts, or slightly oval-shaped threads.
The most common shape is hexagonal. for similar reasons as the bolt head - 6 sides give a good
granularity of angles for a tool to approach from (good in tight spots), but more (and smaller)
corners would be vulnerable to being rounded off. Other specialized shapes exist for certain
needs, such as wing nuts for finger adjustment and captive nuts for inaccessible areas.
2.5 BOLTS
Bolts are defined as headed fasteners having external threads that meet an exacting, uniform bolt
thread specification such that they can accept a no tapered nut.

cutting, as well as for more closely controlled operations. Each process has particular capabilities
and limitations. Special applications include shape cutting, grooving, gouging, and underwater
cutting.
2.6 OPERATION ON THE PART OF THE ASSEMBLIES
GEAR
Facing, Taper turning, Drilling, Boring, Gear tooth cutting of module 3.
SHAFT
Facing, Turning, Grooving, Drilling, Internal thread cutting of equal pitch.
WASHER
Facing, Turning, Drilling and internal thread cutting.
HANDLE
Facing, Turning, Drilling and internal thread cutting.
BASE & COLUMN
Drilling, Boring, Surface Grinding, Electric arc welding.

All operation has been done with specific dimension.

2.7 DESIGN CALCULATION: FOR OPEN BELT DRIVE:
2.8 GEARING
The machine uses a regular mountain bicycle transmission which can provide
gar ratios between 1:1. The user is expected to turn the pedal of the machine
about 70 rpm the wash cycle and a higher 80 rpm during the dry cycle, where
the lack of resistance from makes pedalling easier. With a inner drum diameter
of 19in, at a 1:1 gear ratio, pedalling at 70rpm results in a centripetal
acceleration on the clothing of about 0.87g, which results in efficient clothing
tumbling. For the spin cycle, the user would which switch to the highest
available gear, and a pedal speed of 80 rpm in an acceleration of 20 kg. This has
been shown to extract 50% of water from wet cotton clothing; remaining water
weight in clothing is approximately 90% of the dry fabric weight comparable to
commercial vertical axis washing machine.
2.9 PRINCIPLE
Basically it separate like as a washing machine. But in this project we dont use
the electric power to move the washing machine wheel. We are using cycle
pedal; by pedalling the washing wheel be moving. We use in it two pulley which
ratio is 1:4, means when small one is moving 4 times big one is rotating ones.
After the power transfer through a bevel gear, though another pulley; which is
connect to the end of the bevel gear. When we moving the first pulley 1time;
means the washing pulley will rotate 16times. During, this clothes will be wash.
3.1 UNIQUENESS OF THIS PROJECT:-

Simplicity of using a single drum instead of inner and outer drums.

Ease of transportability.
By using such a pedal operated machine less water and no energy usage.
Cost will be less as compared to washing machine.
In rural areas electricity is scare so great advantage of such machine.
By attaching bicycle to such device it can use for exercise purpose.
Importance of mobility structure

3.2 APPLICATION:-

Saving in detergent and the water.

Scale free tub.
Reduced traces of detergent on clothes
Better wash quality
Softer clothes
Easy to operate and the less effect of chemical on the women hand.
Exercise is done by applying pedal.
It is very useful into the local rural areas.
4.0 CONCLUSION
As per curriculum vitae of mechanical engineering we introduced pedal powered washing
machine. We introduced this for an alternative for washing machine in this power crysis
situation. Here, we are having a low cost washing machine with cycle power, it can be used as an
exercise equipment. It is a low cost, economical & energy saving.

4.1 FUTURE SCOPE

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