 Although Aspden died the following year, Exton continued with the bakery (the "Exton Cracker Bakery" or "Adam Exton & Co.").He invented a machine that rolled and docked pastry and solved the sanitary problems of hand-rolling crackers.The history of the oyster cracker was related by Exton's nephew, also named Adam Exton, in the "Trenton Evening Times" newspaper on May 31, 1917