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US 2022/0339758 A1Published application
Method for treating wooden barrels using a grit-based and/or slag-based abrasive, and treatment device for implementing same
OwnerJean-Luc DUTELinventor
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Abstract
A method for treating wooden barrels, including a step of spraying a grit-based and/or a slag-based abrasive onto at least one portion of the inside surface of a wooden barrel to remove a damaged layer to separate the grit and/or slag from other residues.
Claims14
1-13. (canceled)
A method for treating a wooden barrel comprising an inside surface on which there is a degraded layer, the treatment method comprising spraying an abrasive against at least a part of the inside surface of the wooden barrel to remove the degraded layer, wherein the treatment method comprises:
- using at least one of a grit-based or slag-based abrasive,
- sorting treatment residues resulting from a removal of the degraded layer to separate the at least one of the grit-based or the slag-based abrasive from other residues.
A device for treating a wooden barrel comprising:
- a spraying system configured to spray an abrasive against an inside surface of a wood barrel,
- wherein the spraying system is linked to a supply of at least one of grit or of slag, and
- wherein the device for treating the wooden barrel comprises a system for sorting treatment residues configured to isolate the at least one of grit or slag from other residues to reintroduce the at least one of the grit or slag into the supply of at least one of grit or slag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.