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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2010
Gleb Sekretta, Halifax, CA;
Ben Garvey, Halifax, CA;
Timothy Andrew Burke, Halifax, CA;
Bruce Allan Stover, Hatchet Lake, CA;
Andrew Neville Cormack, Elmsdale, CA;
Gerard Murray Prinsen, Truro, CA;
Angus Mclarty, Halifax, CA;
Jacob Mackinnon, Mahone Bay, CA;
Nathaniel Bruce Tynes, Halifax, CA;
Louis-phillipe Frederick Manuge, Hammonds Plains, CA;
Tracy Rose, Middle Sackville, CA;
David Rose, Upper Tantallon, CA;
Lee Babin, Prospect Bay, CA;
Gleb Sekretta, Halifax, CA;
Ben Garvey, Halifax, CA;
Timothy Andrew Burke, Halifax, CA;
Bruce Allan Stover, Hatchet Lake, CA;
Andrew Neville Cormack, Elmsdale, CA;
Gerard Murray Prinsen, Truro, CA;
Angus McLarty, Halifax, CA;
Jacob MacKinnon, Mahone Bay, CA;
Nathaniel Bruce Tynes, Halifax, CA;
Louis-Phillipe Frederick Manuge, Hammonds Plains, CA;
Tracy Rose, Middle Sackville, CA;
David Rose, Upper Tantallon, CA;
Lee Babin, Prospect Bay, CA;
Clearwater Seafoods Limited Partnership, Bedford, Nova Scotia, unknown;
Abstract
Mollusc processing apparatus and related methods are disclosed. Molluscs are held in holders by one of their shells, illustratively the bottom shells, and are moved between a series of processing stations. At a shell cut station, an opening is cut into one or both of the shells of each mollusc. The next processing station includes a cutting blade to cut the adductor muscle and viscera of each mollusc away from its non-held shell, illustratively the top shell, and a shell detach mechanism to detach the non-held shell from the held shell. One or multiple air blasts are directed toward the viscera to loosen it from the held shell, and at a vacuum station the loosened viscera is pulled from the held shell. A second muscle cut station includes another cutting blade to cut the adductor muscle from the held shell.