EP0278550A1 - Méthode et dispositif pour trancher du fromage et tranches obtenues - Google Patents

Méthode et dispositif pour trancher du fromage et tranches obtenues Download PDF

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EP0278550A1
EP0278550A1 EP88200083A EP88200083A EP0278550A1 EP 0278550 A1 EP0278550 A1 EP 0278550A1 EP 88200083 A EP88200083 A EP 88200083A EP 88200083 A EP88200083 A EP 88200083A EP 0278550 A1 EP0278550 A1 EP 0278550A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D7/00—Details of apparatus for cutting, cutting-out, stamping-out, punching, perforating, or severing by means other than cutting
    • B26D7/06—Arrangements for feeding or delivering work of other than sheet, web, or filamentary form
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B26—HAND CUTTING TOOLS; CUTTING; SEVERING
    • B26D—CUTTING; DETAILS COMMON TO MACHINES FOR PERFORATING, PUNCHING, CUTTING-OUT, STAMPING-OUT OR SEVERING
    • B26D3/00—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor
    • B26D3/24—Cutting work characterised by the nature of the cut made; Apparatus therefor to obtain segments other than slices, e.g. cutting pies

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  • Cheeses are prepared in many forms, usually, however, in a round form. This may be a more or less true sphere, slightly flattened on two sides, such as Edam type cheese, or a flat slice of round circumference, such as Gouda type cheese.
  • This regular form is chosen traditionally for ease of handling, but also to obtain as uniform a salt distribution and ripening as possible.
  • Angular forms give a higher salt content in the portions near the sharp edges during brining, and also the supply of oxygen and the like gases in the ripening period is stronger near a sharp edge than near a flat or curved surface. Salt and oxygen in that case can reach such a spot from two sides simultaneously.
  • a Gouda type cheese mostly has not a true cylindrical form but one in which the cheese is a solid of revolution that is bounded by two flat planes perpendicular to the axis of symmetry.
  • a round cheese means a cheese having the form of a solid of revolution, such as an Edam type or Gouda type cheese.
  • Cheese used as a sandwich filling is cut into flat slices, starting from a flat or wedge-shaped piece.
  • a cheese plane, a blade or a slicer is used for slicing the cheese twice in a plane parallel to a boundary face of the piece of cheese.
  • the cheese slices have a uniform thickness of only a few millimeters. An apparatus for thus slicing cheese is described in US patent 2,618,061.
  • European patent application 0052409 describes the production of a round cheese having a central opening of round cross section.
  • the purpose of this particular method of producing a cheese of deviant form is, on the one hand, to make a cheese that can be easily divided into wedge-shaped pieces and, on the other hand, the quicker ripening that could be achieved due to the central opening.
  • This cheese could be cut into slices at the retailer's without slicing loss. As explained above, when the conventional parallel-slicing method is used, it is not possible to slice without loss.
  • a drawback of this method of producing cheeses of deviant form is that such a cheese requires special moulds and that the filling of the moulds and the subsequent ripening are standardized less well than with conventional cheese moulds.
  • the cheese obtained has a considerably larger rind surface and an appreciably lower weight than a conventional cheese having the same outside dimensions, so that rind losses are higher than with a conventional cheese of the same diameter.
  • French patent 425,236 discloses a process for cutting round cheeses into wedge-shaped portions, wherein a cylindrical portion is cut from the centre of the cheese and the resulting annular piece of cheese is divided into wedge-shaped portions by making cuts extending radially through the central axis of the cheese. The cuts are made simultaneously by means of a cutting frame wherein a series of radial cutting wires are provided. The number of wedge-shaped portions that can be cut from a cheese is restricted by the number of wires that can be juxtaposed in the centre of the frame. This method moreover is only suitable for soft cheeses having a low cutting resistance. With cheeses having hard rinds, the forces to be exerted on the cutting frame become too high.
  • the method according to the present invention is characterized to that end in that the cheese, after cutting away the cylindrical central portion, is divided into at least two pieces, which are each pressed with the face of the cylindrical opening against a semi-cylindrical guide and are rotated around said guide stepwise through a fixed, adjustable angle, while, after each angular displacement, a wedge-shaped slice having a maximum thickness of 5 mm is cut off.
  • the cylindrical pieces can be marketed in that form, possibly cut into round slices, perpendicular to the axis of symmetry.
  • the remaining ring can subsequently be divided by radial and axial cuts into thin, wedge-shaped slices which are all identical, both in form and in composi­tion.
  • the slice cut need not be of zero dimension at the thin end, so that even at the thin end still suffi­ciently thick sandwich filling is obtained.
