FILLING SYSTEMS

For UF white cast cheese in cups

Food Machinery A/S

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Mode of operation
The plants described in this leaet are for casting of UF
cheeses such as White cheese - Feta and Domiati, in
retail containers, which are stackable plastic cups.

The plastic cups are placed in the cup magazines from

where they are dispensed onto the lling conveyor,
which will move them stepwise under the slip spray
station, the lling station, under the antifoam spray and
unto the pushover station at the inlet to the coagulation
conveyor.

The coagulation time depends on the type of cheese to

be produced, but will normally be from 20 to 30 minutes.
At the end of the coagulation conveyor the cups will be The Rot-O-Min packing machine.
moved row by row to the transfer conveyor leading to
the inlet of the Rot-O-Min packing machine.

In the packing machine the cups, with the now coagu-
lated cheese, will be moved to the following stations:
1. Membrane dispenser, where a parchment foil is
placed on top of the coagulated cheese.
2. Dry salting unit, dosing an adjustable quantity of ne
salt on the foil.
Cheese technology
As described in Mode of operation a parchment foil
is placed on the coagulated cheese curd before dry
salting.
This ensures the bacteriological acidication of the
cheese can take place, as the cheese is not in direct
contact with the salt.

3. Lid dispenser, dispensing an plastic-foil on the cup
and point welding it in order to keep it in position during
the move to the heat sealing station.
4. Heat sealing, for complete sealing of the lid-material.
After the proper pH-value has been reached, the cups
with the cheeses are turned upside down and the small
quantity of whey which has seperated from the cheese
curd will seep under the foil and dissolve the salt to form
the brine for salting and preservation of the cheese.

5. Date coder, for ink coding on top of the lid-material.
6. Cover lid dispenser (optional) for applying a snap-on
lid on top of the plastic-foil lid.
7. Lift and transfer station, moving the cups to the
discharge conveyor.
With this production method GDL is not required for
acidication of the cheese, and a natural ripening
and avour development process will take place.
For product not requiring acidication / ripening the
parchment dispenser and dry salting unit can be substi-
tuted by a brine dosing unit.

8. Discharge conveyor.

Feta cheese.
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Basic processing line Optional features
Primodans UF white cheese plant are available i stan- After the discharge conveyor a stainless steel rotat-
dard capacities of 2000 / 4000 / 6000 cups/ hour. ing packing table is installed for manual crating or
The cups used ranges from 100 cc up to 500 cc which packing of the product.
corresponds a UF retentate capacity from 1000 kg/hour
up to 3.000 kg/hour. As an option a packing unit for automatic packing
Larger cups is applicable but at reduced speed. of the cups into cardboard boxes or crates in one
The capacity at 1000 cc is approximate 1.600 cups/hour. or more layers can be supplied as well as a cup-
making machine including buffer magazine (see
The basic processing line includes the following units: cartoning/cupmaking). Before dispensing the cup a
- Rot-O-Min cup-sterilizing unit is possible.
- Filling conveyor including servo dosing
- Coagulation conveyor For sterilizing the salt used on top of the membrane,
- Turntable a special salt-sterilizer can be added to the machine
- Discharge conveyor securing that the product is held free of contamina-
- Transfer station tion from the salt.
- Outfeed conveyor
- Anti stick spray If producing non acidifacted cheese is wanted, a
- Anti foam spray brine dosing unit can be build in.
- Siemens S7 control system
- Control panels for changing proces-parametres The machinery is made from stainless steel and is
easy to clean with a hose. Alternatively the coagula-
tion conveyor unit can be cleaned by its own con-
veyor washing unit securing that this conveyor belt
always is clean. The washing proces normally takes
place when the lling machine is under CIP.

For sterilizing of the membranes/ foil lids a special

membrane/ foil sterilizing unit can be added to the
machine. In this case Primodan produces mem-
branes and lids on reels. These reels are mounted
in a unit from where they are UV sterilized before
entering the machine.

Primodan can offer mechanical and electrical super-

The lling conveyor with control panel, cup magazine, slip
spray, anti foam spray and lling unit. vision of basic plants with all the equipment offered.
Start up and training of dairy personel is also avail-
able according to client demands.

One possible layout of the machinery among many.

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Cartoning
The photo to the right shows, the Rot-O-
Min packing machine with discharge con-
veyor, delivery to accumulation conveyor,
packing robot and cardboard handling
and sealing equipment.

Packing can also be done in plastic crates

in which case the cardboard box handling
unit shown on the photo is substituted by a
crate handling unit.

Cup making
The standard plant is provided with a stain-
less steel cup magazine but as optional
feature a cup making machine can be
included.
The machine thermoform the cups from
a plasticcoil, and convey them direct into
the lling machine. In case of production
stop a special designed cup buffer device,
automatically stack the cup-production into
piles and then reload when the lling is
restarted.

Canister plant
Primodan Food Machinery A/S also supplies automatic plants for
casting of cheese in cannisters.
The photo to the left shows a plant for 2.000 kilo/hour of Feta
cheese in 18 kg. cannisters. The cannister size and capacity of the
plant will be according to client demands.
A special leaet will be forwarded on requst.

Primodan reserves the right to make alterations without prior notice.

Primodan Food Machinery A/S Phone + 45 59 43 14 79

Oesterled 20 - 26 Telefax + 45 59 44 22 30
DK - 4300 Holbaek Email main-ofce@primodan.dk
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