| 摘要 |
A curd mixer for making cottage cheese, comprising a horizontally arranged screw conveyor for feeding curds to a disk cutter for slicing the curds with the addition of hot water, a drop chamber adjacent to and beneath the disk cutter, permitting the sliced curds to drop onto the inlet end of a pair of juxtaposed horizontal screw conveyors mounted for rotation in opposite directions for feeding the sliced curds and water to an oval inlet opening of an elongated mixing basin in which a pair of cooperating plunger arms each supporting a horizontal mixer comb is arranged to exert on the paste of curds and water a mixing action by moving the paste from the longitudinal outer sides of the basin to the center thereof and then upwardly. The mixed paste of curds leaves the mixing basin through an overflow spout for further treatment. Whey formed during mixing is drawn off from the mixing basin by a whey extraction pump. The horizontal arrangement of the conveyor screws avoids excessive compression of the curds and prevents them from becoming too dry.
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