Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1985-08-08
1986-06-03
Wilhite, Billy J.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99403, 99427, 99450, A47J 3712
Patent
active
045922721
ABSTRACT:
Flexible sheets of foodstuffs, such as a tortilla, are prepared for cooking by automatically wrapping each tortilla around a perforated inner cooking cylinder and telescoping an outer cooking cylinder over the so-wrapped inner cylinder. The wrapping and telescoping operations are carried out with the use of a carriage which rotates about a horizontal axis by feeding the inner cylinders to the carriage such that the cylinders are parallel to the axis of rotation and are carried in a circular path about that axis. At a feed station tortillas are fed sequentially in a generally radial direction into the path of the inner cylinders so that the outside of each cylinder contacts a surface of a tortilla. Vacuum is applied to the inside of each cylinder to hold the tortilla in place, and as the cylinder continues to move along its circular path it moves past a flexible guide arrangement which contacts the opposite surface of the tortilla and wraps it around the cylinder. Outer cooking cylinders are fed to the rotating carriage at a location axially spaced from the inner cylinders and in axial alignment therewith. Axial movement of each outer cylinder relative to the carriage and over a respective tortilla-wrapped inner cylinder results from engagement of one end of each outer cylinder with a fixed generally spiral cam which surrounds the appropriate part of the rotating carriage.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3901137 (1975-08-01), Jimenez
patent: 3928638 (1979-07-01), Stickle
patent: 4160043 (1975-12-01), Stickle et al.
patent: 4212234 (1980-07-01), De Courcy
patent: 4275647 (1981-06-01), Chambers et al.
patent: 4348166 (1982-09-01), Fowler
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
Wilhite Billy J.
LandOfFree
Assembler for enchilada shells does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Assembler for enchilada shells, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Assembler for enchilada shells will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-1227301