Patents by Inventor Toshiaki Katade

Toshiaki Katade 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).

  • Patent number: 5326306
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method and an apparatus thereof of continuously producing a tubular mantle meat of the cuttlefish, in which the arms of the cuttlefish engaging with one of knife elements provided spaced at a certain distance on an endless chain running continuously is pulled toward a direction contrary to the run of said endless chain, thereby removing at least arms of the cuttlefish along with the viscera affixed to the arms preparing a tubular mantle and in which a skirt end of resultant mantle is aligned along a reference line and in which the skirt end, the fins and a portion of the tubular mantle adjacent to the fins, are cut in a state that the skirt end stands at an aligned position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1994
    Assignee: Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Katade, Tadanori Isayama, Takeya Yoshioka