James Noe Jimenez

US Patent:

40378012, Jul 26, 1977

Filed:

Mar 1, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/662457

Inventors:

James A. Jimenez - Temple City CA

Assignee:

Electra Food Machinery, Inc. - El Monte CA

International Classification:

B02C 714
B02C 716

US Classification:

241247

Abstract:

An apparatus for grinding hard grains and similar materials having a unique force feed arrangement which insures uniform material feed to the grinding members and a resulting uniform output of ground material from the apparatus.

US Patent:

41844181, Jan 22, 1980

Filed:

Jul 7, 1978

Appl. No.:

5/922652

Inventors:

James A. Jimenez - Temple City CA

Assignee:

Electra Food Machinery, Inc. - El Monte CA

International Classification:

A47J 3712

US Classification:

99353

Abstract:

An improved apparatus for preparing taco shells from uncooked tortillas comprising a vessel having shaped side walls for containing cooking oil, a conveyor assembly including a deformable endless wire mesh belt for moving the tortillas through the cooking oil and a plurality of mold members cooperatively associated with the conveyor assembly for forming the tortillas into taco shells. In operation of the apparatus, the wire mesh belt slides along, and is controllably deformed by the shaped side walls of the vessel thereby minimizing the amount of cooking oil which is used. An additional novel feature of the apparatus resides in the unique arrangement for removing the formed taco shell directly from the rearward end of the apparatus after it has been cooked and depositing it onto an auxillary conveyor for transport to a packaging station.

US Patent:

41711980, Oct 16, 1979

Filed:

Aug 31, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/829292

Inventors:

James A. Jimenez - Temple City CA
Alfred A. Aguirre - La Mirada CA
Apolonio Reyes - Los Angeles CA

International Classification:

B29F 304

US Classification:

425377

Abstract:

An apparatus for continuously extruding pliant material into thin sheets. Rather than following the standard approach of using cooperating rollers to extrude the material, in the apparatus of the present invention, the material is extruded through the cooperative interaction of a multi-sided rotor mechanism and a reciprocating barrier member. This arrangement overcomes many of the drawbacks inherent in extrusion devices of standard design including the undesirable tendancy of the material being extruded to tenaciously adhere to the rollers after extrusion.

US Patent:

41895045, Feb 19, 1980

Filed:

Jan 12, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/002896

Inventors:

James A. Jimenez - Temple City CA

Assignee:

Electra Food Machinery, Inc. - El Monte CA

International Classification:

A23L 101
A23L 120

US Classification:

426508

Abstract:

A method and apparatus for cooking corn is disclosed whereby corn particles are immersed in water in a cooking vessel to form a mass of corn particles, and the water is circulated throughout said mass. The temperature of the mass is raised and the corn particles agitated by directing steam, from a steam chamber, into said mass by deflecting said steam radially outwardly through perforated side walls in the steam chamber. The steam flow is then stopped whereafter the water circulation is stopped and cooked particles of corn are obtained.

US Patent:

40068315, Feb 8, 1977

Filed:

Jul 28, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/599649

Inventors:

James A. Jimenez - Temple City CA

Assignee:

Electra Food Machinery, Inc. - El Monte CA

International Classification:

B65G 5714

US Classification:

214 6D

Abstract:

A method of stacking articles and an automatically controlled apparatus for successively receiving articles formed of rigid or semirigid sheet material such as cooked or partially cooked tortillas or similar food products, automatically formed orderly stacks of a predetermined number of articles, and then automatically carrying away for packaging each stack when completed.

US Patent:

43924182, Jul 12, 1983

Filed:

Nov 7, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/849400

Inventors:

James A. Jimenez - Temple City CA

Assignee:

Electra Food Machinery, Inc. - El Monte CA

International Classification:

A47J 2704

US Classification:

99330

Abstract:

An apparatus for cooking large quantities of a food product such as corn. To ensure that the individual particles of the food product being prepared will not stick together and will be uniformly cooked, each particle is surrounded by water at a controlled elevated temperature during the cooking cycle. Mechanical agitation of the product during cooking is not necessary and steeping can be accomplished within the cooking vessel.