US964259A - Nutcracker. - Google Patents

Description

A. HUBERTH.

NUTGRACKER. APPLICATION FILED 0GT.23,1909

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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hpplication filed October 28, 1909. Serial No. 524,118.

- To all whom it may concern:

in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has general reference to improvements in nut-crackers; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of cbnstrucb it tion, as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, and then ointed out in the claims. In the drawings a ready referred to, which serve to illustrate this invention more fully,

Figure 1 is a side-elevation of my improved nut-cracker. Fig. 2 is a similar view, partly in section, theeectional portion being on line w m of Fig. Fig. 3 is an end-elevation. Fig. 4 is a seotienal plan on liney y of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is aside-elevation of a nut-cracker slightly modified, a portion of the clamp being omitted. F 6 is a sectional plan on line 2 a of hi 5, ike parts being designated 'correspon ing characters of reference in the figures.

The object of this invention is the produc= tion of an efficient, serviceable, and durable nut-cracker, thatcan be readily manufactured and sold at reasonable cost. It comprises a main body A, consistin of a headportion 12, having on one end a ownwardlyprojecting bar 13, from the lower end of which projects a'-T-shaped bar 14, parallel with the head-portion 12, and having at its end a curved incision 15, provided with transverselyarranged serrations or teeth 16. From the forward end of this T-shaped bar projects downwardly a bar 17, the end of which is turned at right angles parallel with the bar 14, and terminating in an internally screw-threaded head 18, within which is located a clamping-screw 19, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 1, 2,-and. 3.

The head-portion 12 is substantially rectan lar incontour, and it has an internal cav1ty or chamber 20, wherein is located a gear-pinion .21, having journals 22, 23. These journals have their bearings in the semi-circular ends of slotted a ertures 24, in the sides 25, 26, of the hea portion. 12.

In this head-portion 12 there are verticallydlsposed openings 27, wherein is placed a ram B. This ram B is, preferably, of substantially circular cross-section and it is provlded with a series of teeth 28, meshing with the teeth 29 on the pinion 21. On the lower end of the ram B therevis located a head C,- the lower surface of which is curved at 30, the curvature being at ri ht angles to the curvature in the T-shaped ar 14: for

the object hereinafter to be referred to.

' The cavity or chamber 20 extends through the forward end of the hcad-portion 12, as clearly shown in Fig. 2, so that the pinion 21 may be placed into this chamber 20 in an obvious manner. This pinion is retained in the chamber 20 by the ram B which is front of the said pinion, and it has a convenient handle or lever D, by means of which it is oscillated and through it the ram B, .said handle being suitably fastened upon the journal 23 on the pinion 21.

This device may .be readily clamped upon any tableor other suitable object E; a nut to be cracked is then placed in the curved and serrated incision 15, and the ram B brought down upon the said nut, (not shown) with suficient force to break its hell.

? It will be observed that the curvature of the serrated'incision and the curvature 80 in the head of the ram, being at right angles to each other, the nut to be cracked cannot slip away from the device, a feature not inherent in any other nut-cracker with which I am acquainted.

It will be further observed that this device is capable of being produced at a very reasonable cost owing to the fact that the parts comprising this device are but few in number and can all be readily cast complete ready for assembling without more than a trifling machining, such as tapping the head 18 for the screw 19, the screw-threading of the latter, and several other minor manipulations.

I here desire to call attention to the fact that the head-piece with its downwardlyprojecting supporting-bar and the clam ing member with its curved and serrate incision on one of its bars are all produced integral in the process of casting in gray. or malleable iron, thereby reducing the cost of this device to a minimum. When japanned, or plated with a non ferrous metal, such as tin, zinc, copper or nickel, the device Wlll be head; an u per, horizontally-di extremely neat in appearance and very durable and effective in operation.

' I have heretofore described this device as hav' its head-portion formed with the slotte apertures 24 in its sides 25, 26, and the recess 20 as extending through the forward part ofsaid head to permit the insertion of the gear-pinion with its journals therein. This construction I may, however, modify by providing the head 12 with an opening similar to the recess 20, and by securing a separatel -formed, U-shaped cheekmember 32, to sai head and removably fastcning the same by screws 33, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. This, and other minor details of construction may be resorted to, without departing from the scope of my invention. a I

Having thus fully described this invention, I claim as new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. A nut-cracker comprising a substantiall rect ar head, there being in said hea a sham er extending through the front 'wall of said head to afford two side-walls, there be in said side-walls horizontallydisposed s ots terminating in and passing through said front-wall, and a vertical, substantially circular passage intersected by saiii1S changer and diaid slats in the sidewa a ownwar y pen mg supporting bar projecting from the lower end of said sed bar projecting om the lower endvoi the sup-' porting bar forwardly, there being near the forward end of said upper horizontal bar an incision having serrations; a vertically-disposed front-bar projecting downwardly from the front end of the up er horizontal bar,and a lower horizontal li ar projecting rearwardly. from the lower end of-the front bar and substantially parallel with the upper horizontal bar, the whole being formed integral; a mutilated pinion; journals projecting from the sides of said pinion; a lever secured to one of said journals, said pinion with its journals being ada ted for insertion into the chamber throug the slotted vertical and horizontal passe es in said head; a plunger in said vertically disposed passage in said head and in operative engagement with said pinion, anda removable head on the lower end of said plunger, the lower face of said head being curved, the curvature being at right angles to the curvature of the incision 1n the upper horizontal bar, said pinion being prevented from being withdrawn from said head by said plunger, as described.

2.- A nut-cracker, comprising a headpiece; a supporti -member, and a clam ing-member forme integral, there being in said head-piece a chamber open'at the. forward end of said head-piece, and two oppositely-located slots in the sides of said headpiece; a gear-pinion in said chamber; said gear-pinion havin journals engaging said slots; a vertically isposed ram in said headpiece and in front of said gearinion, and a lever on one of said journals or manipulating the gear-pinion and the ram, there being on the ram and the head-piece means for locating and retaining a nut to be cracked in proper position and preventing the same from slipping.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing,

as my invention, I have hereunto 'set my hand in the presence of two subscribi witnesses, at Chicago, 111., this 19th day of 0ctober, 1909'.

' ALEXANDER HUBERTH. Attest; I

MICHAEL J. STARK,

A. G. PETERSON.

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