  • the ratio between the diameter of the cut-out cylinder and the outer circumference of the cheese determines the thickness ratio between the inner and outer edge of the cheese slice. If a smaller difference in thickness is desired, a larger inner cylinder is chosen. Since the quality of the inner cylinder in general is the most uniform one, this inner piece has a good commercial value, in contrast with the edge pieces, which remain in the conven­tional cheese slicing method. These edge pieces in general can only serve as raw material for process cheese.
  • the cutting away of the central cylindrical cheese portion has the advantage that a guide can be provided in the resulting hole, so that the piece of cheese can be driven for rotation around said cylindrical guide.
  • the slicing member movable in a plane through the central axis of said cylinder can thus cut off wedge-shaped slices of the desired thickness when the piece of cheese,after each cut, is rotated further through a small angle.
  • European patent application 0093217 discloses a method and an apparatus for cutting round cheeses, wherein a cheese is placed on a table drivable stepwise in circum­ferential direction through a fixed, adjustable angle. During rotation of the table, a series of circular cuts are made in the cheese by means of a stationary cutting frame having a series of cutting edges provided perpendicular to the direction of rotation and the table. After the cheese has rotated through a given angle, a radial cut is made by means of a knife movable perpendicularly to the plane of the table to produce sectorial pieces of cheese, which are subdivided per sector into elongate blocks. The central portion of the cheese is then crumbled to a waste product that is unfit for use, or at least unmarketable.
  • the wedge-shaped slices cut according to the present invention may be stacked and packaged, slightly staggered relatively to each other, to a packet of some slices. These packets are easily stackable when the wedge-shaped slices are placed alternately in opposite directions, so that each packet gets a uniform height.
  • the present inventioin also relates to apparatus for slicing cheese, comprising a slicing member movable in a fixed plane.
  • a slicing member movable in a fixed plane.
  • such an apparatus is provided with a semi-cylindrical guide whose planar surface is located in the plane of movement of the slicing member.
  • the apparatus further comprises means for pressing a piece of cheese against the guide, as well as means for rotating the cheese after each cut through a desired angle.
  • Such an apparatus is distinct over conventional slicing apparatuses for cheese, meat products and like products substantially in the manner in which the material to be sliced is conducted towards the cutting plane.
  • the present invention is not limited to natural cheeses of round form but also process cheese products and imitation cheeses, prepared from fats and/or proteins other than those from milk, can be cut in that manner.
  • the slices are cut in general not thinner than 1-0.5 mm. If the central cylinder is cut away to half the diameter of the cheese, the slice at the thick end becomes 2-1 mm in thickness. The cylinder then comprises 1 ⁇ 4 part of the cheese. If the cylinder is chosen at 1/3 of the diameter, the thickness of the slice ranges from 1-0.5 mm to 3-1.5 mm, while the central cylinder forms 1/9 part of the cheese, etc.
  • the yield of cheese slices is 96% of the cheese, so that there remain 4% for the central cylindrical pieces. Since these central cylindrical pieces are quite fit for sale, the percentage of waste in the slicing method according to the present invention is 0%.
  • the wedge-shaped pieces are conventionally cut to slices which are equally thick throughout the loss in a 25 cm diameter cheese is usually 0.5-1%.
  • the half-cheese 1 shown in Fig. 1 having a semi-­cylindrical hole rests on a semi-cylindrical guide 2, while at the round side of the cheese, guide means 3, e.g. rolls or a hold-down belt, fix the piece of cheese.
  • guide means e.g. rolls or a hold-down belt
  • these guide means are preferably constructed in such a manner that even a very thin piece to be divided with the last cut into two slices remains suitably gripped.
  • a blade 4 rotatable in a horizontal plane slices a wedge-­shaped slice 5 from the one end of the piece of cheese, after which a mechanism 6 for driving the cheese causes this to rotate through a desired angle, so that the next slice is given the correct thickness.
  • the cut slices can be collected on a support 7, e.g. a small conveyor belt or weighing device, according to the manner in which the slices are to be further used.
  • Fig. 2 shows a number of possibilities of how the round cheese can be divided.
  • Cylindrical cuts 9a, b, c show how a larger or a smaller quantity of cheese can be previously removed from the centre.
  • Radially and axially extending cuts 10a-f indicate how slices of different thickness can be cut. This varying thickness is realized by displacing the cheese 1 (Fig. 1) with the mechanism 6 after each cut through a larger or smaller angle in the direction of rotation.
  • a cheese having a diameter of 250 mm may e.g. be cut into 785 slices of a length of 62.5 mm and a thickness with a minimum of about 0.5 and a maximum of about 1 mm.
  • 160 slices can be chosen having a thickness of maximally about 5 mm and minimally about 2.5 mm. The accurate adjustment of the angle through which the cheese is rotated between two cuts enables the operator to realize a fixed weight per slice in case not all cheeses have the same form.

