Reverse engineering &

re-fabrication of pedal
powered washing
machine
Presented
Inderjeet Singh
by 56243
Amaan Ahmad 56244
Mohit Joshi
56245
Niharika Gangola 56246
Nakul Bisht
56247
Mohd. Arshad Khan 56248
Project head
Dr. Ajay Aggarwal Sir
Head, Dept. of Industrial & Production Engineering
 Table of contents

01
background
02
types
03
Concept

04
design
05
reverse
06
Expected Result
engineering
 background

Washing drum
Hand tool (1797)
(1858)

Steam driven (1850) Electric washing

machine (1923)
Amazing history of washing machines

19th century Played a role in Women’s Rights

The first personal washing machine appeared in 1908

1908 and its design hasn’t changed much since.

In Ancient Rome, there used to be an entire job

Rome description devoted to collecting urine, heating it
up with water, and stomp on soaked clothes.
 types
Top loaded
1. Simple and easy to use
2. Use of Agitator or Impeller
3. Agitator also helps rinse the clothes and
spin out any excess water.
Front loaded
1. No use of Agitator
2. Horizontal drum relies on gravity
3. front loader’s tumbling motion creates
more friction between items
4. more effective at cleaning while using
less power.
 concept
1. Drum

● This container holds the clothes during the

washing cycle. We have used plastic drum
instead of stainless steel drum in our
2. Tumbling Motion
washing machine because it's easier to
●handle cause of light
The front-loading weight machines
washing and are more
cost effective
usually use athan
drumstainless steelhave
and do not drums.
agitators or pulsators in the traditional
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Probable design alternatives

1. Vertical-Axis Agitator
● Consists of two vertical-axis
concentric tubs.
● Inner tub - holds clothes, has
densely-spaced perforations for
water to go in and out easily.
● Soap and water are kept inside the
 design
Probable design alternatives

2. Horizontal-Axis Agitator
● Consists of two horizontal-axis
concentric tubs.
● Instead of Agitator, the horizontal
washer utilizes fins along the inner
barrel that lifts the clothes on the
side of the drum and let them fall
 Final design of the project
Perforated Fins
Front Loading Drum

Seat

Washer Drive Pulley

Belt Base Frame

Water Outlet ars

Main Cycle Pulley Ge
 Design

Side View Front View Top View

 Reverse engineering
Challenges and how we resolved
them
1. Slipping of Gears

● Problem: Acme Threads in the Gear.

Improper meshing
● shaft’s
2. Tub nut was
Solution: Vgetting
Threadsloose causing wobbling

● Problem: Direction of motion and threads

were in same direction
 Reverse engineering
Challenges and how we resolved
them
3. Noise and Friction

● Problem: Noise was coming

● Solution: Lubrication
4. Chain adjustment

● Problem: chain was having more no. of

links than required
● Solution: removed 4 links from the
Expected results

1. Gearing

● The user is expected to turn the

pedals at 60 RPM for wash cycle
and 110 RPM for dry cycle. Inner
drum diameter of 36 cm will
provide acceleration of 15.04 ms-2,
resulting in Efficient Clothing
Expected results

2. Water Usage

● The diameter of outer tub is 52 cm

and length 50 cm. There is some
clearance between the two tubs of 8
cm to prevent their contact during
wash.
Expected results

3. Ease of Use

● We expect the washing machine to

be easy to use by younger and older
men and women.

● No prior experience is required for

the operation as a basic cycling
Thank you