Wine dispenser
AssigneeMitsuhiro Co., Ltd.
InventorHideshi Fukunaga
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Abstract
An upstanding cylinder and a loading lid are produced respectively from glass. On the upper face of the bottom plate of the cylinder, a substance-pooling concave in which wine lees and tartar are pooled is formed. Owing to this constitution, there is little risk that the external air enters through a gap between the sliding faces of these members into the wine-pooling section in the cylinder and causes the oxidation of the wine. Since the cylinder comprises glass, the wine can be stored under almost the same conditions as in bottles. Further, sanitary precautions can be easily taken. Furthermore, problems such as the sticking of the cylinder to the loading lid due to stainless steel rust and so on can be overcome.
Claims1
A wine dispenser comprising:
- an upright cylinder which has an opened upper end face and stores wine;
- a wine flow-out tube communicating with an inner space of the cylinder;
- a cock provided in the middle of the wine flow-out tube;
- a load lid which rises/falls, in a state where an outer circumferential face of the load lid liquid-tightly comes into contact with an inner circumferential face of the cylinder, in an inner space of the cylinder and has an air vent hole penetrating from an upper face to a lower face of the load lid;
- a stopper for stopping up the air vent hole,
- wherein the cylinder and the load lid are made of glass,
- a central portion of an upper face of a bottom plate of the cylinder is flatly formed and a foreign matter collecting recess portion for collecting sediment and tartar of the wine is annularly formed on the whole of a region surrounding the central portion,
- a lower face of the bottom plate of the cylinder is flatly formed, and
- the wine flow-out tube has a lower end of a butt side opening arranged at the same height as that of the flat central portion of the upper face of the bottom plate of the cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.