When He Could Not Afford To Repair His Roof, He Invented A Foot Operated Tile Making Machine!
02:23AM Wed 22 Oct, 2014

A lot of energy and time is spent in the tile-making process. What makes it worse is that the effort, energy and time consumed is far more than the outcome. Sukhranjan Mistry thought to solve this issue and invented a machine that could help tile makers prepare 300 tiles in a day. That too of various designs!
At first look, Sukhranjan Mistry comes across as just another farmer from Uttaranchal. However, this 32-year old man from Shakti farm, Udham Singh Nagar is credited with creating the Foot-Operated Roof Tile-Making Machine.
Traditionally tiles are made manually. It is a time consuming and less productive process, but small tile makers don’t have a choice as they cannot afford the costly machines.
Sukhranjan developed a pedal-operated tile-making machine, which works on the principle of conversion of mechanical energy from pedaling of wheel into vibration of tile on a wooden platform.
He noticed that a device known as agitator played a central role in making all kinds of cement-based products. So, he thought about incorporating the agitator mechanism for constructing tiles.
Sukhranjan consulted his father and both of them worked hard to design an “agitation table”, having an agitation platform similar to the one used in constructing roads. They used an old cycle tyre rim and just two sticks for making this table.
The most essential part of this innovation was the frame used for making tiles. It took them about 15-20 days to finalize the design of the frame.
Genesis
Sukharanjan’s father didn’t have enough resources to reconstruct the roof of their old house. Sukhranjan first tried to construct tiles with cement but due to insufficient and improper salting, the tiles did not have the requisite strength . Then one day, during his visit to a nearby town he saw people working with a cold mixture for constructing roads and bridges.
