CHEESE MOLDING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: cheese industry.

SUBSTANCE: cheese molding apparatus has carrier frame, tank with discharge window and whey discharge branch pipe, premolding plate, movable bottom with wall, drive for movable bottom, sheet cutting device, and control system. Movable bottom is formed from continuous strips, metal or polymeric, and is placed directly onto tank bottom. Molding apparatus has special-purpose wall for dividing tank into working part and auxiliary part, said wall having continuous portion at the level of arrangement of compacted cheese mass sheet and perforated portion over remaining part of wall. Said wall has window, which may be closed or opened and which is equipped with lower edge contacting with non-perforated lower part of wall. Premolding plate may be moved, raised or thrown aside by means of pivotal hinge. Capacity of cheese molding apparatus may be regulated by means of premolding units and repositioning of special-purpose wall.

EFFECT: reduced labor consumption, elimination of netted pattern cheese defect.

3 cl, 8 dwg