Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Coating or spreading plastic on an edible preform and...
Patent
1997-06-24
1999-06-15
Cano, Milton
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Coating or spreading plastic on an edible preform and...
426138, 426502, 426512, 426514, 426496, 994501, 994502, 994506, A21C 908
Patent
active
059120355
ABSTRACT:
Elimination of the problems of a manual burrito folding operation is obtained by a high speed burrito folding machine which eliminates the need for human operators. The machine includes an endless conveyor having an entrance portion, an intermediate portion downstream of the entrance portion, and an exit portion downstream of the intermediate portion. A plurality of platform assemblies are pivotally mounted on the conveyor about a substantially vertical axis and spaced apart from one another. The swinging of a first movable platform of each platform assembly sequentially forms a first fold in each burrito. Downstream of the forming of the first fold, each burrito is sequentially revolved to a position in which the axis of the first fold is substantially transverse to the length of the conveyor. Each of a pair of spaced apart portions of the burrito are folded to form spaced apart second and third folds in the burrito which extend along fold lines which are transverse to the first fold. At the exit portion of the conveyor, each thrice-folded burritos are transferred to an the additional conveyor upon which the thrice-folded burritos are folded around a substantially horizontal axis extending transverse to the length of the additional conveyor to provide fourth and final folds to the burrito as it approaches the exit portion of the additional conveyor.
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Cano Milton
Howden Food Equipment, Inc.
McQuillan John Q.
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