Processing of molluscs
AssigneeStevedore & Fishery Services Limited
InventorPeter Davy
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Abstract
A method of gutting a cephalopod, such as squid, the cephalopod having an outer mantle containing internal organs, and the method comprising retaining the outer mantle at a fixed distance from a central axis while rotating the mantle about the said axis whereby the internal organs are subjected to a centrifugal force sufficient to eject the organs outwardly through an open end of the mantle.
Claims16
A method of gutting a cephalopod, the cephalopod having an edible outer mantle containing inedible internal organs, and the method comprising retaining the outer mantle by suction in a holding device at a fixed distance from a central axis while rotating the holding device about said axis at a speed such that the internal organs are subjected to a centrifugal force sufficient to eject the internal organs outwardly through an open end of the mantle.
Apparatus for gutting a cephalopod, wherein the cephalopod has an edible outer mantle containing inedible internal organs, the apparatus comprising a holding device for holding the mantle at a fixed distance from a central axis;
- means for retaining the mantle in said holding device by suction;
- and means for rotating said holding device about said central axis at a speed such that the internal organs are subjected to a centrifugal force sufficient to eject the internal organs outwardly through an open end of the mantle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.