System and Method for Producing a Cheese Product With or Without Inclusions

    公开(公告)号:US20180220669A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-09

    申请号:US15428326

    申请日:2017-02-09

    IPC分类号: A23C19/09

    摘要: An apparatus for producing a cheese product includes a grinder operable to receive raw cheese and grind the cheese into granules having less than 0.25 inches in length. The apparatus further includes a dispenser operable to dispense the granulated cheese into one or more molds. The apparatus further includes a dryer comprising a microwave element. The dryer is operable to heat and remove moisture from the granulated cheese using at least microwave radiation in a heating zone. The apparatus further includes a cooling tunnel operable to cool and remove moisture from the dried cheese.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING EXTRUDED PORTIONS OF CHEESE
    2.
    发明申请
    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MAKING EXTRUDED PORTIONS OF CHEESE 审中-公开
    用于制作切片的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20110014311A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-01-20

    申请号:US12819797

    申请日:2010-06-21

    IPC分类号: A23P1/12

    CPC分类号: A01J27/04 A21C9/04

    摘要: A method and system are provided for portioning a cheese mass to be sliced and shredded directly from a quantity of bulk cheese, without the need to thermally process the cheese. The cheese extrudate strands and sheets are cut to provide discrete cheese shreds and slices, and can be automatically portioned and deposited in packages.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种方法和系统,用于将奶酪块直接从一批散装干酪分离和切碎,而不需要对奶酪进行热处理。 切割奶酪挤出物线和片以提供离散的干酪切片和切片,并且可以自动分成并且以包装形式沉积。

    Methods and Apparatus to Mechanically Reduce Food Products into Irregular Shapes and Sizes
    3.
    发明申请
    Methods and Apparatus to Mechanically Reduce Food Products into Irregular Shapes and Sizes 审中-公开
    机械地将食品减少到不规则形状和尺寸的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20090004357A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-01

    申请号:US12206551

    申请日:2008-09-08

    IPC分类号: A23C19/00 A01J27/04

    摘要: Apparatus and methods of using the apparatus for manufacturing irregularly shaped and sized products, and in particular cheese irregularly shaped and sized crumbles from cheeses, such as semi-soft cheeses including types of cheddar, mozzarella, Monterey jack, Colby, pepper jack, provolone, Swiss, Mexican cheeses and any other combinations of two or more varieties. The apparatus preferably includes five knife assemblies that combine to reduce bulk cheese products into irregularly shaped and sized cheese crumbles in a high-speed commercial manufacturing process. In addition, the apparatus includes one or more augers having flights configured for working or reshaping peripheral edges of the cheese during the manufacturing process.

    摘要翻译: 用于制造不规则形状和尺寸的产品的装置和方法,特别是来自奶酪的干酪不规则形状和尺寸的碎片,例如半软奶酪,包括切达干酪,莫扎里拉,蒙特利杰克,科比,胡椒粉,普罗沃洛尔, 瑞士,墨西哥奶酪以及两种或多种品种的任何其他组合。 该装置优选地包括五个刀组件,其组合以在高速商业制造过程中将散装干酪产品减少成不规则形状和尺寸的奶酪碎屑。 此外,该装置包括一个或多个螺旋推运器,其具有构造成用于在制造过程中对奶酪的周边边缘进行加工或整形的飞行。

    Apparatus and Methods for Reshaping Cheese
    4.
    发明申请
    Apparatus and Methods for Reshaping Cheese 审中-公开
    用于重塑奶酪的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20080034978A1

    公开(公告)日:2008-02-14

    申请号:US11464055

    申请日:2006-08-11

    IPC分类号: A47J37/08

    摘要: A cheese reshaper is provided that reshapes a generally rectangular portion of cheese into a generally circular or ovular portion of cheese. The cheese reshaper consists of a cheese shaping die having a generally rectangular entrance opening and a generally circular exit opening with a transition zone therebetween. The transition zone is dimensional to gradually reshape the cheese as it passes through it. Furthermore, the cross-sectional areas of the generally rectangular portion of cheese, generally circular or ovular portion of cheese, generally rectangular entrance opening, and the generally circular or ovular exit opening are all substantially equal.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种奶酪整形机,其将大致矩形的奶酪部分重新整理成奶酪的大致圆形或卵形部分。 奶酪整形器由具有大致矩形的入口开口和大体上圆形的出口开口的奶酪成型模具组成,在其间具有过渡区域。 过渡区是尺寸,逐渐重塑奶酪通过它。 此外,奶酪的大致矩形部分的横截面积,通常为圆形或卵形部分的奶酪,通常为矩形入口,以及大致圆形或卵形的出口开口全部相等。

    Method for shredding blocks of material
    5.
    发明授权
    Method for shredding blocks of material 有权
    破碎材料块的方法

