Container for the storage and/or fermentation of alcoholic beverages
OwnerLuca Risso, Maurizio Gascoinventors
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Abstract
A container for food liquids, in particular for the storage and/or fermentation of alcoholic beverages, has a body in which a substantial portion of the walls of the container is made of a ceramic material with controlled porosity. The body of the container is shaped as a truncated pyramid, in which each of the faces of the side wall includes a slab of ceramic material with controlled porosity, and in which a support structure made of cementitious material is formed along the external corners of the side wall and in correspondence with the bases of the truncated pyramid. Axial openings are defined in the bases of the container and are adapted to cooperate with suitable closing members.
Claims10
A container for fermentation and/or storage of alcoholic beverages, the container having walls made at least in part of ceramic material with controlled porosity, the container comprising:
- a container body shaped as a truncated pyramid, the container body having a side wall with faces that comprise slabs in said ceramic material with controlled porosity;
- a support structure in cementitious material formed along external edges of said side wall and at bases of said truncated pyramid;
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- axial openings formed in said bases, configured to cooperate with closing members,
- wherein said support structure in cementitious material overlaps only partially an external side of said slabs, covering said slabs towards an external environment leaving a greater uncovered part of a surface of a side of said slabs facing an outside of the container directly in contact with the external environment or an atmosphere external to the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.