Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Measuring – testing – or controlling by inanimate means
Patent
1989-05-31
1990-02-20
Yeung, George
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Measuring, testing, or controlling by inanimate means
99452, 99455, 99535, 425 67, 425 71, 425142, 425308, 426506, 426517, 426582, A23C 1900, B29F 302
Patent
active
049025236
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for producing a cheese product uses an extrusion head having a plurality of extrusion apertures. Cheese is formed into a plurality of continuous ropes as the cheese passes through the extrusion apertures. To initially cool the cheese, each rope enters an extension upstream of each extrusion aperture. Each has an inside diameter equal to the diameter of its associated extrusion aperture. The cheese rope exits the extrusion aperture onto a canal table that is downwardly sloped from a feed end to an opposite discharge end. The canal table has a plurality of flumes extending between the ends, and each extruded rope of cheese is received in a flume. A brine solution is added at the feed end of the canal table to assist in cooling the cheese and moving the cheese to the discharge end. Sensors detect the position of the leading end of the cheese rope within each flume and independently activate knives to cut the cheese into the desired lengths.
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Ehlenfeldt Scott C.
Fritchen Stuart J.
Hall, Jr. George H.
Stainless Steel Fabricating Inc.
Yeung George
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