Egg-breaking systems and methods

An egg-breaking system comprising:

• a cracker assembly array comprising a plurality of shafts and a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes is aligned in an n×m matrix, wherein n is a first number in a range of three to eighteen and m is a second number a range of two to eighteen, wherein the plurality of nodes is aligned n rows and m columns in the n×m matrix, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes comprises a plurality of egg cracker assemblies, wherein each egg cracker assembly of the plurality of egg cracker assemblies comprises an egg holder and an egg cracker, wherein each egg cracker comprises a knife, wherein each column of the m columns comprises a shaft of the plurality of shafts extending through each node of the column, wherein the egg holder and the egg cracker of each cracker assembly of the plurality of cracker assemblies of each node of the column is mounted to the shaft, wherein each shaft of the plurality of shafts is planar aligned, and wherein each shaft of the plurality of shafts maintains planar alignment with the plurality of shafts during egg-breaking;
• and,
• a plurality of egg conveyors operably aligned with the cracker assembly array to feed eggs to each node of the n×m matrix, wherein each egg conveyor of the plurality of egg conveyors is aligned parallel to a column of the m columns to feed an egg to each cracker assembly of each node of the column.

An egg-breaking system comprising:

• a cracker assembly array comprising a plurality of shafts and a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes is aligned in an n×m matrix, wherein n is a first value in the range of three to eighteen and m is a second value in the range of two to eighteen, wherein the plurality of nodes is aligned in n rows and m columns in the n×m matrix, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes comprises a plurality of cracker assemblies, wherein each cracker assembly of the plurality of cracker assemblies comprises an egg holder and an egg cracker, wherein the egg cracker comprises a first knife and a second knife, wherein each cracker assembly of the plurality of cracker assemblies is rotatably mounted to a shaft of the plurality of shafts, wherein each cracker assembly of the plurality of cracker assemblies rotates about an axis extending through a shaft of the plurality of shafts, wherein each column of the m columns in the n×m matrix comprises a shaft of the plurality of shafts, wherein the plurality of shafts is aligned planar, and wherein each shaft of the plurality of shafts maintains planar alignment with the plurality of shafts during egg-breaking;
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• a plurality of egg conveyors, wherein each egg conveyor of the plurality of egg conveyors is operably aligned with a column of the n×m matrix to feed an egg to each cracker assembly of the plurality of cracker assemblies of each node of the column, wherein each egg conveyor of the plurality of egg conveyors comprises a belt, and wherein the belt is aligned parallel with a shaft of the plurality of shafts.