Method for preparing prepressed cheese curd blocks and an assembly for carrying out said method

摘要

PCT No. PCT/DK88/00078 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 9, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 9, 1989 PCT Filed May 13, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO88/09118 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 1, 1988.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 by being subjected to prepressing means (27) and side-limiting walls (18). The resulting cheese body (30) is cut into suitably dimensioned blocks at a cutting station (37). The curd (2) is fed to the continuously moving conveyor belt (19) below the surface (40) of a whey pool (39) and during the movement of the conveyor belt (19) said curd is conveyed along an oblique path above the surface (40) of the whey pool (39) simultaneous with it being subjected to prepressing means (27). The whey pool is contained in an obliquely installed vat (7), the conveyor belt (19) being introduced at the bottom end of said vat and leaving it at its top end ( 20). Said top end (20) has no end wall, thus providing space for the cut blocks (38) to pass out of the vat (7) just before the top end (20).