Nut-cracking apparatus

Details Nut-cracking apparatus Nut-cracking apparatus

2003-11-19

2008-05-27

Alexander, Reginald L. (Department: 3742)

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Means to treat food

Subdividing into plural products

C099S574000, C099S581000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07377211

ABSTRACT:
A nut-cracking apparatus has an endless conveyor that delivers nuts from a hopper to a pickup point. A rotating turret is mounted to a frame and includes a plurality of nut-cracking units. The nut-cracking units engage nuts carried by the endless conveyor at the pickup point and remove nuts therefrom. The forward sprocket about which the endless conveyor rotates has an axis of rotation that is offset from the axis of rotation of the turret. The axis of rotation of the forward conveyor sprocket falls within a circular periphery defined by the nut-cracking units on the rotating turret.

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