Foods and beverages: apparatus – Beverage – With gas treating means
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-19
2006-09-19
Alexander, Reginald L. (Department: 1761)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Beverage
With gas treating means
C141S018000, C141S105000, C141S369000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07107897
ABSTRACT:
A method and device for inerting a vat having an upper wall and containing a consumable liquid and an overhead gas, including the steps of:injecting an inerting gas heavier than air by way of a downward extending injection tube into the overhead gas above a free surface of the liquid and substantially below the upper wall of the vat and, during this injection,removing excess gas through the injection tube and a purge orifice of the vat. The injection tube may have a gas diffuser at its lower end.
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Alexander Reginald L.
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
L'air Liquide Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Explotation des
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