JPH06113738A - Production of flake of hard cheese and apparatus therefor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To readily form a flake by feeding a block cheese in the longitudinal direction to a rotating cutter and cutting the block cheese with the cutter. CONSTITUTION:A hard or ultra-hard block cheese 21 is fed by smaller width than that of a blade piece 18 parallel to axis of a rotating cutter 3 every one cutting and simultaneously fed at a right angle to the axis of the rotating cutter 3 according to advance of cutting and cut. The thickness of the flake 22 depends on a speed of the cheese sent in the direction at a right angle to the axis of the rotating cutter 3.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing hard cheese flakes for producing flakes from hard or super hard block cheese.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, cheese is cut and formed by pressing a raw material cheese on a rotating disk having a large number of chevron-shaped projection blades on its surface. With such a cutting method, soft cheese is formed into flakes. However, hard cheese is formed into granules.

[0003]

As described above, since granular cheese has a small surface area, it is not only difficult to process (give attention to), but also bulk specific gravity becomes large and there is a problem that volume feeling is lacking. .

[0004]

However, according to the present invention, since the block cheese is fed to the rotary cutting blade in the vertical and horizontal directions for cutting, flakes can be easily formed.

That is, in the invention of the method, a hard or super hard block cheese is sent parallel to the axis of the rotary cutting blade for each cutting, with a width smaller than the width of the blade, and corresponding to the progress of cutting. , A method for producing flakes of hard cheese, which is characterized by feeding by cutting at right angles to the axis of a rotary cutting blade, wherein the raw cheese has a water content of 25 to 35% and a fat content of 9 to 42.
It is defined as% by weight. Further, the invention of the device, on one side of the machine base, a rotary cutting blade is erected by a horizontal axis to connect the rotating means, and on the other side of the machine base, a placing table for the raw cheese, in a direction parallel to the horizontal axis. And a movably installed in a right angle direction, and a hard cheese flake manufacturing apparatus characterized by connecting a reciprocating moving means and an intermittent moving means, the reciprocating moving means of the raw cheese mounting table is a fluid pressure cylinder. The intermittent moving means is a rack and a pinion.

In the above description, the feeding amount of cheese in the direction parallel to the axis of the rotary cutting blade becomes the width of the flakes, and the slow feeding speed in the direction perpendicular to the axis regulates the thickness of the flakes. And the thickness can be adjusted freely. However, the width does not exceed the width of the blade.

The block cheese according to the present invention has a cylindrical shape or a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and has a thickness, a lateral dimension or a diameter of 50 to 50.
150 mm and a length of 50 to 400 mm are suitable.

The rotary cutting blade used according to the present invention is cut by the same type of blade as the rotary cutting blade of the groove slicing machine,
The cut pieces are made into flaky cheese. Therefore, in order to effectively produce a large amount of this cut, each time one side of the raw cheese is cut, the raw cheese is fed vertically by a dimension smaller than the blade width (feed in the direction parallel to the axis of the rotary cutting blade). .
This feed amount becomes the width of flake cheese. Increasing the traverse speed of the raw cheese during cutting (direction perpendicular to the axis of the rotary cutting blade) increases the thickness of the flake cheese, and decreases it when the speed is reduced. At the same transverse feed speed, the rotary cutting blade becomes thin when the rotation speed is fast and thick when it is slow. The size of the flakes is regulated by the vertical feed amount, the horizontal feed speed, and the rotation speed of the rotary cutting blade.

According to the present invention, since the block cheese is fed by cutting it in a direction parallel to and perpendicular to the axis of the rotary cutting blade, the thickness and width of the block cheese can be adjusted to obtain a desired size of flake cheese.

[0010]

Example 1 In order to produce raw cheese, a known process as shown in FIG. 6 is performed.

That is, the raw material milk is sterilized and a starter is added to generate an acid, which is transferred to a card forming tank and rennet and calcium chloride are added. After cutting the card generated in this way, shrinking and solidifying the card,
Molded, squeezed, whey eliminated and salted to give a rectangular parallelepiped (depending on the mold) raw cheese. There, it is aged to obtain raw material cheese. In the above-mentioned mold filling, for example, a cloth is laid on a rectangular parallelepiped box, cheese is put therein, and pressure is applied to remove whey.

