MXPA00000136A - Method for making a composition for producing corks, composition and cork comprising same - Google Patents

Method for making a composition for producing corks, composition and cork comprising same

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MXPA00000136A
MXPA00000136A MXPA/A/2000/000136A MXPA00000136A MXPA00000136A MX PA00000136 A MXPA00000136 A MX PA00000136A MX PA00000136 A MXPA00000136 A MX PA00000136A MX PA00000136 A MXPA00000136 A MX PA00000136A
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granules
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cork
composition
suberin
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MXPA/A/2000/000136A
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Patrice Robichon
Philippe Noble
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Pernod Ricard
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The invention concerns a method for making a composition for producing corks, characterised in that it consists of the following steps:a) grinding cork sheets into small size granules;b) decomposing said granules into granules with high lignin content and granules with high suberin content;c) separating the granules rich in lignin from the granules rich in suberin so as to retain only the granules rich in suberin. The invention also concerns a composition containing cork granules rich in suberin and a cork comprising such a composition.

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PROCEDURE TO MANUFACTURE A COMPOSITION THAT CAN BE USED TO PRODUCE PLUGS, COMPOSITION AND PLUG THAT INCLUDE SUCH COMPOSITION DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY In a general manner, the present invention relates to the manufacture of cork-based stoppers, and more particularly, to a process for the manufacture of a composition that can be used for production of plugs. Also, it refers to a composition and a stopper comprising that composition, the stopper is intended to seal bottles of alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages, such as for example, wines, effervescent or non-foaming beverages, spirits, ciders and beverages Carbonates containing fruit. The cork, from which the plugs are made, is a vegetal tissue produced by the cork oak felogen; It consists of dead cells that have an alveolar structure. These cells are filled with gas, a composition that is very close to the air. In essence, the cork is composed of approximately 45% of suberin, which is the main constituent of the alveolar cells, around 27% of fibrous structure lignin, which is found as inclusion in the channels or on the surface of the bark , around 12% cellulose and ** - ^^ ^ A ^^^ mK ~ i? ".- lvÉt -ü, á .- ^. ^ ^ ^ TfifFÉEFFE ^^^^ -j approximately 17% of other products, such as ceroids, tannins, inorganic substances and Cork is a good material to cover and keep effervescent or non-frothy drinks, especially wines or other bottled alcohols, since it is a compressible substance that has sufficient elasticity, impermeability and is hydrophobic, the cork contains around 5% of moisture, but it is slow to hydrate, has sufficient gas impermeability to allow wines or alcohols to age properly without rust, however, cork is a natural substance that has defects to a greater or lesser degree. They consist of channels that have lignified walls or lignin inclusions, have a deleterious effect on the elasticity and impermeability of the cap, and contain substances, or precursors thereof, that during aging can give to bottled and covered wines or spirits an undesirable flavor, called "cork flavor". It is possible to distinguish around 7 quality categories for cork-based stoppers, which are distributed on a scale ranging from 0 for the best cork quality, virtually flawless, to 6 for the lowest cork quality, which It has a large proportion of defects. To try to eliminate the disadvantages already mentioned, related to the effects of natural cork of medium or low quality, while at the same time maintaining a relatively low cost of manufacturing In contrast to the solution consisting of the manufacture of stoppers from a high quality natural cork without any defects, the manufacturers of stoppers have produced agglomerated stoppers consisting of cork particles. of medium or low quality a binder or adhesive that provides cohesion to the plugs. Compound plugs are also known, an example of which is described in document FR 2,672,002. Said plug consists mainly of a powder of a woody plant substance, which comes especially from cork, expanded plastic microspheres and a food grade adhesive. However, agglomerated stoppers, although economic in their manufacture, have psychochemical and mechanical properties that are significantly inferior to those of natural cork stoppers, and therefore can not be used for the preservation of wines or alcohols intended to age in bottles. In addition, as with the above-mentioned composite plugs, the use of agglomerated stoppers does not prevent a cork flavor from forming in wines and bottled and capped alcohols using such plugs. To lessen the aforementioned disadvantages, the present invention provides a novel process for the manufacture of a composition that can be used to produce plugs, and that said The composition makes possible, in particular, the elimination of risks of a cork flavor forming in bottled alcohols. More particularly, the process according to the invention includes the following steps: a) the cork sheets are ground into small granules, b) said cork granules are broken down into