Patents Assigned to Lindsey Family Farm, LLC
  • Industrial nutcracker
    Patent number: 7234393
    Abstract: An improved nutcracker and shelling process use centrifugal force to accelerate nuts so that their shells shatter upon impacting a target surface. The nutcracker includes an impeller having an intake for receiving nuts and an outlet for discharging the nuts. During operation, the impeller is spun so that the nuts received at the intake are accelerated as they pass through the impeller. The nuts reach a sufficiently fast speed so that their shells fracture upon hitting the target surface after being thrown from the impeller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Lindsey Family Farm, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Eugene Lindsey, Glenn Fredrick Monnier