A new method of adlay shelling was presented to design a sheller. The adlay shelling technology that a mutual friction between grinding wheel and nylon wheels horizontally placed shell adlay was used. Moreover, the three-dimensional structure of sheller was designed, and the main parts of machine were also checked. Furthermore, in order to prevent the occurrence of resonance, ANSYS modal analysis of the body and the frame were carried out. The prototype of Adlay shell test results showed that the raw material processing capacity was 0.3 t/h, the shelling rate was greater than 95%, the whole kernel rate was more than 98%, and the power of the test equipment was 3 kW, respectively. As a result, the adlay shelling machine designed in this study might meet the needs of most processing enterprises.