granules having a high content of lignin and in granules having a high suberin content, and c) the lignin-rich granules are separated from the suberin-rich granules to retain only the suberin-rich granules in said composition. Several studies have made it possible to identify certain substances, contained in the cork, from which the stoppers are produced, which has an adverse effect on the wine and give a cork flavor. The main substances identified are: 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (2,4-TCA) 2,5-dimethylpyrazine 2-methylthio-3-ethylpyrazine 4-ethylphenol • 2,6-dichlorophenol geosmin guaiacol 1 -octen-3-one • 1-octen-3-ol • 2-methylisoborneol. These mentioned substances, even at low concentrations, give the wines unacceptable flavors. These substances or their precursors are located in the woody parts of the cork; therefore, the content of trichloroanisole in the cork increases when it is directed towards the bark of the cork oak (lignified part). Guaiacol is produced by the action of bacteria in lignin. The other substances mentioned are, as precursors, the tannins, bacteria or molds that are preferably found in lignin or lignified channels. In this way, according to the invention, a composition is produced which can be used to make stoppers almost without lignin. As will be explained below with the help of test results, the stoppers produced from said composition and used to cover bottles of wines or alcohols, therefore will not transmit in any way an unpleasant taste, called cork flavor, to the aged wines and spirits. According to a characteristic of the process according to the invention, the cork granules obtained in step a) by grinding have a size between 3 and 8 mm. According to a preferred embodiment for carrying out the process according to the invention, the cork granules are decomposed in step b) by means of shock waves propagating in said granules, the speed of propulsion of these waves of shock is different in compounds of different density. This method of decomposition by shock waves can be contemplated in the present, since the suberin and the lignin have different densities. Conveniently, according to the invention, shock waves can be produced by a plasma created in an aqueous medium. To do this, one method consists of immersing the cork granules that will decompose in an aqueous medium that constitutes the means for the propagation of shock waves in said granules. The method is the following. The cork granules obtained by grinding are placed in a test chamber (the measurements of an experimental pilot of which are: height equal to about 40 mm and diameter equal to approximately 200 mm), and this test chamber is placed under compression in a tank full of water. An electric arc is created in the water contained in the tank by charging capacitors and then by releasing the stored capacitive energy in the form of pulsed discharges. The electric arc created between the two poles of an electrode immersed in the water results in the formation of a plasma that induces shock waves, which propagate at different speeds in the compounds of density other than the cork granules.
The mechanical stress generated by the passage of shock waves in the boundary between two different compounds, in this case suberin and lignin, allows them to separate. The means to propagate the shock waves in the cork granules that will decompose may also be air instead of water. In this case, the shock waves will be transmitted to the granules by means of a flexible membrane that separates them from the electrode, which is always placed in an aqueous medium with the purpose of forming the plasma that generates said waves. In accordance with other embodiments of the method according to the invention, shock waves can be produced by explosion or decompression. According to other characteristics of the process according to the invention, the granules rich in suberin can be separated from the lignin-rich granules in step c) by flotation or centrifugation or even by diffusion. The process according to the invention includes for convenience an additional step consisting in the mixture of isolated suberine-rich granules with a binder which can be, for example, a food-grade adhesive of the polyurethane or acrylic type. Also, the invention relates to a composition produced using the aforementioned process according to the invention, which can be used for the manufacture of plugs and includes granules rich in suberin. Various tests were performed on three different granule loads. The first load, A, includes initial cork granules obtained by grinding (normal cork). The second charge, S, includes suberin-rich granules obtained according to the aforementioned process for the composition according to the invention. The third charge, L, includes the waste of the process according to the invention, that is, the granules rich in lignin. A density measurement and a chemical analysis were carried out on the three different granule loads. The chemical analysis consists in the oxidation of the granules of the various charges with nitrobenzene, and in the measurement of the concentration of degradation products resulting from oxidation and more particularly the concentration of lignin expressed in syringaldehyde which, in all probability, comes exclusively from the degradation of lignin. In addition, the organoleptic analysis was carried out in the granules of the various loads by maceration in a neutral white wine. The results of the various measurements and analyzes are shown in Table 1 below.
