Patents by Inventor Richard T. Wenstrom

Richard T. Wenstrom has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Apparatus for opening and eviscerating scallops
    Patent number: 4532677
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for shucking raw uncooked unfrozen shellfish of the bivalve type which includes the method of opening the shells by shocking the shellfish, cleaning the viscers from the edible muscle of the shellfish and the apparatus for opening and cleaning the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1985
    Assignee: Slade Gorton & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Wenstrom, Thomas S. Gorton, Jr.
  • Machine for removing meat from prepared crab bodies
    Patent number: 4286356
    Abstract: The disclosure is of a machine for removing the meat from the prepared body of a crab, lobster or other crustacean by means of a jet of compressed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Sea Savory, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard T. Wenstrom
  • Method for separating edible crab meat from non-edible portions of cooked crabs
    Patent number: 4124920
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for vibrating edible crab meat from the core portion of a crab body that has been de-shelled, de-legged and de-fingered and the central core portion of which has been cleaned. The crab body is supported in a core box with the body cavity directed downwardly opposite a discharge opening formed in the bottom of the core box, whereupon the core box is vibrated at about 1500 to 5000 vibrations per minute to shake the crab meat from the core and to deposit the meat particles on an endless conveyor that travels therebeneath. Preferably the core box bottom contains a plurality of pockets having walls converging toward the discharge openings, the crab cores being held in place by suitable cushion means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1978
    Assignee: Sea Savory, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Wenstrom, Theodore S. Reinke, Calvert B. Tolley, J. Clayton Brooks
  • Apparatus for separating edible crab meat from non-edible portions of cooked crabs
    Patent number: 4003103
    Abstract: Apparatus for vibrating edible crab meat from the core portion of a crab body that has been de-shelled, de-legged and de-fingered and the central core portion of which has been cleaned. The crab body is supported in a core box with the body cavity directed downwardly opposite a discharge opening formed in the bottom of the core box, whereupon the core box is vibrated at about 1500 to 5000 vibrations per minute to shake the crab meat from the core and to deposit the meat particles on an endless conveyor that travels therebeneath. Preferably the core box bottom contains a plurality of pockets having walls converging toward the discharge openings, the crab cores being held in place by suitable cushion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: Sea Savory, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Wenstrom, Theodore S. Reinke, Calvert B. Tolley, J. Clayton Brooks