161 |
Cutting Frame For Use in A Curd Vat |
US11756943 |
2007-06-01 |
US20070277680A1 |
2007-12-06 |
Wieger van der Meulen |
A cutting frame for use in a curd vat, which cutting frame comprises substantially parallel frame girders, between which is situated a lattice formed from longitudinal knives and transverse knives, of which the transverse knives are mounted on the frame girders by welding and have aligned openings, in which the longitudinal knives are received, wherein the longitudinal knives are strip-shaped knives having a length dimension and a width dimension and having at least one sharp cutting edge extending in the length dimension, which cutting edge is formed by at least one obliquely ground cutting face, wherein the width of the longitudinal knives is smaller than the corresponding dimension of the openings of the transverse knives, and wherein means are provided for substantially preventing displacement of the longitudinal knives in the length dimension, wherein at least a number of openings of at least a number of transverse knives is provided with supporting elements which substantially lock the longitudinal knives both in lateral direction and in the width dimension of the longitudinal knives, while the supporting elements leave the sharp cutting edge clear. |
162 |
Apparatus for cutting and stirring curd |
US10109926 |
2002-03-29 |
US06539845B2 |
2003-04-01 |
Sijmen Sipma; Sjoerd Huitema |
Apparatus for cutting and stirring curd, comprising a curd vat with a shaft drivable for rotation, which shaft comprises a number of cutting frames extending radially from the shaft and having a number of strip-shaped transverse knives and longitudinal knives, the longitudinal knives each having an inner end situated near the shaft and an outer end situated near the wall of the curd vat, while at least a number of longitudinal knives of at least one of the cutting frames are provided, at the outer end situated near the wall of the curd vat, with a knife end section which has at least one portion extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal knives. |
163 |
Apparatus for cutting and stirring curd |
US10109926 |
2002-03-29 |
US20020096057A1 |
2002-07-25 |
Sijmen
Sipma; Sjoerd
Huitema |
Apparatus for cutting and stirring curd, comprising a curd vat with a shaft drivable for rotation, which shaft comprises a number of cutting frames extending radially from the shaft and having a number of strip-shaped transverse knives and longitudinal knives, the longitudinal knives each having an inner end situated near the shaft and an outer end situated near the wall of the curd vat, while at least a number of longitudinal knives of at least one of the cutting frames are provided, at the outer end situated near the wall of the curd vat, with a knife end section which has at least one portion extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the longitudinal knives. |
164 |
Cheese processing vat and method |
US47708 |
1998-03-25 |
US5985347A |
1999-11-16 |
Stephen J. Ejnik |
A cheese processing vat of the type having a pair of interconnected generally cylindrical wall portions with agitator panels rotating therein to sweep generally cylindrical volumes includes agitator panels which are driven to rotate in opposite directions such that the panels move through a common swept volume between their axes of rotation in the same direction. The panels are mounted such that one panel leads the other during movement through the common swept volume. |
165 |
Tank with a double stirring system, primarily a curdling tank |
US671080 |
1991-03-18 |
US5178459A |
1993-01-12 |
Jens E. Christensen |
A curdling tank includes two upright, mutually intersecting, circular tank sections, each of the circular tank sections having a concentrically operated stirring system. The bottom portions of each of the circular tank sections are shaped to include sloping sides to form respective concentric bottom grooves with a downwardly pointed cross section, the lowermost portions of the grooves meet or overlap each other midway between the two shafts. The grooves are arranged in the shape of a figure of eight and the grooves achieve an effective emptying through a single outlet. |
166 |
Food processing vat with contoured bottom and mated agitator blade |
US792293 |
1991-11-14 |
US5178060A |
1993-01-12 |
Gerald A. Rusch; Villy S. Rasmussen |
A food processing vat having an outer shell and an inner vessel to contain a food product with a chamber therebetween includes a contoured bottom having a high point and a low point wherein the food product naturally gravitates toward the low point which a drain may be connected for draining the food product from the vessel. Agitation means in the vessel include a lower blade assembly which is adapted to conform substantially to the contoured bottom of the vessel. Heating means disposed in the chamber between the vessel and the outer shell provide for uniform heating of the vessel and the food product contained therein. |
167 |
Method for automatic measurement and control in curd making process |
US830859 |
1986-02-19 |
US4663169A |
1987-05-05 |
Tomoshige Hori; Kensuke Itoh |
