Abstract: The present invention includes methods and devices for mass producing cooked, cooled egg products having a grill fried egg appearance. One device includes a portion for positioning whole, intact, shelled eggs positioned laterally across and above a cooking mold conveyor, and a portion for cracking the eggshells and depositing the eggs into cooking molds on the conveyor. Some devices and methods include an egg yolk splitter for rupturing the egg yolk sac to deposit a whole egg having a ruptured egg yolk into each mold. Other devices and methods include irregular shaped egg molds for providing a mass produced cooked egg having a natural, irregular shaped outlines and/or surfaces. Devices and methods according to the present invention can be used to produce irregular, outlined shaped cooked egg products including whole eggs, formulated eggs, or eggs made from scrambled egg mixes.

Abstract: A stuffing hand tool for inserting food material into pitted or cored produce items such as olives, figs, strawberries, cherries, which includes a body easily gripped with one hand by a user allowing a tube projecting from one end to be pressed into a mass of food material creating a plug of food material retained in the tube which is stuffed into an item when a plunger is advanced by depressing a pusher cylinder extended out from the opposite end of the body.

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 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 coconut tool for extracting meat from a coconut shell comprising a beveled handle constructed from a non-conducting material such as wood or plastic, a concave shaped knife blade with a sharp end constructed of high quality, heavy, pliable stainless steel or other sturdy metal, capable of removing the meat in one piece from the shell of a coconut in a matter of 60 to 90 seconds.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: An apparatus for shelling boiled eggs is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of spaced-apart shelling rollers which are axially parallel to one another, are arranged in a circulating belt guided over end deflecting rollers in a conveying direction, and are driven in the same rotational direction. A plurality of longitudinal guides are arranged above a top strand of the circulating belt. Pairs of the longitudinal guides form a roof-like channel extending in the conveying direction and are moveable transversely to the conveying direction. A region of the top strand a first operating region breaking open eggshells, and a second operating region for shelling the boiled eggs.

Abstract: A nutcracker that focuses on the extraction of the nut-meat after the nut has been cracked by having the lever arms end resembling serrated flathead screwdrivers which allow for the easy plucking out of the meat after the shell has been cracked.

Abstract: A device for cracking open an egg is shown, having egg-size sensing means for determining the size of an egg positioned in the device, thereby providing for automatic calibration of the device to the specific size of an egg to be cracked. The calibration determines how much would the distance between the piercing members and the imaginary longitudinal axis of the egg be reduced before the piercing members stop their advancing towards the egg and start moving apart for cracking its shell open. The device can thus open eggs of different sizes, e.g. having widths between 40 and 50 millimeters, accurately without requiring special preparation or manual calibration. A method for cracking open an egg based on said device is also shown.

Abstract: One embodiment of a tool to pierce and split a coconut to facilitate removal of the water and meat from the nut. The tool includes of a body (100), comprising a frame (110) sufficient in size to accommodate a coconut and a constrictor cup (124), a shaft (210) which has releasably engaged tap assembly (300) and a releasably engaged splitter assembly (400). The body has a hub aperture (160) to receive the shaft (210). The shaft has means to urge both the cutting and the splitting end into coconut. Other embodiments are described and shown.

Abstract: A legume sheller having both an air separator and a sieve separator for removal of residual chaff or trash. Airflow through a screen carries legumes and trash upward, wherein most of the lighter trash is carried farther up the separator and over into a trash retainer. The legumes, and some residual larger pieces of trash, fall over a weir onto a sieve. The sieve has holes therein that permit the legumes to pass through into a collector. Slidable plates adjust the hole dimension. A vibrating table facilitates movement across the downward sloping sieve surface. Baffles prevent the legumes from rolling too quickly across the sieve. The sheller is equipped with a reversing conveyor that carries trash to a bag.

Abstract: The invention relates to an egg breaking apparatus and a method of feeding eggs to an egg breaking apparatus, where eggs are fed to a plurality of egg breaking devices by means of a feed conveyor. Each egg breaking device receives one egg at a time and all egg breaking devices are mounted on a common drive conveyor, where the egg breaking devices are moved in relation to the feed conveyor in a first direction following a substantially vertical first axis at the area of the feed conveyor. The feed conveyor feeds eggs to the egg breaking devices along a substantially horizontal second axis. When near a position at the feed conveyor, the egg breaking devices are tilted about a third axis, which is substantially perpendicular to the first and second axes, in a second direction substantially opposite to said first direction.

