Patent ID: 6941859

Claim:
An agitating device to be mounted inside a rotating nut hulling tub for increasing the agitation of the nuts to increase the hulling speed, the device comprising: a bracket capable of being attached to the inside cover of a rotatable nut hulling tub having side wall protrusions for hulling nuts, the bracket having a mounting plate positioned a distance below the cover a sufficient distance to be in contact with a quantity of nuts placed in the tub; a series of tub fingers capable of being attached to the mounting plate so that the fingers hang downwardly into the tub in contact with the quantity of nuts, the tub fingers comprising elongated flexible rods capable of agitating the quantity of nuts as the nuts moving inside the rotatable tub contact the tub fingers so that the tub fingers are capable of assisting in knocking off the nut hulls and assisting in causing the nuts to move against the side wall protrusions at a faster rate than without the tub fingers thereby speeding up the nut hulling process.