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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7757603 | Horizontal cheese vat having single agitator shaft A cheese process vat is disclosed. The cheese process vat includes an enclosure and a shaft assembly, preferably a shaft assembly having a shaft and a plurality of agitator panels arranged on the shaft in a planar fashion. The agitator panels are preferably arranged... | 07/20/2010 |
| 6465033 | Method and apparatus for producing cheese A method and apparatus for producing cheese, suitable in particular for producing crumbly cheese. Cheese molds are filled with curd, are subsequently closed with a lid and are pressed, whereafter the obtained cheeses are removed from the cheese molds. Pri... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6415711 | Cheese shredder apparatus Improvements are provided in an apparatus and a method for shredding blocks of cheese. The apparatus includes an elongated cheese chamber having an open side face for the admission of a block of cheese, which is urged into the elongated cheese chamber by ... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6324968 | Block former A block former for the production of blocks of cheese, comprising an upright drainage column with a feed opening for curd particles at the upper end, a closed casing and a perforated inner tube. There is an annular space between the casing and the inner t... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6267048 | Block former A block former for the production of blocks of cheese, comprising an upright drainage column with a feed opening for curd particles at the upper end, a closed casing and a perforated inner tube. There is an annular space between the casing and the inner t... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6098528 | Block former A block former for the production of blocks of cheese, comprising an upright drainage column with a feed opening for curd particles at the upper end, a closed casing and a perforated inner tube. There is an annular space between the casing and the inner t... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6050179 | Strainer device for draining off whey from a cheese vat A strainer device for draining off whey from a cheese vat comprises an outlet for the whey and a substantially circularly shaped strainer disc (3) arranged in the outlet. This strainer disc is rotatably arranged in the wall (2) of the cheese vat about an ... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5953983 | Food processing device An enclosed food processing device is provided having one or more conveyor belts and vertically rotating agitators positioned above the belt. The agitators have forwardly and rearwardly projecting prongs that stir the food being processed without causing ... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5704280 | Food processing device An enclosed food processing device is provided having one or more conveyor belts and vertical agitators positioned above the belt. The agitators have forward and backward prongs that stir the food being processed without causing physical damage to it. The... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5701810 | Tofu making apparatus The apparatus of the invention comprises three stages. The first stage extracts soy milk from soybean go, and comprises a cylindrical pot, a cylindrical filter for receiving go held within the pot, there being an annular gap between the filter and the pot... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5669291 | Apparatus for separating whey from a slurry-like material An apparatus for separating whey from a slurry-like material such as bean and dairy products, includes a screen, a jacket mantling the screen with a first space outside the screen and a second space inside the screen, wherein the first space provides a wh... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5363753 | Machine for producing soybean curd A machine for producing soybean curd comprises a conveyor having coagulating buckets, a device for filling a mixture of soybean milk and a coagulant into the buckets, means for heating the mixture in the buckets to coagulate the mixture into soybean curd,... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5249513 | Apparatus for producing fine-textured soybean curd as placed in containers An apparatus for producing fine-textured soybean curd as placed in containers comprises means for filling a mixture of soybean milk and a coagulant into coagulating buckets, means for heating the mixture to coagulate the mixture into soybean curd, coverin... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5152213 | Hydroextractor A hydroextractor in which a liquid material to be processed can be introduced into a hydroextracting chamber under a small pressure and the chamber can be filled with the material in a short period of time to thereby improve the operational efficiency, an... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5146845 | Continuous cheese former for bulk cheese A cheese former for making large batches of cheese in a continuous process includes a tower having a screen along its internal side wall and a central screen extending along the axis of the tower, wherein whey may be separated from a curds and whey mixtur... | 09/15/1992 |
| 5058494 | Apparatus for processing bean curd A process for producing bean curd comprising the steps of cooling soybean milk and bittern individually to below the coagulating temperature of the milk, mixing the cooled milk and bittern together and filling the mixture into buckets, coagulating the mix... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5024146 | Cheese drainer pan assembly The present invention provides a drainer pan assembly especially useful in cheese curd processing having an easily removable drainer plate secured to a drainer pan by a plurality of restraints including at least one releasable restraint. Preferably, the r... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4996916 | Machine for producing bean curd A bean curd producing machine comprising soybean milk coagulating means, means for dewatering and shaping coagulated soybean milk and means for delivering bean curd shaped by dewatering. The coagulating means comprises a bucket conveyor disposed within a ... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4994287 | Method and apparatus for filling curd into cheese moulds The invention concerns a method and apparatus for filling curd into cheese moulds (6). During the cheese production process, milk is separated in a cheese vat (1) into curd and whey (2), both of which are routed to a piping manifold that distributes the c... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4976981 | Method for preparing prepressed cheese curd blocks and an assembly for carrying out said method A method for the preparation of prepressed cheese curd blocks (38), where a curd (2) comprising a mixture of curd grains (42) and whey is fed to a conveyor belt (19) and the curd grains (42) are collected and shaped during continuous movement of the belt ... