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A machine for brewing coffee or other hot beverages has a container for a supply of liquid, a heater, a hollow filter holder which can receive a relatively large quantity of comminuted coffee beans or another flavoring agent, and a riser which conveys heated liquid to the filter holder. The admitted

A machine for brewing coffee or other hot beverages has a container for a supply of liquid, a heater, a hollow filter holder which can receive a relatively large quantity of comminuted coffee beans or another flavoring agent, and a riser which conveys heated liquid to the filter holder. The admitted liquid contacts the confined supply of flavoring agent and can be discharged by way of a sealable opening in the bottom wall of the filter holder. If the machine is to brew a single cupful or a similar relatively small quantity of a hot beverage, the holder receives an insert which can hold a small quantity of flavoring agent and is contacted by hot liquid before the liquid enters the interior of the holder where it can be stored or discharged into a cup or another relatively small vessel. The insert has a bottom wall provided with a recess for one or more small bags of flavoring agent, and the bottom wall of the insert has one or more siphons or other types of outlets for evacuation of a freshly brewed hot beverage from the recess.

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A machine for brewing hot beverages, comprising a housing; a container for a supply of liquid in said housing; a liquid heater in said housing; a hollow filter holder carried by said housing and having an opening, said holder being arranged to receive a relatively large quantity of a flavoring agent

A machine for brewing hot beverages, comprising a housing; a container for a supply of liquid in said housing; a liquid heater in said housing; a hollow filter holder carried by said housing and having an opening, said holder being arranged to receive a relatively large quantity of a flavoring agent for heated liquid; a gate carried by one of the parts including said holder and said housing and being movable between open and closed positions in which said opening is respectively exposed and sealed; an insert removably receivable in said holder and arranged to receive a relatively small quantity of flavoring agent; and means for conveying heated liquid from said heater to said holder so that the liquid contacts the large quantity of flavoring agent when the insert is removed and the small quantity of flavoring agent when the insert is installed in said holder.