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An apparatus 10 for forming a coffee filter has a filter compartment 14 and a primary compartment 16. A filter roll 22 is unwound from the filter roll compartment 14 and fed into the primary compartment 16. Within the primary compartment 16 is a suspended floor 24 having an aperture 44, a pair of fi

An apparatus 10 for forming a coffee filter has a filter compartment 14 and a primary compartment 16. A filter roll 22 is unwound from the filter roll compartment 14 and fed into the primary compartment 16. Within the primary compartment 16 is a suspended floor 24 having an aperture 44, a pair of fingers 76 which indexes the filter paper across the aperture 44, and a plunger 116 having an outside dimension which is matingly received in the aperture 44 of the floor 24. The filter paper is conformably sized about the outside dimension of the plunger 116 when the filter paper is indexed to a position across the aperture 44 and the plunger 116 is moved through the aperture 44 in the floor 24. A clamp 119 is used to hold the filter paper against the floor 24. Upon travel of the plunger 116 through its stroke, a discrete coffee filter is formed and separated from the remainder of the filter roll 22 at the location where the clamp 119 is depressed against the filter roll 22. Upon separation of the discrete coffee filter from the remainder of the filter roll 22, the filter is ejected into a basket.

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An apparatus for forming a discrete coffee filter from a roll of filter paper, the apparatus comprising: (a) a suspended floor defining an aperture; (b) means for indexing the roll of filter paper across the aperture, and wherein the indexing means includes at least one finger which urges the filter

An apparatus for forming a discrete coffee filter from a roll of filter paper, the apparatus comprising: (a) a suspended floor defining an aperture; (b) means for indexing the roll of filter paper across the aperture, and wherein the indexing means includes at least one finger which urges the filter paper against, and advances the filter paper across, the suspended floor; and (c) a plunger having an outside dimension which is matingly received in the aperture which is defined by the floor, the plunger being movable to extend through the aperture in the floor, and wherein the filter paper is comformably sized about the outside dimension of the plunger when the filter paper is indexed to a position across the aperture and the plunger is moved through the aperture in the floor.