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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325491 | Manual press A manual press for coffee, made from a plate rigid with a stem axially slidable within a first sleeve, members enabling the stem to removably engage a first sleeve, a second sleeve acting on the removable engagement members, a shell internally housing the first slee... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 6968987 | Quartering pill splitter A quartering pill splitter includes a bed having a recess formed within, the recess having a cross section which substantially conforms to the pill shape. A thin, cruciate cutting blade assembly is disposed below the pill bed, so that the pill, when inserted into th... | 11/29/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5544574 | Pecan shucker This invention is to an improved pecan shucker apparatus for shucking pecans, and particularly for obtaining pecan meat halves that are intact and easily freed of the undesirable parts of the pecan, such as the pecan shell and other inedible parts of the ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5361688 | Combination nut cracker and nibbler A combination nut cracker and nibbler comprised of an upper moveable jaw, a lower fixed jaw, a front pivot arm secured to the lower fixed jaw, a lever arm secured to the front pivot arm and the upper moveable jaw, a back arm secured to the upper moveable ... | 11/08/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5012580 | Macadamia nutcracker employing sliding force arm driven by lever with fixed end and floating intermediate pivots A nutcracker for macadamia or other hard nuts (46) comprises an elongated slide bar (21) having an anvil jaw (43) attached to a working end thereof, a parallel elongated arm (35) having a mating jaw (33) attached to a working end thereof, and a hand lever... | 05/07/1991 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4383479 | Coconut husk removing tool A device for forcefully removing husks from coconuts provided with a pair of hingedly connected wedge blades adapted to be inserted into the coconut husk. One blade is stationary and the other blade has a handle to enable it to be rocked for prying the hu... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4377970 | Nut cracker A nut cracker includes a base that supports an adjustably fixed anvil member and a moveable ram member under the control of a handle, there being a guide interconnecting the ram member with the base which maintains the ram member in an erect position. The... | 03/29/1983 |
| 4370922 | Nutcracker A nutcracker which automatically adjusts for nut size. The nut is cracked between a piston and a receiver. The receiver holds the nut and is locked into place by a latching mechanism made up of a plurality of disk elements, stacked together. A locking lev... | 02/01/1983 |
| 4255855 | Nutcracker A nutcracker which includes a plunger slidable in a stationary sleeve, so that an adjustable end of the plunger is exerted against a nut abutted against a rigid anvil, so as to break open the nut shell, a pivotable handle providing a leverage force agains... | 03/17/1981 |
| 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 |
| 4145962 | Nut cracker An implement for breaking open nuts by cracking instead of crushing them; the device including a concave stationary jaw, in which the nut is seated, and a concave slidable jaw for moving against an opposite side of the nut, the slidable jaw being supporte... | 03/27/1979 |
| 4128938 | Nut-cracking implement A powerful lever is swiveled at one end to a vertical column supported on a base or container. An anvil adjustably mounted upon the column, forms an abutment cooperating with the lever for cracking of nuts. An enclosure is mounted upon the lever for adjus... | 12/12/1978 |
