Patent ID: 6467401
Filing Date: 2002-10-22
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
Improved apparatus for cooking and forming tortillas into cooked tostadas, the combination comprising:a cooker including a tortilla loading station and a finished product tostada unloading station, said cooker including intermediate the loading and unloading stations a pan serving to contain a body of hot cooking oil, an endless conveyor extending between said tortilla loading station and said cooked tostada unloading station, said conveyor having a lower run traversing the hot oil bath, an array of complimentary pairs of forming molds with walls configured for entry and egress of cooking oil there through disposed on said conveyor, means on said conveyor serving to urge the mold pairs into an opened condition for receiving toasted tortillas at the loading station, then to urge the mold pairs into a closed condition for cooking, and thereafter to urge the molds into an open condition affording removal of the cooked tostada at the unloading station.