EP3037158A1 - Vorrichtung zum belüften von wein - Google Patents

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EP3037158A1
EP3037158A1 EP15000174.1A EP15000174A EP3037158A1 EP 3037158 A1 EP3037158 A1 EP 3037158A1 EP 15000174 A EP15000174 A EP 15000174A EP 3037158 A1 EP3037158 A1 EP 3037158A1
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Thomas Bickford Holbeche
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F23/00—Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/20—Mixing gases with liquids
    • B01F23/23—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids
    • B01F23/236—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids specially adapted for aerating or carbonating beverages
    • B01F23/2361—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids specially adapted for aerating or carbonating beverages within small containers, e.g. within bottles
    • B01F23/23611—Portable appliances comprising a gas cartridge
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F35/00—Accessories for mixers; Auxiliary operations or auxiliary devices; Parts or details of general application
    • B01F35/60—Safety arrangements
    • B01F35/602—Safety arrangements with a safety or relief valve
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F35/00—Accessories for mixers; Auxiliary operations or auxiliary devices; Parts or details of general application
    • B01F35/71—Feed mechanisms
    • B01F35/713—Feed mechanisms comprising breaking packages or parts thereof, e.g. piercing or opening sealing elements between compartments or cartridges
    • B01F35/7137—Piercing, perforating or melting membranes or closures which seal the compartments
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F2101/00—Mixing characterised by the nature of the mixed materials or by the application field
    • B01F2101/06—Mixing of food ingredients
    • B01F2101/16—Mixing wine or other alcoholic beverages; Mixing ingredients thereof
    • B01F2101/17—Aeration of wine

