Jason D Hilton

US Patent:

20190274242, Sep 12, 2019

Filed:

Mar 7, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/295831

Inventors:

Jason Lee Hilton - Springdale AR, US

International Classification:

A01C 1/02
B02C 1/00

Abstract:

A shell cracking tool is provided. The shell cracking tool has first portion with a sequential arrangement of a threaded portion, a visible trough and a block surface. The second portion of the tool provides shaft dimensioned and adapted to operatively associate with the threaded portion so that an operational end of the shaft compresses a seed in the trough against the block surface. Thereby, the shell cracking tool selectively urges cracks in the shell of a seed that this visible in the trough, to the point where the slightly cracked shell is more likely to germinate as compared to its pre-cracked state.