1979-05-14
1980-12-02
Abercrombie, Willie G.
A22C 2902
Patent
active
042362776
ABSTRACT:
A crustacean shelling apparatus includes a cupped wheel feed assembly positioned transversely adjacent and centered on a pair of counterrotating vertically mounted squeeze rollers. The cupped wheel feed assembly includes a plurality of outwardly opening cups spaced circumferentially around the outer rim of the wheel assembly. Crustacean body parts are manually placed into the cups as they rotate through an upwardly opening position near the top of the wheel assembly, wherefrom they are carried to a position immediately adjacent the nip of the counterrotating rollers. A pressurized water feed mechanism positioned slidably abutting the inside surface of the outer rim of the feed wheel assembly thereupon comes into registry with an aperture at the bottom of each cup as the cup approaches the rollers and drives the crustacean body parts into the nip of the rollers by means of a stream of water. The crustacean body part is separated into a meat portion and a shell portion upon being grasped in the nip of the counterrotating rollers. The meat portion falls directly into a meat chute without passing through the rollers. The separated shell portion passes through the rollers and falls into a shell chute.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2660754 (1953-12-01), Roshko
patent: 3203039 (1965-08-01), Glidden et al.
patent: 4004321 (1977-01-01), Harrison
patent: 4121322 (1978-10-01), Rutledge
Fredrickson Lloyd C.
Rudy Norman A.
Abercrombie Willie G.
Amfac Foods, Inc.
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