Wine Degassing Method and Apparatus
AssigneeBWT Licensing, LLC
InventorsGuy L. Beck, Nicholas Thompson
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Abstract
A wine degassing apparatus 20 is mounted to the neck opening of a wine bottle and includes a gas separator rod 22 formed of cordierite or other suitable inert material with an exterior shape that causes nucleation of carbon dioxide from the wine. The gas separator rod is supported by a rod holder 23 having a mounting socket 35 at the upper end of the rod, and the mounting socket is inserted into the pump adapter plug 24 with air passages 40 formed between the mounting socket 35 and the plug so that the vacuum pump can pull gas from the bottle neck 18 up through the mounting socket 35 and pump adapter plug 24.
Claims21
A wine degassing apparatus comprising:
- a gas separation rod formed of cordierite, and having an irregular surface texture extending along the length of said rod,
- a holder configured for supporting said gas separation rod, and
- an adapter plug configured to suspend said holder and rectilinear gas separation rod into the wine of a wine bottle.
A wine degassing apparatus comprising:
- a gas separation rod,
- a holder configured for supporting said gas separation rod, and
- an adapter plug configured to suspend said holder and rectilinear gas separation rod into the wine of a wine bottle.
A process of degassing wine, comprising
- inserting a solid item having an exterior surface formed of cordierite into a container partially filled with wine to a level below the surface of the wine in the container,
- closing the container from the atmosphere,
- applying sub-atmospheric pressure to the interior of the container, to the wine and to the solid item at a pressure to cause nucleation of carbon oxide in the wine at the exterior surface formed of cordierite of the item.
A wine degassing element for use in a wine container, comprising a solid inert item of a size to move through the opening of a wine bottle, said solid inert item having a rough surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.