US 2024/0123476 A1 · SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CLEANING WINE AND/OR A BARREL CONTAINING WINE

Abstract

There is disclosed a system and method for processing wine and/or a containing barrel, while keeping a volume of most of the wine in the barrel. The disclosed system and method can provide reduced mixing of different layers of wine in the barrel. An optional scrubbing mechanism cleans an interior surface of the barrel from encrusted matter, and an optional UV sterilization light source sanitizes an interior surface of the barrel that is alongside a cavity in the barrel empty of wine. In some embodiments a pumping and filtering system preserves non-mixing flow of wine in the barrel while effectively filtering wine optionally without the use of a filter cartridge or other interposing medium.

Claims39

Dependent claims

A barrel cleaning system, comprising

(a) an internal unit sized for insertion into an opening in a wine barrel and including an extraction cleaning head assembly and a return feed;
(b) an external unit;
(c) a first tube coupled to said internal unit and leading to said external unit and a second tube leading from said external unit to said return feed;
and
(d) at least one pump to drive the wine in said apparatus;
wherein said internal unit comprises a robot comprising a movement mechanism.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/278,021Filed 3 Mar 2022

Priority

3 Mar 2021

Published

18 Apr 2024

Term ends

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Classification20 codes

B08B 9/083
Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks: removing scrap from containers, e.g. removing labels
B08B 9/08
Cleaning hollow articles by methods or apparatus specially adapted thereto: cleaning containers, e.g. tanks
B08B 9/0804
Cleaning containers, e.g. tanks: cleaning containers having tubular shape, e.g. casks, barrels, drums
C12G 1/005
Preparation of wine or sparkling wine: methods or means to load or unload, to weigh or to sample the vintage; Replenishing; Separation of the…

System and method for cleaning wine and/or a barrel containing wine

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System and method for cleaning wine and/or a barrel containing wine

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