Abstract: An egg cracker includes a cracking apparatus having a semi-egg-shaped and a sharpened inner annular hooked portion formed on an enlarged lower edge of the cracking apparatus. The cracking apparatus includes a protrusion extending therefrom and a hollow stem longitudinally extending form the protrusion. A crack shaft and a longitudinal resilient member are respectively and sequentially disposed into the stem. A narrowed opening is defined in a distal end of the stem to prevent the resilient member and the crack shaft from detaching from the stem. The crack shaft includes a first end formed with a block and a second end extending through the narrowed opening. A puller is connected to the second end of the crack shaft for pulling the crack shaft and compressing the resilient member.

Abstract: An apparatus for shelling boiled eggs is described. The apparatus includes a plurality of spaced-apart shelling rollers which are axially parallel to one another, are arranged in a circulating belt guided over end deflecting rollers in a conveying direction, and are driven in the same rotational direction. A plurality of longitudinal guides are arranged above a top strand of the circulating belt. Pairs of the longitudinal guides form a roof-like channel extending in the conveying direction and are moveable transversely to the conveying direction. A region of the top strand a first operating region breaking open eggshells, and a second operating region for shelling the boiled eggs.

Abstract: The present invention has the function of breaking coconuts, nuts, macadamia nuts, an similar by increasing compression using wedge and rolling compression, having pins and fins on the roll surface, it favors less energy consume, more yield, and productivity qualitative gain of the whole macadamia nut (with higher aggregated value) and quantitative utilization of broken coconuts, nuts, macadamia nuts, and similar of 100%, continuous work, installation, maintenance and training costs extremely low, and consequently low final cost of the finished product. The said equipment is constituted of a roll (3) that rotates having on it, conveniently spaced, a cylinder segment (4), being the space existent between them in a wedge shape in such a way that once penetrating in this section, a coconut, nut or similar (10) is compelled to dislocate inside it, rotating and being continuously compressed until the shell rupture, without suffering shock.

Abstract: A sheller for vegetables and fruits, particularly for legumes, having a rotatable drum with baffle plates having openings formed therethrough. The baffle plates are disposed such that the openings thereof are radially oriented opposite from one another to control dwell time of legumes in the drum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cracking open an egg wherein the device grips said egg, penetrates the shell of said egg, and opens the shell of the egg to release the contents therein.

Abstract: A fully automated apparatus and system for processing shellfish such as shrimp and crawfish including the cooking, drying and peeling thereof. The present invention utilizes excessive heat generated by boilers to heat the dryers. The product is cooked in a brine mix that once used is transferred to a broth processing system to make a seafood flavored broth and is also injected as a fine mist into a furnace where it crystallizes into a solid product to be used as a seafood flavored salt.

Abstract: An agitating device is provided that may be mounted inside a rotating nut hulling tub for increasing the agitation of the nuts, thereby increasing the hulling speed, especially important for pistachio nuts. The device comprises a bracket capable of being attached to the inside cover of a rotatable nut hulling tub, which has side wall protrusions for hulling nuts. There are at least four brackets attached to the cover at cardinal points. Each bracket has a series of three holes and three tub fingers. The tub fingers are capable of being attached to the bracket so the fingers hang downwardly into the tub in contact with the nuts, thereby agitating the nuts as they move inside the rotatable tub. The tub fingers are capable of assisting in knocking off the nut hulls and causing the nuts to move against the side wall protrusions at a faster rate, thereby speeding up the nut hulling process.

Abstract: A simple hand operated device which comprises only two members, a top member (12) which is hinged (14) to a bottom member (16). The top member comprises downward projecting ribs (10) which are located on its underside. The bottom member comprises one or more concavities (18) which are located on the bottom member's upper surface and where an egg or more would sit in.

