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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7481157 | Nutcracker A nutcracker utilizes a conical member with a textured exterior surface rotatably mounted and centered inside a vertical cylinder with a textured interior surface. The nuts occupy a cracking zone between the textured exterior surface and the textured interior surfac... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7194950 | Apparatus for successively delivering nuts to a high production nutcracker A high production nutcracking apparatus wherein the nuts are fed from a hopper on a feed conveyor which has an upwardly inclined segment which passes through the hopper, a horizontal segment which leads to the cracking apparatus, and an arcuate transition juncture w... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7059961 | Apparatus and method for effecting movement and clearance spacing of a concave A device and method is disclosed for effecting movement and extending the clearance spacing between a rotor of a combine and a concave to allow for easy removal of lodged material. The apparatus and method additionally provide a reduction in rotor actuation motor to... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7052450 | Silicone rolling pin A rolling pin including a core, a silicone-containing jacket over the core defining a rolling surface. The jacket may be of such length and so positioned on the core as to define end regions of the jacket extending beyond the ends of the core; the jacket end regions... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7028608 | High production nutcracking apparatus having provision for maintaining the nuts in clean and sterile condition A high production nutcracking apparatus wherein any whole nuts which are mis-fed or fail to be cracked, are automatically returned to the feed hopper without being exposed to possible contamination. To separate the shell fragments from the uncracked whole nuts, ther... | 04/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5931087 | SpencCracker, an apparatus for shucking pecans An apparatus for shucking pecans having a stator, which is a trapezoidal front plate with a pair of adjoining tapered side-walls with longitudinal edges, a mounting bracket for immobilizing the stator, and a chute which is a reservoir for the pecans, wher... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5697292 | Nut-cracking apparatus A nutcracker that cracks nuts such as pecans with a pair of spaced-apart counter-rotating rollers having a gap therebetween. Nuts are fed through the gap between the rollers and cracked as they are compressed between the rollers. The outer surfaces of the... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5613430 | Grinder-type juicer A grinder-type juicer including an upper and lower plate which squeeze foodstuff while rotating. The upper plate has spiral-shaped guide grooves (or elongated guide lands), the lower plate has juice-squeezing grooves. The juice is squeezed by the oblique ... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5461970 | Pecan cracker A knurled horizontal roller is journaled for rotation from a mount and a vertically elongated abutment member having upper and lower ends is pivotally supported at its upper end from said mount for angular displacement about a horizontal axis generally pa... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5404809 | Nut shelling apparatus A nut shelling apparatus including a back plate having a first roughened surface on one side, a rocker plate rotatably connected to the back plate and having a second roughened surface on a side adjacent the first roughened surface of the back plate, and ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5361689 | Method and apparatus for blanching nuts Two counter rotating rollers are provided having elastomeric exterior coatings into which ribs and grooves are formed for intermeshing to blanch nuts at a pinch point therebetween. Grooves in the lower roller hold nuts as ribs on the upper roller pass acr... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5247879 | Nut cracking machine A nut cracking machine constructed with a cracking unit having a first reel of generally cylindrical configuration with a periphery having a series of uniformly spaced first cracking faces and a second reel of generally cylindrical configuration disposed ... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5076158 | Nutcracker apparatus An apparatus wherein a platform mounts an electric drive for selective use and cooperation with a manual crank to rotate a drum supporting shaft to rotate a drum in cooperation with a chute, wherein the chute includes a convex grinding surface to receive ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4996917 | Apparatus for splitting closed shell pistachio nuts There is provided an apparatus for splitting closed pistachio nuts in a controlled manner such that the longitudinal sutures of the nuts will be cracked open. The apparatus includes a cylindrical housing wih a mandrel mounted for rotation therein to provi... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4793248 | Nut shelling machine A nut shelling machine in which a rotary drive mechanism operates a rotary feed mechanism and a rotary shelling mechanism, the shelling mechanism having a frame with four shafts arranged in spaced, side by side, upper and lower pairs, the shafts having su... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4708056 | Coconut dehusking machine A machine specifically designed to remove the husks from the coconut fruit including a plurality of rollers rotating in opposite directions effectively toward one another wherein each roller includes a plurality of penetrating spikes sharpened to penetrat... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4690048 | Nutcracker A nutcraker comprises a pair of relatively rotatable discs (manually or motor operated) defining a space in which a nut to be cracked is directed by an upper intake chute and from which the cracked shell and freed nutmeat are directed by a lower discharge... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4608007 | Oat crimper A roller mill for cracking or crimping oats or the like is constructed with a cam adjustment which will positively maintain the rollers at an adjustably selected minimum spacing and which can be readily adjusted to establish a wider spacing for handling c... | 08/26/1986 |
| 4526092 | Adjustable powered nutcracker A nutcracking apparatus comprising a motor driven rotary roller type cracker member with longitudinal serrations or teeth which engages a nut and forcibly cracks the shell between the roller member and a stationary cracking member comprising a plurality o... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4462309 | Nutcracking machine A nutcracking machine is provided which utilizes a cylindrical sizing roll and a cylindrical cracking roll. The sizing roll has a plurality of parallel circumferential grooves, the width and depth of the grooves varying in a predetermined fashion along th... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4389927 | Method and apparatus for separating apricot kernels from husks In the separation of kernels from the shells of apricot stones the steps of placing at least the medially opened kernels not separated from the shells onto two moving surfaces with the separating gap below the shells, the moving surfaces each moving in an... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4353294 | Nut cracking apparatus Apparatus and method for cracking and/or deshelling nuts or seeds by feeding them between adjacent runs of clockwise and counterclockwise driven belts which carry them against and between vertically spaced pairs of rollers to effectively posture and then ... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4325297 | Apparatus for buff blanching peanuts An apparatus is provided for buff blanching peanuts. The machine is adapted to remove the dark outer skin of shelled peanuts and, at the same time, produce a textured finish on the surface of the nuts to enhance the adhesion of an applied coating such as ... | 04/20/1982 |
| 4307660 | Device for the cracking of shell fruits Machine for cracking shell fruit comprising a rotor (1) formed of two plates (2) and (3) and having cavities (4), the axes of the plates (2) and (3) being inclined so as to vary the overall size of the cavities (4), and furthermore comprising a feed devic... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4218968 | Nut cracking machine A nut cracking machine including a pair of spaced apart cracking plates having confronting cracking faces provided with cracking means thereon, the cracking faces and cracking means thereof being disposed to distribute cracking forces substantially tangen... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4091534 | Nut shelling device A plurality of pointed nail-like members extend from a surface of a circular base plate in spaced mutual relation parallel to the axis thereof. A cylindrical side is affixed to the base plate around the circumference thereof. A plurality of pointed nail-l... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4003303 | Apparatus for shelling and cleaning cereals Apparatus for shelling or husking cereals comprising a horizontally oriented rotatable drum, a perforated cylinder surrounding and spaced from the annular wall of the drum, a radial chamber on the inlet side of the drum, an annular chamber between the sur... | 01/18/1977 |
| 3951056 | Portable pecan cleaner A portable machine incorporating a first chamber in which pecans are subjected to drum mounted resilient flails which cooperate with a roughened chamber portion in effecting a separation of the husks or hulls of the pecans. A second chamber located outwar... | 04/20/1976 |