As described above, the thickness is 50 mm and the width is 100 mm.
mm, effective length 200 mm hard block cheese (water content 30
%, Fat amount 30% by weight) with a vertical feed amount of 5 mm, a horizontal feed rate of 1 m / min (direction of arrow 20), and a rotary cutting blade with a diameter of about 286 mm (60 blades, pitch 15 mm) at 50 rpm. I was able to cut it in 13 minutes. The flakes in this case had a width of 5 mm, a thickness of 0.3 mm, and a length of 50 mm (depending on the thickness of the raw cheese).

[0013]

[Embodiment 2] A pulley having a shaft 4 of a rotary cutting blade 3 mounted horizontally on a support plate 2 on one side of a machine base 1 in FIGS. The belt 8 is attached to the pulley 6 and the pulley 7 fixed to the shaft of the motor 5. On the other hand, on the other side of the machine base 1, a raw cheese box 9 is attached so as to be slidable in a direction perpendicular to the shaft 4. Further, a rack 10 is installed on the bottom surface of the raw cheese box 9 so as to be movable in a direction parallel to the shaft 4, a pinion 11 is engaged with the rack 10, and the pinion 11 is fixed to a shaft 16 of a stepping motor 12. A push plate 13 is installed upright in the raw cheese box 9, and a lower portion of a fixed rod 17 to which the push plate 13 is fixed is fixed to the rack 10. Further, an end of a rod 15 of an air cylinder 14 fixed to the machine base 1 in parallel with the shaft 4 is fixed to a side wall of the raw cheese box 9.

A large number of blade pieces 18 are fixed to the outer peripheral portion of the rotary cutting blade 3.

In the above embodiment, when the pinion 11 fixed to the shaft 16 of the stepping motor 12 is rotated, the rack 10 engaged with the pinion 11 moves in the direction of arrow 19 in FIG. In this case, the rotation of the stepping motor 12 is controlled in advance, and the advance of the rack 10 once is within the width of the blade piece 18.

Therefore, every time the cutting by the rotary cutting blade 3 is completed, the rack is advanced by one time, so that the flakes 22 having the same width can be formed.

Next, when pressurized air is fed to the tip side of the air cylinder 14, the rod 15 is retracted in the direction of the arrow 20 in FIG. 3, so as the cutting by the section 18 progresses as shown in FIG. The rod 15 is retracted, and the flakes 22 of uniform thickness are formed from the block cheese 21.

In the above description, the thickness of the flakes 22 is determined by the drawing speed of the rod 15.

That is, according to the above-mentioned embodiment, the width of the flakes 22 is regulated by the feeding by the rack 10, and the rod 15 is controlled.
The thickness of the flakes 22 can be regulated by the slow moving speed of the flakes.

[0020]

According to the present invention, it is possible to continuously form flake cheese by sliding a hard or ultra-soft block cheese vertically and horizontally and cutting it with a rotary cutting blade.

However, since the thickness and width of the flakes can be freely controlled, there is an effect that flakes of a required size can be formed according to the purpose of use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of the same.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the same.

FIG. 4 is a partially enlarged front view showing a relationship between a rotary cutting blade and block cheese.

FIG. 5 is a partially enlarged view showing a flake-formed state in the same manner.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of the block cheese forming process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Machine Stand 2 Support Plate 3 Rotating Cutting Blade 9 Cheese Box 10 Rack 11 Pinion 12 Stepping Motor 13 Push Plate 14 Air Cylinder 15 Rod

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A hard or ultra-hard block cheese is fed parallel to the axis of the rotary cutting blade every time it is cut, and the width is smaller than the width of the blade, and the rotary cutting blade responds to the cutting progress. A method for producing flakes of hard cheese, which comprises feeding at right angles to the axis of and cutting. 2. The method for producing hard cheese flakes according to claim 1, wherein the raw cheese has a water content of 25 to 35% and a fat content of 9 to 42% by weight. 3. A rotary cutting blade is installed on one side of the machine base along a horizontal axis to connect a rotating means, and a table for placing the raw cheese is provided on the other side of the machine base in a direction parallel to the horizontal axis. A hard cheese flake manufacturing apparatus, which is installed so as to be movable in a right angle direction, and is connected with a reciprocating moving means and an intermittent moving means. 4. The reciprocating means of the raw cheese placing table is
The hard cheese flake production apparatus according to claim 3, wherein a fluid pressure cylinder is used, and the intermittent movement means is a rack and a pinion.