APPARATUS FOR CONTEMPORANEOUSLY SHAPING AND PRESSING A PLURALITY OF GRANA CHEESE FORMS

摘要

The invention concerns an apparatus (1) for contemporaneously shaping and pressing a plurality of Grana cheese forms comprising a support frame (2), a tank for collecting the curd having movable holed lateral (3) and upper (7) walls, suitable to press and shape the curd under serum and to end the drainage of the serum, a tank (5) to contain the serum, provided external with respect to said curd collecting tank, a platform having the bottom holed, to drain the serum, horizontal thrust means (13, 14) of the pressed and shaped caseous mass coming out from the collecting tank, cut means (15) for the caseous mass coming out from the collecting mass so as to obtain single cheeses, drawing means (11, 17, 18) for the single cheeses obtained, and control means (30) to operate the various components.