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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ben Rosow, New Orleans, LA (US);
Brent A Ledet, Metairie, LA (US);
Joseph F Scamardo, Jr, Metairie, LA (US);
Scott J Sirgo, Covington, LA (US);
Assignee:
The Laitram Corporation, New Orleans, LA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A22C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
452-5 ; 452-9 ;
Abstract
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 and is held in contact to the adjacent larger diameter rollers with a hold down assembly. The assembly includes a tension member and an adjustment for varying the load transfer between a selected smaller diameter insert roller and the pair of larger diameter rollers.