Wine press
AssigneeLes Pressoirs Coquard
InventorJean-Pierre Jean Masset
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Abstract
A wine press for use in particular, but not exclusively, for pressing grapes for producing champagne. It is horizontal and includes an open-work base and pressing mechanisms formed of at least an axially mobile tray. The pressing mechanisms have a configuration adapted, during pressing, to shape the marc cake into a block so that at least a portion thereof is cantilevered by the simple removal of one at least of the pressing mechanisms, so that the portion can collapse into the chamber of the press onto the open-work base.
Claims10
Wine press for use in particular, but not exclusively, for pressing grapes for producing champagne, of the horizontal type including an open-work bottom (2) and pressing means (4, 6) consisting of at least one axially moving tray, characterized in that the pressing means (4, 6) have a configuration capable, during pressure, of shaping the mare cake (8) into a block (80) so that at least one portion (8 1) of it is cantilevered by the simple removal of one at least of said pressing means (4, 6), so that said portion (81) is likely to collapse into the chamber (10) of the wine press (1) onto said open-work bottom (2).
Wine press according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the pressing means (4, 6) have a configuration that is capable, when resuming the pressing after the collapse of the cantilevered portion (81) of the mare block (80), of creating turbulences allowing causing the non-collapsed portion (82) of said block (80) to raise within the chamber (10) of the wine press (1), at least partially, under the action of a thrust exerted on its collapsed portion (8 1).
Wine press according to claim 6, characterized in that the wall (4) of the pressing means arranged on the side opposite the one where the cantilevered portion (81) of the marc bloc (80) collapses has, at its lower side, a concave curved transversal portion (41).
Wine press according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the wall (61) of at least one (6) of the pressing means is perforated, in order to allow the must to flow out during a pressing operation.
Wine press according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that one (4) of the pressing means is fixed, while the other one consists of a movable tray (6).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.