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US 4,612,853 AGranted
Cheese kettle
AssigneeMKT-tehtaat Oy
InventorsLauri Kostiainen, Heikki Kauppi
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AssigneeMKT-tehtaat Oy
InventorsLauri Kostiainen, Heikki Kauppi
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A cheese kettle (1) is used for the separation of whey from the cheese mix and the comminuting of the cheese mix into curd particles takes place. The cheese kettle (1) is composed of two side-by-side, substantially cylindrical parts (3), located so that they partly interpenetrate, and each provided with rotary tools (2) treating the cheese mix. It is essential that the cylindrical parts (3) of the kettle (1) are inclined towards each other so that their interpenetration increases in the upward direction. The kettle bottom (7), includes circular segments substantially at right angles to the axes (4) of the cylindrical parts (3), and slope towards the draining aperture (10) in the center of the bottom, whereby the kettle is emptied without any need to tilt it specifically, and the tools (2) in the kettle can be so shaped that their sides follow, during rotation, the bottom and sides of the kettle, whereby the cheese mix is given a complete mixing and comminuting treatment covering all parts of the kettle.
A cheese kettle comprising two substantially cylindrical parts each having an upwardly extending central axis, an upwardly extending mantle disposed concentrically about said central axis, said mantle forming the upwardly extending sides of said kettle and being in the form of circular arcs transversely of the central axis, and a bottom extending in a plane perpendicularly of the central axis and extending outwardly toward said sides, a rotary tool located in each of said cylindrical parts for treating the cheese mix, said tools being shaped so that during rotation the tool follows along the bottom and sides of the kettle for affording complete treatment of the cheese mix, the central axes of said cylindrical parts being inclined relative to the vertical toward one another in the direction upwardly from the bottoms thereof with said central axes disposed in spaced relation so that said mantles intersect along two oppositely disposed upwardly extending lines.
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