| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE37008 |
Methods for handling masa |
January 2, 2001 |
| Masa handling methods for the continuous processing of masa type dough in conjunction with commonly available feed processing equipment, such as a masa extruder, an oven, or cooling apparatus. One masa handling method includes a masa separator having a pair of opposed, endless belt conve |
| D391125 |
Fish shaped chip cutter |
February 24, 1998 |
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| D383648 |
Fish shaped tortilla cutter |
September 16, 1997 |
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| D383589 |
Fish shaped taco shell |
September 16, 1997 |
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| D383588 |
Fish shaped tortilla chip |
September 16, 1997 |
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| D383587 |
Fish shaped tortilla chip |
September 16, 1997 |
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| D383586 |
Fish shaped tortilla chip |
September 16, 1997 |
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| 7222726 |
Oven conveyor alignment system apparatus and method |
May 29, 2007 |
| An oven conveyor alignment system for maintaining a conveyor belt centered on its supporting rollers is disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates an image of alignment and stores it as a digital pixel representation. Thus, the system is able to take advantage of new imp |
| 7156644 |
Saddle and sheeting head using the same |
January 2, 2007 |
| A saddle for a sheeting head includes a pair of semi-circular concave edges configured to seal a pair of rollers. The oppositely facing concave edges each include a tongue that fits in a corresponding groove in the roller and a retracted concave edge adapted to wrap around half the r |
| 7131529 |
Oven conveyor alignment system apparatus and method |
November 7, 2006 |
| An oven conveyor alignment system for maintaining a conveyor belt centered on its supporting rollers is disclosed. The system comprises a camera that generates an image of alignment and stores it as a digital pixel representation. Thus, the system is able to take advantage of new imp |
| 7086325 |
Single sensor press system |
August 8, 2006 |
| A tortilla press utilizing a single sensor provides improved efficiency and accuracy. The press has a belt driven by a motor and a platen driven by a hydraulic cylinder. The motor is controlled by an AC inverter. A programmable logic controller (PLC) controls the AC inverter and hydr |
| 6739445 |
Multi-conveyor system |
May 25, 2004 |
| A conveyor system for transitioning articles between an external intermittent conveyor and an external continuous conveyor system includes an upper conveyor and lower conveyor. Each conveyor includes an infeed arm movable toward and away from the intermittent conveyor. Each infeed arm |
| 6530771 |
Rotary cutter handling system |
March 11, 2003 |
| A cutter carriage for moving a rotary cutter between a front side of the back roller and a back side of the back roller. The preferred system has a pair of guide rods located on the left and right side plates of the sheeting head. The rotary cutter is held at either end by pivot arms. Ea |
| 5979302 |
Oven with slide-out transfer guides |
November 9, 1999 |
| An oven with slide-out transfer guides is provided for use in conjunction with multiple conveyor ovens to provide quick and convenient accessibility to an oven's interior in case of product transfer difficulties. A slidable rail assembly is mounted in the oven, which also has an access p |
| 5811137 |
Dough Sheeter having independant internally-driven self-powered rollers |
September 22, 1998 |
| A sheeter head having a pair of counterrotating internally-driven sheeter rollers is disclosed. The sheeting rollers each include an independent internal drive motor and gear box affixed to a nonrotating shaft, along with a nonrotating idle shaft on an opposite end of the roller. The spe |
| 5763861 |
Counter stacker for tortilla food products |
June 9, 1998 |
| Problems in counting and stacking fried food products such as tostadas are solved by an improved counter/stacker device in which tortilla food products ride a first moving belt through a photoelectric counting station. After being counted the product drops into a stack retainer shape |
| 5749283 |
Oven with slide-out transfer guides |
May 12, 1998 |
| An oven with slide-out transfer guides is provided for use in conjunction with multiple conveyors ovens to provide quick and convenient accessibility to an oven's interior in case of product transfer difficulties. A slidable rail assembly is mounted in the oven, which also has an acc |
| 5674543 |
Dough sheeter with improved pinch-point adjustment mechanism |
October 7, 1997 |
| An improved pinch-point gap adjustment mechanism for a dough sheeter having two counterrotating rollers, one of which is horizontally moveable, is disclosed. The pinch-point gap adjustment mechanism incorporates a lever-action arrangement to provide mechanical assistance to an operator |
| 5576033 |
Masa rework assist system |
November 19, 1996 |
| A rework assist belt system for use on a sheeting head used to form masa dough into thin sheets improves the final product by preventing contamination with fragments of rework dough. The rework assist belt system prevents rework from prematurely detaching from the front roller by mov |
| 5558885 |
Inserts for sheeting head |
September 24, 1996 |
| An improved hopper structure is described for sheeting heads which use rollers to process dough into thin sheets. Inserts which are attached to the hopper endwalls are equipped with a tongue-in-groove structure to prevent dough from escaping. The edges of the hopper inserts are contoured |
| 4109568 |
Distributing and processing apparatus |
August 29, 1978 |
| An apparatus for proofing lumps of dough has an endless conveyor. A series of first cups are mounted on one side of the conveyor for transporting lumps of dough and series of second cups are mounted on the opposite side of the conveyor of transporting lumps of dough. The second cups are |
| 3976188 |
Distributing and processing apparatus |
August 24, 1976 |
| Apparatus for distributing a series of objects into two paths comprise a series of containers for successively receiving the objects, equipment for advancing that series of containers in an endless path, equipment for depositing the objects in successive ones of the advancing containers, |
| 3946856 |
Apparatus for proofing lumps of dough |
March 30, 1976 |
| Apparatus for proofing lumps of dough comprises a series of elongate conveyors for successively transporting the lumps of dough, equipment for mounting the elongate conveyors in a spatially staggered relationship, a plurality of auxiliary conveying systems each associated with a differen |
