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US 2013/0152804 A1Published application
Hand-operated appliance for shucking black-eyed pea seed coverings from their kernels
OwnerOlajire Idowuinventor
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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.
Claims7
A seed-shucking appliance for separating seed coverings from their kernels, comprising:
- a chamber having an open end configured to receive a quantity of pre-soaked whole black-eyed peas;
- a pair of lateral slots disposed in opposite walls of the chamber and dimensional configured to permit the expulsion of individual black-eyed pea seed kernels once shucked of their coverings, and dimensional configured to prevent the loss of individual whole black-eyed peas;
- a shuttle rasp configured to fit through and thread between the pair of lateral slots, and provided with a scraping surface configured to grate against said quantity of pre-soaked whole black-eyed peas;
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- a piston and spring disposed inside the chamber and arranged to press any quantity of pre-soaked whole black-eyed peas loaded inside the chamber up against said scraping surface of the shuttle rasp;
- wherein, a hand tool is provided to shuck black-eyed peas.
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