RU2441368C1 - Vertical cheese forming device - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: cheese industry.

SUBSTANCE: this device is designed for continuous cheese mass forming. Vertical forming device comprises two-layer forming and drain column 1 of a cylinder form with bell 2 for cheese mass let-in and slotted opening between the layers throughout length. Inner layer 5 of column 1 is a drain sleeve made of such leaking fabric as cheap cotton or cheese cloth. Outer layer 4 of column 1 is made of a non-leaking cloth (i.e. any polymeric cloth). Forming and drain column 1 has a small extension (approx. 1-3°) throughout its length. Two parallel U-shaped guide plates 7 are attached to the lower part of inner drain layer 5 for sliding-vane knife 6 by means of a cord passing through the plate openings. Sliding-vane knife 6 is a plate with a handle moving between guide plates 7 and an opening at one end. Opening edges are sharp-grounded and can be used as a knife for cheese lump cutting. According to the invention the column is equipped with tank 8 for liquid let-in from column 1.

EFFECT: lateral side closing of formed cheese layer, decrease of material consumption and its required area, ease of disinfection and maintenance procedures, easy and cheap in application/maintenance cheese forming device suitable for small cheeseries and family dairies.

3 cl, 2 dwg

Description

The invention relates to the cheese-making industry, and in particular to devices for the continuous molding of cheese mass.

A known installation for molding cheese blocks Tetra Tebel Casomatic SC (Tetra Tebel Kasomatic SC), including a vertical molding and drainage column, guillotine knife, platform, expandable tong, ejector, device for automatic feeding of molds [1]. However, for small cheese factories and family enterprises with a productive capacity of 30 to 150 kg of cheese per shift, such equipment is expensive, consumes a lot of electricity, takes up a lot of space.

The closest analogue of the invention is an installation for molding cheese blocks and stacking them in a mold (RF patent No. 20133049, publ. 05/30/1994), containing at least one molding and drainage column with a guillotine knife, a platform, an expandable tong and an ejector, as well as a device for feeding forms, which is equipped with a receiving table with a pusher placed above the receiving table with an intermediate platform, a hoist containing a supporting platform for the forms and having the ability to move in a vertical plane between the reception a table and an intermediate platform, an unloading device, and a device for moving forms along the plane of the supporting platform is mounted on the support platform of the elevator.

This device is also bulky, occupies a significant production area and is not suitable for mini-production.

The technical result of the invention is the reduction of material consumption and occupied space, the creation of a simple and inexpensive forming device for cheese, suitable for small cheese factories and family cheese factories. The vertical cheese shaping device according to the invention makes it possible to adjust the size (height and radius) of the cheese head to be molded, provides a closure of the side surface of the cheese formation to be molded, which further improves the formation of a closed surface on the cheese. Also, the proposed molding device provides a simplification of its sanitary processing and repair in comparison with the prototype.

The specified technical result is achieved by the fact that in a vertical forming device containing a two-layer molding and drainage column in the form of a cylinder with a bell for receiving cheese mass and with a slit-like space between the layers along the entire length, the device for cutting the formation, which is a knife knife, while according to According to the invention, the molding-drainage column is made with a knife blade fixed at the bottom, its inner layer is a drainage sleeve made of a liquid-permeable fabric, and the outer layer is made of a liquid-tight fabric, the device is also equipped with a container for receiving liquid. A knife blade is a plate with a hole on one of the edges, the edges of which are sharpened so that they can serve as a knife for cutting a clot of cheese. A knife blade is a plate moving between the guide rails with a handle and a hole on one of the edges, the edges of which are sharpened so that they can serve as a knife for cutting a clot of cheese. Sliding knife guide rails are attached to the inner layer of the molding-drainage column.

The invention is illustrated by drawings. The figure 1 shows a vertical molding device containing a molding and drainage column in the form of a cylinder 1 with a bell 2 and a suspension 3, an outer layer of moisture-proof material 4 and an inner drainage layer 5, a knife blade 6 and guide rails for the knife knife 7. Forming -drainage device is immersed in a tank for receiving fluid (serum) 8, containing a tap for the release of serum from the tank 9.

