Abstract:
Abstract: With the establishment of the system of intensive poultry industrial chain of production and marketing, the integrated management of production, processing and sales of eggs is gradually implemented. Although it is greatly improved, the mechanization of China's poultry industry is still facing the problems such as investment risk and low degree of automation, while mechanization is the foundation of poultry industrial chain. Moreover, the final quality of eggs also depends on its production date, temperature, cushioning packaging and storage. Eggs are easily damaged. Broken eggs are easy to breed microorganisms, which can contaminate other eggs, so there are about 10%-14% loss during circulation. The breakage rate of circulation can be reduced by packing. Recently, with the rapid development of information technology and electronic business, and the development of large-scale industrial projects, the brand awareness is gradually strengthened. The total consumption and per capita consumption level of China's packaging eggs are significantly improved. Some large-scale equipments, fragile agricultural products or objects (such as eggs) need lossless transport from the production base to the destination. The way of a quick, long-distance transport is demanded. Both the industrialization and automation package of egg industry and the long-distance non-destructive transport can be implemented by excellent packages, which have important implications for reducing the breakage rate of eggs, improving the packaging efficiency and reducing the labor costs. In this paper, the theoretical study of the mechanical properties of packaging made in the elastic slice was performed, different transport packagings of eggs were designed, and then the experiments for mechanical properties of the packaging with no load and full load were carried out by the texture analyzer (TMS-PRO, from America). Using the experimental design method, the changes in breakage rate with the variation factors were analyzed, the protective packaging for eggs and the protective effect of egg boxes were detected, and then the product costing and the feasibility of industrial production were analyzed, in order to reduce eggs' breakage rate of transport, and improve the industrialized automatic production line for the packaging of eggs. The results were presented in the paper: 1) The packaging box of Series C was feasible; 2) The arch structure design of C packaging could support the load of about 90-130 N, and X packaging could support the load of about 80-110 N; 3)The maximal loading capacity of the full box was better than that of the empty box; 4) The capacity of packaging box was significantly enhanced with the increase of eggs' number in the box. In this paper, it was verified that egg breakage rate could be reduced in industrial production and transportation using the new cushioning package. The packaging design mechanism and method for lossless transport of eggs proposed in this paper can provide the reference for optimizing the packaging structure for eggs.