METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEASURING COAGULATION STATE OF CHEESE CURD

摘要

PURPOSE:To enable accurate measurement of the coagulation state of a cheese curd, by arranging a sensing unit for the injection of a sample of a natural cheese material between a vibration generating side disc and a pressure receiving side diaphragm to convert changes in the pressure based on the amplitude of the diaphragm into an electrical signal for recording with the application of a fixed vibration to the sample. CONSTITUTION:A vibration generating side disc 2 and a pressure receiving side diaphragm are attached to a sensing unit 1 thereoutside separately. The sending unit is set successively to a preparation tank for natural cheese material and a sample of cheese material is picked out and injected into the sensing unit to record and measured the coagulation state of the sample according to the above-mentioned procedure. With such an arrangement, it is possible to judge an appropriate cutting timing of a cheese curd in comparison of the recorded value with the preset value of amplitude of the output voltage for the timing which is suited to the cutting of the cheese curd based on the amplitude value corresponding to changes in the pressure sensed with the diaphragm following the coagulation of the sample taken from a cheese material tank.