Foods and beverages: apparatus – Mechanical – fluid or heat treatment of dairy food – With temperature or atmosphere modification
Patent
1988-03-18
1989-05-16
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Mechanical, fluid or heat treatment of dairy food
With temperature or atmosphere modification
99456, 99466, 99536, 366313, 366325, A01J 2511, A23C 1900
Patent
active
048298905
ABSTRACT:
A counterflow washer and cooler for processing cottage cheese curd and whey material comprising a horizontal housing, and a material and fluid blender rotatable mounted in the housing. The blender includes a rotatable shaft having at least one material lifting and conveying assembly rigidly mounted thereon having a material supporting surface and a guiding and conveying wall for moving material longitudinally through the housing in counterflow to the direction of flow of a washing and cooling fluid passing through the housing.
The method disclosed is for washing and cooling cottage cheese curds and includes the steps of disposing a housing in a horizontal position, admitting a washing and cooling fluid into and upstream end of the housing and discharging it at a downstream end to establish a reservoir of flowing fluid, placing the material into the reservoir adjacent the dowstream end, lifting the material in the reservoir transversely to the normal direction of fluid flow, lowering the material in the reservoir at an acute angle relative to the normal direction of fluid flow to move the material in an upstream direction, and repeating the lifting and lowering steps until the material is discharged at the upstream end of the housing.
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Kusel Equipment Company
McGaughey Donald C.
Nilles James E.
Simone Timothy F.
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