Patent ID: 8365931

Claim:
A wine protector device adapted, in use, to protect wine in an opened wine bottle having a neck region and a body region, said wine protector device being formed in a first expanded condition as a disc member having an outer peripheral edge zone approximating the internal cross-sectional dimensions of the body region of the opened wine bottle, said protector device being flexibly deformable to enable introduction through the neck region of the opened wine bottle and once in the body region being recoverable in shape to said first expanded condition to be located on the wine surface of wine remaining in the body region, whereby a barrier is established restricting air contact with the remaining wine in the opened wine bottle, said wine protector device having a multi part construction including an inner thin sheet of spring material that is flexibly deformable by rolling or folding but returns to a substantially flat disposition once external deforming forces are removed, said thin sheet of spring material being located between two outer zones of plastics material connected to one another to contain said thin sheet of spring material therebetween in a sealed zone, said device further including a peripheral edge zone extending circumferentially and radially that is relatively more flexible than remaining regions of said device, wherein said peripheral edge zone includes a plurality of cuts or similar separation lines extending from a peripheral outer edge inwardly of said device.