Abstract: The utility kitchen tool is a multiple task tool used in the kitchen utilizing the force of a spring-loaded scissor action handle applied to a push plate mounted within an attaching interchangeable scoop or container allowing for the scoop to create formed measured amounts of dispensable foods, to prepare food for cooking, to slice food, chop foods or to create molded measured amounts of soft foods for baking or serving in a plurality of ornamental shapes. The scoop also provides either a straight forcing motion of the push plate or a spinning motion of the push plate depending on the present use of the scoop and also provides a attaching container to hold foods being chopped or minced.

Abstract: A hand operated egg breaker device which comprises a top section (12) which is hinged (14) to a bottom section (16). Said top section comprises downward projecting ribs (10) which are located on its underside. The bottom section comprises one or more concavities (18) which are located on said bottom section's upper surface and where an egg or more would sit in prior to an egg breaking operation.

Abstract: Machine for opening pistachios, a reservoir containing pistachios, a device for opening pistachios, and a device for supplying pistachios from the container to the opening device. The opening device includes a rotary shaft which carries a coaxial disk equipped on its periphery, with a plurality of chambers, each of a size to accommodate a pistachio. During the rotation of the shaft, these chambers can be consecutively placed opposite the supply device and opposite a breaker piston.

Abstract: An apparatus for shelling nuts comprises adjustably opposed, manual or motor-driven, rotary wheel-type rollers that engage nuts and, as they rotate, forcibly crack the shell as the nut is transported between the rollers. The clearance between the opposed rollers is adjustable by the user to obtain an optimum cracking result. A receiving hopper is provided wherein a ready supply of nuts can be presented to the opposed rollers. The hopper design includes a chute projection that orients and directs the nuts toward the rollers where an adjustable gauge further positions the nut for optimal entry. The opposed, counter-rotating cracking rollers are grooved in a manner that provides multiple surfaces with which to contact the nut and thereby apply a plurality of forces to its perimeter. This plurality of forces is uniformly applied to produce multiple fractures in the shell.

Abstract: The present invention is a nut cracker apparatus that will successfully and efficiently crack nuts and separate the meat from the shell. To enable successful cracking the present invention comprises a housing having an inlet and outlet. Interiorly located in the housing is a rotatable horizontally disposed drum. A shaft having a plurality of paddles extends centrally through the drum. Secured to the wall of the drum is a plurality of removable screens. Nuts are fed to the inlet into the rotatable drum. During rotation, the paddles impart a force on the nuts causing them to crack and having the shells dislodge from the meat. The screens enable the appropriately sized meat to fall therethrough.

Abstract: The present invention is a nut cracker apparatus that will successfully and efficiency crack nuts and separate the meat from the shell. To enable successful cracking the present invention comprises a housing having an inlet and outlet. Interiorly located in the housing is a rotatable horizontally disposed drum. A shaft having a plurality of paddles extends centrally through the drum. Secured to the wall of the drum is a plurality of removable screens. Nuts are feed to the inlet into the rotatable drum. During rotation, the paddles impart a force on the nuts causing them to crack and having the shells dislodge from the meat. The screens enable the appropriately sized meat to fall therethrough.

Abstract: The invention is related to a kind of device inside a grinder to peel the inner embryo membrane of coffee beans. It mainly comprises of a motor with an extruded motor shaft, a positioning cylinder located on the lateral side of a motor and equipping a lower exit inside an conveyor base, and a conveyor base, which is on the lateral side of the grinder and equips an extruded exit end on the other side of the grinder. The center of the motor extrudes a shaft connecting an eccentric synchronic rotation grinding bar. During rotation, the shaft is in a state of eccentricity, thus, the grinding surface completely hits the inner ring rim of the positioning cylinder and coffee beans are ground into particles. There is an inclined conveyor platform on the conveyor base. When grinding particles fall, due to low specific weight, the embryo membrane is sucked by a fan located on the lateral wall of a grinder and is collected in a dust collection bag.

Abstract: A nutcracking apparatus including a housing having opposing sidewalls. A hammer plate having an upper and lower portion is pivotally attached at its upper portion to the opposing sidewalls of the housing. A camshaft is positioned in abutment with a lower portion of the hammer plate, and a drive attached to an outer end of the cam shaft for effecting rotation thereof. An anvil plate having an upper and lower portion is spaced from the hammer plate is pivotally attached at its upper portion to the opposing sidewalls of the housing. A device is provided for moving the lower portion of the anvil plate towards and away from the lower portion of the hammer plate.

