Document Type
Patent
Publication Date
4-12-1977
Patent Number
Patent Number 4016625
Abstract
Apparatus for sizing and deheading shrimp is illustrated wherein an open, elongated trough has a pair of sides which diverge laterally outwardly from adjacent one end of the trough toward the other with a conveyor for moving shrimp along the trough permitting progressively larger shrimp to fall through the open bottom of the trough, and a number of conveyors are provided for carrying the shrimp thus sized, into contact with a stationary blade in such a manner that the head is pushed over the blade and body passed under the blade and the heads and bodies collected separately.
Application Number
05/706,832
Filing Date
10/07/1976
Primary/U.S. Class
452/4
Other/U.S. Class
209/678; 209/679; 452/184
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