CH690395A5 - Scraping machine for cheeses has frame with base plate and post bracket - Google Patents

Abstract

The scraping machine for cheeses has a frame with a base plate (11) and a post bracket (12) with a heater (14) mounted on it above the base plate. A cheese tub (15) is mounted above the heater on a fixed support with two vertical uprights. The cheese tub is movable rotatably and in translation to allow positioning of the cheese for scraping off the upper layer.

Description

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SWISS CONFEDERATION

FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Patent issued for Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Patent Treaty of December 22, 1978 between Switzerland and Liechtenstein

A5 PATENT PAPER

© CH 690 395 A5

@ Int. Cl.7: A 47 J 037/04

Request number: 03685/95

Holder (s):

Heat Treatments S.A.,

6, chemin de la Sinièse, 3960 Sierre (CH)

Deposit date:

06/07/1996

@ Inventor (s):

Josef Burkard, 1, rue du Stade, 3960 Sierre (CH)

@ Patent issued on: 08/31/2000

Patent specification published on:

08/21/2000

Representative:

Georges R. Charbonnier,

8, avenue Peschier, 1206 Genève (CH)

@ Raclette machine.

@ The raclette appliance comprises a frame constituted by a base plate (11) and by a bracket (12), a heating body (14) mounted on this bracket, above and in the middle of the base plate ( 11), a cheese carrier (15) and a fixed support composed of two gantries (17 and 18), contained in parallel vertical planes extending transversely relative to the heating body.

You can slide the tray (5) transversely between a position where the cheese block is located horizontally under the heater and two lateral positions where this block is located away from the heater and where the tray (5) can be tilted to scrape the layer of processed cheese.

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Description

Numerous devices are known for preparing cheese squeegees comprising a frame, constituted by a base plate and by a bracket, a horizontal heating body mounted in this bracket, above the base plate, and a cheese holder that means make it possible to move between a position for which the cheese is placed under the heating body so as to melt and a position located away from the heating body making it possible to scrape the layer of melted cheese. Apparatuses of this type that are known have the common characteristic of having been designed only for the preparation of squeegees from half or quarter cheese wheels.

As the production of raclette cheese ■ is increasingly oriented towards blocks of cheese with rectangular bases, these devices are not suitable for the use of cheese in these forms.

The apparatus according to the present invention is of the aforementioned type but its entirely new embodiment predestines it for the use, for the preparation of raclettes, of pieces of cheese in the form of blocks with rectangular bases. It is defined by claim 1.

The attached drawing shows, schematically and by way of examples, two embodiments of the subject of the invention.

Fig. 1 is an elevational view, in profile, of the first embodiment, in which the piece of cheese is arranged under the heating body.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1, the piece of cheese being placed in the position for which the layer of melted cheese is scraped.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation view corresponding to FIG. 1.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view through line IV-IV of FIG. 1.

Figs. 5 to 8 are views similar to FIGS. 1 to 4, of the second embodiment.

The first embodiment comprises (FIG. 1) a frame 10 constituted by a rectangular base plate 11, in which a thickness of thermal insulation 12 is embedded, and by a bracket 13, a horizontal electric heating body 14 mounted in this bracket 13, a cheese holder 15 and a support 16 fixed on the plate 11.

This support 16 is constituted (FIGS. 3 and 4) by two gantries 17 and 18, formed of metallic tubes of circular section contained in two vertical planes parallel and transverse with respect to the heating body 14.

The crosspiece of the gantry 17 is formed of a rectilinear section 19, while that of the gantry 18 consists of a median section 20, located at the section 19 of the gantry 17, and lowered lateral sections 21.

The tank 15 is constituted (fig. 3 and 4) by a bottom 22, by two side walls 23, which extend below the bottom 22 and which have notches

24 and 25, an anterior ledge 26, and two lateral handles 27.

The piece of cheese A, in the form of a block with a rectangular base is placed on the bottom 22 between the walls 23 and bears against the rim 26.

The tank 15 rests on the gantry 17 via the section 19 engaged in the notches 24.

Using the handles 27, it can thus be slid laterally in both directions. When it is under the heating body 14, it can be supported on the section 20 which engages in the notches 25. When it is placed in one or the other of its extreme lateral positions (that the '' can be fixed by means of stops not shown), it can come to bear on one or other of the sections 21 by rotating it clockwise around the section 19 until the section 21 concerned is engaged in the notches 25. It is then in an inclined position (fig. 2), away from the heating element, in which the layer of melted cheese can be scraped off and poured onto a plate.

The second embodiment, shown in Figs. 5 to 8, is distinguished from the first by the fact that its support 36, which also includes two gantries 37 and 38 similar to the gantries 17 and 18 of the support 16, is not permanently fixed to the base plate 31, but suspended or attached to the upright 33A of the bracket 33 by means of an arm 39 of which it is integral. This arm 39, which is also made of metal tube, ends in an oblique rectangular stirrup 40 engaged on the upright 33A.

To allow the surface to be scraped from the piece of cheese to be positioned at a certain distance from the heating body 34, for example at a constant distance as the cheese is consumed, the height of the support 36 is adjustable. The means allowing this adjustment consist of horizontal grooves 41 formed in the upright 33A in which the crosspiece 42 of the stirrup 40 can be engaged, for example successively to maintain, increase or reduce the heat absorbed by the piece of cheese.

The invention is obviously not limited to the embodiments shown and described.

In particular, one could imagine other means to allow the cheese carrier 15 to be moved transversely and to pivot it around a transverse horizontal axis in order to move the piece of cheese from the position where it is melted to that where it is scraped, and vice versa.

Claims (7)

Claims 1. Apparatus for preparing cheese raclettes, comprising a frame, consisting of a base plate and a bracket, a horizontal heating element mounted in this bracket, above the base plate and a cheese holder that means make it possible to move between a position for which the piece of cheese is placed under this heating body and at least one position, located away from the heating body, for which the 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 2 I 3 CH 690 395 A5 piece of cheese is inclined so as to allow scraping of the layer of processed cheese, characterized in that said means are arranged so as to allow the cheese piece to pass from one of said positions into the other by a transverse movement of the cheese holder (15, 35) and by a rotation of the latter about a transverse horizontal axis, and vice versa. 2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that said means comprise a support (16, 36) on which the cheese holder (15, 35) can slide transversely, then pivot around said axis, and vice versa. 3. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that said support (16) is mounted on the base plate (11). 4. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that said support (36) is hooked to the amount (33A) of the bracket (33). 5. Apparatus according to claim 4, characterized by means (41, 42) for adjusting the height of said support (36). 6. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterized in that said support (16, 36) is constituted by two gantries (17, 18, 37, 38) contained in parallel vertical planes extending transversely relative to the heating body (14, 34). 7. Apparatus according to claim 6, characterized in that the crosspiece (19, 39) of the first gantry (17, 37) is constituted by a single horizontal section, the crosspiece of the second (18, 38) by a median section ( 20) and by two lowered lateral sections (21). 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 3