Abstract: Apparatus for loosening or removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. Carriers are arranged to receive the products and a liquid jet manifold is adapted to direct jet or jets at the products. In a preferred embodiment, the products are disposed in an annular recess in a carrier, and are subjected to jets of liquid discharged from two nozzles at each end of a bar arranged to rotate above the recess.

Abstract: A hard boiled egg shelling device for quickly and easily removing the shell from a hard boiled egg. The hard boiled egg shelling device includes a supporting assembly for supporting a hard boiled egg which includes a support member having a base portion, an intermediate portion, and an upper portion spaced above the base portion; and also includes a shelling assembly for removing the hard boiled egg from its shell which includes a bellows mounted to the upper portion.

Abstract: A process and apparatus is disclosed for loosening or removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. The process comprises subjecting the products to a jet or jets of water at ambient temperature so as to loosen or remove their skins. The apparatus includes carriers arranged to receive the products and a liquid jet manifold adapted to direct the jet or jets at the products. In a preferred embodiment, the products are disposed in an annular recess in a carrier, and are subjected to jets of liquid discharged from two nozzles at each end of a bar arranged to rotate above the recess.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for removing an eggshell, which provides a body and handle for holding an egg softly by linkage between them, a removing plate for breaking the eggshell with the handle, an operating device for expanding the removing plate so as to extract the contents in the egg so that the convenience in removing the eggshell is proposed, the eggshells are removed easily and rapidly, and most of all, the sanitation in removing the eggshell is improved.

Abstract: An egg poker device is disclosed for piercing a hole in a shell of an egg to be boiled to facilitate removal of the shell. The device includes a first member having a base and a wall extending away from the base such that the base and the wall define therebetween a cavity. A disc shaped spring is disposed within the cavity and adjacent to the base, the spring having a central portion. The spring also defines a peripheral edge. The first end of a rod is secured to the central portion of the spring and a second end of the rod defines a point for piercing the hole in the shell of the egg. A second member slidably cooperates with the first member. The second member includes a support for supporting the egg, the support defining a hole for the slidable passage therethrough of the point of the rod. A skirt portion extends from the support such that the skirt portion slidably cooperates with the wall. The skirt portion defines a distal end which cooperates with the peripheral edge of the spring.

Abstract: A high production nutcracking apparatus wherein the nuts are fed from a hopper on a feed conveyor to a cracking apparatus. The cracking apparatus is in the form of a plurality of cracking units mounted on a rotatable turret, and the rotating cracking units are cyclically controlled so as to clampingly engage and lift each oriented nut from the advancing conveyor, and so as to preserve its orientation. Each nut is then cracked and thereafter released at separate spaced points along the circular path of travel of the cracking unit. A structure and procedure for aligning the cracking units of the turret with respect to the feed conveyor is disclosed.

Abstract: An egg cleaning kit is provided for removing contents of a raw egg from the interior of a shell so that the shell's exterior surface may be decorated. The kit includes a hole-former for producing an opening through the shell, and an injector including a nozzle that is insertable through the opening. The injector operates to introduce air into the interior at a pressure greater than ambient pressure whereby the interior becomes pressurized thereby to eject the contents of the raw egg from the shell. The egg cleaning kit may also include either a surface decoration material adapted to be applied to the exterior surface of the shell during the decorative process, a holder for engaging the shell after removal of the contents and for supporting the shell during the decorative process, or a container which includes a lid for allowing submersion of the shell in the decorative fluid. A method of treating a raw egg for decorative purposes is also provided.

Abstract: A novelty nutcracker device which comprises a tubular housing having a side wall thereby defining an elongated passageway, and a first end cap removably connected at a first end of the passageway, a reciprocally moveable impact member mounted within the elongated passageway, a handle connected to the impact member, the impact member being biased towards the first end cap, and an opening in the side wall to permit the insertion of a nut to be cracked therein. The device is preferably packaged in an exterior envelope having the form of a sports article or an animal character.