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EP88200083A 1987-01-20 1988-01-19 Méthode et dispositif pour trancher du fromage et tranches obtenues Expired - Lifetime EP0278550B1 (fr)

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AT88200083T ATE62440T1 (de) 1987-01-20 1988-01-19 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum schneiden von kaeselaiben und durch dieses verfahren erhaltene schnitten.

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NL8700126A NL8700126A (nl) 1987-01-20 1987-01-20 Werkwijze en inrichting voor het snijden van kaas in plakken, alsmede plakken verkregen onder toepassing van deze werkwijze.

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EP0384821A2 (fr) * 1989-02-21 1990-08-29 Société MECASONIC Procédé de découpage en secteurs de produits circulaires, notamment alimentaires
FR2645065A1 (fr) * 1989-03-29 1990-10-05 Caves Producteurs Reunis Procede pour trancher en secteurs un produit alimentaire, notamment du type fromage et le dispositif de mise en oeuvre
EP0936034A2 (fr) * 1998-02-05 1999-08-18 ALPENLAND MASCHINENBAU HAIN & CO. KG Procédé et appareil pour couper et séparer de segments à partir d'un objet rond
FR2939349A1 (fr) * 2008-12-05 2010-06-11 Ermatec Machine de decoupe de produit agro alimentaire
ITLI20080014A1 (it) * 2008-12-15 2010-06-16 Fabrizio Fanelli Nuovo sistema produttivo nel settore caseario.
EP2266391A2 (fr) 2009-06-26 2010-12-29 West Land Kaas Groep B.V. Morceau de fromage découpé à partir d'un bloc, telles une roue, une brique ou une boule, procédé et appareil pour sa préparation

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FR425236A (fr) * 1911-01-25 1911-06-06 Carl Klautschke Appareil à couper le fromage
US2618061A (en) * 1950-03-16 1952-11-18 Beattie Arthur Manually operated slicing machine
US4064990A (en) * 1976-06-03 1977-12-27 Fox Valley Corporation Package for wrapping paper
US4306474A (en) * 1980-05-02 1981-12-22 Leesona Corporation Trim press with oscillating canopy sheet feed
EP0052409A1 (fr) * 1980-11-18 1982-05-26 Jacob Pieter Huisman Fromage semi-dur ou fromage dur avec un évidement central, procédé ainsi que dispositif et moule pour la réalisation du procédé
EP0093217A1 (fr) * 1982-04-29 1983-11-09 Urbain Delteil Procédé et appareil pour la découpe de meules rondes de fromage, notamment d'emmental

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR425236A (fr) * 1911-01-25 1911-06-06 Carl Klautschke Appareil à couper le fromage
US2618061A (en) * 1950-03-16 1952-11-18 Beattie Arthur Manually operated slicing machine
US4064990A (en) * 1976-06-03 1977-12-27 Fox Valley Corporation Package for wrapping paper
US4306474A (en) * 1980-05-02 1981-12-22 Leesona Corporation Trim press with oscillating canopy sheet feed
EP0052409A1 (fr) * 1980-11-18 1982-05-26 Jacob Pieter Huisman Fromage semi-dur ou fromage dur avec un évidement central, procédé ainsi que dispositif et moule pour la réalisation du procédé
EP0093217A1 (fr) * 1982-04-29 1983-11-09 Urbain Delteil Procédé et appareil pour la découpe de meules rondes de fromage, notamment d'emmental

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0384821A2 (fr) * 1989-02-21 1990-08-29 Société MECASONIC Procédé de découpage en secteurs de produits circulaires, notamment alimentaires
EP0384821A3 (fr) * 1989-02-21 1991-10-23 Société MECASONIC Procédé de découpage en secteurs de produits circulaires, notamment alimentaires
FR2645065A1 (fr) * 1989-03-29 1990-10-05 Caves Producteurs Reunis Procede pour trancher en secteurs un produit alimentaire, notamment du type fromage et le dispositif de mise en oeuvre
EP0936034A2 (fr) * 1998-02-05 1999-08-18 ALPENLAND MASCHINENBAU HAIN & CO. KG Procédé et appareil pour couper et séparer de segments à partir d'un objet rond
EP0936034A3 (fr) * 1998-02-05 2002-11-13 ALPMA Alpenland Maschinenbau GmbH Procédé et appareil pour couper et séparer de segments à partir d'un objet rond
FR2939349A1 (fr) * 2008-12-05 2010-06-11 Ermatec Machine de decoupe de produit agro alimentaire
ITLI20080014A1 (it) * 2008-12-15 2010-06-16 Fabrizio Fanelli Nuovo sistema produttivo nel settore caseario.
EP2266391A2 (fr) 2009-06-26 2010-12-29 West Land Kaas Groep B.V. Morceau de fromage découpé à partir d'un bloc, telles une roue, une brique ou une boule, procédé et appareil pour sa préparation

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