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US 7,063,008 B2Granted
Injera manufacturing system
AssigneeZelfiwu, Inc.
InventorWundeh Admassu
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Abstract
A manufacturing system for the manufacture of an Ethiopian staple food referred to as Injera and sometimes Enjera, including an apparatus and a method or process. The system includes a depositing stage, a spreading stage, a flash heating stage, and one or more finishing stages. The one or more finishing stages may including baking, cooling or otherwise applying heat for a desired finishing result.
Claims5
An injera cooking system, comprising:
- a conveyor system with a conveyor surface;
- an injera batter deposit stage which includes a source of injera batter and an injera batter delivery aperture disposed to deposit injera batter on the conveyor surface;
- an injera batter spreader stage disposed to receive deposited injera batter on the conveyor surface, and which includes a spreader which spreads the injera batter to a desired thickness and wherein the spreader comprises an air conduit with at least one air aperture disposed to impart air on the injera batter on the conveyor surface;
- a flash heat stage disposed to receive spread injera batter on the conveyor surface from the spreader stage, the flash heat stage including a flash heater which applies sufficient heat to the injera batter to cause moisture in the injera batter to flash evaporate;
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- a finishing stage disposed to receive injera on the conveyor surface from the flash heat stage, the finishing stage including a heater disposed to apply heat to the injera batter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.