Class 99/582 - With means to restrain food prior to or during shell-breaking

Subclass of Class 99 - Foods and beverages: apparatus
Definition: Device including means to constrain the food as the shell-contacting
No. of patents: 36
Last issue date: 12/06/2011

Number	Title	Issue Date
8069779	Device for cracking open and separating an egg A device for cracking open an egg is shown, having egg-size sensing means for determining the size of an egg positioned in the device, thereby providing for automatic calibration of the device to the specific size of an egg to be cracked. The calibration determines ...	12/06/2011
7836823	Egg breaker A tool for breaking and opening an egg comprises first and second complementary concave egg-receiving container members pivoted to one another at a first axis, and first and second concave egg-confining members each pivoted to one of the complementary concave egg-re...	11/23/2010
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
7360727	Apparatus and method for the mechanical comminution of semiconductor materials A mechanical crushing apparatus for comminuting a polycrystalline silicon ingot, has a base and opposed comminuting and mating chisels, the chisels having longitudinal axises oriented at right angles to a longitudinal axis of the base and parallel to the surface of ...	04/22/2008
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
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
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
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
6125743	Nut processing apparatus An apparatus for processing hard-shelled nuts and a method therefore. A nut processing apparatus has a plurality of mechanical grippers moving in a continuous loop, each gripper configured to carry a nut through a plurality of processing stations. A conve...	10/03/2000
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
5085139	Automatic egg shelling machine on continuous parallel lines, circulating on vertical planes Automatic egg shelling machine (10) comprising two or more continuous production lines (A, B, C, D, E, F) to permit cyclic circulation of the various egg shelling devices (61) and the yolk and white collecting devices (62) on vertical parallel planes, eac...	02/04/1992
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
4895069	Apparatus for shelling boiled eggs An apparatus for shelling boiled eggs is adapted to crackle the egg shell in a first section by impact action for a certain period and to subsequently transfer the egg to a second section, in which the egg shell fragments are cleared from the egg body. Th...	01/23/1990
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
4764387	Albumen collection method An apparatus for collecting albumen drippings or stringers from conveyor-mounted egg breaking and separating units. The apparatus includes a collection container with an exhaust opening connected to a vacuum pump, an albumen discharge opening and an album...	08/16/1988
4680192	Apparatus and method for processing fava beans having pods and seeds The pods of fava beans are cut and then squeezed to separate the seeds from the pods of the beans. The beans are fed vertically and downwardly between a pair of converging conveyor belts that frictionally engage and move the beans along a path. A stationa...	07/14/1987
4621572	Apparatus for processing fava beans having pods and seeds The pods or husks of fava beans are pierced by a plurality of cutting wheels whereafter the beans are compressed to separate the pods from the seeds of the beans. The beans are fed into a stationary trough which defines an elongated bed supporting the bea...	11/11/1986
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
4467711	Method and apparatus for cracking nuts The nut cracking apparatus includes a conveyor comprised of a plurality of parallel slats connected to endless chains for intermittent movement from a hopper to a nut gripping and cracking apparatus. Each slat is provided with a row of openings extending ...	08/28/1984
4467710	Apparatus for cracking edible nuts A method and apparatus for cracking and removing the shells from nuts is disclosed. The nuts are held between the conical end surface of a tail stock and the end of a hollow barrel. A free moving billet, having a concave, conical end surface, is positione...	08/28/1984
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
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
4344359	Automatic machine for peeling hard-boiled eggs The invention relates to an automatic machine for peeling hard-boiled eggs. The machine comprises a frame 3, a rotating stand comprising a plate 14 mounted at an end of a vertical shaft 7 rotating in a bearing 4, hard-boiled egg receiver cups 17 suspended arou...	08/17/1982
4321864	Egg breaking and contents separating machine The machine comprises a series of egg cracking and contents separating heads carried on bracket plates which are connected to form a continuously traveling chain conveyor advancing in a horizontal path along which there are means for actuating the crackin...	03/30/1982
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
4200042	Nut cracker First and second levers are pivotally connected together at one end and have opposed portions provided with one or more cross grooves for receiving nuts to be cracked. These grooves have varying depth from one end to the other and also have varying width,...	04/29/1980
4186543	Food processor A versatile food preparing machine which includes various attachments for selectively processing many different kinds of foods. The machine is characterized by incorporating a bottomless hopper and a food support pad for restingly supporting the food at v...	02/05/1980
4137838	Means for breaking and separating eggs An improved egg breaking machine is described of the type in which a plurality of cooperating egg cracking heads and separators carried by a drive means, such as a roller chain, automatically crack and drain eggs and separate the liquid egg yolk and white...	02/06/1979
4135442	Nut cracking machine A nut cracking machine particularly for cracking pecans enables faster and more reliable nut cracking with fewer machine adjustments and longer machine life. Air spring activation of the hammer mechanism and a cam operated hammer cocking and release mecha...	01/23/1979
4106402	Egg shell breaker A cylindrical tool with a breaking edge at one end, when disposed over and about an end of an egg, upon being struck, penetrates the shell to sever an end segment therefrom. The breaking edge is at the end of a thin member having a wall thickness of the s...	08/15/1978
4087910	Nutcracker device A hand-operated device, in the form of a gun, shatters nut shells and the like. The gun has an inertia weight and a limited movement hammer bolt between which a nut shell is inserted and held in place by pressure applied on a trigger against a pistol grip...	05/09/1978
4068573	Utensil for cracking eggs A utensil for cracking eggs comprising tongs having oppositely disposed handles pivotally attached to each other having a gripping end, and eggshell-cracking and separating members formed at the opposite distal end thereof, the pivot connection of the han...	01/17/1978
4044663	Nut sheller A nut sheller which embodies a base having a lower nut holder on which a nut to be shelled may be positioned, a spring operated hammer operable upwardly to strike the nut holder, an opposing inertia anvil operable from a remote nut loading position to a l...	08/30/1977
4009651	Nutcracker A nutcracker designed to eliminate the scattering of shells and hulls in the cracking operation which includes a carrying tray with a hinged base mounted therein and having a cooperating hinged cracking lever with cracking lever flanges to permit cracking...	03/01/1977

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