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  • the present invention relates to a device for aerating or oxygenating wine.
  • Adding controlled amounts of oxygen to wine, or aerating the wine is known to improve its taste.
  • wine is aerated before use via a decanter or carafe.
  • wine can also be aerated using a venturi type system whereby the wine is poured from the bottle into an intermediary vessel above the wine glass, and the wine then aerated via the venturi effect as it passes from the intermediary vessel to the wine glass.
  • a venturi type system whereby the wine is poured from the bottle into an intermediary vessel above the wine glass, and the wine then aerated via the venturi effect as it passes from the intermediary vessel to the wine glass.
  • a container containing pressurised gas is particularly provided as a gas cylinder.
  • the gas from the gas cylinder is diffused into the wine in a controlled manner via a lance member.
  • the pressure within the gas cylinder is not substantially above the ambient atmospheric pressure.
  • the invention attempts to facilitate the handling of wine aerating devices.
  • the wine aerating device comprises a body member, a lance member for inserting into wine to be aerated, provided on a first side of the body member and comprising a tube connected to the body member and a diffusor body, and a container containing pressurised gas, which is provided on a second side of the body member and engageable therewith.
  • the container is provided with a closure, as mentioned above, and the body member with a piercing device such that, upon engagement of the container with the body member, the piercing device pierces the closure to allow pressurised gas to enter the passage.
  • the wine aerating device of the invention is characterized in that the body member is provided with at least one vent, which is arranged such that in case of a disengagement of the container from the body member pressurised air remaining in the container can escape into the ambient atmosphere through the at least one vent.
  • any gas or air remaining in the container after use can easily escape from the container via the at least one vent provided.
  • air and gas are used synonymously throughout this specification.
  • the at least one vent is arranged in such a way that escaping pressurised air is directed away from a user handling the device.
  • escaping pressurised air is directed away from a user handling the device.
  • the at least one vent is provided in a lateral wall of the body member, especially a wall of a cylindrical portion for receiving the gas container.
  • the flow speed reducing means comprise a component, made of a sintered material, especially a sintered ring.
  • a sintered material especially a sintered ring.
  • sintered materials are sintered stainless steel or PTFE. These materials do not react with oxygen.
  • a sintered ring can be arranged coaxially with a plurality of circumferentially provided vents. Such sintered components provide a cost effective means for flow speed reduction and flow diffusion.
  • the piercing device is provided with a blunt end, especially as a truncated cone.
  • a blunt piercing device ensures that the closure of the container is deformed considerably before it is actually pierced or ruptured.
  • the closure and/or the piercing device is preferably made of a metallic material, for example steel or stainless steel.This allows a good metal to metal seal to be formed between the piercing element and the container before a high pressure seal makes its seal with the face of the container during engagement of the cylinder with the body member. With such a piercing device, the device can be used with containers provided as gas cylinders which are sealed by a weld closure or crimped closure.
  • the piercing device is preferably in the form of a hollow tube, which can pierce the pierceable sealing element to allow gas to escape from the cylinder into the body member.
  • a piercing of a closure by means of a blunt end avoids particulate being separated from the closure during piercing.
  • a piercing of the closure occurs only after a high pressure seal has made its seal with the face or bottom surface of the container.
  • the container is provided in a handle of the device, engagement of the container and the body member being effected by means of corresponding outer and inner threads provided on the handle and a connecting member of the body member, or by means of a coupling nut.
  • the part of the body member being engaged by the container is provided with a cylindrical high pressure seal.
  • the design of the lance, especially the diffusor body, is chosen to optimize diffusion of pressurised gas received from the container.
  • the combination of a pressurised oxygen containing gas (allowing for a large amount of gas to be delivered) and a gas diffusing membrane in connection with such a diffusor body (allowing for a controlled release of this gas) together allows a relatively high flow rate of oxygen gas to be diffused into the wine in a controlled manner.
  • the diffusive effect of the membrane can produce small bubbles which allow the oxygen gas to be diffused efficiently into, and also quickly react, with the wine.
  • the membrane By having the membrane in fibre form, for a given volume of membrane, the membrane can have a large surface area for diffusing oxygen gas into the wine. By increasing this surface area to volume ratio of the membrane, the speed in which the wine can be aerated is also increased. Typically, there may be between one and one hundred hollow fibres in the membrane.
  • the device may comprise a pressure limiting valve for lowering the pressure of the gas from the container to a predetermined pressure before the gas reaches the diffusor body or the membrane.
  • the valve may comprise a valve seat and a valve head, wherein the predetermined pressure is maintained by a spring means which controls the separation between the valve seat and the valve head.
  • the pressure inside the container when full, may be between 2MPa and 20MPa. Using a defined pressure range in the container allows the aeration process to be carefully controlled.
  • the device may comprise a protective sheath, surrounding the diffusor body and the membrane, and containing outlets which allow gas to pass therethrough.
  • the protective sheath protects the membrane, which may be delicate, from damage by accidental contact with the side of the bottle.
  • the device may further comprise a mount for mounting the device on the neck of the wine bottle. This allows the diffusor body and the membrane to be positioned towards the centre of the wine volume inside the bottle.
  • the mount may comprise a bung which is dimensioned to fit in the neck of the wine bottle.
  • the mount may alternatively or additionally comprise a plurality of legs which are each dimensioned to extend down the outside surface of the neck of the wine bottle. It will be appreciated however that the mount may have any shape necessary to achieve the intended positioning effect.
  • the container especially a cylinder and the lance member may be co-axial to provide an easily determinable centre of gravity for the device.
  • This axis may extend through the neck of the wine bottle when the device is placed thereon.
  • pressurised gas source any form of pressurised gas source may be used.
  • the gas container described above may be single use, replaceable or refillable.
  • the device may be manufactured and distributed with or without a pressurised gas container.
  • the word 'downstream' shall mean towards the lance or membrane end of the gas path and the word 'upstream' towards the cylinder or handle end of the gas path.
  • the aerating device shown in the Figures comprises a body member 10 for holding a gas cylinder 22 and a diffusion lance 16 the diffusion lance 16 comprising a central tube 17 which connects the body 10 and a diffusor body 18.
  • the lance 16 is arranged downstream of the body member 10.
  • the aerating device is arranged to engage with the neck of a wine bottle which has e.g. a fluid content of 75cl (not shown), via an interface 12.
  • the aerator assembly may be compatible however with larger bottles if desired, for instance a Magnum or a Jereboam.
  • the interface 12 also connects the body member 10 to tube 16.
  • the interface 12 forms a conical shape, which is dimensioned to fit inside or on the neck of a wine bottle.
  • a number of optional resilient legs may be present which emanate from the interface 12 and which are shaped to conform to the sloping surface defining the neck of the wine bottle, and which help ensure that the aerator assembly is correctly located over the wine bottle outlet.
  • the body member 10 is provided with a handle portion 10A and a connecting portion 10B for connecting the tube 16 to a gas cylinder 22 (not visible in Figure 1 ), arranged within the handle portion 10A.
  • the gas cylinder 22 and the handle portion 10A are arranged upstream of connecting portion 10B.
  • the handle portion 10A connects to the connecting portion 10B by means corresponding threads.
  • the gas cylinder 22 provided in handle portion 10A is moved axially (i.e. in direction of arrow A) towards the connecting portion 10B. This leads an engagement of the gas cylinder 22 with the body member 10 by interaction with a piercing device, as will be explained below in connection with Figures 3 and 4 .
  • Connecting portion 10B comprises a cylindrical body 11, in which a stepped central bore 11A is provided.
  • a piercing device 24, made of a suitable metal and surrounded by an annular seal 25, is arranged in this bore 11A.
  • the piercing device 24 is formed as a truncated cone (i.e. with a blunt end), with a central passage 24A.
  • This central passage 24A is connected to a main passage 27 leading axially through the body element into the tube 17 and the diffusor body 18 (not shown in Figures 2 , 3 and 4 ).
  • the conical section of piercing device 24 is surrounded by an annular high pressure seal 30.
  • further components 29A and 29B can be provided in central bore 11, through which passage 27 extends.
  • the body member 10 is furthermore provided with a cylindrical portion 32 for receiving a head 22A of the gas cylinder 22.
  • the cylindrical portion 32 is provided with gas escape vents 36, in its lateral walls 32 A, whose function will be described further below.
  • gas vents 36 are provided circumferentially in the lateral wall of cylindrical portion 32.
  • Cylindrical portion 32 is surrounded by a ring 38 made from sintered material. Ring 38 is arranged such that it covers the vents 36.
  • the head portion 22A of the gas cylinder 22 is provided in cylindrical form, and mates with the cylindrical section 32 of the body member.
  • a cylinder neck seal 40 is provided in head portion 22A.
  • the end of head portion 22A facing piercing device 24 is provided with a closure 42, which, preferably, is provided as a metal pierce diaphragm.
  • a closure 42 In the not engaged (i.e. the"engageable") state shown in Figure 3 , the closure 42 abuts the blunt end of piercing device 24. In this state, the closure provides an air tight seal, so that air (or any other feasible oxygen containing gas) remains in the cylinder 22.
  • the closure 42 must be substantially deformed during displacement, before it is ruptured, i.e. pierced. This allows a good metal to metal provisional seal to be formed between the piercing device 24 and the closure 42, even before a bottom surface 22B of head 22A of the gas cylinder 22 contacts the high pressure seal 30, which then provides the main seal during operation of the device.
  • pressurised air can be passed into wine to be aerated until the pressure within cylinder 22 is equal to ambient atmospheric pressure.
  • the body member can be made of non pressure bearing material, such as injection moulded polymer, rather than as a machined metal part.
  • vents 36 together with the sintered ring 38 ensures that escaping air is directed away from a person using the device, especially away from the handle portion 10A.
  • a user is thus prevented from being exposed to high pressure gas escaping through the vents 36, should he attempt to remove a cylinder 22 from the body member 10 before it is fully emptied of gas.
  • the venting occurs sufficiently quickly that a user cannot unscrew the housing completey before all the gas has been vented from a full or partially full cylinder, thus there is no possibility of the exposure to high pressure escaping gas.
  • the high pressure seal 32 has been described in the form of an O-ring. Also, this seal could be embodied as a face seal by overmoulding a soft polymer face to a cylinder neck boss or configuring the O-ring groove as a face seal.

