Method for handling of cheese blocks

A method for handling a plurality of cheese blocks that have been pressed out of a cheese curd into a corresponding plurality of moulds of a cassette press, the moulds being arranged in a cassette, the method comprising:

• rotating and lowering the cassette containing the moulds;
• after the rotating and lowering of the cassette, retracting a pick-up plunger into each of the moulds in the cassette up to the cheese block;
• after the retracting of the pick-up plungers, performing an operation of shaking or blowing the cheese curd compressed in the moulds to release the compressed cheese curd from the moulds such that, for each of the moulds in the cassette, the cheese block lies on the pick-up plunger;
• after the performing of the shaking or blowing operation, raising the cassette containing the moulds, rotating it, and guiding it back into the cassette press;
• and
• after the performing of the shaking or blowing operation, for each of the cheese blocks that was in the cassette:
• lowering the pick-up plunger with the cheese block,
• closing a clamping unit to fix the cheese block in position on the pick-up plunger,
• swivelling or rotating the cheese block through 180° towards a secondary mould,
• pushing the cheese block into the secondary mould with the pick-up plunger, and
• after the pushing of the cheese block into the secondary mould, opening the clamping unit and raising the pick-up plunger.