Patent ID: 7096677

Claim:
A device for storage of an opened wine container comprising a housing for receiving said opened wine container in a substantially vertical orientation, a poppet valve assembly including a valve body for insertion within an opening in said opened wine container and biased to enable said device to accommodate opened wine containers of varying sizes, a pressurized source of heavier-than-air inert gas located within said housing, a regulator for reducing the pressure of said inert gas from a first pressure at said pressurized source of heaver-than-air inert gas to a second pressure at said poppet valve assembly, said poppet valve assembly further comprising a spring-loaded check ball, low-pass port, shuttle and orifice to control pressure and flow path of said heavier-than-air inert gas as it enters said opened wine container and to direct said heavier-than-air inert gas to said opened wine container and for displacing any air that may have been present therein through an exhaust port further made part of said poppet valve assembly, further comprising a hollow tubular member having a diameter and longitudinal axis and a series of perforations extending substantially along said longitudinal axis, said hollow tubular member extending from said nozzle and into said wine container for carrying said heavier-than-air inert gas from said nozzle and into said wine container through said perforations.