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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7243826 | Pill box and splitter with blade guard A pill box having a base, a lid with a blade, and a blade guard. The base has a bottom side to which the blade guard is coupled. The base also has a top side with a pill storage compartment, a pill cutting surface, and a pill grip coupled to the pill cutting surface... | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7011016 | Nut cracker The Nut Cracker Apparatus (1) receives a nut at the top surface of an anvil. A plunger, aligned with the anvil, is moved vertically, by rack and pinion gear operation of a handle lever means, into contact with the nut thereby exerting cracking or crushing pre... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6786142 | Manually operated nut-cracking device Provided is a manually operable nut cracking device having a frame, a fixed jaw and a movable jaw mounted to the frame in opposed relationship to define between them a nut holding station. The movable jaw is biased away from the fixed jaw member. The device also has... | 09/07/2004 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6247396 | Nutcracker with adjusting wedge mechanism A nutcracker is described herein which comprises: a frame; an anvil and hammer movably mounted to the frame; a wedge ramp in a fixed relationship to the frame and having a substantially planar surface; a sliding wedge having opposing, substantially planar... | 06/19/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6135021 | Nutcracker A nutcracker comprising an anvil, an impact member, the anvil and the impact member being arranged to receive a nut therebetween for cracking, a striking member, and a guiding device for guiding the impact member in a movement towards and away from said a... | 10/24/2000 |
| 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 |
| 6035772 | Nut cracking apparatus An apparatus for cracking nuts is disclosed which employs a striker mechanism to apply a sharp force to the shell of a nut in order to fracture it. The nut is held in a chamber consisting of an anvil and a cup, with a spring-loaded striker being cocked an... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6009799 | Apparatus for splitting pistachios A system for splitting pistachios including an adjustable splitter assembly including plungers driven by cams. The cams are frictionally slidable on a rotating camshaft to allow snubbing of the plungers against the nuts. Cavities on the splitter jaw and p... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5511470 | Apparatus for splitting pistachios A process for splitting pistachios including a bin dumper, a sizer, moisturizers, blowers and splitting units arranged in seriatim. The blower removes excess water and particles from the nut surfaces after moisturizing and before splitting. The splitter i... | 04/30/1996 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5415085 | Apparatus for shelling and separating any type of nut or legume This invention provides for an apparatus that will shell and separate the shells from the meat of a cracked nut or legume. The apparatus of the present invention is also provided with an adjustable slide plate that will render the apparatus with the capac... | 05/16/1995 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5245918 | Pistachio nut hulling apparatus A pistachio huller provided wherein a means (16) having projections (18) pushes unhulled nuts between the surface of the means having projections and a surface of a means (30) having channels (28), the channels being wider than the pistachio nuts to be hu... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5174026 | Nutcracker with compartmented receptacle A nutcracking apparatus includes a nutcracker and a compartmented receptacle. The receptacle if formed having side walls, end walls and a floor, with a support wall dividing the receptacle into a nut compartment and a smaller shell compartment. A support ... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5115733 | Nut shelling machine A nut cracking machine constructed to crack nuts of different size in a continuous operation is provided, the machine having first and second disks that are spaced apart with opposed tapered faces forming a narrowing gap therebetween, the first disk being... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5092231 | Nut cracker A nut cracker is designed to accommodate virtually any size nut and provide the same degree of cracking stroke with the same mechanical advantage irrespective of nut size, with only a simple thumb-screw adjustment of a cam.... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4848220 | Electric powered nut cracker An electric powered portable nutcracker is provided that includes an actuator for forcing a piston to move in a direction toward a stationary jaw to crack a nut so that the broken shells can fall into a compartment in the base. The nutcracker can be struc... | 07/18/1989 |
| 4838155 | Nutcracker apparatus The nutcracker apparatus includes a frame on which there is provided a front and a rear head assembly that each has a head which is resiliently urged toward the other but is limited in such movement by a knife at least in part located in a slot in the hea... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4819331 | Apparatus for cracking the husks of nuts Disclosed is an apparatus for cracking the husks of nuts comprising a cylindrical rotor having a plurality of cracking projections on its circumference, a semicircular suspension stator having a plurality of cracking projections on its inner surface, the ... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4787307 | Nutcracker A nutcracker, mounted on a base, grips a nut to be cracked between a movable piston and an adjustable anvil. The user sets the optimum cracking distance initially by lining up an index marker located on the piston and adjusting the anvil to firmly hold th... | 11/29/1988 |
| 4665814 | Impacting nut cracker An impacting nut cracker which utilizes an impacting plunger activated by a compression spring or electrical solenoid to deliver a sharp blow to an aligned adjustable anvil to provide a stroke of measured distance to a nut confined against a tailstock anv... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4658712 | Coffee depulping machine A depulping machine comprises a frame, a shaft mounted on the frame and at least one circular disk mounted for rotation on the shaft. The shaft passes perpendicularly through the disk. The disk tapers in a radially outward direction of the shaft and has s... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4641430 | Nut splitter A nut splitter is shown which includes a base for supporting the splitter upon a planar surface. A jaw having a cutting wheel rotatably mounted thereon is pivotally mounted on the base and is movable between an open position allowing placement of a nut on... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4612854 | Nutcracker apparatus A nutcracker having a horizontal base and a horizontal lower cracking plate removably positioned on the base. An upper cracking plate is horizontally disposed above the lower cracking plate and slidably engaged on an upper frame for supporting the upper c... | 09/23/1986 |
| 4603624 | Motorized nutcracker A nutcracker includes a frame having a jaw member mounted thereon and connected to a threaded support portion for movement relative to said frame to adjust for the size of nuts being cracked. A second jaw member is mounted juxtaposed to the first jaw memb... | 08/05/1986 |
| 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 |
| 4466343 | Automatic adjusting nutcracker A nutcracker includes a base (12), a stationary jaw (16), a movable jaw (21) and an adjustable post (20). A driving cylinder (36) is urged along the longitudinal axis of the post (20) by a lever (26) connected through a connecting link (30). A spring (42)... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4448115 | Apparatus for hulling pistachio nuts A pistachio huller is provided wherein a means having projections pushes unhulled nuts between the surface of the means having projections and a surface of a means having slots, the slots being narrower than the pistachio nuts to be hulled. The projection... | 05/15/1984 |
| 4441409 | Apparatus for blanching peanuts Apparatus for use in blanching edible nuts, particularly peanuts. Two generally vertical plates are disposed in spaced parallel relation to one another and connected to a drive mechanism for producing lengthwise oscillations of the two plates, both of whi... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4438688 | Nutcracker An inclined chute is attachable to a support by means of a base including a clamping arrangement. An inclined base portion supports said chute and also a pair of bearing posts. A drum disposed within the chute is journaled within the bearing posts. Adjust... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4438687 | Triphammer nutcracker A triphammer nutcracker for use in fracturing the shells of various nuts of differing sizes and shell textures is disclosed. An operating handle is raised and lowered in a pumplike manner to provide access to a cracking chamber wherein the nut to be crack... | 03/27/1984 |
