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US 4,542,682 AGranted
Lauter tuns
AssigneeRobert Morton DG Limited
InventorJohn C. Hancock
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Abstract
A lauter tun (10,100) has a bottom (16) comprising two flat plates (18,20) joined together on a straight line (see 22), each plate (18,20) sloping downwardly from the center-line to the peripheral wall (14) of the tun, such that during flushing, water flows down each slope to flush solids towards two large collection points (26) located at the lowest point of the bottom 16.
Claims8
A lauter tun comprising
- a circumferential side wall,
- a bottom wall connected to said side wall, said bottom wall comprising two flat plates connected together at a ridge, each of said flat plates sloping downwardly from said ridge to said side wall, and each of said flat plates presenting a lowest point for that portion of said bottom wall defined by said plate with that lowest point being positioned at the inside periphery of said side wall, and
- a wort collection outlet connected with each of said flat plates, each outlet being connected with its respective flat plate adjacent the lowest point defined by that flat plate at the inside periphery of said side wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.