Foods and beverages: apparatus – Mechanical – fluid or heat treatment of dairy food – With temperature or atmosphere modification
Patent
1983-08-22
1985-09-10
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Mechanical, fluid or heat treatment of dairy food
With temperature or atmosphere modification
99456, 99460, 425 85, 425147, A01J 2512, A23C 1900
Patent
active
045399026
ABSTRACT:
Cheese curd is fed into the top of a hollow perforated column in a tower at a sub-atmospheric pressure so as to form in the column a pillar of curd supported on a guillotine blade which closes off an opening in the bottom of the tower. A former unit below the tower has an upright open-ended cylinder sealed against the bottom of the tower, and an elevator within the cylinder. The guillotine blade is withdrawn, the pillar of curd lowered into the cylinder by the elevator, and the guillotine blade returned to its closed position so as to cut off a block of curd from the bottom end of the pillar of curd. The elevator is then forced upwards to compress the block of curd within the cylinder. The former unit is subsequently lowered, pivoted into a horizontal position, and the elevator driven along the cylinder to eject the block of curd.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4061794 (1977-12-01), Charles
patent: 4152101 (1979-05-01), Charles
patent: 4420296 (1983-12-01), Anderson
Brockwell Ian P.
Hancock Herbert W.
Alfa-Laval Cheese Systems Limited
Simone Timothy F.
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