Abstract: A nut cracking machine comprises a cylinder mounted in bearings for rotation about a long axis of the cylinder. The cylinder has projections extending radially from its cylindrical surface. An anvil plate is held at a fixed predetermined distance from the cylinder when the machine is in operation. The cylinder is power driven. A feed hopper is provided for receiving nuts and directing the nuts onto the cylinder, the cylinder rotating in a direction to direct an upper part of the cylinder toward the anvil plate member, toward an increasingly restricted space between the cylinder and the anvil plate.

Abstract: A mechanical nut cracker for a machine having an adjustably positioned crushing plate and crusher bar for cracking various types of nuts. The mechanical nut cracker includes a crusher assembly having a crusher bar rotationally attached to an end of a base member. The crusher assembly further includes a pair of side walls and a slanted back wall extending upwardly from the crusher bar and between the side walls. A crusher plate assembly is adjustably coupled to the base member for positioning in spaced relationship to the crusher bar. The crusher plate assembly includes a crusher plate, a pair of plate assembly side walls, and a slanted front wall extending up from the crusher plate and between the plate assembly side walls. The crusher plate assembly further includes a pair of arms extending outwardly for adjustably engaging the base member.

Abstract: An apparatus for the controlled fracture of the outer hull of a nut-like fruit wherein a reciprocable piston is moved within a frame and is supported and guided by arms that interfit with the piston to guide it or non-rotating movement into and out of engagement with the nut-like fruit. A key actuator is rotated by the user and which rotates an actuator, threadedly interengaged with the frame and which serves to provide the reciprocable movement of the piston. The nut hull is itself positioned between the piston and an anvil that among the surfaces of the piston and anvil that crack the nut hull are both configured so as to retain the nut in a stable position where it can be acted upon by the apparatus. In an alternate embodiment, the apparatus is modified so as to act as a garlic press using the same piston constrained motion. In a still further embodiment. the apparatus is modified so as to operate as a corkscrew to safely and easily remove the corks from bottles such as wine bottles.

Abstract: A torsion leverage nutcracker which allows for single hand or two hard operation and also provides ergonomically designed end plates which facilitate repetitive use of the nut cracker without repetitive traumatic injuries to the user and further wherein the ergonomic design end plate provides gripping areas for applying rotational forces to said nut cracker wherein the rotational forces are directly equally about a center point axis through said end plates thereby equally distributing rotational forces to each nut cracking rod member providing a nutcracker which easily cracks nut repetitively in comfort.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for removing the skin from products such as nut kernels, beans, seeds or the like. The process comprises subjecting the products to a jet or jets of water at ambient temperature in a confined area to cause their abrasion against each other so as to remove their skins. The apparatus includes cages (4) arranged to receive the products and a liquid jet manifold (8) adapted to direct the jet or jets at the product.

Abstract: A nut-cracking method and apparatus is disclosed, the apparatus comprising at least first and second spaced-apart impact members and a nut-dispenser. The nut-dispenser operates to dispense at least one nut at a sufficient velocity along a first path of travel towards the first impact member, whereupon the at least one nut is redirected by the first impact member at a sufficient velocity along a second path of travel between the first and second impact members. The at least one nut is then cracked on one of the at least first and second impact member. According to the inventive method, at least first and second impact members are provided in spaced-apart relation. At least one nut is dispensed at a sufficient velocity along a first path of travel towards the first impact member such that the at least one nut impacts the first impact member.

Abstract: A puffing gun for preparing expanded cereal grains comprising a stationary gun barrel of tubular shape having a closed end face and an opposite end face provided with an openable sealing cover, the barrel being substantially horizontally mounted on a supporting frame. A rotatable drum is concentrically disposed within the interior of the stationary barrel and a drive device for rotating the drum is provided. The drive device is operatively connected to the drum and includes a drive shaft passing through the closed end face of the stationary barrel. Heating elements are disposed around the barrel for providing heat to the rotating drum. In addition, a grain feed device is provided for supplying a desired quantity of cereal grain to be expanded into the rotatable drum and a pressurized high gas inlet is provided for supplying pressurized gas to the interior of the barrel and the stationary drum.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple-row egg breaking and separating machine in which the egg contents and egg shells are passed adjacent one another through an inspection station at which the contents of the egg can be rejected because the shell or contents are contaminated, defective or abnormal. The present invention is particularly useful for high-speed breaking operations, yet still allows the inspector to view all the parts of the eggs for possible rejection of the egg contents. The present invention is particularly suited for automatic scanning of egg shells and contents, and eliminates possible U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) objections to prior art multiple-row egg breaking machines.

