Transportable apparatus for re-conditioning wine barrels using a turnstile
AssigneeDiverse Barrel Solutions Pty Ltd
InventorBreck Waterman
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Abstract
An apparatus for reconditioning barrels, said apparatus including a means to lockingly engage a barrel in a first position, a moving means to move the locked barrel into a second position, a scanner to scan the internal surface of the locked barrel when in the second position and collect scanned data, the moving means then moving the locked barrel to a third position and a means to cut a selected depth of the internal surface of the locked barrel when in the third position according to the collected data. The moving means is a turnstile with three section enabling three barrels to be in the apparatus at any one time, so that whilst one barrel is being scanned, one is being cut and a third is being unloaded/loaded into the apparatus.
Claims9
An apparatus for reconditioning barrels, said apparatus including:
- a means to lockingly engage a barrel in a first position;
- a moving means to move the locked barrel into a second position;
- a means to scan the internal surface of the locked barrel when in the second position and collect data;
- the moving means adapted to move the locked barrel to a third position;
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- a means to cut a selected depth of the internal surface of the locked barrel when in the third position.
A method of reconditioning a barrel including the steps of:
- (a) loading and securing the barrel into a turnstile in a first position;
- (b) rotating the loaded barrel to a second position;
- (c) scanning the inner surface of the barrel at discrete positions and forming a database of said surface;
- (d) rotating the barrel to a third position;
- (e) routing the inner surface of the barrel according to the scanned inner surface to produce a constant depth of routing;
- (f) rotating the barrel to the first position and unloading the barrel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.