Method for forming and cooling an initially hot and therefore flowable melted cheese

US10349620B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HOCHLAND SE · DE

Inventors

• Roland Zeuschner · Isny im Allgäu, DE
• Walter Hartmann · Heimenkirch, DE
• Franz Stadelmann · Opfenbach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 29, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 16, 2019
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29C48/914
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A device for forming and cooling an initially hot and therefore flowable melted cheese having (a) a first metallic cooling belt capable of moving in a downstream direction; (b) a counter-pressure roller proximal to the first metallic cooling belt; and (c) a rotatable shaping roller disposed proximal to the first metallic cooling belt downstream of the supply nozzle and upstream from the counter-pressure roller, wherein the rotatable shaping roller has a number of molding cavities formed in the surface, which are separated from one another by separating webs, wherein the separating webs are formed by the remaining surface of the rotatable shaping roller, wherein the rotatable shaping roller is capable of applying a pressure by way of the separating webs onto the cooling belt that results in displacement of the still-hot melted cheese from a region of the separating webs lying thereon, so that shaped bodies of melted cheese released from the molding cavities remain on the first metallic cooling belt for cooling.