Wine barrel

• US 5,174,461 A
• Filed: 01/23/1992
• Issued: 12/29/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Stephen T. Sullivan
• Original Assignee: Stephen T. Sullivan
• Inventors: Sullivan, Stephen T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Caretto, Vanessa
• Application Number:
  US07/824,595
• Time in Patent Office: 341 Days
• Field of Search: 217/88, 217/72, 217/73, 217/90, 217/3 R, 217/30 B, 220/410
• US Class Current: 217/88
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/02 Internal fittings of containers made by folding or erecting blanks made of paper B65D5/44
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 7/045 Casks, barrels, or drums in their entirety, e.g. beer barrels, i.e. presenting most of the following features like rolling beads, double walls, reinforcing and supporting beads for end walls thermally insulated barrels, B65D81/3802

Abstract

A wine barrel provides a stainless steel barrel body having at least one removable end, with at least one circumferential stave holder member secured to the barrel inside surface. This stave holder bears a plurality of stave receiving portions for releasable capture of oak stave elements.

Claims

1. A wine barrel comprising:

a barrel body having a pair of ends, at least one of said ends being removable, said barrel body having an inside surface;

at least one circumferential stave holder member secured to and extending completely around said barrel body inside surface, said circumferential stave holder member bearing a plurality of stave receiving portions; and

at least one stave element conditioned for releasable capture by said stave receiving portion.

2. The wine barrel of claim 1 including a pair of circumferential stave holder members, each secured proximate said barrel body ends.

3. The wine barrel of claim 1 wherein each of said stave receiving portions releasably captures a stave element.

4. The wine barrel of claim 1 wherein said barrel body is composed of stainless steel.

5. The wine barrel of claim 1 wherein said stave element is composed of oak.

6. A wine barrel comprising:

a barrel body having a pair of ends, at least one of said ends being removable, said barrel body having an inside surface;

at least one circumferential stave holder member composed of stainless steel and secured to said barrel inside surface, said circumferential stave holder member bearing at least one stave receiving portion; and

at least one stave element conditioned for releasable capture by said stave receiving portion.