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US 9,021,945 B2Granted
Shell cracking and retaining device
OwnerVito R. Grattainventor
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Abstract
A shell cracking and retaining device for cracking shelled food products, wherein the device entirely or substantially retains food, shell portions and other debris during the cracking process, and therefore prevents said food, shell portions and other debris from being sent airborne from the device.
Claims15
A shell cracking and retaining device, comprising:
- a. a first member having a first inner surface and a second member having a second inner surface, wherein the first member having the first inner surface is removably connectable to, or is fixedly attached to, the second member having the second inner surface;
- and b. at least one first hi-lever nutcracker retaining member at the first inner surface and at least one second bi-lever nutcracker retaining member at the second inner surface, wherein the at least one first bi-lever nutcracker retaining member and the at least one second bi-lever nutcracker retaining member are arranged to receive a bi-lever nutcracker substantially along the length of each one of the first inner surface and the second inner surface, and wherein the first member having the first inner surface and the second inner surface, and wherein the first member having the first inner surface and the second inner member having the second inner surface form a chamber arranged to substantially retain cracked materials when a first lever of the nutcracker is move toward a second lever of the nutcracker when the nutcracker is at the first inner surface and the second inner surface.
A shell cracking and retaining device, comprising:
- a. a first member having a first inner and a second member having a second inner surface, wherein the first member having the first inner surface is removably connectable to, or is fixedly attached to, the second member having the second inner surface;
- b. at least one first bi-lever nutcracker retaining member and at least one second bi-lever nutcracker retaining member;
- and c. a bi-lever nutcracker that is removably connectable to, or is fixedly attached to, the first member at and substantially along the first inner surface and the second member at and substantially along the second inner surface, wherein the first member having the first inner surface and the second member having the second inner surface form a chamber arranged to substantially retain cracked materials when a first lever of the nutcracker is moved toward a second lever of the nutcracker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.