1979-05-08
1981-08-04
Abercrombie, Willie G.
17 73, A22C 2902
Patent
active
042814367
ABSTRACT:
A shrimp processing machine wherein conveyor means transports shrimps past a serrated cutter wheel, severing the abdominal shell while disrupting the swimmerets and the musculature interconnection between the swimmerets and the shrimp body, said shrimp thereafter being pneumatically transferred onto needles of a driven disc, said disc carrying the shrimp to a further station wherein the shells are removed and the vein is removed. A further cut may be made to "butterfly" the shrimp. A second disc with needles thereon effect transfer of the processed shrimp from the first disc.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3220050 (1965-11-01), Lagasse
patent: 3867740 (1975-02-01), Lapine et al.
patent: 4087887 (1978-05-01), Hoffman et al.
Hoffman Paul H.
Lessig John A.
Abercrombie Willie G.
Haley Barry L.
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