Apparatus for processing cheese
OwnerBernard Derodeinventor
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Abstract
Soft paste cheese is formed by mixing curd forming additives from burettes (12) to milk flowing in a funnel (11) and directing the resulting curd forming milk mixture into a basin-like receptacle (21) in which a mold block (23) made up of an array of vertically elongated perforated molds (24) of substantially uniform and unobstructed cross section have been placed to fill the receptacle and the molds and, after curds and whey have formed and stratified, removing the whey (34) and lifting the molds as a group onto a draining plate (37), placing inverted molds (39) of like cross section over the molds (24) and turning the mold assembly to turn the cheese (41) therein for further draining and removing the cheese from the molds (39).
Claims19
Apparatus for processing soft cheese comprising:
- a plurality of tubular molds having perforations therein for allowing separation of whey from curd formed in the molds;
- means for holding said molds in a liquid container during filling of said molds with a curd forming milk mixture and during curd formation in the molds, said means for holding said molds being constructed to hold the molds in an array with open spaces between the molds to allow whey to drain through said perforations following curd formation in the molds;
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- a plurality of intermold elements configured to extend into and substantially fill the spaces between the molds during filling thereof to confine the curd forming milk mixture to the interior of the molds, said intermold elements being removable from said spaces after curd has been formed in the molds to permit drainage of whey through said perforations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.