161 |
分配防堵集群离心脱壳机 |
CN200320126198.5 |
2003-12-15 |
CN2683245Y |
2005-03-09 |
张歌今; 常文军; 刘俊明; 刘力军 |
一种分配防堵集群离心脱壳机,解决了现有农作物脱壳装置一次开壳率及整仁率低的问题;本实用新型有一个外壳,其特殊之处是,在外壳内装有若干个离心式脱壳机,在外壳的上部装有布料仓,在布料仓的底板上对应每个离心式脱壳机有下料孔,在布料仓内装有由动力装置带动旋转的布料器,将物料均匀的分配到每个离心式脱壳机中;优点在于,采用布料仓和布料器为每个离心式脱壳机布料,减小了每个离心式脱壳机的给料量,保证了物料与碰撞筒体有序碰撞,并用若干个离心式脱壳机同时工作,既确保了产量不降低,又提高了一次开壳率和整仁率,一次开壳率达到70%;另外,在布料仓内设置布料器和挡杆,保证了给料均匀,既防止了下料口堵塞,又有利于一次开壳率的提高。 |
162 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CRACKING STONE FRUIT NUTS |
PCT/IB2016051392 |
2016-03-11 |
WO2016142914A4 |
2016-12-01 |
HARWOOD GEOFFREY PETER; BERLEIN ANTONY WALTER |
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for cracking stone fruit nuts. The apparatus comprises a frame (2) supporting a set of spaced apart jaw comprising a first jaw (4) and a second jaw (5) defining between them a gap (6), which is tapered down from the inlet (7) to the outlet (8). The first jaw (4) is adjustably secured to the frame (2) for adjustment of the size of the gap (6). The second jaw (5) is movably supported by the frame (2) and secured to drive means configured to rotatably move the second jaw (5) relative to the first jaw (4) with a tangential motion resulting in the continuously change of the size of the gap (6). To crack the shell, the stone fruit nut is located between the jaws and repeatedly pressed and rolled between the jaws from the inlet (7) to the outlet (8). |
163 |
NUT SHELLING MACHINE |
PCT/IB2011001997 |
2011-08-30 |
WO2012028933A3 |
2012-04-26 |
MASSARI STEFANO; BRUNI PIERO |
An operating machine (1) usable to treat kidney-shaped nuts (2); the machine comprising a collecting station (20), arranged upstream of a feeding station (40) along a feeding direction (DA), and at least one hulling station (30) in mutual alignment according to a given feeding direction (DA) of the nuts (2); each hulling station (30) comprising a guillotine-like device (32) provided with a first cutting member (320) and with a second cutting member (322) opposite to each other; the second cutting member (322) presenting, at the side of the first cutting member (320), a substantially central projection (328); each hulling station (30) comprising a centring device (70) suitable to place each nut (2) longitudinally inside the guillotine- like device (32) with a respective concave segment (PI) centred relative to the projection (328). |
164 |
PROCESS FOR SHELLING FRUITS WITH SHELLS |
PCT/ZA0100025 |
2001-02-23 |
WO0162110A3 |
2002-06-06 |
BERLEIN ANTHONY MARTIN; BERLEIN ANTHONY WALTER |
A method of treating nuts with shells containing a non-aqueous liquid comprising the steps of first removing at least 50 % of the non-aqueous liquid from the shells of the nuts; and thereafter subjecting the nuts to cold treatment to embrittle the shells. This method relates especially to cashew nuts and to the shelling of such nuts. |
165 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CRACKING MACADAMIA NUTS |
US15759887 |
2016-09-14 |
US20180235272A1 |
2018-08-23 |
Richard Grant TOVEY |
An apparatus for cracking nuts comprises a mounting structure, a circular element, a chute and a drive mechanism. The circular element has a tapered edge for scoring a nutshell and is rotatably supported by the mounting structure. The chute is positioned adjacent to the tapered edge of the circular element and has a rear wall. A distance between the rear wall of the chute and the tapered edge of the circular element gradually decreases along a length of the chute. The drive mechanism is connected to the circular element for rotating the circular element relative to the chute. In use, the circular element is rotated relative to the chute and a nut is received in the chute. The nut is pinched between the tapered edge of the circular element and the rear wall of the chute. Rotation of the circular element rolls the nut along the chute and scores the nutshell along an equator of the nutshell with a channel that becomes progressively deeper as the nutshell rolls further along the length of the chute. |
166 |
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REMOVING HULLS FROM NUTS |
US14175588 |
2014-02-07 |
US20150223514A1 |
2015-08-13 |
Mohammad Nakhei-Nejad |
An apparatus for removing hulls from nuts includes a rotating drum with protrusions on its surface, a hulling plate and a separator plate. Rotation of the drum causes nuts deposited on an upper surface of the drum surface between the hulling plate and the separator plate to be impinged by the protrusions against the hulling plate, thereby removing the hulls and pushing the hulls through a hulling gap between the hulling plate and the upper surface of the drum, while the hulled nuts pass through a separator gap between the separator plate and the upper surface of the drum, thereby separating the hulled nuts. |
