Patent ID: 8388420

Claim:
An apparatus for centrifugally extracting meat from crustacean bodies comprising: a housing; a rotating power source mounted in the housing; a spin assembly operationally connected to the rotating power source; a cage assembly rotatably connected to the spin assembly, said cage assembly comprising a drum having a continuous wall, a cage mounted inside the drum and a spacer member removably positioned in the cage in a co-axial relationship thereto, said cage receiving crustacean bodies in a selected orientation such that legs of the crustacean bodies contact the spacer member while longitudinal axis of the crustacean body faces away from a center of rotation, and wherein application of centrifugal force on the cage assembly causes crustacean meat to separate from the crustacean bodies and exit the cage to enter into an annular space between the continuous wall of the drum and the cage.