Egg Yolk Separator Device and Method

摘要

An egg yolk separator device comprises uniquely configured structures for selectively grabbing an egg yolk from an egg albumen as supported upon a surface. A suction bulb and a tubular structure coupled to the suction bulb enable a user to selectively provide a suction force directed away from the inlet-outlet orifice toward the suction bulb for directing an egg yolk into the tubular structure. The orifice is sized and shaped to receive an egg yolk having a yolk weight, and the selectively provided suction force is greater than the yolk weight for directing the egg yolk into the yolk-receiving structure via the yolk inlet-outlet orifice. The tubular structure may further include a belly compartment that may house the egg yolk for further or later deposition and the bulb may further include a flattened side for preventing rotation of the device and maintaining the belly compartment in a downwardly extended direction.

主权项

1. An egg yolk separator device for separating an intact egg yolk from an egg albumen, the egg yolk separator device comprising:
suction means for selectively providing a suction force; and a yolk-receiving structure, the yolk-receiving structure having a tubular construction, a yolk inlet-outlet orifice, and an inner yolk-receiving chamber, the tubular construction having a tubular axis, the yolk-receiving chamber extending radially from the tubular axis for receiving and supporting the egg yolk in radial adjacency to the tubular axis, the yolk-receiving structure being coupled to the suction means such that the selectively provided suction force is directed away from the yolk inlet-outlet orifice toward the suction means, the orifice being sized and shaped to receive an egg yolk having a yolk weight, a vitelline membrane and membrane-contained cytoplasm, the suction force being greater than the yolk weight for directing the egg yolk into the yolk-receiving structure via the yolk inlet-outlet orifice.