P-738-V Molding Machine for Cheese Mass Forming and Curd Cutting
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The P-738-V forming machine is used to mould cheese mass that arrives from the cheese-making vat, cut the curd layer into pieces, and direct those pieces into moulds for pressing. A dedicated forming machine is used to shape the cheese mass.
What is the P-738-V forming machine designed for?
The P-738-V forming machine handles the moulding stage of cheese production: it receives cheese mass from the cheese-making vat, forms it, cuts the curd layer into pieces, and feeds those pieces into moulds ready for pressing. It is one of the core pieces of equipment in a cheese-production line, sitting between the cheese vat and the press.
How is the P-738-V forming machine built?
The main part of the P-738-V is a welded, rectangular working vat without a bottom, made from stainless steel sheet 4 mm thick and fitted with stiffening ribs. This working vat is housed inside a welded steel body of carbon sheet steel, also 4 mm thick.
The machine stands on tall legs made of stainless steel tubes. These legs serve a double purpose: they also act as the pipeline that drains whey away from a trough fixed around the perimeter of the upper part of the working vat. Beneath the vat sits a movable bottom driven by a bellows mechanism, which is set in motion by compressed air.
The bellows is mounted on a tray that collects the portion of whey seeping through the gap between the movable bottom and the vat. The top of the vat carries two hinged lids with openings for whey to escape, plus a knife frame for cutting the cheese curd. The movable bottom is controlled through a distribution valve that regulates the supply of compressed air to the bellows.
Key specifications
- Working capacity: 500 litres
- Working vat material: stainless steel sheet, 4 mm thick, rectangular, bottomless, with stiffening ribs
- Body material: welded carbon sheet steel, 4 mm thick
- Drive: bellows actuated by compressed air, regulated through a distribution valve
- Legs: stainless steel tubes that double as the whey drainage pipeline
- Top fittings: two hinged lids with whey outlet openings and a knife frame for cutting the curd
How does the bellows drive work?
The bellows drive moves the vat's bottom up and down using compressed air. An operator opens or closes a distribution valve to meter air into the bellows, raising the movable bottom against the cheese mass. As the curd is compressed and cut, whey is squeezed out, passing through the gap between the movable bottom and the vat into the tray below, while further whey drains from the perimeter trough through the hollow stainless-steel legs.
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