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Tortilla transfer guide and method for transferring tortillas
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Inventors: Navarro, Francisco; Valdez, Manuel; Buendia, Jose M.;
Assignee: Machine Masters, Inc. (El Monte, CA)
Primary Examiner: Simone; Timothy F.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Pretty, Schroeder, Brueggemann & Clark
An apparatus and method for maintaining the lateral spacing of parallel rows of tortillas while transferring tortillas between two vertically spaced conveyors. The tortilla transfer guide is positioned adjacent to two generally horizontal, vertically spaced endless belt conveyors. The tortilla transfer guide has at least one scalloped section having a center of curvature aligned with the longitudinal axes respectively corresponding to an associated row of tortillas travelling towards the guide on the upper conveyor and an associated row travelling away from the guide on the lower conveyor. Each scalloped section is capable of moving a laterally misaligned tortilla towards its center of curvature, which is aligned with the proper longitudinal row axis on the lower conveyor. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides a transfer guide that successfully guides laterally spaced rows of tortillas between two conveyors so that the tortillas exit onto the lower conveyor having the proper lateral spacing between the tortilla rows.
The transfer guide apparatus of the invention is for use within or in conjunction with commonly available commercial food processing equipment, such as an oven or cooling apparatus for the heating or the cooling of tortillas.
By way of example, the present inventors refer to tortillas, but intend to include other similarly shaped dough pieces within the meaning of the word "tortilla.
" Such processing equipment generally has a pair of generally horizontal, vertically spaced, endless belt conveyors, each passing around an associated one of two vertically spaced rollers.
The tortillas are fed onto the upper conveyor for movement, in alignment with laterally spaced, longitudinal axes to dispose the tortillas in parallel rows along the upper surface of the upper conveyor.
The upper surfaces of the upper and lower conveyors travel relatively toward and away from the transfer guide, respectively.
The transfer guide is intended to guide the tortillas in each row from the upper conveyor to the upper surface of the lower conveyor in a manner that causes the alignment of each tortilla with one of the parallel longitudinal axes associated with the row along which the tortilla is intended to travel on the upper surface of the lower conveyor.
More particularly, the transfer guide has a vertically and laterally extending curved wall spaced from and facing towards the adjacent ends of the two conveyors.
The curved wall is positioned to receive the tortillas from the upper surface of the upper conveyor and guide them down and around in a generally curved path onto the lower conveyor.
The curved wall forms at least one scallop extending laterally and dished away from the adjacent conveyors.
Each scallop has a center of curvature aligned with one of the longitudinal axes along which the tortillas travel in their rows
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