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Reconditioned or infused fluid containers and related methods

AssigneeAlbrecht Holdings LLC

InventorMatthew R. Albrecht

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Abstract

The invention features a method of reconditioning a fluid container including heating for at least one cycle the fluid container to a select temperature for a select time duration; sealing for at least one cycle the fluid container; cooling for at least one cycle the fluid container to a select vacuum for a select time duration in an interior of the fluid container; wherein the select vacuum and the select time duration of the cooling step are selected to draw substantially a fluid from at least one of a pore, a cell and a fiber of the fluid container to a surface of the fluid container. The invention also features methods of infusing an infusion agent into a reconditioned fluid container, and methods for preparing construction materials, devices adapted for the construction material preparation methods, and construction materials including wood reconditioned and prepared in accordance with the methods of the invention.

Claims25

Dependent claims

A method of reconditioning a fluid container comprising:

heating for at least one cycle the fluid container to maintain a minimum temperature in an interior of a body of the fluid container for a select heating time duration;
wherein the fluid container is heated by supplying a working fluid including a heating fluid into a sealable opening fluidically connected to the interior of the body of the fluid container;
pressure sealing for at least one cycle in the interior of the body of the fluid container;
wherein the fluid container comprises at least one of a pore, a cell, and a fiber;
wherein the body consists of a first lid surface, a second bottom surface, and at least one side of the fluid container connecting the first lid surface to the second bottom surface thereby enclosing the interior of the fluid container;
cooling for at least one cycle the fluid container to achieve a select cooling vacuum less than atmospheric pressure in the interior of the body of the fluid container when sealed for a select cooling time duration;
wherein the select cooling vacuum and the select cooling time duration are selected to draw substantially a fluid from the at least one of a pore, a cell and a fiber of the fluid container to an interior surface of the body of the fluid container.

4 more elements

A method of reconditioning a fluid container comprising:

sealing an interior of a body of the fluid container;
wherein the fluid container comprises at least one of a pore, a cell, and a fiber,
wherein the body consists of a first lid surface, a second bottom surface and at least one side of the fluid container connecting the first lid surface to the second bottom surface, thereby enclosing an interior of the body of the fluid container;
withdrawing a working fluid from the interior of the body of the fluid container to a select withdrawal vacuum less than atmospheric pressure in the interior of the body of the fluid container;
wherein the working fluid includes air, moisture and possibly other fluids which remain in the fluid container;
and
subsequent to the withdrawing step, adding an infusion agent through a sealable opening fluidically connected to the interior of the body of the fluid container;
and
subsequent to adding of the infusion agent to the interior of the body of the fluid container, maintaining the interior of the body of the sealed fluid container for a select infusion time duration for infusing the infusion agent into the at least one of a pore, a cell and a fiber into the interior surface of the body of the fluid container.

6 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/051,218Filed 23 Feb 2016 · us provisional application
Priority: 24 Feb 2015
Published: US 2016/0243599 A125 Aug 2016
Granted: 12 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

C12H 1/22
Pasteurisation, sterilisation, preservation, purification, clarification, or ageing of alcoholic beverages: ageing or ripening by storing, e.g.…
B08B 9/0813
Cleaning containers having tubular shape, e.g. casks, barrels, drums: by the force of jets or sprays
B27B 5/04
Characterised by a special purpose only: for edge trimming
B27K 3/0228
Processes; Apparatus: spraying apparatus, e.g. tunnels