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US 2011/0226102 A1Published application
Cutting Pieces Out of a Mass of Cheese
AssigneeHochland SE
InventorsAndreas Biggel, Roland Zeuschner
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AssigneeHochland SE
InventorsAndreas Biggel, Roland Zeuschner
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Disclosed is a method for cutting pieces having a predefined length, i.e. sticks, out of a mass of cheese. In said method, the mass of cheese is shaped into a wide cheese bar (1, 11) having a predetermined thickness in a continuous process, the cheese bar (1, 11) is fed to a cutting device by means of a belt conveyor (2) at a certain conveying rate, the cheese bar (1, 11) is first cut into parallel longitudinal strips using longitudinal cutting means (5), and the longitudinal strips that lie parallel next to each other on the belt conveyor (2) are cut into pieces using a transverse cutting means (4) comprising a transverse cutting knife (12) which extends across at least part of the cheese bar (1, 11). The transverse cutting knife, the movement of which is adjustable, is conveyed along with the cheese bar (1, 11) at the conveying rate during the transverse cutting process. The pieces of cheese obtained following the longitudinal and transverse cutting processes remain on the belt conveyor (2) in order to be discharged.
Method for the cutting of pieces of predetermined length (“sticks”) from a cheese mass, wherein the cheese mass is shaped in a continuous process to a wide cheese bar of predetermined thickness, wherein the cheese bar is fed to a cutting apparatus by means of a conveyor belt with conveying speed, wherein the cheese bar is cut with means for longitudinal cutting initially in longitudinal strips lying parallel next to one another, wherein the longitudinal strips lying parallel next to one another on the conveyor belt are cut into pieces by means of a transverse cutting means,
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