Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With conveyor or movably supported
Patent
1993-06-18
1994-06-28
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With conveyor or movably supported
99477, 99584, 99516, 99576, A22C 2900, A47J 2704, A47J 4318
Patent
active
RE0346462
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for more efficiently pre-cooking and peeling cold water shrimp such as the species Pandalus borealis is disclosed. The apparatus includes a conveyor for moving the shell-on or unpeeled shrimp up and out of a feeder tank. A perforated horizontal conveyor then carries the shrimp over a steam manifold with a multiplicity of apertures such that steam escapes from the manifold and rises through the perforated belt and surrounds the shrimp.
A cooking chamber which completely encloses the horizontal conveyor except at the bottom, contains the lighter-than-air steam such that the raw shell-on shrimp are at least partially cooked by the surrounding steam. Since the lighter-than-air steam excludes all air from the cooking chamber, less oxidation of fats occurs and consequently a higher quality product is obtained. The shrimp are then immediately deposited by the perforated conveyor at the entry point of an automatic shrimp peeling machine, such that the shrimp have their shell removed or are peeled while still hot.
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Lapeyre George C.
Ledet Brent A.
Brown Laurence R.
Cronvich James T.
Simone Timothy F.
The Laitram Corporation
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