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US 4,509,413 AGranted
Procedure for treating curd particles and cheese mould for applying the procedure
AssigneeMKT-tehtaat Oy
InventorsCarl-Gustav Granberg, Heikki Kauppi
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AssigneeMKT-tehtaat Oy
InventorsCarl-Gustav Granberg, Heikki Kauppi
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The present invention concerns a procedure for treating curd particles (10) produced in a cheese kettle, and a cheese mould (2) for applying the procedure, made of strainer sheet and provided with a separate cover part (4). The cheese mould (2) is placed in a tapping vat (1), where it separates the curd particles (10) tapped from the cheese kettle from the whey (9) accompanying them. It is essential in the invention that on the mould (2) is used a strainer-like cover part with which the mould is closed for the duration of curd particle tapping. By this expedient the necessity to level the curd particle surface before the subsequent pre-pressing step is avoided. In the pre-pressing, the strainer-like cover part (4) of the mould can be used, and the object of the pre-pressing step is to compact the particles into a cheese block that can be conveyed to further treatment.
An apparatus for treating a mixture of whey and curd particles obtained from the cooking step in a cheese-making process, said apparatus comprising a vat, at least one cheese mould positioned within said vat, said at least one cheese mould having a bottom part and side wall parts extending upwardly from said bottom part, said bottom part and said side wall parts are made of a strainer sheet capable of draining whey from the interior of said cheese mold, a separate strainer-like cover part positionable within said side wall parts and being vertically movable relative to said bottom part and side wall parts, said cover part having an opening for supplying whey and curd particles into said cheese mould, a supply conduit connected to said opening in said cover part for filling whey and curd particles into said cheese mould while said cheese mould is closed by said cover part.
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