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US 5,182,981 AGranted
Revolving peanut roasting apparatus
OwnerRobert Wilcoxinventor
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Abstract
An outer cylindrical stationary housing is mounted on a support frame. An inner removable rotating drum mounted at an angle of 6-7 degrees from the base of the apparatus is turned by a shaft driven by an electric motor turning the shaft at 2-4 rpm. A heater element maintains about 350 degrees F in the rotating drum to roast nuts and multiple vanes mounted within the inner rotating drum keep the nuts tumbling so that they are evenly heated.
Claims15
A revolving nut roasting apparatus comprising
- a cylindrical housing mounted at a first closed end on a support frame anchored to a flat base member, the cylindrical housing being at an acute angle with respect to the base member and having a plurality of air passage openings,
- a shaft driven by an electric motor at less than eight revolutions per minute, the shaft rotating within a bearing, mounted within a bearing support, attached to the support frame,
- the shaft having a drive slot through an end distal from the motor, the drive slot engaging a drive pin in a drive hub affixed to a base end of a removable rotating drum mounted on the shaft within, but spaced apart from, an inner wall of the cylindrical housing,
- multiple blending vanes attached to an inner wall of the removable rotating drum and a cover enclosing a front open end of the rotating drum,
- an electric heating apparatus element mounted on the support frame within a bottom portion of the cylindrical housing below the rotating drum so that nuts placed within the rotating drum can be slowly tumbled while being roasted.
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