Foods and beverages: apparatus – Means to treat food – Subdividing into plural products
Patent
1999-09-14
2000-03-14
Simone, Timothy
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Means to treat food
Subdividing into plural products
99572, 99577, 99579, 99581, A23N 500, A23N 502
Patent
active
06035772&
ABSTRACT:
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 and released by the single motion of a lever. In the lever's normal raised state, the anvil and cup are separated to allow for insertion of the uncracked nut. As the lever is lowered, the anvil is gently closed down upon the nut to secure it with a light force between the anvil and the cup. As the lever continues its travel downward, the striker is cocked and released, imparting an impulse force on the cup and the nut, thereby cracking the shell of the nut with a predetermined force independent of the size of the nut. A fragment shield integral to the lever is lowered into place along either side of the cracking chamber as the lever is lowered, providing a simple and reliable safety mechanism. The shell, shards, and nut meat are directed to a catch bowl below the cracking chamber as the lever is raised and as the anvil releases the cracked nut.
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Internet advertisement for Dynamic Nutcracker and Kinetic Nutcracker, by Lee Manufacturing Co., Dallas, Texas, pp. 1-2, Aug. 8, 1999.
Frantz Robert H.
Simone Timothy
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