FINIC Ivented Manual Palm Nuts Cracking Machine

FINIC Invented Manual Palm Nut Cracker
Palm nuts are byproducts of palm oil processing. After extracting the palm oil, the nuts are separated from the chaff and dried. Thereafter, they are cracked.
Traditional, cracking is done with stones. A big stone to serve as an anvil is positioned on the floor and a small stone to serve as a hammer and held in the hand, are used as tools to achieve the purpose. The nuts are cracked as though they are being counted as the task involves positioning the nut/s on the anvil individually and hitting it with the hammer to shatter the shell leaving the kernel intact. That traditional process is back breaking and humiliating for humans to do. One who obliges, can only do a maximum of 70kg per day of 8 hours. On that account, over 80% of palm nuts in Sierra Leone and many other countries in Africa are left in the bush to rot or used as fuel.
Mechanized palm nuts crackers are costly and are also very difficult to move around in an effort to access villages/farms. FINIC took the challenge and invented the manually operated palm nut cracker.
The machine is simple to operate by way of a long lever to be actuated by 2 or 1 person. As the video shows, the nuts are fed into a hopper and as the machine is operated, the nuts are constantly pushed from the hopper to the cracking chamber by a simple mechanism.
The machine is 20 times faster than the traditional method of using stones. It is affordable and will lift many from.the backbreaking traditional way.
Women and children are those bearing the pain of palm nuts cracking in the villages. I, the Lead Inventor, has vivid memories of my mother Spanking me for being slow in cracking my portion of palm nuts shared among my sieblings in the village of Kasoria, sella Limba Chiefdom, north of Sierra Leone.
The day we did the first successful trial run, I turned a corn to move away from the stare of staff and Trainees of FINIC and burst into tears. No doubt, you can feel the emotions. For hundreds of years, our people still holding the stone to crack their nuts until now.
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Do you after, have to seperate the cracked debris. Or is it 100% seperated ? Thanks.

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@@MobiPlacie Yes using clay bath method

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How about a smaller table top model for home use which just one person could operate? This one is quite big.

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You may be aware that palm nuts are very hard to crack. To overcome the cracking force and increase the cracking rate, there has to be a leverage bigger than a single hand can give. Hence the need for the long levers. The machine is not meant to be moved from place to place but rather fixed in communities where oil palm plantations are prevalent. It is 22 times faster than the traditional "stone in the hand" method.