On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:42:56 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:09:40 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
wrote:

First of all I live in Thailand where the source of wine making
equipment is strictly limited. To date I have been "crushing" grapes
by hand, stomping, and rubbing through a plastic basket (similar to a
milk crate) and to be frank it is a lot of work and I would like to
build a crusher, possibly a crusher/destemer.

Does anyone have plans, a photograph, or any other data about the
internal parts, or any other information, regarding crushers and how
they are function?
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Take a look at this Google patent search:

http://www.google.com/patents?q=wine...tents&n um=20

A few highlights that may be of interest:

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=581994

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=120400

http://www.google.com/patents?vid=88329

I'm sure you should be able to get some ideas from this. I'm
way out of my area of knowledge, other than finding ideas


Thanks for pointers. You must be much craftier then me as I wasn't
able to locate anything more then a thumbnail of the outside of one.

Thanks much.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)