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4964334 | Apparatus for processing cheese A method and apparatus for continuously processing cheese curd forms the cheese curd into a series of ribbons on a conveyor belt used to separate the whey from the cheese curd and then uses a series of plowshares, augers and other deflection means to disp... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4960044 | Apparatus for preparing a curd mass An apparatus for preparing a curd mass by draining a mixture of whey and curds in an upright column consists of a permeable sleeve or circular or rectangular cross-section, one or more sleeves being surrounded, with some clearance, by a tube monted on a w... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4924769 | Device for manufacturing butter 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 ... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4893554 | Apparatus for distributing cheese coagulum in a vat With the use of a distributor unit, which is reciprocable over and along an oblong prepressing vat for cheese production, it has already been proposed that a uniform distribution of the whey/coagulum mixture can be achieved by a horizontal wing rotors in ... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4879946 | Apparatus for matting and milling of cheese curd An apparatus for matting and milling cheese curd. A mixture of curds and whey is fed onto a porous endless belt of a first conveyor to form a layer of curds with the whey draining through the belt. As the leading end of the curd layer reaches the downstre... | 11/14/1989 |
| 4750415 | Device for pressing and molding curd A device for pressing and molding curd includes a mold reverser (1) in the form of an endless conveyor (16) transporting cheese molds (2) along a horizontal upper run on which the molds stand upright with their fill apertures at the top, and a horizontal ... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4738863 | Cheese extrusion device and method A device and method for forming pieces of cheese weighing several ounces or less while retaining the skin normally formed on the cheese piece in the cooling process, and at the same time obtaining a desired internal structure. Warm plastic cheese is extru... | 04/19/1988 |
| 4628805 | Apparatus for processing cheese Soft paste cheese is formed by mixing curd forming additives from burettes (12) to milk flowing in a funnel (11) and directing the resulting curd forming milk mixture into a basin-like receptacle (21) in which a mold block (23) made up of an array of vert... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4568554 | Method for preparing cheese Soft paste cheese is formed by mixing curd forming additives from burettes with milk flowing in a funnel and directing the resulting curd forming milk mixture into a basin-like receptacle in which a mold block made up of an array of vertically elongated p... | 02/04/1986 |
| 4538510 | Conveyors A slatted endless plastics conveyor belt preferably with draining slots therethrough is supported over its conveying distance on a bed of runners and passes about end sprockets engaging directly with the belting and one set of which is driven. The edge of... | 09/03/1985 |
| 4517087 | Filtration/separation apparatus A filtration/separation apparatus in which a filter cloth is arranged to travel and face a rotor so that a partitioned space chamber defined by the cloth and rotor is gradually narrowed in accordance with the rotation of the rotor. The space chamber defin... | 05/14/1985 |
| 4510856 | Manufacture of Cheddar and like cheese A method and apparatus for use in the manufacture of cheeses which proceed through a cheddaring stage. The method comprises treating a pre-drained and stirred cheese curd with a compressive and shear force so as to simultaneously expel the residual whey a... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4509413 | Procedure for treating curd particles and cheese mould for applying the procedure The present invention concerns a procedure for treating curd particles (10) produced in a cheese kettle, and a cheese mould (2) for applying the procedure, made of strainer sheet and provided with a separate cover part (4). The cheese mould (2) is placed ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4477241 | Apparatus for molding curd for the manufacture of cheeses of small size Apparatus for molding curd in calibrated portions, a mixture of curds and whey, introduced into a hopper, fills perforated tubes in which the whey is separated from the curd and becomes compact. A plate closing off the base of the tubes retracts periodica... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4440073 | Pressing plate for use in cheese making To reduce manual handling of a pressing plate in a cheese-making vat and to facilitate its operation and maintenance, the plate is constituted by a case whose inner surface is covered by a series of rigid filtering panels. These panels are pivotal between... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4437787 | Plastic cheese mold A plastic cheese mold comprising on its inner wall a non woven of thermoplastic fibers heatsealed to the walls of the mold, said cheese mold comprising two shell halves forming an elongate cheese mold of a substantial equal cross-section over the length o... | 03/20/1984 |
| 4418616 | Method and apparatus for draining whey for making large sized blocks of cheese An apparatus for pressing and draining whey from cheese curd particles in manufacturing large sized blocks of cheese. Cheese curd is placed into a pressing container mold which has a removable internal draining means having dimple-like projections maintai... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4393759 | Cheese making apparatus A cheese making apparatus comprises a rectangular vat, a pressing plate, a filtering sheet supported on the bottom wall of the vat for displacement in a longitudinal direction, and a transverse partition affixed to an end of the filter sheet adjacent a fi... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4374488 | Whey filter A whey filter for removing fine curd particles from a stream of cheese whey includes a mesh screen (30) suspended in a cylindrical portion (17) of a tank (18) with cheese whey being introduced above the screen (30) through inlet ports (36) arranged to dir... | 02/22/1983 |
| 4371490 | Cheese mould and/or follower with roughened inner surface and method for making same A cheese mould having a wall of plastic material, which wall is provided with fine holes and the inner surface of which may be provided with grooves, said inner surface being subjected to a roughening treatment, for instance rubbing with a steel brush, co... | 02/01/1983 |
