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US 8,430,023 B2Granted
Adjustable wine aerator
OwnerIndia Hynesinventor
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Abstract
An aerator for fluids, such as wine, includes an upper bowl portion with a set of openings in the base, a restrictor plate with, in the preferred embodiment, three sets of apertures. Each of the restrictor plate aperture sets can be aligned with the bowl openings to provide three different flow rates. A collar portion selects the aperture set to be aligned and includes vents to permit air into a central flow path wherein the wine is aerated as it flows through the collar portion.
Claims17
An aerating apparatus comprising:
- a. a bowl portion having, at its base, a set of openings through which liquids may flow;
- b. a flow restrictor plate adjacent said set of openings and having at least two sets of apertures, the apertures of each set being similarly sized;
- c. sleeve means including restrictor plate driving means said sleeve means including a fluid flow path and being adapted to connect to the base of said bowl portion to provide a fluid flow path through the interior of said sleeve means;
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- d. venting means in said sleeve means for admitting air to said fluid flow path;
- whereby rotation of said sleeve means causes a selected set of apertures to be aligned with said bowl openings dividing the fluid into separate streams which are aerated before combining in said flow path.
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A wine-aerating device, comprising:
- a. a top funnel part;
- b. a mid-section funnel part;
- and
- c. a bottom funnel part;
- wherein said top funnel part includes inner aerating holes and said mid-section funnel part includes an aerating structure including side aerating holes and means to selectively adjust the degree of aeration,
- whereby when the funnel parts are attached to one another and the degree of aeration in said mid-section funnel part is selected, wine introduced into said top funnel part and passing through the device is aerated.
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An aerating apparatus comprising:
- a. a bowl portion having, at its base, a set of openings through which liquids can flow;
- b. a flow restrictor plate adjacent said set of openings and having at least two sets of apertures, the apertures of each set being similarly sized;
- c. collar means including restrictor plate driving means, said collar means including a fluid flow path and being adapted to connect to the base of said bowl portion to provide a fluid flow path through the interior of said collar means;
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- d. venting means in said collar means for admitting air to said fluid flow path;
- whereby rotation of said collar means activates said plate driving means to cause a selected set of apertures to be aligned with said bowl openings, dividing the fluid into separate streams which are aerated before combining in said fluid flow path.
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Fluid aerating apparatus comprising:
- a. fluid receiving means including a base portion with a plurality of openings;
- b. flow restricting means including a restrictor plate with at least two sets of apertures, each set having said plurality of apertures, the apertures of one set being larger than the apertures of the other set;
- c. collar means coupled to said fluid receiving means and including a central flow path and driving means connected to said flow restricting means for aligning one set of apertures with said base portion openings;
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- d. venting means in said collar means for admitting air into said central flow path;
- whereby said flow restricting means divides fluid in said receiving means into a plurality of streams which are combined in the presence of air in said central flow path, thereby aerating the fluid passing therethrough.
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A fluid aerating apparatus including:
- a. bowl means for receiving fluid to be aerated;
- b. flow restricting means for selectively controlling the flow rate of fluid exiting said bowl means;
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- c. aerating means adjacent said bowl means and said flow restricting means for introducing air into the fluid exiting said flow restricting means;
- wherein said selecting means can alternatively set three rates of flow, one rate being faster than the others and one rate being slower than the others.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.