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A tortilla machine, called in Spanish máquina tortilladora, is a machine for processing corn dough (masa) into

corn tortilla In North America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla (, ) is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread, made from hominy, that is the whole kernels of maize treated with alkali to improve their nutrition in a process called nixtamalization. A simple do ...

s for serial production. They are usually found in ''tortillerías'' or tortilla shops in Mexico and some parts of the United States and produce from 30 to 60 tortillas per minute. These Mexican-patented machines receive a mass of nixtamalized corn for compression and shaping into thin tortillas. These are passed through an oven on a metal conveyor belt for baking, followed by packaging for sale to consumers. Tortillas are sold by weight rather than number.

History of patents

*1904 - Everardo Ramírez / Luis Romero *1905 - Ramón Benítez *1910 Luis Romero *1915 - La India S.A. company *1920 - C. Celorio / A. S. Olague *1921 - Luis Romero *1947 ; 1959 - Fausto Celorio *1963 ; 1975 - Fausto Celorio

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