Patent ID: 7754271

Claim:
A method of folding a plurality of cooked eggs, the method comprising: adding liquid egg into a plurality of cooking pans in an endless linear array, the pans having at least three side walls, a bottom and a ramp which extends downward to the bottom, the array of pans movable as an endless conveyor; cooking the eggs in the pans where they at least have begun to coagulate in the pans; moving the coagulated egg in the pans toward a plurality of spatulas having bodies which are generally flat in an array above the pans, the spatulas rotatable about an axis which is perpendicular to the linear array of pans, the spatulas movable upwardly away from the pans and downwardly toward the pans; moving a leading edge of the spatulas down onto the downwardly extending ramp of the pans as the pans move toward the flat spatulas, the flat spatulas being held at an angle that is about the angle of the downwardly extending ramp at a point of engagement of the spatula with the ramp; and rotating the flat spatulas through an angle that is effective for folding the coagulated egg over onto itself as the pans move past the spatulas toward the downstream end of the endless linear array.