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An automatic electric coffee maker has a housing including a base and a hood mounted atop the base. The base includes a horizontal support for supporting a coffee decanter so as to be located immediately underneath an overhanging portion of the hood from which a coffee basket is supported. The base

An automatic electric coffee maker has a housing including a base and a hood mounted atop the base. The base includes a horizontal support for supporting a coffee decanter so as to be located immediately underneath an overhanging portion of the hood from which a coffee basket is supported. The base has a body which extends from one side of the decanter support and extends upwardly toward and is attached to the hood. The hood has walls defining a water chamber for containing water to be heated. An electric water pump heater is mounted within the body adjacent its upper end and has a pump tube extending from a pump well thereof upwardly through an aperture in the top wall of the body through the water chamber to a discharge spout which extends through the overhanging hood portion and terminates in a discharge outlet which extends downwardly through the hood so as to discharge heated water into a coffee basket located therebelow. Essentially all of the water to be heated is located above the level of the coffee basket, permitting a short pump tube thereby minimizing the volume of cold water initially maintained therein. This structure increases the brewing efficiency in that it increases the discharge water temperature and decreases the brewing time.

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A coffee brewer having a housing including a base and a hood mounted atop said base, said base being somewhat L-shaped and having a coffee decanter support portion extending horizontally therefrom to support a coffee decanter thereon and a body portion extending upwardly from said support portion, s

A coffee brewer having a housing including a base and a hood mounted atop said base, said base being somewhat L-shaped and having a coffee decanter support portion extending horizontally therefrom to support a coffee decanter thereon and a body portion extending upwardly from said support portion, said hood being mounted atop said body portion and having an overhanging portion extending horizontally outward from said body portion so as to overhang said decanter support portion, the underside of said overhanging portion of said hood being vertically spaced above said decanter support to allow room for a decanter and a coffee basket, said hood having walls defining a water chamber therein for containing water to be heated so that essentially all of the water to be heated is located above the underside of said hood, an electric water pump heater mounted inside said body portion immediately below said hood and having a pump well extending upwardly therefrom, a pump tube extending from said pump well upwardly into said water chamber, a water discharge spout located in said hood in fluid communication with the upper end of said pump tube and extending outwardly from said tube and terminating in a discharge portion thereof which extends essentially vertically downwardly through the underside of said hood to discharge heated water into a said coffee basket located therebelow, whereby said pump tube is of a shortened length thereby minimizing the volume of water maintained in said tube whereby the temperature of water discharged into said coffee basket is increased.