Laxmi Asu Making Machine for Pochampally Sarees
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Manufacturing Pochampalli silk saree requires a hand winding process of yarn (locally termed as Asu) before weaving various patterns on the loom in the traditional '’tie & Dye” process. This is a very tedious and cumbersome process involving about 9000 to and fro movements of hands for each saree, it takes 1-1.5 day in doing this for a saree. Only women folk are doing this task since decades.
The Lakshmi Asu machine is a unique innovation, which is specifically targeted to alleviate the difficulties of the weaving women from the manual Asu making process. By mechanizing the laborious process, Mr. Mallesham has relieved hundreds of women from the drudgery of manual Asu making process.
Indian Patent Applied For (1522/CHE/2009)
The automatic machine consists of a micro controller, motor, power transmission system and arrangement for switching over the yarn from one spoke to another. Machine is Automatic having micro controller. In that user needs to place bundle of yarn on the specified place, put the thread from the primary spoke to secondary spokes (other side) manually and the machine is switched on, the machine follows the sequence and completes the task automatically without human intervention.
while the automatic machine takes 1.5 hours for a saree