    公开(公告)号:US07223431B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-05-29

    申请号:US10829094

    申请日:2004-04-20

    申请人: Shawn Owens

    发明人: Shawn Owens

    IPC分类号: A01J27/04

    摘要: A method of shredding a block of material, which can be a block of cheese, includes moving blades about an axis and feeding a block of material in a feed plane toward the moving blades in a feeding direction, where the feeding direction is substantially perpendicular to the axis about which the blades move. A drive unit is provided that moves the blades about the axis, wherein the blades define a cutting perimerer, and a feed unit is provided that moves the block of material toward the cutting perimeter on a feed plane and in the feeding direction. In one embodiment, the blades are on a rotating drum and the feeding direction is generally perpendicular to and rotated about 90° from the axis about which the blades move. The plurality of blades cut shreds of material from a front face of the block.

    摘要翻译: 切碎可以是奶酪块的材料块的方法包括围绕轴线移动刀片并且在进给平面中沿进给方向向运动刀片供给材料块,其中进给方向基本上垂直于 叶片移动的轴线。 提供驱动单元,其使叶片围绕轴线移动,其中叶片限定切割周边装置,并且提供馈送单元,其在馈送平面和馈送方向上朝向切割周边移动材料块。 在一个实施例中,叶片位于旋转滚筒上,并且进给方向大致垂直于叶片移动的轴线并与其旋转约90°。 多个叶片从块的前表面切割材料的碎片。

    Method and system for making shredded cheese
    6.
    发明申请
    Method and system for making shredded cheese 审中-公开
    制作切碎奶酪的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US20070065550A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-03-22

    申请号:US11229662

    申请日:2005-09-20

    IPC分类号: A23G3/02

    摘要: A method and system are provided for forming shredded cheese directly from a quantity of cheese, which is particularly applicable to a chilled high-moisture quantity of cheese, without the need to thermally process the cheese. In general, cheese shreds are formed from a quantity of cheese in which at least one discrete cheese piece is introduced into an elongated chamber having a longitudinal interior surface and housing a conveyor. Resulting cheese mass is transported forwardly and longitudinally of the chamber via the conveyor to a discharge outlet of the chamber. The cheese mass is extruded at a temperature of less than about 50° F. as a plurality of cheese extrudate strands through a plurality of elongated orifices of a die plate which receive cheese mass exiting the discharge outlet of the chamber. The cheese extrudate strands are cut along their lengths to provide discrete cheese shreds. The cheese shreds may be directly deposited onto a food product or a food tray, or collected for packaging as a shredded cheese product per se.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种方法和系统,用于直接从一定数量的奶酪形成切碎的干酪,其特别适用于冷冻的高含水量的奶酪,而不需要热处理奶酪。 通常,奶酪碎片由一定数量的奶酪形成,其中至少一个离散干酪片被引入到具有纵向内表面并容纳传送带的细长室中。 所产生的奶酪质量通过输送机向前和纵向地输送到腔室的排出口。 奶酪块在小于约50°F的温度下挤出,作为多个奶酪挤出物股线,通过多个细管孔的细长孔,其接收离开室的排出口的奶酪。 沿其长度切割奶酪挤出物线,以提供离散的干酪切片。 奶酪碎片可以直接沉积在食品或食品托盘上,或者作为切碎的干酪制品自身收集包装。

    Apparatus for and method of shredding a product
    7.
    发明申请
    Apparatus for and method of shredding a product 有权
    用于粉碎产品的设备和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20020170991A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-11-21

    申请号:US09790515

    申请日:2001-02-23

    IPC分类号: B02C018/16

    摘要: An apparatus for shredding a product includes a housing having an interior space bounded by a generally cylindrical sidewall that can include one or more contoured segments. The housing further includes a cutting implement, preferably also contoured, following the contoured segment, with an opening in the sidewall between the contoured segment and the cutting implement that follows it. Preferably, the contours of the cutting implement are different from the contours of the segment that the cutting implement follows. The apparatus further includes a feed hopper through which a product to be shred is fed to the interior space of the housing, an impeller, including at least one impeller paddle, mounted for rotation within the housing about a substantially horizontal axis of rotation, and a driving mechanism coupled to the impeller for rotating the impeller. The product is slid along the inner periphery of the housing by the impeller, at such a speed that centrifugal force keeps the outer face of the product pressed against the inner periphery. As the product passes by a cutting implement, a plurality of shreds are cut from the outer face of the product and discharged from the housing.