Abstract: Nut cracking apparatus including a cracking machine with first and second opposed cracking plates with pivot means for suspending one of the plates from a pivot axis substantially parallel to and spaced from the pivot axis of the other suspended plate, the suspended plates being interconnected at the bottom of each plate by a link mechanism having a release, so that the plates are suspended with the spacing between the plates at the top of the plates being greater than the spacing at the bottom of the plates, the machine having a reciprocal drive mechanism that swings the plates together to a cracking position where the plates are closer together and then to a release position where the release mechanism moves the plates apart releasing the cracked nuts; the apparatus including a nut feed mechanism for a timed feed of nuts between the plates of the cracking machine.

Abstract: The present invention is a device for weighing and breaking eggs, and a method for weighing and breaking eggs. The eggs are conveyed on a conveyor to an egg-weighing station, at which each egg is individually weighed. The weight of each egg is sent to a storage and processing device, where the weight values are summed to arrive at a total value for all eggs passing through the egg-weighing station. The eggs are then conveyed to an egg-breaking machine, which may also separate the contents of the eggs broken in the egg-breaking machine. The data in the processor can be used to accurately calculate the weight of eggs processed by the egg-breaking machine. In addition, this data can be used to calculate the yield of the machine, by comparing it with data regarding the weight of the shells of the broken eggs and the weight of the egg contents from the broken eggs.

Abstract: An egg cooking and packaging process and apparatus are disclosed in which whole eggs are deshelled and transferred intact to cooking pans without breaking the yolks or separating the yolks from the whites. Additional egg white is preferably dispensed into the pans before the whole eggs are received therein to act as a cushion for the yolks and provide a low cholesterol mixture of yolks and egg whites. The eggs are cooked with dry culinary steam in a multiple temperature zone steam tunnel that slowly increases temperature from zone to zone to prevent toughening and yolk darkening. As the cooked eggs exit the steam tunnel they are dumped into a dicer and transported to form and fill packaging equipment which packages and seals the eggs while they are still at a sterile temperature. The sealed packages are cooled to a refrigerated temperature with sprayed ice water, and this creates a partial vacuum in the packages which prolongs their shelf life.

Abstract: A shell cracker is provided for cracking nut shells, crab claws, lobster claws and the like. The shell cracker has a base with front and rear upstanding supports. An upper lever is connected at the front support for rotation about a first axis and a lower lever is connected at the rear support for rotation about a second axis. The lower lever extends from the rear support to the front support. The first and second axes are spaced and the first axis is higher than the second axis. The upper lever has a downwardly facing cam adjacent to the front support. The lower lever has an upwardly facing cam follower adjacent to the front support. Upper and lower jaws are located on the upper lever and base respectively. The jaws are moved from an open position to a closed position, in order to crack a shell, by movement of the upper lever which, by means of the cam, causes movement of the lower lever.

Abstract: The apparatus provides for evacuation of the egg yoke and egg white from an egg through one hole in the egg shell. An egg with one hole in the egg shell is positioned on the apparatus. The one hole in the egg shell is positioned over a hollow tube which extends into the egg. The hollow tube aligns an egg collection opening in an egg seal with the egg collection passageway and supplies air at atmospheric pressure into the egg. When the interior of a bottle has a pressure below atmospheric pressure from a vacuum cleaner the egg yoke and egg white flow into the bottle. In a second embodiment, the apparatus provides for both evacuation and flushing of an egg.

Abstract: The apparatus includes a tube for inserting into an egg having one hole in the shell. The tube extends into the shell through the egg yoke and egg white until one end contacts the inside surface of the shell opposite the hole. The tube is connected to a squeeze bulb air supply. A chute is positioned below the hole around the tube. When the squeeze bulb is squeezed air is supplied to exit the one end inside the shell. The air causes the content of the egg yoke and egg white to flow out the hole around the tube into the chute. In the alternative embodiment the end of the tube is formed with an air relief to facilitate air flow into the shell when the end of the tube is in contact with the inside surface of the shell. The empty egg shell is then used for "Egg Art".