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US 5,000,086 AGranted
Method for applying a liquid release agent on a cheese
AssigneeKraft General Foods, Inc.
InventorHeinrich Bartling
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Abstract
This invention concerns a process for applying a liquid release agent, especially an alginate, to the outside of a thin wide strand of cheese (30) on a revolving cooling roll (2) characterized in that the release agent is pressed onto the outside of the cheese strand (30) in the form of a film (34) which is fed at the rate of travel of the cheese strand (30).
Claims6
An apparatus for performing the method of applying a liquid release agent onto a string of cheese, wherein the apparatus comprises:
- an applicator roll (4) for applying the release agent onto the cheese, a cooling roller (2) and a distribution tube (6), said distribution tube (6) resiliently presses the cheese between the applicator roll (4) and the cooling roll (2) and is above said applicator roll (4) and extends in longitudinal direction of said applicator roll (4), said distribution rube (6) having at least one row of downwardly directed out flow bores (8) for said release agent wherein, above said applicator roll (4) between said distribution tube (6) and said cooling roller (2), there is disposed a distributor (10) for the release agent flowing from the distributor tube (6) onto said applicator roll (4).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.