Device for manufacturing butter
AssigneeWestfalia Separator AG
InventorsHanno Lehmann, Arnold Uphus, Johannes Kreimer
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Abstract
A method of and device for manufacturing butter. A continuous-operation mechanical churn has at least one butter-making cylinder, a buttermilk extractor, and at least one squeeze-off. Once most of the buttermilk has been extracted, fragments chopped from a block of stored butter or pure fat are accordingly introduced into the remaining mass of grain and blended with it in one of the squeeze-offs and a homogeneous billet of butter is shaped out of the mixture. At least one chopper is accordingly associated with each block of butter or fat and located above the squeeze-off that is upstream in terms of the direction that the mass of grain moves in, and the chopper has a device for advancing the block that is being chopped from.
Claims20
In a device for manufacturing butter, comprising:
- a continuous-operation mechanical churn with at least one butter-making cylinder for producing a mixture of buttermilk and butter grain, means for removing butter milk from the mixture and at least one squeeze-off means downstream of the churn, the improvement comprising at least one chopping means receptive of a block of butter or fat and located above a most upstream of the at least one squeeze-off means in terms of the direction that the butter grain moved in for chopping fragments from the block, wherein the chopping means has means for advancing the block and means for introducing the chopped fragments into the at least one squeeze-off means with the butter grain to produce a homogeneous billet of butter therefrom.
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