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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 1980
Filed:
May. 15, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gretz L Hazen, Fort Atkinson, WI (US);
Assignee:
DEC International, Inc., Madison, WI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
99456 ; 99458 ; 426 36 ; 426 41 ; 426491 ; 426495 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for the continuous matting and milling of cheese curd. The apparatus includes a housing which houses an upper, water-permeable, endless conveyor belt and a lower endless conveyor belt which operates in the opposite direction to that of the first belt. A mixture of cheese curd and whey is deposited as a layer on the upper belt and the whey is drained through the belt and is discharged through the lower end of the housing. The matted curd is transferred from the upper belt to the lower belt and as a result is inverted, and is subsequently discharged to a curd milling unit which acts to cut the mat of curd into cube-like chunks.