Foods and beverages: apparatus – Cooking – With other treating or handling of material
Patent
1977-08-08
1980-04-15
Mautz, George F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Cooking
With other treating or handling of material
99404, 99427, 99443C, A47J 3712
Patent
active
041977939
ABSTRACT:
Taco shell manufacturing equipment that comprises in combination with suitable means to form and bake disk tortillas, certain means to equilibrate moisture throughout such baked tortillas in a relatively short tempering time of the general order of a few minutes as they are passed in successive longitudinally-spaced groups of substantially transversely aligned disks continuously through an elongated lateral steam chamber upon traveling lateral open web belting means as received from baking means and while being subjected in this chamber to relatively low pressure steam until discharged by this belting means through an exit end opening of the steam chamber as tempered tortillas. Driven lateral transfer means receive the tempered tortillas in the longitudinally-spaced transverse groups from the exit end of the steam chamber and transports them laterally forward to the entrance end of tortillas folding and frying apparatus. The equipment includes means for transporting the tortillas in lap-folded form through a hot fat bath in the frying apparatus, and means to deliver the fried tortillas as lap-folded taco shells from the frying apparatus to suitable packing means for ultimate marketing.
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Hanson Sheldon H.
Olson James E.
Thompson Craig B.
Henderson Arthur O.
Heublein, Inc.
Mautz George F.
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