Foods and beverages: apparatus – Mechanical – fluid or heat treatment of dairy food – With isolation of a watery constituent
Patent
1987-03-04
1988-06-14
Simone, Timothy F.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Mechanical, fluid or heat treatment of dairy food
With isolation of a watery constituent
99456, 99465, A01J 2500, A01J 2513, A01J 2515
Patent
active
047504153
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In pressing curd to mold cheeses the curd and whey conventionally are poured into molds having perforated walls and loosely placed on perforated plates whereupon the curd for a period of time is allowed to shrink under its own weight. During such period of time the molds are reversed a number of times in order for the resulting cheese to become as homogeneous as possible. Sometimes this self-pressing is carried out in combination with forced pressing by means of piston-like devices. The forced pressing will shorten the pressing time. The molds and the bottoms thereof, and the plate on which they are placed, are perforated to allow the whey to escape.
This prior art has several disadvantages. Even when the reversal of the molds is carried out by mechanical means this operation is time-consuming and costly. At least in the case of certain types of cheese the molds must be emptied by force. It is especially difficult to make tall cheeses in this matter.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention therefor has for its purpose the provision of a cheese press which eliminates the above disadvantages of the prior art. Especially, the cheese press of the invention is to allow also tall cheeses to be manufactured without special difficulty, and it is to permit pressing the cheeses as desired without the cheeses sticking. These purposes are obtained by the device of the claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of the complete device,
FIG. 2 a top planar view of the filling device,
FIG. 3 a top planar view of the pressing device, and
FIG. 4 a partial end elevational view of the mold reverser.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
The main portion of the preferred embodiment of the invention is constituted by a mold reverser 1 supporting a number of cheese molds 2 and associated with a device 3 for filling molds 2 with curd 0 and whey, a water basin 4 into which for reasons known to the expert cheeses 0 are delivered upon the pressing having been completed, and preferably a device 5 for forced pressing of curd. The elevational sub-views of FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 show filling device 3 and pressing device 5 in top planar views, and a row of formers 2 standing on the mold reverser in a partial elevational view.
Curd and whey are pumped to filling device 3 from a supply tank, not shown, to a device 6 which acts to evenly distribute the curd and the whey over the lengths of a number of preferably perforated rollers 7. These are mutually parallel and horizontal and have a length corresponding to the length of the rows of cheese molds 2 to be placed on mold reverser 1 transversely to the longitudinal direction thereof. Furthermore, rollers 7 are positioned adjacent each other with small mutual separations and above each other in a staircase arrangement wherein they overlap mutually as seen both vertically from above and horizontally laterally from viewing directions normal to the longitudinal axes of the rollers. The material emanating from distribution device 6, of a funnel-like configuration in planar view, will fall on the top face of top roller 7. Rollers 7 are rotated by means of a drive, not shown, such that the top peripheral surfaces of rollers 7 move from distribution device 6 so that, as will be immediately understood, the curd and whey delivered from this device will be moved downwardly from roller to roller. As this takes place the main portion of the curd will be transported downwardly along the staircase of rollers 7 while the main portion of the whey will be drained through the perforations of the rollers and/or the interstices between the rollers wherefrom it will fall down onto an inclined plate 8 along which it will run downwardly to be captured by a forward bottom lip of the plate from where, via a conduit 9, it will be conveyed to a tank (not shown).
The curd and a certain quantity of remaining whey will fall down from lowermost roller 7 into a horizontally elongated funnel 10. The latter is common to a number of vertical tubes 11 co
REFERENCES:
patent: 2846767 (1958-08-01), Hensgen et al.
patent: 3465439 (1969-09-01), Wakeman
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