Method for producing blocks of cheese curd

Details Method for producing blocks of cheese curd Method for producing blocks of cheese curd

1988-11-29

1990-07-17

Yeung, George

Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products

Processes

Molding, casting, or shaping

100 39, 100 98R, 426518, A23C 1900, B30B 1100

Patent

active

049420526

ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are method and apparatus for continuously producing blocks of cheese curd from a sheet of cheese curd. The apparatus may include means for producing the sheet of cheese curd but includes inclined surfaces for guiding the sheet into a conditioning tower. The tower receives the sheet in overlying face-to-face relation. A lower slide gate is disposed at the bottom of the tower to permit build up of a curd mass in the tower. Thereafter, a combination sliding gate and knife blade positioned above the slide gate is closed so as to cut a block of cheese curd above the lower slide gate. A carton may be elevated to telescopically surround a discharge section provided at the bottom of the tower to receive the block. When the knife blade closes, the curd thereabove is supported and the lower slide gate is then opened, allowing the block to descend through the discharge section into the elevated carton. Thereafter, the carton is lowered to withdraw the block from the tower and the slide gate is closed to accommodate another cycle of operation.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3763769 (1973-10-01), Bysouth et al.
patent: 4382969 (1983-05-01), Sadler

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