MUMBAI, India, Feb. 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641018085 A) filed by Srm Institute Of Science And Technology; and Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Feb. 18, for 'design and fabrication analysis of beach area cleaning machine.'
Inventor(s) include Dr. V. Thanigaivelan; Dr. R. Lavanya; Dr. T. Mothilal; Dr. V. Vinodkumar; Dr. Biplab Bhattacharjee; Dr. R. Thirunavukkarasu; Dr. M. Veeramanikandan; Dr. P. Sarangapani; and Dr. S. Sathyanarayanan.
The application for the patent was published on Feb. 27, under issue no. 09/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The patent describes the development of beach cleaning machine. Beach area cleaning machine is a vehicle that drags a raking or sifting device over beach sand to remove rubbish and other foreign matter. They are manually self-pulled vehicles on tracks or wheels or pulled by quad-bike or tractor. A chief task in beach cleaning strategies is finding the best way to handle waste matter on the beaches, taking into changing terrain. Similar applications include lake beaches, sand fields for beach volleyball and kindergarten and playing field sandpits. The cleaner has movable sand shovels which are sieve shaped and a receiving area is connected to these on the side remote from the pick-up side which takes the waste matter left in the sieve. The cleaner has a rotating body with a horizontal swivel axis and the cover of the rotation body consists essentially of the sand shovels which are curved spirally on it. The sand shovels engage directly into the sand, and have a frame-like reinforcement on the pickup edge. The machine is power driven, and a seat is provided at the back for the operator."
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