Process of and Apparatus for Cleaning, Tinting, and Polishing Pecan and Other Nuts.
Description:
Patent for a new and improved method and machine for cleaning, tinting, and polishing nuts. This design facilitates "[t]he process of cleaning and tinting pecan and other nuts, which consists in first subjecting them to the action of a lye, abrading substances, and water within a rotating close vessel, and subsequently to the action of a dyeing solution in a separate rotating close vessel" (lines 5-11).
Date:
October 30, 1883
Creator:
Koerber, Rudolph C.