ES1075950U - Desktop nutcracker (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Nutcracker device, of the type intended to break the shell of nuts, as well as that of any hard shell fruit, whatever its size, essentially characterized by receiving in the same base box (1) a support for the fruits (14), a shell opener constituted in the first place by a swinging mallet (2), which will allow the nutcracker to be held and operated by means of a sharp blow, and in the second place by a receiver (7) that will hold the waiting fruit the blow, united by means of a hinge, screwed to both, which acts as an axis to jointly perform the lever action, and a removable container where to deposit the waste (9), that is, the excess shells. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

Nutcracker desktop.

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a "desktop nutcracker" that offers an alternative to Nutcracker already existing, offering greater functionality in their features.

The device is intended to respond to all the activity that develops when opening nuts like nuts, hazelnuts or almonds.

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Background of the invention

Other manual nutcrackers are known, type tongs, sheet type with a fine tip, lever etc. but not with the design and functionality described in this document.

Most "nutcrackers" have stored in drawers and must be located at the time we want to eat a nut or fruit with a shell, like hazelnuts, almonds, pine nuts, etc. That not everyone opens. The process would begin in the moment we want to eat a fruit, taking it out of the bag, cupboard or wherever you are, looking for the "nutcracker", opening the fruit, separating the shells in a pile on the table that Then we will clean and finally eat the fruit.

Others have a container where they find the nuts, but when we're going to open them we finish mixing shells or wastes with whole fruits. With this "desktop nutcracker" the process is clearly shortened and it makes it much more comfortable and clean, since it is an object that stores fruits, opens and collects waste. In this way eat fruits dried with shell is not a sacrifice since at any time that you pass by the side of the object you can quickly open a fruit and eat it, leaving the shells deposited separately.

In addition to this fundamental advantage, this "desktop nutcracker" contains more.

Sometimes in addition to nuts, we also want open another type of nuts in shell with very large sizes and shapes disparate A small part of the existing "nutcracker", they offer the possibility of opening several nuts in shell we always encounter problems if we want one that opens everything Kind of these fruits. Thanks to its shape, this "nutcracker of desktop "opens all kinds of nuts in shell, from Nuts to pine nuts, we just have to look for the proper position

It is also true that many of the utensils to open nuts that exist are not very comfortable to use, some take a while to find the way to use, and sometimes we even hurt ourselves. With our invention, this inconvenience is also solved. By instinct we quickly see the mode of use, since it is a mallet that crush the peel with a dry blow leaving the whole fruit. In addition, thanks to its shape our hands are not in danger, the dried fruit is placed in the zone of rupture (the tamper) with the mallet raised and remains there thanks to the grooves in the wood without need to hold it by hand, so it is safe. The amount of force employed is very little, even a child can open a nut easily and without risks, this is due to the shape of the mallet handle which with its length and certain curvature decreases the strength necessary.

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Description of the invention

The nutcracker consists of four elements independent: the mallet, the ram, the base box and the box hull collection; it also requires a hinge and materials of union (tips and tail). The building material is wood solid and the stronger the better, with a varnish finish antibacterial water, appropriate for contact with food.

The base box is divided into two compartments: a larger one whose functionality is to save the fruits until their consumption, and another smaller one.

In the small one the anchor is anchored, to this it joins the mallet by means of a hinge that helps the mallet break the fruit. In this part there is also a small box to deposit the waste, which can be put on and taken out.

This box goes under the tamper so that the waste does not enter the gaps. The inside edges end in chamfer so that the shells always fall for the box and the Outside edges end straight so that it is glued to the base box. As we can see the residual shells always remain inside of the nutcracker himself until we want to empty it, without dirtying the entire area of use or mixing with the unopened fruits. As the box can be put in and out of the base box and you must enter what fairer to the hollow, it has a side with inclination to facilitate its entrance and a recess in a face to be able to remove it.

The ram has on its face a recess of greater (front) to lower (rear), to house the fruits of different sizes, these recesses coincide with two recesses in the face of the mallet. In this way a large dried fruit, like a nut, it gets in the front of the tamper and another Small as a hazelnut, it is put in the back. further we have smaller spaces, the fruit itself is smaller still. The tamper, by its shape is tilted back, of this form the fruits run back and do not leave the recess looking for each fruit, according to its size, the right place to be open.

The mallet as we have said carries a handle with certain curvature and some recesses in its face in contact with the tamper. But in addition to this, it also has a tongue that prevents the shells jump out of the bowl.

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Description of the drawings

The characteristics described above, they will be better understood with the following description of the drawings:

Figure 1: It is a cross-sectional view taken by a lateral longitudinal plane that cuts the nutcracker for its smaller compartment.

Figure 2: is a perspective view of the nutcracker according to the invention.

Referring to Figure 1, the Nutcracker consists of a base box (1), a mallet (2), also It is formed by a handle (3) that has a certain curvature to facilitate the beating of the fruit. The deck has two recesses, one more large (4) and a smaller one (5) and a tongue (6) so that Shells do not disperse outside the nutcracker. This deck breaks the fruit against the tamper (7), which also carries a recess (8) where Hold the fruits In the tamper, after hitting the fruit with the mallet, the fruit remains open with its broken shell, it is discarded a drawer (9) that can be removed to empty in a comfortable way.

This drawer has a recess (10) to take out the drawer also has a protruding part (11) that enters the tamper so that the shells do not enter the holes.

In Figure 2, we see the base box divided into two by a separator (13) that defines a larger part (14) intended for nuts and a smaller one (15) where They house the rest of the elements. These are the deck (2) with its handle (3), its tongue (6) and its different grooves (4), (5); he tamper (7) with a larger groove (8) and smaller ones (12) for be able to break nuts with a smaller shell size; and the waste box (9) that enters the tamper (11) to prevent it from small residues strain through the holes.

Claims (7)

1. Nutcracker device, of the type intended to break the nutshell, as well as that of any hard-shell dried fruit, whatever its size, essentially characterized by receiving in the same base box (1) a support for the fruits (14), a shell opener constituted first of all by a swinging mallet (2), which will allow the nutcracker to be held and operated by means of a dry blow, and secondly by a receiver (7) that will house the expected fruit the blow, joined by means of a hinge, screwed to both, that acts as an axis to jointly perform the lever action, and a removable container where to deposit the waste (9), that is, the leftover shells. 2. Nutcracker device, according to claim 1, characterized essentially in that the body (2) and the body (3), which at its end has an ergonomic deviation of the angle that also reduces the work effort, are joined by a joint , working together in turn on the other elements of the lever. 3. Nutcracker device, according to the 1st and 2nd claims, essentially characterized in that the body (2) houses two slits, a smaller one (5) and separated a larger one (4) these are coincident with others carved in the ram (7) , also a small slit (12) and a large slit (8), all sized to accommodate fruits of the shell of all sizes without rolling on the ram and being stepped on to their right extent. 4. Nutcracker device, according to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd claims, essentially characterized in that the body (2) has a tongue (6) carved in order to contain the shells that, after the action of the lever, jump fired. 5. Nutcracker device, according to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th claims, essentially characterized in that the mallet (2 and 3) is dimensionally arranged relative to the body (7) and the base box (1) such that it is stable in the open position without being held. 6. Nutcracker device, according to the first claim, essentially characterized in that the body (9) has an inclination at the end of the box for its extraction next to a groove in the inner part (10) to easily discard it manually. 7. Nutcracker device, according to the 1st and 6th claims, essentially characterized in that the body (9) penetrates by fitting its end (11) into a recess of the body (7) in addition to its rounded edges on its internal faces, in order to collect to the smallest waste that moves from the body (7) to it.