Abstract: The present invention therefore provides an improved apparatus and integrated method for producing barrel staves. The apparatus measures the profile of unfinished stave workpieces and based on the width and shape of the stave, as well as other parameters such as the type of barrel that is required, the edges of the stave are trimmed accordingly. This ensures fewer rejected staves, less waste in that the width of the unfinished stave is continuously measured across its entire length with minimum depth of cut required, and most importantly, barrel staves having extremely accurate jointed edges ensuring superior finished barrels have an internal surface that is free from undesirable spacing between the staves, utilizing less labor than hitherto known apparatus.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 17, 2007
Date of Patent:
May 13, 2014
Assignee:
Southern Cross Cooperage Pty Ltd.
Inventors:
Ian Roberts, John Whiting, Breck Waterman, Alan Conigrave, Graham Peacock
Abstract: A barrel includes a plurality of wood slats that have an inner face, an outer face and side edges, grooves formed in the edges of the slats and keys that join the slats by engaging grooves in the side edges of adjacent slats.
Type:
Application
Filed:
February 20, 2013
Publication date:
September 12, 2013
Applicant:
DB GLOBAL LLC
Inventors:
DAVID KENEALY, John R. Cannon, James E. Rubino
Abstract: A barrel includes a plurality of wood slats that have an inner face, an outer face and side edges, grooves formed in the edges of the slats and keys that join the slats by engaging grooves in the side edges of adjacent slats.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 27, 2010
Date of Patent:
February 26, 2013
Assignee:
DBGlobal, LLC
Inventors:
David Kenealy, John R. Cannon, James E. Rubino
Abstract: The present invention therefore provides an improved apparatus and integrated method for producing barrel staves. The apparatus measures the profile of unfinished stave workpieces and based on the width and shape of the stave, as well as other parameters such as the type of barrel that is required, the edges of the stave are trimmed accordingly. This ensures fewer rejected staves, less waste in that the width of the unfinished stave is continuously measured across its entire length with minimum depth of cut required, and most importantly, barrel staves having extremely accurate jointed edges ensuring superior finished barrels have an internal surface that is free from undesirable spacing between the staves, utilising less labour than hitherto known apparatus.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 17, 2007
Publication date:
July 26, 2012
Applicant:
SOUTHERN CROSS COOPERAGE PTY LTD.
Inventors:
Ian Roberts, John Whiting, Breck Waterman, Alan Conigrave, Graham Peacock
Abstract: Process for treating staves for the manufacture of barrels comprising scarifying in the mass of the wood, by any appropriate mechanical means, shafts that allow the escape of gases and water vapor emerging from the wood during the firing process. The shafts comprise holes or incisions formed at regular intervals on the surface of the inner side of the staves.
Abstract: A barrel includes a plurality of wood slats that have an inner face, an outer face and side edges, grooves formed in the edges of the slats and keys that join the slats by engaging grooves in the side edges of adjacent slats.
Type:
Application
Filed:
May 27, 2010
Publication date:
January 6, 2011
Inventors:
David Kenealy, John R. Cannon, James E. Rubino