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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6468142 | Method and apparatus for processing squid A method and apparatus for processing squid whereby a squid is placed on a spike and is conveyed past a backstructure surface causing the squid to spin about the spike, the friction against the outside and the inside of the squid tube body causing the loo... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6110032 | Shellfish processing apparatus A shellfish processing apparatus (10) particularly intended for Scallop Processing, in which a gripped shellfish is partially opened initially by manipulator means (12) so as to enable meat to be removed from one shell half at a station (22), and then ope... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6086468 | Method and apparatus for peeling-off bivalve, as well as bivalve before-separation heating device A bivalve peeling-off method and apparatus and a before-separation heating device are disclosed. The bivalve peeling-off apparatus includes a heating means 6 for heating the surface of one of shells 2A of a starting bivalve 2, so that an edible part 2a in... | 07/11/2000 |
| 4939814 | Cultured mussel cleaning machine A cultured mussel cleaning machine (10) for cleaning fragile-shelled mussels, the machine (10) having a first staged (12) and a second stage (14). The first stage (12) includes a cylindrical container (16) in which is mounted a series of rotating chains (... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4903373 | Scallop eviscerating machine Apparatus for eviscerating fresh scallops immediately after they have been shucked from the shell, which apparatus cleanly strips membrane, roe and entrails from the edible adductor muscle without causing damage to the latter. No ageing, chemical or heat ... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4887333 | Harvesting, shucking and eviscerating clams at sea A sea-going vessel has mounted on its deck a clam processing plant which includes in sequence a steamer, a clam crusher, a seawater washer, a brine separator, an eviscerator and a chill tank. Special valves are constructed to feed and discharge clams from... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4703541 | Apparatus for extracting meat from crustacean appendages An automated, self-contained apparatus for extracting meat from the appendages of crustaceans, such as crabs, the appendages having been severed from the body and cooked. The device includes a plurality of stations which recover and collect the meat in th... | 11/03/1987 |
| 4361933 | Method of shucking scallops and an apparatus therefor Scallops are shucked by being placed on scallop cradles moving along an endless flexible member and a hinged portion of the scallop shell and an opposed portion thereto are sawn from the remainder, to expose the interior, while the scallops are held in th... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4301571 | Apparatus and method for extracting bellies from clam meat 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 separat... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4300264 | Clam belly extractor A high pressure and velocity water drive pipe is provided having inlet and outlet ends. The outlet end of the drive pipe extends and is secured horizontally through one side of a generally cylindrical tank and terminates between 2 and 31/2 inches from the... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4285099 | Squid processing machine A squid processing machine supports and specially positions a squid. The squid is treated by being severed into three longitudinally separate tentacle, eye or head, and body portions. The tentacle portion is released into one zone and the eye portion is r... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4249283 | Method and apparatus for extracting clam bellies Shucked whole clams are drawn by suction through a delivery tube having multiple bulbous portions and intervening constrictions. In passing through the delivery tube, the clams are subjected to repetitive massage or squeezing followed by sudden release fr... | 02/10/1981 |
| 4148112 | Hydraulic evisceration of mollusks The "bellies" of mollusk such as clams are removed from the remainder of the clam meat by introducing one whole clam body at a time into a fluid shearing zone where a separately introduced high velocity stream of fluid serves to shear the belly from the c... | 04/10/1979 |
