Automatic taco machine

Details Automatic taco machine Automatic taco machine

1994-12-29

1996-07-02

Scherbel, David

Foods and beverages: apparatus

Edible laminated product making apparatus

994506, 994507, 221112, 221150HC, 221298, A47J 3700

Patent

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055311563

ABSTRACT:
An automatic taco machine can automatically make both soft and hard tacos. Storage compartments for soft tortillas and hard taco shells are mounted above a V-shaped conveyor. A soft tortilla is removable from a stack of tortills by a vacuum pick-up head and is heated and is inserted between a pair of heated plates where it is compressed and heated. A pusher bar moves downwardly through slots in the heater plates to fold the tortilla and push it onto the conveyor. A hot food dispenser and a cold food dispenser dispense hot and cold food onto the tortilla as it is moved by the conveyor. A hard taco shell is removable from a stack of taco shells by a reciprocably mounted peeler which separates the bottom taco shell from the stack and supports the stack while the bottom taco shell drops to the conveyor. The conveyor moves the taco shell past the hot and cold food dispensers.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4685387 (1987-08-01), Hanson et al.
patent: 5085138 (1992-02-01), Fehr et al.
patent: 5121677 (1992-06-01), LeClaire et al.

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