US 8,101,222 B2Granted

Beverage glass with internal decanting, filtering, mixing and aerating cell

AssigneeChevalier Collection Ltd.

InventorsJames R Burroughs, Dillon Burroughs, Ken Benson, Ed Gilchrest

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Abstract

A drinking container for decanting, filtering, mixing and/or aerating a beverage. The drinking container comprises a bowl having an upper opening and an aerating cell having a wall, an upper opening along the top of the cell and a plurality of openings or perforations through the wall. The cup-shaped cell has an upwardly facing hollow or concave configuration, optionally with a central upwardly extending protrusion, and is attached to and within the bowl, to decant, filter, mix and/or aerate a beverage that is poured through the bowl upper opening and into the cell upper opening, and subsequently flows through the at least one perforation into the bowl. Preferably, the drinking container is a wine glass having a base and stem supporting the bowl and the beverage is wine.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A method of using a wine-drinking container for decanting and/or aerating wine comprising:

providing a wine-drinking container having a bowl with a bottom and an upper opening and an aerating cell within the bowl having an upwardly facing hollow portion above the bottom of the bowl, the hollow portion having a plurality of openings therein, the cell having a free upper opening that is below and spaced inwardly from the bowl upper opening, the cell being supported on at least one leg extending above a bottom of the bowl;
providing wine;
while the bowl and cell are initially empty, pouring the wine downwardly from above the bowl upper opening directly into the aerating cell;
and
permitting the wine to flow through the openings in upwardly facing hollow portion and fall by gravity into the bottom of the bowl to decant and/or aerate the wine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/464,992Filed 13 May 2009 · continuation in part
Priority: 18 Nov 2008
Published: US 2010/0122919 A120 May 2010
Granted: 24 Jan 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A47G 19/2205
Drinking vessels or saucers used for table service: drinking glasses or vessels
B01F 23/234
By introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids: surface aerating
B01F 23/23412
By cascading, spraying or projecting a liquid into a gaseous atmosphere: using liquid falling from orifices in a gaseous atmosphere, the orifices…
B01F 33/5011
Movable mixing devices, i.e. readily shifted or displaced from one place to another, e.g. portable during use: portable during use, e.g. hand-held