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Class 452/9 - Squeezing meat out


Subclass of Class 452 - Butchering
Definition: Subject matter relating to the separation of meat from shell
No. of patents: 21
Last issue date: 04/15/2008


NumberTitleIssue Date
7357706Method and a plant for preparing shrimps
A method of preparing shrimps includes boiling them at a pressure exceeding atmospheric pressure, at a temperature exceeding the boiling temperature of water at atmospheric pressure, for keeping the meat of the shrimps in a compressed state while causing the meat to...
04/15/2008
7261626Crab meat extracting apparatus
A crab meat extracting apparatus for extracting the meat from a boiled or cooked crab. The crab meat extracting apparatus includes a base including a tray having a top side; and also includes a crab support member being attached upon the top side of the tray; and fu...
08/28/2007
7179160Automated apparatus and system for cooking, drying and peeling shellfish products
A fully automated apparatus and system for processing shellfish such as shrimp and crawfish including the cooking, drying and peeling thereof. The present invention utilizes excessive heat generated by boilers to heat the dryers. The product is cooked in a brine mix...
02/20/2007
6435959Assembly for a seafood cleaning machine
An assembly for a seafood cleaning machines provides increased efficiency and decreases loss of meat of cleaned seafood items, such as shrimp, prawns, and the like. The assembly has a plurality of parallel rollers, a plurality of secondary rollers spaced ...
08/20/2002
6248010Peeling apparatus with segmented roller assemblies
Apparatus for peeling shrimp including powered roller assemblies each made up of a peeling roller and a drive member attached by a releasable connection. Roller connection structure at a first end of each roller assembly mates with reciprocal drive connec...
06/19/2001
6139415Drive system for shrimp peeling apparatus
An improved drive system for a shrimp peeling apparatus includes a support frame with a first and a second plurality of rollers mounted thereon. One of the plurality of rollers have rollers that are of a larger diameter than the other rollers. The drive m...
10/31/2000
6042465Method and apparatus for peeling crawfish
A method and apparatus for peeling crawfish or crayfish includes a machine frame that supports a peeling mechanism, preferably in the form of a pair of rollers rotatably mounted to the frame in a position that receives crawfish one at a time from a convey...
03/28/2000
6017268Shrimp peeling apparatus roller hold down assembly
A shrimp peeling apparatus includes a support frame upon which are mounted a plurality of larger diameter rollers and a plurality of smaller diameter insert rollers. Each smaller diameter insert roller is supported by two adjacent larger diameter rollers ...
01/25/2000
5980373Shrimp peeling apparatus
A shrimp peeling apparatus provides an improved geometry that increases efficiency and yield. The apparatus has particular utility when used to peel Pendulous Borealis variety shrimp. The apparatus includes a support frame that supports a first plurality ...
11/09/1999
5340353Apparatus for the extraction of meat from the tails of crustacea
The invention relates to apparatus for the extraction of meat from the tails of crustacea such as prawns. An example of the apparatus described comprises a frame (10) supporting a conveyor means (12) which carry support means in the form of releasable car...
08/23/1994
5154662Crab extractor
A crab extractor including opposed, large cylindrical rollers oriented in vertically superimposed relation with the lower roller being perforated. Cleaned, uncooked crabs which have been broken along a longitudinal center line from front to rear along the...
10/13/1992
4829636Crab picking machine
An automatic loading apparatus that enables two workers to load crabs into a crab picking machine comprises a carriage mounted on guide rails for movement transversely on the conveyor above the loading station. Two crab holders are mounted in laterally sp...
05/16/1989
4633547Crab picking machine
A crab picking machine comprises a two-part tray that receives a crab carapace up and head end forward with approximately each lengthwise half of the crab supported on each tray part. The tray is conveyed through three main work stations where the claws a...
01/06/1987
4523349Crab meat extractor and method of extraction
In a preferred embodiment, for a method of extracting crab meat from the under-shell once the top shell is removed and after washing, the meat-containing under-shell is fed into the bite of pincher rolls after first adjusting the parallel axes of the pinc...
06/18/1985
4513478Crab meat extracting device
A Crab Meat Extracting device 10 is provided including a base 12 and a roller support member 14 coupled to the base. The roller support member 14 is formed with a semi-circular tracking surface 16. A plurality of upwardly projecting teeth 18 are formed on...
04/30/1985
4236277Crustacean shelling apparatus
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 c...
12/02/1980
4202077Crab peeler
Crab meat is removed from cooked crabs by placing the cooked crabs on a platform and then subjecting them to an increasing, almost vertical, pressure by passing a convex surface over them. The meat is thereby expressed from the peel and falls into a recep...
05/13/1980
4196495Crawfish tail peeler
Apparatus for separating edible tal portions of crawfish and similar crustaceans from exoskeletal portions thereof, the present invention comprises a first roller having a concave lateral peripheral edge surface which is opposed at a substantially constan...
04/08/1980
4121322Crustacean meat extraction means
An apparatus for extracting the edible meat from crayfish, shrimp, crabs and other like crustaceans is provided comprising a pair of rollers positioned adjacent to one another to form a nip for receiving the crustacean wherein the lower nip is provided wi...
10/24/1978
4083084Machine for separating meat from crab shells
A crab meat removing machine is described to facilitate separation of crab meat from its exoskeleton or shell. The machine includes a number of specifically located rollers at a discharge end of an elongated belt type conveyor. Crab bodies and crab legs a...
04/11/1978
4004321Crab meat expressing machine and method
Halves of cleaned crabs, claws off and fins on, are placed onto the upper run of a conveyor belt with the fins facing in the direction of travel. A cooperating belt disposed above the conveyor belt has a lower run converging towards the upper run of the c...
01/25/1977
 
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