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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