Abstract: The egg peeler device accessories comprise replaceable top caps for an egg peeler such that each replaceable top cap reconfigures the egg peeler to perform a specific task. The replaceable top caps fit onto the top end of a body of the egg peeler in place of an original top cap. The first replaceable top cap reconfigures the egg peeler to separate egg yolks and egg whites. This cap comprises a plurality of slots around a concave portion of the cap such that egg whites flow through the plurality of slots while the egg yolk remains in the cap. The second replaceable top cap reconfigures the egg peeler to peel one or more cloves of garlic. The cloves are placed within the body and shaken where they strike spikes projecting from the inside surface of the second replaceable top cap, separating the coves and peeling them.

Abstract: A poultry processing equipment includes a control panel and a receiving space. The control panel may include a switch to control the equipment and a few control buttons to control the movement of other components of the equipment. The receiving space is used to receive the poultry that would be processed, and the receiving space is covered by transparent covers. The poultry processing equipment may also include a first cutting unit, a first motor, a plurality of vertical threaded shafts and a second cutting unit. The first cutting unit is reverse Y-shaped and the receiving space is between the control panel and the first cutting unit. The first motor is used to horizontally drive the receiving space through a horizontal threaded shaft, while the vertical shafts are used to drive the second cutting unit to move vertically to further process the poultry.

Abstract: A nut shelling apparatus and method for the shelling of nuts such as chinquapins and chestnuts without substantially damaging the meat of the nuts. The nut shelling machine utilizes a combination of the inertia of the nut and a planar rotating cutting disc, such as one with a layer of aluminum oxide abrasive material, to cut the shell of the nut in a series of small cuts. The rotating abrasive disc utilizes the resistive inertia of the nuts to launch the nut in an upward direction and causing the nuts to fall onto the abrasive surface to repeatedly cut the shells. The repeated cutting action results in removal of a substantial amount of the shell in a short period of time while at the same time minimizing damage to the meat of the nut.

Abstract: A hand-held, manually operated seed shucking appliance enables a food preparer to remove the seed coverings of black-eyed peas from their kernels. A spring and piston inside a chamber are arranged to compress a load of pre-soaked black-eyed peas against a shuttle rasp threaded between side slots. As a user manipulates the shuttle rasp, the shucks are scraped off the seeds by a scraping surface and both pass through the side slots. The piston is configured to be cocked back such that the chamber can be loaded through one end with a fresh charge of black-eyed peas.

Abstract: A method for harvesting biologics from eggs by which an egg is de-capped by positioning the egg in a reference opening so as to expose an upper section of said egg, then, while said egg is positioned within the reference opening, cutting the upper section of the egg by moving a cutter member over the reference opening through the egg, and then removing the debris formed from the cut upper section. The biologics can then be harvested in various ways such as by inverting the egg to allow the biologics to drain for collection. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also provided.

Abstract: A coconut opening device for creating an opening in a coconut having a tapered end portion formed in an outer husk surrounding an internal shell housing coconut water. The device includes a motor, shaft, and cutting mechanism. The shaft has a proximal end portion coupled to the motor and a distal end portion connected to the cutting mechanism. The cutting mechanism is rotatable with the shaft when the shaft is rotated by the motor. The cutting mechanism is positionable over the tapered end portion of the husk, and operable when so positioned (and rotated by the motor) to cut an opening in both the husk and the shell to provide access to the coconut water housed inside the shell. The coconut may be positioned by a coconut holder when the opening is cut.

Abstract: A coconut shredding/grating apparatus for allowing a user to shred and grate a coconut. The coconut shredding/grating apparatus includes a base member including main base portion having top and bottom sides; and also includes a housing being mounted upon the top side of the base member and having front, rear and side walls, and also having a hole being disposed through the front wall; and further includes a coconut shredding assembly including a motor being disposed in the housing and having a motor shaft, and also including a control assembly for energizing and operating the motor, and further including a coconut shredding member being detachably connected to the motor shaft for rotation therewith; and also includes a coconut support assembly including a coconut support member being removably secured upon the base member; and further includes a tray being removably disposed upon the base member for receiving shredded and grated coconut.

Abstract: 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 conveyor system sequentially transports single nuts from a hopper to a position where the mechanical grippers may engage each nut and begin the processing cycle. Once engaged, the grippers carry the nuts to a grooving station where a grooving blade is brought into contact with the shells of the nuts. Once the grooving blade is in contact with the shells, the grippers rotate the nuts one complete revolution, thereby cutting a groove in the peripheries of the nuts. The grippers then carry the nuts to a splitting station, where splitting blades are brought into contact with the shells of the nuts where the grooves have been cut, thereby splitting the shell into two parts.

Abstract: Disclosed is a nutcracker comprising at least one rotary disk with sharp teeth on its circumference blade, and a stator plate with sharp teeth on its curved blade, said stator plate being positioned with its curved blade in confronting relation with the rotary disk blade, leaving the gap between the curved blade and the disk blade, setting narrower downstream.

