Frank’s Designs for Peanuts, LLC – Peanut sheller loaded on a trailer for delivery to Dawson Peanut Research Lab for capacity and product quality testing. It is now in use at the MFK Haiti facility in Cap Haitien, Haiti.
This is a stand-alone three stage sheller with sizing shakers. It has a maximum capacity of 2000 pounds of farmer’s stock peanuts per hour. The peanuts are fed into the first stage sheller where the majority of the peanuts are shelled. The hulls are aspirated out of the flow after they are shelled. The peanuts (shelled & unshelled) then fall onto the top deck of the sizing shakers where the shelled peanuts and small unshelled peanuts fall through the perforated screen and leave the larger unshelled peanuts to ride this top deck and out the discharge spout to be poured into the second stage sheller. The peanuts that fall through the top deck will fall onto the bottom deck where the oilstock falls through and the main flow will ride across. The small inshell peanuts then must be picked out of this flow after it is discharged from the shaker and placed into the third stage sheller for shelling.