Title: Method for separating edible crab meat from non-edible portions of cooked crabs

Abstract: Apparatus and method for vibrating edible crab meat from the core portion of a crab body that has been de-shelled, de-legged and de-fingered and the central core portion of which has been cleaned. The crab body is supported in a core box with the body cavity directed downwardly opposite a discharge opening formed in the bottom of the core box, whereupon the core box is vibrated at about 1500 to 5000 vibrations per minute to shake the crab meat from the core and to deposit the meat particles on an endless conveyor that travels therebeneath. Preferably the core box bottom contains a plurality of pockets having walls converging toward the discharge openings, the crab cores being held in place by suitable cushion means.

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Inventors: Wenstrom, Richard T. (Hampton, VA, US)
Reinke, Theodore S. (Rehoboth Beach, DE, US)
Tolley, Calvert B. (Wingate, MD, US)
Brooks, J. Clayton (Cambridge, MD, US)

Application Number: 737088
Filing Date: 1976-10-29
Publication_date: 1978-11-14
Assignee: Sea Savory, Inc. (Cambridge, MD)
Primary Class(es): 452/7 209/266
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US Patent Ref:

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3261508	Jul, 1966	Wahl	222/199.
3365059	Jan, 1968	Hobbs	209/266.
3372723	Mar, 1968	Elich	17/56.
3375547	Apr, 1968	Reinke	17/71.
3396768	Aug, 1968	Kurihara	17/56.
3855668	Dec, 1974	Wenstrom	17/71.
4003103	Jan, 1977	Wenstrom et al.	17/71.

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Primary Examiner: Kinsey, Russell R.
Assistant Examiner: Hirsch, Paul J.
Attorney: Scrivener, Parker, Scrivener & Clarke