CONTINUOUS COAGULATOR

摘要

An apparatus suitable for use in the substantially continuous production of cheese from milk retentate in which there is at least one, preferably several, coagulator tubes having an inlet end and an outlet end. The retentate is admitted to the tube from a feed system via the inlet, forms a coagulum inside the tube and is discharged from the outlet whereupon it is cut or sliced into appropriately sized pieces, preferably small cubes by a blade assembly mounted at or near the outlet. The feed system comprises a distribution manifold for delivering retentate to the inlet or inlets via a valve located between the manifold and tube(s) and a pump for circulating the retentate in the feed system at such a rate that the feed system is substantially free of coagulum.