US Patent: 2,651,342
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| Nut Sheller
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Patentee:
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| Charles L. Harless (exact or similar names) - San Angelo, TX |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Aug. 22, 1949 |
| Granted: |
Sep. 08, 1953 |
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Description: |
| Improvement on the nut sheller in patent no. 2,376,469 with a focus on the replaceable cutter blades. Both patent numbers appear on packaging for examples of the YORK TEXAN SHELLER sold in the late 1950s & early 1960s.
Corresponding Canadian patent CA-514,249 was published June 28, 1955.
The "references" list includes prior patents 1,134,265, 1,371,072, 1,922,884, 2,204,040, 2,376,469, 2,378,084 and 2,454,601.
In 1968, Charles L. Harless, Jr. patented a modified form of this tool as a lobster and claw shell cracker -- 3,395,542. |
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