Flexible Diaphragm Patents (Class 217/104)
  • Patent number: 11279907
    Abstract: A method of aging distilled spirits, and a system to perform the method, the method including storing the distilled spirits in one or more containment vessels, securing the containment vessels in an unpressurized and ventilated cargo area of a selected flight vessel, and transporting the containment vessels from at least a first destination to at least a second destination upon the selected flight vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Inventors: Gregory B. Grime, Robert W. Casey
  • Patent number: 6296136
    Abstract: An obturator for an aperture (8) produced in a metal sheet (9) has a central dome (1), a peripheral lip (3) and an annular part (3) extending between the dome (1) and the lip (2). The annular part (3) has a shoulder (4). The dome (1) is adapted to deform between a starting position and a locking position of the obturator in which the dome (1) is turned inside out in relation to the starting position. The annular part is adapted to expand between the starting position and locking position and is maintained expanded by the inverted dome (1) in the locking position. The lip (2) is adapted to come into abutment against a face (9a) of the aperture (8) and the shoulder (4) is adapted to be in abutment against an opposite face (9b) of the aperture (8) in the locking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: I.T.W. de France
    Inventor: Laurent Huet