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US 4,817,515 AGranted
Cheese press
OwnerPoul Bjerre, Per Busk +2inventors
InventorsPoul Bjerre, Per Busk, Knud Gasbjerg, Curt Meinild
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OwnerPoul Bjerre, Per Busk +2inventors
InventorsPoul Bjerre, Per Busk, Knud Gasbjerg, Curt Meinild
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A cheese press for a plurality of rows of cheese moulds is constituted by a plurality of individual cassette shaped pressing units (30) each adapted to receive a row of moulds or mould batteries and each ceilingwise provided with pressing means (68) for pressing the moulds. Each of these units can be made as a lightweight construction e.g. of stainless sheet steel and is preferably made as a heat insulated tube, which is endwise closable so as to be vacuum resistent. Especially the production of Cheddar cheese is highly accelerated when the pressing is effected under vacuum. The cassette units may be arranged in a conveyor system for consecutive cooperation with a loading and unloading station, or they may be arranged more or less stationarily for cooperation with means for transporting the moulds to and from the cassette units.
A cheese press comprising at least one pressing unit for receiving cheese moulds, said at least one pressing unit comprising an elongate and continuous tube-like housing including a bottom portion for supporting cheese moulds, longitudinal side wall portions and a roof portions, the longitudinal side wall portions and roof portion of the housing being formed as an integral structure engaged with said bottom portion along the longitudinal edges thereof, said housing being adapted to permit introduction of cheese moulds through an end thereof, pressure exerting means located within said housing adjacent said roof portion and actuatable from outside said housing to exert pressure towards said bottom portion, wherein the pressure exerting means comprises an inflatable hose mounted lengthwise in said housing, and whereby a cheese mould can be introduced into said housing and pressed between said pressure exerting means and said bottom portion of said housing.
A cheese press comprising at least one pressing unit for receiving cheese moulds, said at least one pressing unit comprising an elongate and continuous tube-like housing including a bottom portion for supporting cheese moulds, longitudinal side wall portions and a roof portion, the longitudinal side wall portions and roof portion of the housing being formed as an integral structure engaged with said bottom portion along the longitudinal edges thereof, said housing being adapted to permit introduction of cheese moulds through an end thereof, wherein said housing is constructed as a substantially closed tubular unit having walls made of sheet material, at least one end of said tubular unit being opened or openable and said tubular unit being designed so as to be vacuum resistant, and pressure exerting means located within said housing adjacent said roof portion and actuatable from outside said housing to exert pressure towards said bottom portion, whereby a cheese mould can be introduced into said housing and pressed between said pressure exerting means and said bottom portion of said housing.
A cheese press comprising at least one heat insulated pressing unit for receiving cheese moulds, said at least one heat-insulated pressing unit comprising an elongate and continuous tube-like housing including a bottom portion for supporting cheese moulds, longitudinal side wall portions and a roof portion, the longitudinal side wall portions and roof portion of the housing being formed as an integral structure engaged with said bottom portion along the longitudinal edges thereof, said housing being adapted to permit introduction of cheese moulds through an end thereof, pressure exerting means located within said housing adjacent said roof portion and actuatable from outside said housing to exert pressure towards said bottom portion, whereby a cheese mould can be introduced into said housing and pressed between said pressure exerting means and said bottom portion of said housing.
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