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US 4,382,969 AGranted
Method for treating cheese
AssigneesSchreiber Foods, Inc., Butland Industries, Ltd.
InventorFrederick J. Sadler
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Abstract
A method is disclosed for treating cheese, preferably cheese offcuts, to form a reconstituted block of cheese. The offcuts are first cut into small chips and then repressed in an evacuated environment to form the reconstituted block of cheese which may then be cut to commercially saleable sizes and packaged.
Claims8
A method for treating cheese, said method comprising the steps of:
- feeding said cheese into a first chamber;
- linearly compressing said cheese under force with a first ram in said first chamber against an apertured plate so as to force said cheese through apertures in said plate;
- in a second chamber, passing cutting means over the exit surface of said apertured plate so as to comminute said cheese at it emerges from said apertures into said second chamber into thin chips greater in diameter than in length, and accumulating said comminuted chips of cheese into a third chamber while maintaining a vacuum in said second and third chambers, and;
- with a second ram, linearly advancing said chips of cheese accumulated in said third chamber under compressive force into and through a converging nozzle such that adjacent comminuted chips of cheese are bonded and agglomerated to form a substantially homogeneous cheese mass emerging from said nozzle.
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