| 摘要 |
An apparatus for processing shrimp and like marine life of the type utilizing a pair of horizontally extending, parallel rollers spaced apart a distance to accommodate a centerplate for defining a processing channel and also including an elongated impeller overlying an upper edge of the centerplate is characterized as having mechanical drive means including cams and eccentrics for operating the centerplate and the impeller from a single rotating line shaft. The cam means is arranged and configured to drive the centerplate and the impeller in undulatory patterns having both horizontal and vertical components of movement selected to operate on the marine life in conjunction with the rollers for peeling, deheading, deveining and otherwise cleaning the marine life and moving the same from an inlet end of the machine to a discharge end thereof. Further, the machine characteristics including cycle speeds, size and surface finish of the rollers and configuration of the centerplate have been optimized for most varieties of shrimp.
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