117 results about "Cork stopper" patented technology

A container, particularly a beverage bottle, can be closed in a bottle opening of a bottle body with a closure made of a plastic material or glass. A fixing element is detachable fastened to the bottle body and holds the closure in the bottle opening. Such a bottle closure solves the problems involving, in particular, wine bottles and which arise when otherwise common bottle cork stoppers are used.

The components used in this invention has never been utilized in this special type of arrangement ever before. Plastic caps are basically used in other applications such as for sealing water pipes and bottles such as sodas, vitamin bottles and so on, but always on the outside of the bottle, but never in the inside of the bottle, in combination with a wine cork in order to protect the wine from contacting any potential contaminants inside the cork.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a pouring device for a container for the dosing of liquid. The pouring device has various features intended to ease use, including an improved removal and attachment system and a system to identify and visually illustrate selected pour sizes. In a specific embodiment, the pouring device has a colored light or LED indicator system that allows the user to quickly and easily confirm the selected pour size. Embodiments may also include one or more features that ease attachment and removal of the pouring device to a liquid container, such as a replaceable cork system.

A beverage dispensing apparatus may include a beverage dispenser and associated stopper. The stopper may be used to replace a cork, cap or other closure of a beverage container, such as a wine bottle. A needle of the beverage dispenser may be inserted through a passageway of the stopper so that pressurized gas can be introduced into the container to force beverage liquid to exit the container via the needle. The stopper may suitably seal the container after dispensing is complete, e.g., to resist exposing the beverage to oxygen.

An apparatus (100) and method (400) for detecting the presence of one or more chemical contaminants in / on a plurality of items, e.g., cork stoppers (110), using nose chips (310). The apparatus utilizes detection sensor electronics (225) that are separate from the nose chips such that each nose chip can be either reused or discarded after use. The apparatus moves the nose chips and the cork stoppers independently to align the cork stopper and a corresponding nose chip with one another. The testing apparatus uses multiple sensor units (135) to simultaneously test multiple cork stoppers for chemical contaminants (e.g., TCA). The invention provides a low-cost, reliable process for testing 100% of cork stoppers in a fast and cost-effective manner that is scalable to the general consumer product market.

Overcap (1, 11, 12) designed to overcap a neck (80) of a bottle (8) closed by a cork (82) containing a liquid to be packaged (83, 84) includes a rolled skirt (3) and a top (2) fixed to the rolled skirt around a circular junction area (4) common to the skirt and the top. The top is formed from a first strip of material chosen to have a nature and thickness so that it can be deformed, typically by stamping between a punch and a die or by thermoforming, to form a crease-free rim around the top. The rim is formed by the peripheral part of the top axially deformed over a height H between 1 and 5 mm, and the is a rim (20,21) that extends around an arc of a circle α varying from 45 to 90°. The rolled skirt includes an upper end (30) necked in over a width of at least 1 mm, cooperating with the rim to form the circular junction area, and is formed from a second strip of material (6) chosen such that the mechanical properties are not as good as the properties of the first material, the circular junction area (4) common to the rim (20, 21, 22) and to the upper end (30) extending over a width L equal to at least 0.5 mm.

A rotary printing machine for the printing of synthetic cork stoppers of the type having a surface which is normally non-ink receptive. A Ferris wheel mechanism is provided, having a plurality of evenly spaced carriers mounted a predetermined radial distance from and parallel to the axis of rotation for the Ferris wheel mechanism, each carrier for rotatably holding a synthetic cork stopper. An indexing drive system controls incremental rotation of the Ferris wheel mechanism through a predetermined sequence of steps, and a cork feeder introduces a single synthetic cork stopper into each of the carriers as empty ones of the carriers are presented one-by-one at the cork feeder. A corona discharger treats the surface of each synthetic cork stopper prior to being printed with sufficient energy to alter the surface energy of the cork sufficiently to permit receptivity of printing ink. A rotary printing system rotatably imprints with ink the surface of each held synthetic cork stopper with an image.

A non-destructive method for analyzing a cork stopper for the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole. The stopper is introduced into a hermetically closed container. The container containing the stopper is heated under conditions vaporizing any 2,4,6-trichloroanisole present in the stopper. A gaseous sample of the atmosphere surrounding the stopper in the container is collected and analyzed for the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole. This method allows the selection, in a batch of cork stoppers, of the stoppers that are substantially free of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole, in a non-destructive manner.

The invention provides a method and device for rotary marking or machining of cylindrical materials, preferably natural cork stoppers, agglomerated cork or synthetic materials used to close wine bottles and the like. The device includes at least one feeder system of cylindrical elements, preferably natural and synthetic cork stoppers; means of sensing the presence of such cylindrical elements, a laser system, means to produce the rotation of the cylindrical elements on its axis of revolution, at a variable speed, in a tangential movement compared to the focal plane of the laser system, means of measuring the instantaneous velocity tangential to its surface and direction of rotation, optical correction and focusing means, microprocessor control based means, and means for extracting the cylindrical elements. The laser system comprises means of generating at least one laser beam; means of temporal modulation and switching for the laser beam, and means of spatial modulation of each of the laser beams in a synchronized manner with the instant tangential speed on the surface of the cylindrical element.

A composite insulator mandrel acid resistance test device, comprising a cylindrical test tube arranged horizontally, a tapered liquid filling hole with an internal thread is opened in the middle of the upper end of the test tube wall, and a wedge-shaped liquid filling hole is matched in the liquid filling hole The liquid filling hole soft plug, and a wedge-shaped liquid filling hole locking plug with an external thread is arranged on the upper end of the liquid filling hole soft plug; a tapered installation through hole with an internal thread is respectively provided at the center of the end surface of the test tube. , a wedge-shaped sealing plug is respectively arranged in the installation through hole, and a wedge-shaped locking plug with external thread is also arranged on the outer end of the sealing plug, and a center of the sealing plug and the locking plug is opened for insertion of a composite insulator mandrel. Through holes for active mates. The present invention has the advantages of: effectively constructing an experimental environment with good airtightness, avoiding the overflow of the acidic experimental liquid, and making the experimental results more accurate; at the same time, it also makes the experimental environment safer and reduces the need for experimental operators to be in the experimental process. security risks.