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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7493852 | Sheller and method of use thereof A sheller for vegetables and fruits, particularly for legumes, having a rotatable drum with baffle plates having openings formed therethrough. The baffle plates are disposed such that the openings thereof are radially oriented opposite from one another to control dw... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7363853 | Device for cracking open and separating an egg The invention relates to a device for cracking open an egg wherein the device grips said egg, penetrates the shell of said egg, and opens the shell of the egg to release the contents therein. ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7308734 | Cotton seed cleaner A cotton seed cleaner includes an initial airwash, a shaker deck with a series of cascading shaker trays, and a plurality of pin mill drums for more efficient and thorough cleaning of seeds to be used in industrial and commercial products. The result is a more effic... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7179160 | Automated apparatus and system for cooking, drying and peeling shellfish products A fully automated apparatus and system for processing shellfish such as shrimp and crawfish including the cooking, drying and peeling thereof. The present invention utilizes excessive heat generated by boilers to heat the dryers. The product is cooked in a brine mix... | 02/20/2007 |
| 6941859 | Nut hulling tub agitating fingers An agitating device is provided that may be mounted inside a rotating nut hulling tub for increasing the agitation of the nuts, thereby increasing the hulling speed, especially important for pistachio nuts. The device comprises a bracket capable of being attached to... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6675701 | Egg breaker device A simple hand operated device which comprises only two members, a top member (12) which is hinged (14) to a bottom member (16). The top member comprises downward projecting ribs (10) which are located on its underside. The bottom member comprises one or m... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6644179 | Measured utility kitchen tool The utility kitchen tool is a multiple task tool used in the kitchen utilizing the force of a spring-loaded scissor action handle applied to a push plate mounted within an attaching interchangeable scoop or container allowing for the scoop to create forme... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6578472 | Machine for opening pistachios Machine for opening pistachios, a reservoir containing pistachios, a device for opening pistachios, and a device for supplying pistachios from the container to the opening device. The opening device includes a rotary shaft which carries a coaxial disk equ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6541057 | Apparatus for shelling nuts An apparatus for shelling nuts comprises adjustably opposed, manual or motor-driven, rotary wheel-type rollers that engage nuts and, as they rotate, forcibly crack the shell as the nut is transported between the rollers. The clearance between the opposed ... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6516714 | Nut cracking apparatus The present invention is a nut cracker apparatus that will successfully and efficiently crack nuts and separate the meat from the shell. To enable successful cracking the present invention comprises a housing having an inlet and outlet. Interiorly located... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6397737 | Nutcracking apparatus A nutcracking apparatus including a housing having opposing sidewalls. A hammer plate having an upper and lower portion is pivotally attached at its upper portion to the opposing sidewalls of the housing. A camshaft is positioned in abutment with a lower ... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6314872 | Hard boiled egg shelling device A hard boiled egg shelling device for quickly and easily removing the shell from a hard boiled egg. The hard boiled egg shelling device includes a supporting assembly for supporting a hard boiled egg which includes a support member having a base portion, ... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6284300 | Skin loosening or removal process A process and apparatus is disclosed for loosening or removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. The process comprises subjecting the products to a jet or jets of water at ambient temperature so as to loosen or remove t... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6279232 | Apparatus for removing eggshell The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing an eggshell, which provides a body and handle for holding an egg softly by linkage between them, a removing plate for breaking the eggshell with the handle, an operating device for expanding the r... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6276265 | Egg poker device An egg poker device is disclosed for piercing a hole in a shell of an egg to be boiled to facilitate removal of the shell. The device includes a first member having a base and a wall extending away from the base such that the base and the wall define ther... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6270824 | High production nutcracking apparatus having improved alignment capability A high production nutcracking apparatus wherein the nuts are fed from a hopper on a feed conveyor to a cracking apparatus. The cracking apparatus is in the form of a plurality of cracking units mounted on a rotatable turret, and the rotating cracking unit... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6260480 | Egg cleaning and decorating method and kit therefor An egg cleaning kit is provided for removing contents of a raw egg from the interior of a shell so that the shell's exterior surface may be decorated. The kit includes a hole-former for producing an opening through the shell, and an injector including a n... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6237476 | Nutcracker A novelty nutcracker device which comprises a tubular housing having a side wall thereby defining an elongated passageway, and a first end cap removably connected at a first end of the passageway, a reciprocally moveable impact member mounted within the e... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6209448 | Nut cracking machine A nut cracking machine comprises a cylinder mounted in bearings for rotation about a long axis of the cylinder. The cylinder has projections extending radially from its cylindrical surface. An anvil plate is held at a fixed predetermined distance from the... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6098530 | Mechanical nut cracker A mechanical nut cracker for a machine having an adjustably positioned crushing plate and crusher bar for cracking various types of nuts. The mechanical nut cracker includes a crusher assembly having a crusher bar rotationally attached to an end of a base... