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Abstract

A cracking and shelling mechanism for nuts having a plurality of first elongated parallel blocks with a first end fastened to alternate movement means in both senses along the longitudinal axis thereof and a plurality of second elongated parallel blocks parallel to the first blocks and arranged in an alternate and adjacent way to the first blocks, wherein the movement means of each first block includes a seesaw element which is connected to at least one pair of blocks of a first and second adjacent blocks, such that the second blocks exhibit an alternate movement in both senses along the longitudinal axis thereof, and in opposite sense to the movement of said first adjacent block, wherein said seesaw element includes a fixed central rotation shaft, a first rod connected to the central shaft and to the first block and a second rod, diametrically opposed to the first rod, connected to the central shaft, and to the second block.

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First Claim