TABLE 1 Note: the percentages in the table are given with respect to load A. * The organoleptic analysis was carried out with respect to a load of normal agglomerated cork stoppers. It is apparent in Table 1 that the granules of the S charge (which are rich in suberine) have a density less than 90 k / m3 and a concentration of lignin expressed in syringaldehyde of about 0.46 g / l, which is about 15% less than that of the initial cork granules of the charge A. These two results clearly show that the granules of the charge S, which are those of the composition according to the invention, have a high content of suberin (a concentration of suberine close to 100%). In contrast, the granules of the L charge have a density of approximately 131 k / m3, which is greater than the density of the initial cork granules. The lignin concentration of these, expressed in syringaldehyde, is approximately 0.66 g / l, which is about 22% greater than that of the initial cork granules. This clearly shows that the granules of the charge L have a high content of lignin. It will be evident that the results of the chemical analysis, in particular the concentration of lignin expressed in syringaldehyde, of course depends on the concentration of lignin of the initial charge of normal cork granules. Therefore, the concentration values of syringaldehyde indicated for the charges S and L in Table 1 are not important in the absolute sense, but should be compared with the concentration value of syringaldehyde indicated for the initial load A. The same chemical analysis was carried out on other loads of granules rich in suberin obtained by using the process according to the invention from various loads of normal cork. The results of the analysis obtained make it possible to state that, in a load of granules enriched with suberin by the process according to the invention, the concentration of lignin (expressed in syringaldehyde) was reduced by an amount of between 15% and 50% with with respect to the lignin concentration of the initial normal cork granules, while the concentration of lignin (expressed in syringaldehyde) of the waste load increased by an amount of between 20% and 100% with respect to the syringaldehyde concentration of 20 the initial cork granules. With respect to the organoleptic test, the scales shown in Table 1 were provided to indicate the proximity of the test of the granules in question with a control that has the value 0 (neutral white wine isolated). As the results in Table 1 show, the granules of the S charge are close to the control - a neutral taste. The granules of the L charge are very different from the control, with a terrestrial, humid and dust scale. The granules of the load A are in an intermediate position, with a scale of pulverized cork. Therefore, it is apparent that the suberin-rich granules obtained by the process according to the invention and forming part of the composition according to the invention have markedly superior organoleptic characteristics to those of the granules of the L-charge, which are granules. of waste rich in lignin. Furthermore, in the composition according to the invention, the suberine-rich granules are conveniently mixed with a binder which is preferably a food-grade adhesive of the polyurethane or acrylic type. In this way, the plugs manufactured from said composition have good mechanical and sealing properties. The cost of carrying out the process according to the invention to obtain said composition for producing plugs is reasonable.

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1. - A process for the manufacture of a composition that can be used for the production of plugs, which includes the following steps: a) the cork sheets are milled into small granules, b) said cork granules are decomposed into granules that have a high content of lignin and in granules having a high suberin content, and c) the lignin-rich granules are separated from the suberin-rich granules to retain only the suberin-rich granules in said composition.
2. The process according to claim 1, further characterized in that the cork granules obtained in step a) by grinding have a size between 3 and 8 mm.
3. The process according to claims 1 and 2, further characterized in that the cork granules are decomposed in step b) by shock waves that propagate in said granules, the propagation speed of the shock waves that is different in the compounds of different density.
4. The method according to claim 3, further characterized in that the shock waves are produced by a plasma created in an aqueous medium. * * ^ - .. ^ Mifc. -flmy. . ^^ I ^ É ^
5. - The method according to claim 4, further characterized in that the means for propagating the shock waves in the cork granules is the aqueous medium itself in which the granules are immersed.
6. The method according to claim 4, further characterized in that the means for propagating the shock waves in the cork granules is air, the shock waves that are transmitted to the granules by a flexible membrane that separates them from the cork granules. an electrode placed in the aqueous medium for the purpose of forming the plasma that generates said waves.
7. The method according to claim 3, further characterized in that the shock waves are produced by explosion.
8. The method according to claim 3, further characterized in that shock waves are produced by decompression.
9. The process according to one of claims 1 to 8, further characterized in that the separation step c) is performed by flotation.
10. The process according to one of claims 1 to 8, further characterized in that the separation step c) is performed by centrifugation. g ^ ^ j - »« ~ jutJri? isttteá n ^^ ^^ || ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
11. - The method according to one of claims 1 to 8, further characterized in that the separation step c) is carried out by diffusion.
12. The process according to one of claims 1 to 11, further characterized in that it comprises an additional step consisting of the mixture of granules rich in suberin isolated with a binder that can be, for example, a food-grade adhesive of the polyurethane or acrylic type.
13. A composition produced by the process according to any of claims 1 to 12, further characterized in that it can be used for the manufacture of plugs, including granules rich in suberin.
14. The composition according to claim 13, further characterized in that the granules rich in suberin have a density less than 90 k / m3.
15. The composition according to any of claims 13 and 14, further characterized in that said granules rich in suberin are mixed with a binder.
16. The composition according to claim 15, further characterized in that the binder is a food grade adhesive of the polyurethane or acrylic type.
17. A cap intended for sealing bottles or effervescent or non-foaming alcoholic drinks or carbonated drinks, comprising the composition according to one of claims 13 to 16.
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