167 |
APPARATUS FOR EFFICIENT NUT CRACKING AND METHOD OF USING SAME |
US13751539 |
2013-01-28 |
US20140212557A1 |
2014-07-31 |
Mahlon Treaster |
An apparatus for and method of using the apparatus to crack hard shelled nuts. A pair of hollow cylindrical tubes, each having both a proximal and a distal end with a chamfer at the respective proximal ends may be axially aligned with one another with their proximal ends facing one another. A nut to be cracked may be placed between the proximal ends of the spaced apart hollow cylindrical tubes. A linear compressive force may be applied to the distal ends of the two hollow cylindrical tubes the shell of the nut cracks)i.e., separates the hard shelled nut exterior shell casing from interior nutmeat). The apparatus allows hard shelled nuts like black walnuts, to be cracked with minimal damage, such as fragmentation, of the nutmeat. |
168 |
Gravity-induced impact nutcracker |
US12459310 |
2009-06-30 |
US08522676B2 |
2013-09-03 |
Dwight Tangren |
A gravity-induced impact-type nutcracker with a self-guided trip hammer that, upon actuation, drops solely via the force of gravity to strike a nut supported within a nut cracking chamber with a consistently guided uniform force. The helve of the hammer is pivotally supported adjacent its rear end between a pair of upstanding guide columns. A cord connected to the rear of the hammer helve is attached to a freewheeling take-up spool which is releasably engagable by a hand crank drive wheel to facilitate raising the hammer head to a set position prior to releasing the same. Continued rotation of the crank causes a release mechanism connected to the rear of the hammer helve to disengage the take-up spool from the drive wheel, thereby releasing and allowing the hammer to drop under its own weight. The cracking chamber which holds the nut includes a removable drawer with a variety of differently sized nut-retaining cavities formed therein for accommodating a variety of different types and sizes of nuts. The impact nutcracker is constructed primarily of wood with an aesthetically pleasing and unique appearance. |
169 |
Nut meat extractor |
US13199122 |
2011-08-19 |
US20130042766A1 |
2013-02-21 |
Carleton A. Dailey, JR. |
A nut meat extractor includes a hollow segment, journalled about a drive shaft, having minor upper and major lower bases, each base defining a unitary surface. The segment includes a conical lateral surface between bases, the surface including splines having interdigitating spaces. A hollow cylinder is proportioned for symmetrical containment of the conical segment, an interior of the cylinder opposing the lateral surface of the conical segment and defining a pattern of elevated protrusions for interaction with shells of nuts introduced into the extractor between the conical segment and the interior of the cylinder. The interaction and pressure on shells of the nuts increases downwardly with the advance of nuts fed into an upper region between the upper base and the interior of the hollow cylinder. Pressure upon shells of the nuts increases with advance to the lower base until the nuts are cracked. |
170 |
Nut cracking device |
US12005188 |
2007-12-26 |
US08273396B1 |
2012-09-25 |
Mark L. Shepard; John P. Bashaw |
The hard shells or hulls of whole nuts are effectively cracked and separated from the nut meat by propelling and impacting the whole nuts at a predetermined trajectory velocity against an adjustable impacting plate set at the appropriate impacting angle. By controlling the manner in which the whole nuts impact against the impacting plate, the fracturing of the hard shell may be controlled so as to optimize the whole nut meat recovery while minimizing the production of split nut meats. A variable speed impeller in combination with adjustability of the impacting plate optimizes the nut cracking and nut meat separation for any type of whole nut. An orderly sequential feed of whole nuts to an off-set feed zone of rotating impellers equipped with vanes having a catching section and an accelerating section at a regulated rotational speed effectively propels the whole nuts against the adjustable impacting plate. |
171 |
Nutcracker |
US12360849 |
2009-01-27 |
US08267009B2 |
2012-09-18 |
Michael S. Andreasen |