The figure 2 shows a knife blade containing a handle 10, an opening for lowering the cheese column 11 (preferably round) with sharpened edges 12 and a plane for supporting the cheese layer after cutting a portion of cheese mass 13.

The inner layer 5 of the molding-drainage column 1 may be made of a liquid-permeable fabric, such as calico or sickle. The molding and drainage column 1 has a slight expansion (of the order of 1-3 °) in length. In the lower part of the inner drainage layer 5 of the molding-drainage column 1, two parallel U-shaped slats-guides 7 for the knife blade 6 are fastened with a cord threaded through the holes in the slats. Between the guide rails 7 in a horizontal plane, the slide knife 6. moves. The material from which the outer layer 4 of the cylinder of the column 1 is made can be any polymer fabric.

Vertical molding device for cheese works as follows.

Before work, the molding device for cheese is suspended by suspension 3 on a hook in a wall or in a post. The molding and drainage column 1 is closed in the lower part with a knife blade 6 so that the cheese mass inside the column 1 rests on the plane of the knife blade 13. Set the whey tank 8 so that the distance from the bottom of the tank to the knife blade 6 is equal to the specified height cheese heads or 1-2 cm more. Close the tap for the release of whey 9 from the reservoir 8. Pour the cheese with whey through the acceptance funnel 2 using a bucket or pump for cheese.

The serum passes through the drainage layer (tissue) 5 and flows through the available space between the inner drainage layer and the outer layer of the cylinder into the receiving tank 8, from where it is constantly removed by gravity, or is pumped out, or cast by an scoop bucket.

Inside the column 1 of the molding device for cheese, a vertical column (layer) of cheese mass is formed, which is compacted under the action of its own mass. Moreover, at the bottom of the molding device, this layer is more dense. After filling and holding (or without it, depending on the type of cheese), the knife 6 is slid by the handle 10 and set so that there is a hole 11 under the cheese column. Then, part of the cheese mass is cut off with the sharp edge 12 of the knife 6 to the opposite side. (the height of the cheese head is regulated by the height of the installation of the tank 8 under the forming device). The sliced portion of the cheese is manually transferred to a compression mold. At this time, the cheese column is held in the molding and drainage column 1 by the plane of the knife blade 13, which does not have an opening (blind part). After molding the first batch of cheese mass spend the next movement with a knife 6, cutting off the next piece of cheese mass. And so the molding of the entire produced cheese mass continues.

The proposed design of the molding device for cheese allows you to reduce and increase the diameter of the cheese head without replacing the cylinder by suturing the inner drainage layer made of calico or sickle. The internal drainage layer made of fabric has a highly developed drainage surface, good wettability and high capillary-suction effect in relation to serum. Therefore, it is not necessary, as in the prototype, to select the parameters of the drainage pores and holes, the effective drainage area, the material from which it is made, to ensure the dehydration of cheese grains in contact with the drainage surface. As a result of using the device according to the invention, the cheese grains of the surface layer are more completely dehydrated, flattened, increasing in size, their contents are concentrated, approaching the composition of the shells of cheese grains, which ensures that at the stage of molding, the surface is closed on the cheese and a crust layer is formed.

In general, the proposed device is made of inexpensive, affordable materials that can be quickly replaced or repaired. The device is easily disassembled into its constituent parts and folds compactly, which makes it possible to use it at small cheese plants and home cheese dairies.

List of sources used

1. Tetra Pak brochure; http://www.machineryworld.co.uk/files/itemdoc140601.pdf).

Claims (3)

1. A vertical molding device for cheese, containing a two-layer molding and drainage column in the form of a cylinder with a bell for receiving cheese mass and with a slit-like space between the layers along the entire length, a device for cutting the formation, which is a knife blade, characterized in that the molding and drainage the column is made with a slide knife fixed at the bottom, its inner layer is a drainage sleeve made of liquid-permeable fabric, and the outer layer is made of non-permeable material ani, wherein the device is provided with a container for receiving liquid. 2. The vertical molding device for cheese according to claim 1, characterized in that the slide knife is a plate moving between the guide rails with a handle and a hole on one of the edges, the edges of which are sharpened so that they can serve as a knife for cutting a clot cheese. 3. The vertical molding device for cheese according to claim 2, characterized in that the guide rails of the slide knife are attached to the inner layer of the molding-drainage column.

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