Patent ID: 7487718

Claim:
A folding platform for forming a folded food product made from a flexible shell, said platform comprising a base having an upper surface and an elongate edge formed along a side of said upper surface of said base; a first flap having an upper surface, a first elongate edge formed along a first side of said upper surface of said first flap, and a second elongate edge formed along a second side of said upper surface of said first flap opposite said first side thereof, said first flap being pivotally attached to said base along a first axis including said elongate edge of said base and said first elongate edge of said first flap; and a second flap having an upper surface and a first elongate edge formed along a first side of said upper surface of said second flap; said second flap being pivotally attached to said first flap along a second axis including said second elongate edge of said first flap and said first elongate edge of said second flap; said folding platform being adapted to assume a substantially open configuration so as to permit a flexible food product shell to be draped across said first and second flaps and said upper surface of said base, and a food filling portion to be deposited on said shell above said base proximate said first axis; said first and second flaps being adapted to rotate about said first axis in a first rotational direction relative to said base so as to cause a side portion of the shell, initially draped across said first and second flaps, to overlay the food filling portion deposited on said base; said second flap being adapted to rotate about said second axis in said first rotational direction relative to said first flap; and said second flap being further adapted, via said second flap rotating about said second axis in said first rotational direction relative to said first flap, to form an elongate fold in the overlaying shell side portion, and to tuck the elongate fold beneath the food filling portion opposite said first axis.