Abstract: A device and method for bagging thin flexible members such as a stack of tortillas having a curved pan for accepting and bending the stack of tortillas, a bagging head for opening and positioning a bag adjacent curved pan and an actuator for inserting the curved pan with the stack of tortillas thereon into the opened bag and transferring the bag with the tortillas therein onto a conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus for stacking tortillas includes a loading unit in the form of a trough-like loading conveyor for transporting a series of dough members while forming a small depression in each of the dough members. A container in the form of an upright hollow cylinder having a retractable loading surface is positioned at the discharge end of the loading conveyor. The tortillas are stacked one-on-top-of-the-other on the retractable loading surface by the loading conveyor. A conveyor located beneath the container receives the stack of tortillas upon retraction of the loading surface. A counter on an inclined chute leading to the conveyor accurately counts the number of tortillas entering the container.