Method and installation for stripping a piece of soft cheese from a mold
AssigneeCartier, Inc.
InventorMichel Boucher
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Abstract
In the method and installation of this invention a piece of soft cheese formed in a mold constituted by a vertical cylinder open at both ends and resting on a plate with one of the open ends is removed from the mold cylinder by simultaneously lifting the mold cylinder and the piece of cheese to displace them away from the plate. The piece of cheese is displaced by a suction cup mounted above the other open end of the mold cylinder and the mold cylinder is displaced by a vertically movable clamp holding the mold cylinder tightly. The plate is then substituted by a support for the piece of cheese and the suction cup is vertically displaced relative to the clamp so as to extract the piece of cheese through the open mold cylinder end and to place it on the support.
Claims9
An installation for removing a piece of soft cheese formed in a mold constituted by a vertical cylinder open at both ends and resting on a plate with one of the open ends, which comprises
- (a) a group of said mold cylinders,
- (b) a suction cup connectable to a source of vacuum and mounted above the other open end of each mold cylinder for holding the piece of cheese,
- (c) a clamping means arranged to hold the mold cylinders tightly,
- (d) a first means for vertically displacing the suction cups,
- (e) a second means for vertically displacing the clamping means, and
- (f) control means for synchronously operating the first and second displacing means for first simultaneously lifting the mold cylinders and the pieces of cheese therein and then displacing the pieces of cheese relative to the mold cylinders until the pieces of cheese have been extracted from the mold cylinders through the one open ends.
The installation of claim 4, further comprising a gripping means arranged at each side of the conveyor for clamping in position the plate while the mold cylinders and pieces of cheese therein are lifted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.