公开(公告)号：US4273791A

公开(公告)日：1981-06-16

申请号：US88410

申请日：1979-10-26

申请人： Sheldon H. Hanson ,  Craig B. Thompson ,  James E. Olson

发明人： Sheldon H. Hanson ,  Craig B. Thompson ,  James E. Olson

IPC分类号： A21B5/08 ,  A47J37/12 ,  A21D15/04

CPC分类号： A21B5/08 ,  A47J37/1214

摘要： A process for making fried taco shells. Disc tortillas are formed from a sheet of ground corn masa dough, and the formed disc tortillas are passed laterally through a heated baking oven on laterally moving open web support means in successive, appreciably longitudinally spaced transverse rows, each such row including a plurality of the tortillas. The baked tortillas are transferred in the aforesaid row arrangement through an elongated steam chamber and exposed to low pressure steam in the chamber for a time period of about a few seconds to about a few minutes. The steam exposure effects tempering and moisture equilibration in the tortillas. The tempered tortillas are transferred into and through deep fat frying apparatus.

摘要翻译： 制作炸玉米饼壳的过程。 圆盘玉米粉圆饼由一片磨碎的玉米粉组合物形成，并且形成的圆盘玉米粉圆饼在横向移动的开放幅材支撑装置上横向通过加热的烘烤炉，在连续的，明显纵向间隔的横向行中，每个这样的行包括多个 玉米饼。 烘烤的玉米粉圆饼通过细长的蒸汽室以上述排排列转移，并暴露于室内的低压蒸汽大约几秒至大约几分钟的时间。 蒸汽暴露会影响玉米粉圆饼的回火和水分平衡。 调味的玉米粉圆饼通过深层油炸机转移进去。

公开(公告)号：US4197793A

公开(公告)日：1980-04-15

申请号：US822737

申请日：1977-08-08

申请人： Sheldon H. Hanson ,  Craig B. Thompson ,  James E. Olson

发明人： Sheldon H. Hanson ,  Craig B. Thompson ,  James E. Olson

IPC分类号： A21B5/08 ,  A47J37/12

CPC分类号： A47J37/1214 ,  A21B5/08

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 塔科壳制造设备包括与合适的手段相结合以形成和烘烤圆盘玉米粉圆饼，某些方法是在相当短的回火时间内平衡这些烘烤的玉米粉圆饼的水分，通常在几分钟的时间内连续地纵向间隔 一组基本上横向对准的盘连续地穿过细长的侧向蒸汽室，当从烘烤装置接收到的行进的侧开式卷筒纸捆绑装置时，并且在该室中经受相对低压的蒸汽，直到由该捆扎装置通过出口端开口排出 蒸汽室作为回火玉米饼。 驱动的侧向转移装置从蒸汽室的出口端沿纵向间隔开的横向组中接收回火的玉米粉圆饼，并将它们横向前进到玉米饼圆饼折叠和煎炸装置的入口端。 该设备包括用于通过煎炸设备中的热脂肪浴将折叠形式的玉米粉圆饼运送的装置，以及将油炸玉米饼作为卷边折叠的玉米饼壳从煎炸设备输送到用于最终营销的合适的包装装置的装置。