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US 11,406,123 B2Granted
Nut sizer
AssigneeSavage Equipment Incorporated
InventorsBasil W. Savage, Steven W. Savage, William Wagoner
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Abstract
A nut sizer includes a nut sizer frame and a rotatable nut sizer cage mounted therein. A motor is attached to the nut sizer frame at an intake end thereof. The motor will drive a drive sprocket which will in turn drive a reel sprocket that is connected to the rotatable sizer cage. A chain engages the drive sprocket and the reel sprocket. The sizer cage may be lifted from the nut sizer frame by removing the chain. The nut sizer cage is a sectioned sizer cage and includes a first sizer section and a second sizer section detachably connected thereto.
Claims6
A nut sizer comprising:
- a nut sizer frame;
- a rotatable sizer cage, the rotatable sizer cage comprising:
- a first sizer section defining first openings sized to allow nuts of a first size to pass through a bottom of the nut sizer cage and to prevent nuts of a second, desired size from passing through the bottom of the nut sizer cage;
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- a second sizer section detachably connected to the first sizer section, the second sizer section defining second openings sized to allow nuts of the desired size to pass through the bottom of the nut sizer cage;
- a bearing mounting plate connected to the nut sizer frame at an intake end thereof;
- a pair of rotatable bearings fixed to the bearing mounting plate;
- a circular support plate at the intake end of the rotatable sizer cage resting on and rotatably supported by the pair of rotatable bearings and connected to the rotatable sizer cage;
- a reel sprocket connected to the circular support plate;
- a motor;
- a drive shaft with a drive sprocket connected thereto extending from the motor;
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- a chain engaging the drive sprocket and the reel sprocket, the reel sprocket being rotated by the rotation of the drive sprocket.
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