Nut-cracking apparatus

Details Nut-cracking apparatus Nut-cracking apparatus

1995-12-04

1997-12-16

Simone, Timothy F.

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Means to treat food

Subdividing into plural products

99575, 99621, A23N 500

Patent

active

056972920

ABSTRACT:
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 two rollers rotate at different speeds, which causes the nuts to rotate as they pass through the gap. This speed differential of the rollers and resulting rotation of the nuts causes the cracks in the nuts' shells to spread around substantially the entirety of the shell. The nuts are then much more easily opened than nuts cracked using previously designed nut-cracking apparatuses.

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