A method for automatic measurement and control in curd making process is provided wherein an electrical current is supplied to an electrical conductor thermally contactable with milk stored in a curd tank so as to be heated to result in sufficiently higher temperature of the said conductor than the surrounding milk, temperatures or electrical resistances of the electrical conductor are measured in relation to time lapse, an elapsed time starting from the commencement of curdling is measured on the basis of a change in temperature or electrical resistance of the electrical conductor, and the elapsed time is compared with a predetermined curdling progress time ranging from the commencement of curdling to curd cutting so as to automatically judge a curd cutting timing. |
168 |
Process vat cutting and stirring mechanism |
US441759 |
1982-11-15 |
US4501196A |
1985-02-26 |
Fred A. Loichinger; Meredith C. Thomson |
An apparatus for processing a mixture to produce a product such as cottage cheese. The apparatus comprises a vat for holding the mixture, a paddle for stirring the mixture, a cutting knife for cutting the product, a carriage for supporting the cutting knife and the paddle above the vat and a mechanism for moving the cutting knife and the paddle horizontally along the vat. The apparatus also includes a mechanism for mechanically retracting the paddle from the mixture so that the cutting knife can be extended into the product, a mechanism for connecting the cutting knife to the carriage and for extending the knife into the vat and for extracting the knife from the vat, and a mechanism for causing reciprocative movement at regular intervals of the cutting knife perpendicular to the path of travel of the carriage. |
169 |
Wing type agitator |
US914990 |
1978-06-12 |
USRE30237E |
1980-03-25 |
Billy L. Born |
An agitator carriage is supported and powered for oscillatory movement along the length of an elongated vat, i.e. from end-to-end of the vat. A pair of stirring blades are supported from the carriage, one stirring blade depending into the vat from each side of the carriage. Each stirring blade is supported to move through a generally circular path in a vertical plane, and the blades are powered independently of the carriage drive. The stirring blade movement has both a vertical and horizontal component as it moves in the vat. The speed of movement of both the carriage and the blades can be varied, independently one from the other, so that the blades, as they move longitudinally of the vat, can be made to define, in the vertical planes of movement, loops varying from generally circular to smaller loops approaching a generally undulating path. |
170 |
Cheese-making apparatus |
US676070 |
1976-04-12 |
US4108058A |
1978-08-22 |
Claes Bertil Sjoholm; Karl J. G. Martensson |
An immobile container for the cheese curd is in the form of a body of revolution having a substantially horizontal axis; and a tool which is rotated by a drive shaft about the container axis is arranged to cut and stir curd situated above as well as below the container axis. The tool preferably has several side-by-side sections extending from the drive shaft to the surrounding wall of the container and forming an angle with each other, each section having spaced cutting members and also having swingable flaps movable to and from positions in which they cover at least parts of the interspaces between the spaced cutting members. |
171 |
Cheese kettle or equivalent |
US32125673 |
1973-01-05 |
US3868092A |
1975-02-25 |
GABRIEL-ROBEZ ROLAND |
A cheese kettle or other equivalent upright, enclosed tank provided with stirrers and having an upwardly conically tapering cover, whereupon is disposed the drive means for the stirrers, the drive shaft of the stirrers that departs from this drive means passing through the cover. The cover consists of a truncated cone, at the mouth of which there starts a downwardly tapering truncated cone, the drive means for the stirrers being disposed upon a bottom plate in this latter cone.
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172 |
Vertical cheese making unit |
US3541687D |
1968-02-26 |
US3541687A |
1970-11-24 |
PETERS NORMAN J |
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173 |
Curd producing apparatus |
US24500262 |
1962-12-17 |
US3193928A |
1965-07-13 |
COLLINS LOWELL J |
|
174 |
Atmospheric air isolated curd producing apparatus |
US18054362 |
1962-03-19 |
US3102336A |
1963-09-03 |
COLLINS LOWELL J |
|
175 |
Cheese-curd fusing machine |
US85249959 |
1959-11-12 |
US3060575A |
1962-10-30 |
JOSEPH CZULAK |
|
176 |
Cheese manufacturing machine |
US72707658 |
1958-04-08 |
US3019527A |
1962-02-06 |
JAMES MCREAVY |
|
177 |
Cheesemaking apparatus |
US42873154 |
1954-05-10 |
US2814114A |
1957-11-26 |
NESSLER ALDO E; HARTMAN JOSEPH G |
|
178 |
Traveling rotary vat strainer |
US46172454 |
1954-10-12 |
US2774140A |
1956-12-18 |
NESSLER ALDO E; HARTMAN JOSEPH G |
|
179 |
Quickly detachable driving connection |
US16375150 |
1950-05-23 |
US2700563A |
1955-01-25 |
KRUCKER CHARLES F |
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180 |
Mixing kettle for cheese curd |
US19571650 |
1950-11-15 |
US2650079A |
1953-08-25 |
KARL ZEILER; KONRAD LENZ |
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