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6041697 | Apparatus for controlled cracking of nut-like fruits and the like An apparatus for the controlled fracture of the outer hull of a nut-like fruit wherein a reciprocable piston is moved within a frame and is supported and guided by arms that interfit with the piston to guide it or non-rotating movement into and out of eng... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5842410 | Nut cracker A torsion leverage nutcracker which allows for single hand or two hard operation and also provides ergonomically designed end plates which facilitate repetitive use of the nut cracker without repetitive traumatic injuries to the user and further wherein t... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5738894 | Skin removal process A process and apparatus for removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. The process comprises subjecting the products to a jet or jets of water at ambient temperature in a confined area to cause their abrasion against ea... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5721002 | Automated nut-cracking apparatus and method A nut-cracking method and apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus comprising at least first and second spaced-apart impact members and a nut-dispenser. The nut-dispenser operates to dispense at least one nut at a sufficient velocity along a first path of tr... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5660098 | Apparatus and method for puffing cereal grains A puffing gun for preparing expanded cereal grains comprising a stationary gun barrel of tubular shape having a closed end face and an opposite end face provided with an openable sealing cover, the barrel being substantially horizontally mounted on a supp... | 08/26/1997 |
| 5617782 | Method and apparatus for breaking, separating, and inspecting eggs The invention relates to a multiple-row egg breaking and separating machine in which the egg contents and egg shells are passed adjacent one another through an inspection station at which the contents of the egg can be rejected because the shell or conten... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5505123 | Nut cracking apparatus Nut cracking apparatus including a cracking machine with first and second opposed cracking plates with pivot means for suspending one of the plates from a pivot axis substantially parallel to and spaced from the pivot axis of the other suspended plate, th... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5483872 | Method and apparatus for weighting and breaking eggs The present invention is a device for weighing and breaking eggs, and a method for weighing and breaking eggs. The eggs are conveyed on a conveyor to an egg-weighing station, at which each egg is individually weighed. The weight of each egg is sent to a s... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5427016 | Egg cooking and packaging apparatus An egg cooking and packaging process and apparatus are disclosed in which whole eggs are deshelled and transferred intact to cooking pans without breaking the yolks or separating the yolks from the whites. Additional egg white is preferably dispensed into... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5390591 | Shell cracker A shell cracker is provided for cracking nut shells, crab claws, lobster claws and the like. The shell cracker has a base with front and rear upstanding supports. An upper lever is connected at the front support for rotation about a first axis and a lower... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5317962 | Egg flushing apparatus The apparatus provides for evacuation of the egg yoke and egg white from an egg through one hole in the egg shell. An egg with one hole in the egg shell is positioned on the apparatus. The one hole in the egg shell is positioned over a hollow tube which e... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5297477 | Educational egg art toy The apparatus includes a tube for inserting into an egg having one hole in the shell. The tube extends into the shell through the egg yoke and egg white until one end contacts the inside surface of the shell opposite the hole. The tube is connected to a s... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5289762 | Egg Evacuation apparatus The apparatus provides for evacuation of the egg yoke and egg white from an egg through one hole in the egg shell. An egg with one hole in the egg shell is positioned on the apparatus. The one hole in the egg shell is positioned over a hollow tube which e... | 03/01/1994 |
| 5233747 | Nutcracker A manually operated nutcracking device with a threaded member for urging a carrier and a wedge thereon into nut engagement to split the nut. A base includes a pair of guides and a nut supporting surface. The carrier includes plate components coupled to th... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5197380 | Egg breaking machine This egg breaking machine provides a means for separating egg shell from the liquid part of the egg. The eggs (1), along with the egg holder, commonly called a filler flat, containing thirty or less eggs, are placed into the egg breaker pan (3). At one en... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5092232 | Apparatus for peeling boiled eggs A boiled egg peeling device is provided for gently and completely removing the shell from boiled eggs. The device includes a plurality of parallel peeling rollers connected with a circulating chain drive. In the upper segment of the chain drive, the peeli... | 03/03/1992 |
| 5083508 | Egg cracking device An egg cracking device which includes two formations which are adapted to move towards a central portion of an egg thereby to pierce the shell of the egg and then to move apart to crack the egg shell into the halves.... | 01/28/1992 |
| 5054384 | System for filling cooking pans with eggs A cooking pan filling system for an automated egg cooking process is disclosed wherein whole eggs are removed from their shells and transferred to a plurality of conveyed cooking pans intact without yolk breakage or separation of the egg yolks from the eg... | 10/08/1991 |
| 4961946 | Method of cracking for egg shell A method of cracking eggs in which many eggs are simultaneously cracked and fed onto a roasting pan or vessel quickly without breaking down of the shape thereof. The eggs are cracked by a cutter which ascends into an egg supporting frame through which a l... | 10/09/1990 |
| 4944219 | Torsion leverage nutcracker A nutcracker includes upper and lower endplates and a plurality of rod members loosely interfitted with apertures in the endplates. Adjacent ones of the rod members interfitted to one of the endplates are widely spaced to admit nuts into a nut envelope de... | 07/31/1990 |
