Cheese processing apparatus, namely, bulk cheese former to automatically process and form blocks and/or barrels of cheese from salted, milled or stirred curd; cheese grinder/extruder for converting blocks and/or barrels of cheese into cheese etrudate; whey/fines separator for separating whey and fines into separate streams; curd elevator with mill and pre-press for milling and thereafter pre-pressing curd in a cheese mold; whey drainer for draining whey from a whey/curd mixture; cheese pre-pr...

Materials handling and packaging apparatus, namely, cheese block upender apparatus for rotating 180 degrees cheese blocks moving along a conveyor, cheese block singulator and orientator apparatus, automatic cheese loader for inputting cheese to a horizontal form/fill/seal machine, automatic cheese block bagger apparatus, automatic multi-station cheese handling apparatus in the nature of an in-line-sequentially positioned automatic bagger, regusseter, capper, bander, finished hoop palletizer, ...