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EP3276246A1 (de) * 2016-07-29 2018-01-31 Linde Aktiengesellschaft Druckgesteuerte verbindung
EP3282169A1 (de) * 2016-08-09 2018-02-14 Linde Aktiengesellschaft Druckanzeigevorrichtung

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GB2112124A (en) * 1981-12-18 1983-07-13 Clearline Home And Leisure Pro Gas cylinder fitting
US4867209A (en) * 1987-10-29 1989-09-19 United Soda, Inc. Portable hand holdable carbonating apparatus
EP2279786A2 (de) * 2009-07-30 2011-02-02 iSi GmbH Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Begasung einer Flüssigkeit
WO2011133779A2 (en) * 2010-04-21 2011-10-27 Tfb Consultants Ltd Liquid decanting method and apparatus

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US2694506A (en) * 1949-07-16 1954-11-16 Knapp Monarch Co Pressure bulb and puncturing means
GB2112124A (en) * 1981-12-18 1983-07-13 Clearline Home And Leisure Pro Gas cylinder fitting
US4867209A (en) * 1987-10-29 1989-09-19 United Soda, Inc. Portable hand holdable carbonating apparatus
EP2279786A2 (de) * 2009-07-30 2011-02-02 iSi GmbH Vorrichtung und Verfahren zur Begasung einer Flüssigkeit
WO2011133779A2 (en) * 2010-04-21 2011-10-27 Tfb Consultants Ltd Liquid decanting method and apparatus

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EP3276246A1 (de) * 2016-07-29 2018-01-31 Linde Aktiengesellschaft Druckgesteuerte verbindung
WO2018019432A1 (en) * 2016-07-29 2018-02-01 Linde Aktiengesellschaft A pressure controlled connection
EP3282169A1 (de) * 2016-08-09 2018-02-14 Linde Aktiengesellschaft Druckanzeigevorrichtung

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