| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6916500 |
Liquid circulation system for cooling cheese |
July 12, 2005 |
| An apparatus has a brine tank that is subdivided into cooling cells each having a vertical carousel for submerging blocks of cheese. The cheese blocks are carried through an inlet flume by a flow of brine and then sequentially diverted into the cooling cells where the cheese blocks are |
| 6458397 |
Staging system for automated cheese processing equipment |
October 1, 2002 |
| A cheese processing system utilizes a liquid flume to convey blocks of cheese between two components of the system. A staging section is provided in the flume to accumulate cheese blocks into groups that are more easily handled by the component at the outlet of the flume. The staging sec |
| 6393976 |
Automated brine system with a carousel for cooling cheese |
May 28, 2002 |
| An apparatus has a tank with a vertical carousel holding blocks of cheese. The carousel moves in a closed path which submerges and flips over the blocks of cheese in a chilled brine solution contained in the tank. The movement of the carrousel ensures that the cheese is cooled uniformly |
| 6379734 |
Automated brine system for cooling cheese |
April 30, 2002 |
| An apparatus has a brine tank that is subdivided into cooling cells each having a vertical carousel for submerging blocks of cheese. The cheese blocks are carried through an inlet flume by a flow of brine and then sequentially diverted into the cooling cells where the cheese blocks are |
| 6026740 |
Apparatus and method for applying salt to cheese |
February 22, 2000 |
| An apparatus for producing cheese includes a dispenser for applying salt to the cheese at a rate which varies in response to a control signal. The cheese travels across a platform to which a first sensor is attached for measuring the weight of the cheese. A second sensor measures the lin |
| 5988052 |
Apparatus for measuring rate of cheese production |
November 23, 1999 |
| An apparatus for producing cheese includes a dispenser for applying salt to the cheese at a rate which varies in response to a control signal. The cheese travels across a platform to which a first sensor is attached for measuring the weight of the cheese. A second sensor measures the lin |
| 5792497 |
Method and apparatus for producing twisted string cheese products |
August 11, 1998 |
| A cheese processing machine includes an extruder assembly for forming the cheese into a string. The disclosed assembly has two extruders each forcing a different type of cheese in a plastic state into separate chambers of an extrusion head. The extrusion head has a series of aperture |
| 5711976 |
Cheese molding apparatus |
January 27, 1998 |
| A molds is filled with cheese by an apparatus that includes an extruder which injects cheese through the opening in the mold. A plunger is located adjacent to the mold and is contacted by moveable wall of the mold as cheese fills a mold cavity. An actuator may be provided to varying the |
| 5450750 |
Body volume measurement chamber |
September 19, 1995 |
| A chamber for determining the volume of a patient for tissue density calculations provides controlled and continuous volume changes in the chamber by means of increasing offset between connected tanks of water, one of which communicates to the chamber to withdraw air from the chamber |
