Abstract:
Process and device for withdrawing liquid samples from a flow line leading from a first container to a second container. During the transfer of a volume of test liquid, a volume representative of the total volume of liquid transferred is deviated from the flow line and collected, and at the end of transfer a partial volume is withdrawn as a sample from the total volume. This process and the device for implementing it make it possible, amongst other things, to withdraw a partial flow sample at any point in the flow line and to deviate a volume representative of the test liquid at any stage in the transfer of this liquid. To this end, the deviated volume is withdrawn continuously from the flow line by a process know per se, in a quantity which depends on the dynamic pressure. The static pressure in the deviated volume is immediately adjusted to the static pressure in and above the liquid at the sampling point and an ajustment value which is used to compensate the pressure is derived from the difference between the static pressures, without having to compensate the pressure for the intake and discharge of the volume of deviated liquid. In a device for implementing the process, a pressure-compensating line (6) which opens into the head of a container (17) and a dip tube (17b) which is connected to the flow line (4) in the vicinity of the sampling point (I) and extends to the lower part of the container (17) are provided.
Abstract:
Process and device for filling and distributing cheese curd in rough-pressing or final-pressing basins (1) including a filling and distributing device (3), whose feeding elements (3b) have ends which dip into the whey contained in the rough-pressing or final-pressing basin (1) in all of the operational positions, and which is connected to a cheese curd storage container, from which it is fed by means of a conveying device. The aim of the invention is to ensure a regular and smooth supply of cheese curd, free from trapped air, to the rough-pressing and final-pressing basin (1). To this end, the level of the whey in the filling and distributing device (3) is raised relative to that in the rough-pressing and final-pressing basin (1) by generating an underpressure in the head of the former (3); the cheese curd is distributed over the whole of the width of the basin, whereby it sinks inside the whey column, from its point of admission to the basin. The device for implementing this process includes in particular a distribution housing (3a) which extends over the basin (1) perpendicularly to the direction of flow, whose lower part opens out to a channel (3b) over the whole of its length and whose upper part is connected with a ventilation housing (3c).
Abstract:
A process is disclosed for filling cheese moulds with curd. Amont other steps, the cheese mould (3, 4) is successively, continuously or intermittently taken to and entirely submerged into a whey bath, identical volumes (V) of the continuously supplied curd-whey mixture (K/M) are separated, each volume (V) is allocated to a cheese mould (3, 4) and entirely filled therein over a first predetermined period (TF), whereas the curd (K) remaining in the cheese mould (3, 4) after the cheese mould (3, 4) has been entirely lifted from the whey bath is pressed over a second predetermined period (TP) in the cheese mould (3, 4), then subjected to further processing. The machine for implementing the process is provided with a carousel conveyor (1) in which a number (1 to n) of cheese-moulds regularly distributed around its circumference pass by positions (P1 to Pn).