Patent ID: 11866680
Assignee: ARIEL SCIENTIFIC INNOVATIONS LTD.
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C | IPC C

Claim 6:
7. A barrel for maturation of wine comprising a wooden exterior and an internal volume and a plurality of internal wooden surfaces extending inwardly of said wooden exterior into said internal volume, wherein said internal wooden surfaces divide said barrel into respectively closed-off compartments, said internal wooden surfaces having openings at alternating ends of successive respectively closed-off compartments to allow for flow of maturing wine to travel through each of said compartments in succession, the barrel being placed on its side and wherein said compartments and said openings form a zig-zag flow path between an intake at one end of said barrel and an outlet at an opposite end of said barrel, the flow path being via lengths of said succeeding compartments, said intake and said outlet configured for connecting to an external tank, thereby to limit circulation from said external tank to follow said compartments along said zig-zag flow path and back to said external tank, the barrel being connected to a tank via flow connectors, said flow connectors configured with said tank and said barrel such that wine flows from an upper part of a lower third of the tank via a wine outlet of said tank by gravitation, into the barrel, circulates through said barrel and returns to an upper part of the tank via a wine inlet of said tank.