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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2003
Basil W. Savage, Madill, OK (US);
Steven W. Savage, Madill, OK (US);
Randal D. Ingle, Mannsville, OK (US);
Basil W. Savage, Madill, OK (US);
Steven W. Savage, Madill, OK (US);
Randal D. Ingle, Mannsville, OK (US);
Savage Equipment Incorporated, Madill, OK (US);
Abstract
A nut-cracking apparatus has an endless conveyor that delivers nuts from a hopper to a pickup point. A rotating turret is mounted to a frame and includes a plurality of nut-cracking units. The nut-cracking units engage nuts carried by the endless conveyor at the pickup point and remove nuts therefrom. The forward sprocket about which the endless conveyor rotates has an axis of rotation that is offset from the axis of rotation of the turret. The axis of rotation of the forward conveyor sprocket falls within a circular periphery defined by the nut-cracking units on the rotating turret.