A vacuum-assisted nut cracker having a main chamber with a hard target that cracks nuts is described. A motor driven vacuum pump draws a vacuum through the main chamber and through a suction pipe. The air sucked into the suction pipe draws shelled nuts up the suction pipe. The nuts pick up momentum and fly out the suction pipe onto the hard target, causing the nuts to crack. Shell and cracked nuts drop down and are subsequently collected. Various methods can be used to regulate the air flow, and thus the induced nut momentum. Shelled nuts can be fed into the vacuum-assisted nut cracker either by hand or by locating the nozzle adjacent a pile of nuts.

A hand-held inertia nutcracker for removing shells from a variety of nuts. The nutcracker having multiple configurations according to user preference. The easy to use device allows for easy insertion of nuts and quick removal of the nut and shell material. The nut is automatically centered in the cracking chamber as it is inserted so that consistent performance is achieved. The nutcracker also automatically adjusts for a variety of types and sizes of nuts without operator intervention. The design allows for rapid repeatability in use, thereby taking most of the effort out of extracting the nut from the shell.

A hand-held inertia nutcracker for removing shells from a variety of nuts. The nutcracker having multiple configurations according to user preference. The easy to use device allows for easy insertion of nuts and quick removal of the nut and shell material. The nut is automatically centered in the cracking chamber as it is inserted so that consistent performance is achieved. The nutcracker also automatically adjusts for a variety of types and sizes of nuts without operator intervention. The design allows for rapid repeatability in use, thereby taking most of the effort out of extracting the nut from the shell.

An assembly (010) for accessing coconut water in a coconut has a plunger (011) for puncturing the germination pore of the coconut thereby permits the access of the coconut water inside the coconut. The assembly (010) comprises a plunger (011) having a plunger collar (111) perpendicularly mounted to a plunger lance (211), a lid (012) having a lid bore (112) for receiving and housing a tip of the plunger lance (211) and a stopper clip (013) for holding the plunger lance (211) in order to prevent the tip of the plunger lance (211) in the lid bore (112) from puncturing a germination pore of the coconut, wherein the lid (012) of the assembly (010) is placed and fixed on the germination pore of the coconut by a fixing mean.

The nut cracker of the present invention comprises two rotationally coupled handles pressed by hand or by the palm of the hand. Close to the rotation point and between the two handles, a curved or oblique jaw is coupled to one handle. Farther from the rotation point and between the two handles, a partial cup which accepts various nut sizes is coupled to the other handle. When the two handles are pressed, the jaw moves in the missing portion of the partial cup. The curved or oblique jaw and the partial cup confine the nut and prevent it from popping out, thus breaking the nut.

The nut cracker of the present invention comprises two rotationally coupled handles pressed by hand or by the palm of the hand. Close to the rotation point and between the two handles, a curved or oblique jaw is coupled to one handle. Farther from the rotation point and between the two handles, a partial cup which accepts various nut sizes is coupled to the other handle. When the two handles are pressed, the jaw moves in the missing portion of the partial cup. The curved or oblique jaw and the partial cup confine the nut and prevent it from popping out, thus breaking the nut.

A side-squeezing squeezer including a hinge, a first presser connected to the hinge, a second presser connected to the hinge opposite of the first presser, and a support positioned between the first presser and the second presser and configured to hold a foodstuff in place. The first and second pressers may be configured to squeeze the foodstuff using lever action from the side.

A side-squeezing squeezer including a hinge, a first presser connected to the hinge, a second presser connected to the hinge opposite of the first presser, and a support positioned between the first presser and the second presser and configured to hold a foodstuff in place. The first and second pressers may be configured to squeeze the foodstuff using lever action from the side.

The present invention provides an assembly for accessing coconut water in a coconut comprising a screw having a rod with spiral threads on the outside surface of the rod and a sharp tip for drilling through coconut shell, and a handle on the top of the rod for twisting the rod through the coconut shell; and a lid having a threaded through-hole on the vertical center thereof for receiving and housing a sharp tip of the rod, wherein the lid of the assembly is placed and fixed on the germination pore of the coconut by a fixing means and wherein the screw is prevented from drilling the coconut shell by locking means.

A device for breaking the shells of nuts, such as walnuts, pecan nuts, cashew nuts, almonds, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts, where such device includes a sleeve with a through hole along an axis, elastic gripping means which can exert a force in a preferential direction coupled to the end of the sleeve in a manner such that the preferential direction is substantially coincident with the axis of a base, and a means for rotatably mounting the sleeve with respect to the base about an axis which is perpendicular to the axis, in a manner such that the sleeve is capable of taking up a first position in which the plane of the second end of the sleeve rests substantially on the face of the base and a second position in which the plane of the end of the sleeve makes a non-zero angle with the plane of the face of the base.