Patent
1980-06-06
1981-11-24
Abercrombie, Willie G.
17 53, A22C 2904
Patent
active
043015719
ABSTRACT:
Shucked whole clams are propelled by suction through a tube having multiple alternating bulbous portions and constrictions. In passing through this tube, each clam is subjected to a repetitive pulsating squeezing or massage action which results in separation or substantial loosening of the belly from the clam meat or tongue. At the outlet end of this delivery tube, each clam is forced through an abrupt elbow and in so doing the clam tongue bends around the acute angular side of the elbow and nearly reverses its direction of travel. This near reversal momentarily reduces the speed of travel of the clam tongue, and at this moment the tongue is subjected to substantial vacuum near the outlet of the elbow by a pair of oblique angular fluid nozzles whose axes cross one above the other to direct their streams toward the opposite side walls of a horizontal product discharge pipe. In such pipe, the nozzle fluid streams exert a spinning action on the product assuring final and complete separation of the bellies from the usable clam meat.
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Abercrombie Willie G.
Fishburne, Jr. B. P.
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