    摘要翻译: 用于粉碎产品的设备包括壳体,该壳体具有由大体上圆柱形的侧壁限定的内部空间,该侧壁可包括一个或多个轮廓段。 壳体还包括切割工具,优选地也是轮廓的,跟随轮廓段,在轮廓段和切割工具之间的侧壁中具有开口。 优选地,切割工具的轮廓不同于切割工具跟随的段的轮廓。 所述设备还包括供料斗,待切碎的产品通过所述进料斗被供给到所述壳体的内部空间;叶轮,包括至少一个叶轮桨叶,所述叶轮桨叶围绕基本水平的旋转轴线安装在所述壳体内旋转;以及 驱动机构联接到叶轮以旋转叶轮。 产品通过叶轮沿着壳体的内周滑动,使得离心力使产品的外表面压靠内周。 当产品通过切割工具时,从产品的外表面切割多个碎片并从壳体排出。

    Roller manifold for forming a continuous sheet of viscous material
    8.
    发明申请
    Roller manifold for forming a continuous sheet of viscous material 有权
    用于形成连续的粘性材料片的滚筒歧管

    公开(公告)号:US20020061351A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-23

    申请号:US09481451

    申请日:2000-01-11

    IPC分类号: A21C011/00 A23P001/00

    CPC分类号: A01J27/04 A01J25/12

    摘要: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for forming a continuous sheet of a molten material with particularly viscous, sticky properties. This molten material may be moldable, plasticized or a food product such as cheese. More specifically, the invention includes a manifold that discharges the molten material in a continuous layer upon the surface of a casting belt. This manifold comprises a roller, a chamber with a hollow interior, at least one inlet and a drive mechanism.

    摘要翻译: 本发明涉及用于形成具有特别粘稠的粘性特性的熔融材料的连续片材的方法和装置。 这种熔融材料可以是可模塑的,塑化的,或是诸如奶酪的食品。 更具体地说,本发明包括将流延带表面上的连续层中的熔融材料排出的歧管。 该歧管包括辊,具有中空内部的腔室,至少一个入口和驱动机构。

    Apparatus and method for shredding blocks of material
    9.
    发明申请
    Apparatus and method for shredding blocks of material 有权
    用于粉碎材料块的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20020051842A1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-02

    申请号:US10022630

    申请日:2001-12-17

    发明人: Shawn Owens

    IPC分类号: A23C019/00

    摘要: An apparatus and method for shredding a block of material, the apparatus includes at least one cutting blade. A drive unit rotates the cutting blade about an axis, and a feed unit moves the block of material toward the cutting blade. The axis about which the cutting blade is rotated is generally perpendicular to the direction in which the block of material is being fed. In one embodiment, the block of material comprises a plurality of ribbons, the ribbons being stacked atop each other. In one preferred embodiment, the cutting blade comprises a serrated edge, and the distance between the teeth in the serrated edge is less than the thickness of each ribbon.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于粉碎一块材料的装置和方法,该装置包括至少一个切割刀片。 驱动单元使切割刀片绕轴线旋转,并且进给单元将材料块移向切割刀片。 切割刀片围绕其旋转的轴线大致垂直于材料块被供给的方向。 在一个实施例中,材料块包括多个带状物,所述带彼此层叠。 在一个优选实施例中,切割刀片包括锯齿形边缘,并且锯齿形边缘中的齿之间的距离小于每个丝带的厚度。

    Method for producing shredded cheese
    10.
    发明授权
    Method for producing shredded cheese 失效
    生产切碎奶酪的方法

    公开(公告)号:US5573805A

    公开(公告)日:1996-11-12

    申请号:US501777

    申请日:1995-07-12

    摘要: A method and apparatus for producing shredded food products, such as cheese, is disclosed. The method and apparatus permits the production of cheese shreds to be accomplished in a unified operation wherein a sheet of cheese is produced and that sheet of cheese is cut to desired dimensions directly from the casting line. An arrangement of the invention may comprise a sheet former, a casting line, and a shredding assembly, all of which function as a single unit. The shredding assembly, itself a unique arrangement, first slices the incoming sheet of cheese into ribbons, and then cuts each of these ribbons to length. The sheet of cheese may be sliced into ribbons by passing the cheese through a pair of rollers having grooves or slots machined into their surfaces, the width of the slots corresponding to the desired width of the cheese ribbons. The cheese ribbons are presented to a plurality of transversely mounted elongate blades, each of which revolves about a common axis. Each blade cuts off segments of desired lengths from the cheese ribbons.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于生产诸如奶酪的切碎食品的方法和设备。 该方法和设备允许在统一的操作中实现干酪丝的生产,其中生产一片干酪,并将该片干酪直接从浇铸线切割成所需尺寸。 本发明的布置可以包括片材成形器,铸造线和切碎组件,所有这些都用作单个单元。 切碎组件本身是一个独特的布置,首先将进入的奶酪片切成丝带,然后将这些丝带切割成长度。 通过将奶酪通过一对具有加工到其表面中的凹槽或槽的辊子将奶酪片切成片状,槽的宽度对应于奶酪丝带的期望宽度。 奶酪色带呈现给多个横向安装的细长叶片,每个叶片围绕公共轴线旋转。 每个刀片从奶酪丝带切断所需长度的片段。