A nutcracker utilizes a cone with a textured exterior surface rotatably mounted and centered inside a vertical cylinder with a textured interior surface. The textured exterior surface and the textured interior surface are non-parallel and form a cracking zone that becomes smaller in the downward direction. As the conical member rotates, gravity rolls nuts down in a spiraling path, between and along the preferred elongated and slanted protrusions forming the texture. This path takes the nuts into an increasingly smaller cracking zone until the pressure on the nuts from the conical and cylindrical members causes the nut-shells to crack and the nuts typically to break into halves and thirds. The nutcracker may include an adjustable barrel that rolls up and down inside a housing, for changing the minimum width of the cracking zone. |
172 |
NUT-CRACKING APPARATUS |
US12688409 |
2010-01-15 |
US20100116154A1 |
2010-05-13 |
Basil W. Savage; Steven W. Savage; Randal D. Ingle |
A nut-cracking apparatus that is compact and efficient cracks nuts at high production rates. The nut-cracking apparatus includes an endless conveyor and delivers nuts from a hopper to a delivery point. The nuts are engaged at the delivery point by a nut-cracking unit which cracks the nuts. The endless conveyor includes nut pockets which are made up of separate nut pocket segments that are movable from open to closed positions. The nut pocket segments are in an open position where the nuts are cracked to provide ample room for cracking of the nut. |
173 |
Methods for splitting pistachio nuts |
US11903218 |
2007-09-21 |
US07695750B2 |
2010-04-13 |
Ahmad Foroutanaliabad; Anahita Foroutanaliabad |
The present invention discloses methods for artificially splitting nuts in a manner that ensures that the nuts split in the same manner as naturally split nuts. The methods include placing a batch of closed-shell nuts into a water filled vessel, sealing it, and reducing the pressure inside the vessel by removing air. This also causes air to be removed from inside the nuts. The air pressure in the vessel is then normalized, causing the air removed from the nuts to be replaced with water from the vessel. The nuts are then promptly transferred from the vessel and exposed to forces that cause the water inside the nuts to rapidly expand, creating internal pressure that forces the shells to split open along the longitudinal suture of the nut. The internal pressure can be created by the application of microwave radiation on the nut, thereby turning the water within the nut into water vapor, or by subjecting the nuts to a rapid decrease in temperature, thereby causing the water within the nuts to freeze and creating the internal pressure required to split open the shell of the nut. An alternative embodiment provides methods for completely splitting partially-split nut shells. |
174 |
NUTCRACKER |
US12360849 |
2009-01-27 |
US20090193984A1 |
2009-08-06 |
MICHAEL S. ANDREASEN |
A nutcracker utilizes a cone with a textured exterior surface rotatably mounted and centered inside a vertical cylinder with a textured interior surface. The textured exterior surface and the textured interior surface are non-parallel and form a cracking zone that becomes smaller in the downward direction. As the conical member rotates, gravity rolls nuts down in a spiraling path, between and along the preferred elongated and slanted protrusions forming the texture. This path takes the nuts into an increasingly smaller cracking zone until the pressure on the nuts from the conical and cylindrical members causes the nut-hells to crack and the nuts typically to break into halves and thirds. The nutcracker may have a multiple plate system below the cracking zone that manages the nuts and shells after cracking. The nutcracker may include an adjustable barrel that rolls up and down inside a housing, for changing the minimum width of the cracking zone. |
175 |
High production nutcracking apparatus having pivotally mounted protective hood |
US11231138 |
2005-09-20 |
US20070062381A1 |
2007-03-22 |
James Quantz; Pascal Pitts; John Feaster |
A high production nutcracking apparatus having a hood pivotally mounted to the machine frame to protectively cover the operating components, and so that the hood is pivotable between a closed position and a raised or open position which gives the operator of the machine access to the interior components. The hood is raised by a computer controlled pneumatic cylinder which is programmed to protect the operator from the risk of the hood falling from the raised or open position to the closed position. |
176 |
Methods for splitting pistachio nuts |
US11060700 |
2005-02-16 |
US20060182858A1 |
2006-08-17 |
Ahmad Foroutanaliabad; Anahita Foroutanaliabad |
