Shrimp processing method and device

Details Shrimp processing method and device Shrimp processing method and device

1986-09-29

1987-09-15

Abercrombie, Willie G.

17 51, 17 71, A22E 2902

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046929657

ABSTRACT:
A combination which in sequence utilizes a singulator, an orientor, a decapitator, and a separator. The singulator is a vibratory scoop-like device which causes shrimps delivered to the processor to begin to move single file towards the exit of the singulator. Thereafter the shrimp move into the orientor which has a V-shape with a slot at the lower edges with the slot progressively widening down the length of the orientor. The shrimp will invariably hang tail down, and finally when the slot becomes wider than the shrimp they drop in tail-down fashion into the upper portion of the decapitator. The decapitator, in turn, has a vertical velocity head formed in a vertical feeder tube which intersects with a transverse flow of fluid and the shrimp "turns the corner" at a fulcrum, and is decapitated at that point. Thereafter the tails and heads are directed to a seaprator by means of a decelerator pipe. The decelerator by the use of a rake and water jets takes advantage of the weight differential between the head and thoracic plate and the tail and separates the same in a hydromechanical fashion. Thereafter the water is filtered and recirculated.

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