Method of washing and cooling a dairy product
AssigneeKusel Equipment Company
InventorMeredith C. Thomson
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Abstract
A method for washing and cooling cottage cheese curds and including the steps of disposing a housing in a horizontal position, admitting a washing and cooling fluid into an upstream end of the housing and discharging it at a downstream end to establish a reservoir of flowing fluid, placing the material into the reservoir adjacent the downstream end, lifting the material in the reservoir transversely to the normal direction of fluid flow, lowering the material in the reservoir at an acute angle relative to the normal direction of fluid flow to more the material in an upstream direction, and repeating the lifting and lowering steps until the material is discharged at the upstream end of the housing.
Claims6
A method of washing and cooling a friable degradable material of cheese curds and whey comprising the steps of:
- (a) disposing a longitudinally extending housing for containing a fluid in an generally horizontal position and establishing an upstream end and a downstream end in said housing;
- (b) admitting a washing and cooling fluid into said housing through a fluid inlet adjacent said upstream end and discharging said fluid from said housing through a fluid outlet adjacent said downstream end to establish a reservoir of flowing fluid in said housing that has a normal direction of fluid flow;
- (c) placing said material in an unwashed and uncooled condition into said reservoir of flowing fluid adjacent said downstream end;
- (d) lifting said material in said reservoir of flowing fluid in a direction generally transverse to said normal direction of fluid flow;
- (e) lowering said material in said reservoir of flowing fluid and simultaneously moving said material, as it is being lowered, at an acute angle relative to said normal direction of fluid flow toward said upstream end;
- (f) repeating steps (d) and (e) until said material is moved to said upstream end of said housing and;
- (g) discharging said washed and cooled material through a material discharge output in said housing adjacent said upstream end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.