The present invention discloses methods for artificially splitting nuts in a manner that ensures that the nuts split in the same manner as naturally split nuts. The methods include placing a batch of closed-shell nuts into a water filled vessel, sealing it, and reducing the pressure inside the vessel by removing air. This also causes air to be removed from inside the nuts. The air pressure in the vessel is then normalized, causing the air removed from the nuts to be replaced with water from the vessel. The nuts are then promptly transferred from the vessel and exposed to forces that cause the water inside the nuts to rapidly expand, creating internal pressure that forces the shells to split open along the longitudinal suture of the nut. The internal pressure can be created by the application of microwave radiation on the nut, thereby turning the water within the nut into water vapor, or by subjecting the nuts to a rapid decrease in temperature, thereby causing the water within the nuts to freeze and creating the internal pressure required to split open the shell of the nut. An alternative embodiment provides methods for completely splitting partially-split nut shells. |
177 |
Nutcracker |
US10678617 |
2003-10-06 |
US07000531B2 |
2006-02-21 |
Nadine Ross |
A nutcracker for simultaneously cracking a plurality of similar nuts in a single discreet operation provides a five sided box-like base defining a chamber having an open top, carrying a rigid bottom plate bottom and defining a slot in the front side extending downwardly to the bottom for nut shell removal. One or more spacers configured to fit within the cracking box chamber above the bottom plate, defining similar medial orifices and having different vertical thicknesses are stacked on the bottom plate to define a cracking chamber having a depth of eighty to ninety percent of the average height of nuts to be cracked. A striker plate having a non-resilient body with peripheral configuration to cover the orifice of the spacer and an upstanding handle manually impacts on the uppermost spacer to crack nuts in the cracking chamber. |
178 |
Nut de-shelling device and method |
US10884411 |
2004-07-01 |
US20060000370A1 |
2006-01-05 |
Farid Poursayadi |
A nut de-shelling device. The device has a plurality of nut holder carried on a moving carriage member. Each nut holder has a pair of rotatable clamping members that securely hold the nut without regard to the orientation of the nut held therein, but permit rotation of the clamped nut relative to the moving carriage member. The device further includes a nut shell cutter that makes a cut line through the shell of the nut. The device also includes a releaser that moves the pair of rotatable clamping members apart from each other to release the nut with its shell cut. |
179 |
Pecan processing method and system |
US09965276 |
2001-09-27 |
US06824804B2 |
2004-11-30 |
David J. Broyles; Michael C. Broyles; Cathy W. Broyles; Andrew D. Broyles |
A pecan processing method and system is described that increases the efficiency of pecan processing. In particular, pecan parts that fall beneath the cracker, secondary cracker product, are conveyed to an air separation device which removes dust and shells for disposal, and the remaining portion of the secondary cracker product is conveyed to width separation devices. In a second aspect, a largest width range of the cracker product after width separation is shelled by parallel, rubber-coated cylinders and then thickness separated into uncracked nuts and substantially whole cracked nuts. The uncracked nuts and the substantially whole cracked nuts are then separated, and only the uncracked nuts are returned to the cracker. The substantially whole cracked nuts are returned to the width separation device. |
180 |
Pecan processing method and system |
US09965276 |
2001-09-27 |
US20030059508A1 |
2003-03-27 |
David
J.
Broyles; Michael
Broyles; Cathy
Broyles; Andrew
Broyles |
A pecan processing method and system is disclosed that increases the efficiency of pecan processing. In particular, pecan parts that fall beneath the cracker, secondary cracker product, are conveyed to an air separation device which removes dust and shells for disposal, and the remaining portion of the secondary cracker product is conveyed to width separation devices. In a second aspect, a largest width range of the cracker product after width separation is shelled by parallel, rubber-coated cylinders and then thickness separated into uncracked nuts and substantially whole cracked nuts. The uncracked nuts and the substantially whole cracked nuts are then separated, and only the uncracked nuts are returned to the cracker. The substantially whole cracked nuts are returned to the width separation device. |