Curd-draining machine
AssigneeCmt Costruzioni Meccaniche E Tecnologia SPA
InventorStefano TOMATIS
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Abstract
A channel, which is slanted upwardly from a loading end thereof to an unloading end thereof by an angle in the range of 10° to 45°, accommodates a motorized screw feeder; a settling tank, defined above the loading end of the channel, has at least two areas which are separated by at least one filtering surface which is permeable to whey; a first area is adapted to receive curd to be drained, and is open toward the channel so that the curd can fall into the channel by gravity and be conveyed by the screw feeder toward the unloading end; the second area is adapted to receive the whey filtered through the filtering wall.
Claims11
1-10. (canceled)
A curd-draining machine, comprising:
- a channel slanted upwardly from a loading end thereof to an unloading end thereof by an angle in the range of 10° to 45°,
- at least one motorized screw feeder which is operatively received in the channel, and
- a settling tank defined above the loading end of said channel and having at least two areas separated by at least one filtering surface which is permeable to whey, a first one of said at least two areas, which is adapted to receive curd to be drained, being open toward said channel so that the curd can fall into the channel by gravity and be conveyed by said screw feeder toward said unloading end, a second one of said at least two areas being adapted to receive whey filtered through said at least one filtering surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.