Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1978-07-07
1980-01-22
Wilhite, Billy J.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99404, 99407, 99427, 99443C, A47J 3712
Patent
active
041844181
ABSTRACT:
An improved apparatus for preparing taco shells from uncooked tortillas comprising a vessel having shaped side walls for containing cooking oil, a conveyor assembly including a deformable endless wire mesh belt for moving the tortillas through the cooking oil and a plurality of mold members cooperatively associated with the conveyor assembly for forming the tortillas into taco shells.
In operation of the apparatus, the wire mesh belt slides along, and is controllably deformed by the shaped side walls of the vessel thereby minimizing the amount of cooking oil which is used. An additional novel feature of the apparatus resides in the unique arrangement for removing the formed taco shell directly from the rearward end of the apparatus after it has been cooked and depositing it onto an auxillary conveyor for transport to a packaging station.
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Brunton James E.
Electra Food Machinery, Inc.
Wilhite Billy J.
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