Abstract: Apparatus for more efficiently pre-cooking and peeling cold water shrimp such as the species Pandalus borealis is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor for moving the shell-on or unpeeled shrimp up and out of a feeder tank. A perforated horizontal conveyor then carries the shrimp over a steam manifold with a multiplicity of apertures such that steam escapes from the manifold and rises through the perforated belt and surrounds the shrimp.A cooking chamber which completely encloses the horizontal conveyor except at the bottom, contains the lighter-than-air steam such that the raw shell-on shrimp are at least partially cooked by the surrounding steam. Since the lighter-than-air steam excludes all air from the cooking chamber, less oxidation of fats occurs and consequently a higher quality product is obtained.

Abstract: A nut shelling machine in which a rotary drive mechanism operates a rotary feed mechanism and a rotary shelling mechanism, the shelling mechanism having a frame with four shafts arranged in spaced, side by side, upper and lower pairs, the shafts having surface lobes and indentions for enlarging and contracting the effective space between the upper pair and lower pair of shaft for accepting and trapping a nut between the pair of upper shafts and lower shafts, where it is shelled by a shafting implement before the shell and nut passes between the pair of lower shafts.

Abstract: 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 stationary spring-loaded and depth gauged cutting blade is disposed in the path to cut the pods whereafter the belts function to squeeze the pods to force the beans therefrom.

Abstract: A depulping machine comprises a frame, a shaft mounted on the frame and at least one circular disk mounted for rotation on the shaft. The shaft passes perpendicularly through the disk. The disk tapers in a radially outward direction of the shaft and has spirally radiating ribs projecting laterally from opposite faces of the disk. A hopper is supported on the frame above the disks. Adjustable depulping plates are attached to the frame adjacent to, but spaced from the disks, and have cutting edges which cooperate with independently adjustable guide brackets and the disk faces and ribs to force pulp between the disk and the plates and to push beans, pits and the like on the plates along the edges, and out the machine.

Abstract: 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 beans and a moveable conveyor belt overlies the bed to frictionally engage and move the beans therealong. The peripheries of the cutting wheels project upwardly through slots formed through the trough to effect the piercing function.

Abstract: A nutcracking apparatus (50) has a tube (56) dimensioned and configured to allow nuts to be propelled along the tube (56). An opening (58) spaced circumferentially around the tube (56) is angled to direct air along the propelled direction of the nuts. A blower (62) is connected to supply sufficient air to the openings (58) to create suction for pulling a nut into the tube (56) past the openings (58) and then to push the nut through the tube (56) after it has passed the openings (58). The nuts are propelled against a rotating impact roller (70), which cracks each nut and moves the cracked nut out of the path of the travel to prevent interference with a succeeding nut. Air from the tube (56) propels the nut shells through outlet (72) of chamber (68), while the nut meats are deposited on screen (74).

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for slitting the skins of shelled peanuts, or the like, without splitting the nuts. Peanuts are fed in a single stream into the bite of a pair of rollers mounted one above the other for rotation about parallel horizontal axes. The rollers are driven to carry the stream of nuts into engagement with slitting elements disposed on both sides of the bite of the rollers. The upper roller is carried by a yoke pivoted to a drive shaft and is adapted to rise and fall to and away from the lower roll according to the size of the nut being fed therethrough whereby a substantially constant gripping pressure is applied to the nuts irrespective of the size of the nut. A power drive system connects between the drive shaft and the upper roll.

Abstract: A coconut shredder and cutter apparatus comprises a housing having therein a coconut cutting and shredding compartment with a removable tray bottom, and a transparent cover for the compartment. A motor driven shaft extends into one end of the compartment on which a shredder blade or coconut holder may be selectively mounted for shredding and cutting operations, respectively. During shredding, a coconut half section is supported by a coconut holder mounted on the inner end of a manually manipulable holder mount supported for axial, radial and pivotal movement with respect to the shredder blade which is then mounted on the motor shaft. The coconut half section is manipulated by the operator to bring portions of the meat in the coconut section into engagement with the rotating shredder blade thereby to effect removal of the meat from the coconut shell.

Abstract: In treating nuts which are supplied by way of transport means and which are held between two conveyor belts, a groove of uniform depth is milled into the shell of the nut by means of overlapping milling discs, which groove permits the shell of the nut to be broken open by a subsequent splitting means.On the transport means, the nuts are separated and aligned by vibration and the configuration of the guide tracks. A spiral conveyor with a baffle is also provided for this purpose.The conveyor belts are adapted to the different thicknesses of the nuts by means of vertically adjustable rollers.The depth of the groove which is less than the thickness of the shell of the nut is restricted by toothed rings on the milling discs and annular shoulders which are arranged at a displaced position relative thereto radially with respect to the axis of rotation.

Abstract: Apparatus for more efficiently pre-cooking and peeling cold water shrimp such as the species Pandalus borealis is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor for moving the shell-on or unpeeled shrimp up and out of a feeder tank. A perforated horizontal conveyor then carries the shrimp over a steam manifold with a multiplicity of apertures such that steam escapes from the manifold and rises through the perforated belt and surrounds the shrimp.A cooking chamber which completely encloses the horizontal conveyor except at the bottom, contains the lighter-than-air steam such that the raw shell-on shrimp are at least partially cooked by the surrounding steam. Since the lighter-than-air steam excludes all air from the cooking chamber, less oxidation of fats occurs and consequently a higher quality product is obtained.