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US 4,009,651 AGranted
Nutcracker
OwnerFred M. Adamsinventor
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Abstract
A nutcracker designed to eliminate the scattering of shells and hulls in the cracking operation which includes a carrying tray with a hinged base mounted therein and having a cooperating hinged cracking lever with cracking lever flanges to permit cracking nuts by operation of the lever and simultaneously preventing the hulls or shells from scattering. The nut is confined in a cracking chamber defined by the cracking lever, the cracking lever flanges and the hinged base.
Claims10
A nutcracker comprising:
- a. a tray having a pair of opposed upwardly extending sides and ends and an essentially flat bottom;
- b. a cracking block carried by said tray and having an upward standing generally flat forward base member and an upward standing generally flat rear base member adjacent said cracking block, said forward base member and said rear base member being in essentially parallel relationship to each other and separated by said cracking block;
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- c. a cracking lever hingedly mounted on said forward base member and having a pair of downwardly extending, spaced apart cracking lever flanges which are shaped and positioned to cooperate with said cracking block to define a closed nutcracking chamber when said cracking lever is closed over said cracking block.
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