Patent ID: 7261626

Claim:
A crab meat extracting apparatus comprising: a base including a tray having a top side, said tray including a bottom wall, and also including upwardly extending side and end walls being attached to and extending along a perimeter of said bottom wall; a crab support member being attached upon said top side of said tray, said crab support member being a lightweight arch formed from a substantially thin sheet of material, having a definite thickness and width and also having open space being disposed below said lightweight arch which substantially reduces the overall weight of said crab meat extracting apparatus; and a crab compressing assembly including an arcuate crab compressing member being hingedly attached to said crab support member and being removably disposed upon said crab support member for compressing a shelled crab between said crab support member and said arcuate crab compressing member, said arcuate crab compressing member being longitudinally curved and having a first end which is hingedly attached to one of said end portions of said crab support member, said arcuate crab compressing member being disposed generally concentric to said crab support member when said arcuate crab compressing member is resting upon said crab support member.