Automated french press-like quality producing, high volume, automated, electric beverage maker
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A47J-031/00
출원번호
US-0469923
(2009-05-21)
등록번호
US-8286547
(2012-10-16)
발명자
/ 주소
Lassota, Zbigniew G.
출원인 / 주소
Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc.
대리인 / 주소
Potthast, James W.
인용정보
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26
초록▼
A French press-like quality high volume, electrical, automatic beverage brewer (10) with a rotatable mixing chamber (12) for mixing water (109) from a hot water tank (28) with dry beverage ingredient (108) having a closed top (7) and an open bottom (3, 66) to which is releasably mounted a brew baske
A French press-like quality high volume, electrical, automatic beverage brewer (10) with a rotatable mixing chamber (12) for mixing water (109) from a hot water tank (28) with dry beverage ingredient (108) having a closed top (7) and an open bottom (3, 66) to which is releasably mounted a brew basket (14) with an open top (19) for fluid communication with the mixing chamber (12) through the open bottom (3, 66). Before mounting, the brew basket (14) is loaded with a filter (105) and dry beverage ingredient (109). The mixing chamber (12) with the brew basket (14) attached is then automatically turned upside down (FIG. 6) to dump the dry beverage ingredient (109) out of the filter (105) and onto the closed top (7) of the rotatable mixing chamber (12). A preselected amount of water (109) is then infused into the mixing chamber (12) to a level beneath the open bottom (3) and filter (105) and onto the dry beverage ingredient (109) for mixing therewith. After a preselected mixing time period is passed the mixing chamber (12) and mounted brew basket (14) is automatically turned right side up to pass the beverage (110) through the filter (105) and out of the drain hole (90) of the brew basket (14). After the mixing chamber (12) has been returned to an upright position, pressurized air (44,46,48) is automatically injected into the mixing chamber (12) to hasten the passage of beverage (110) through the filter (105) and out of the drain hole (90).
대표청구항▼
1. An electrical automatic beverage brewer, comprising: a rotatably mixing chamber assembly for mixing water with a dry beverage ingredient to make beverage, said rotatable mixing chamber assembly having a rotatable mixing chamber with a closed top and an open bottom, andmeans for mounting the mixin
1. An electrical automatic beverage brewer, comprising: a rotatably mixing chamber assembly for mixing water with a dry beverage ingredient to make beverage, said rotatable mixing chamber assembly having a rotatable mixing chamber with a closed top and an open bottom, andmeans for mounting the mixing chamber for rotation about a rotary axis,a brew basket for holding a filter and beverage ingredient supported by the filter outside of the mixing chamber, said brew basket having an open top releasably mounted to the open bottom of the mixing chamber and a bottom with a drain hole;an electromechanical apparatus linked to the rotatable mixing chamber for rotating the mixing chamber about the rotary axis; anda controller connected to the electromechanical apparatus and selectively, automatically energizing the electromechanical apparatus to rotate the rotatable mixing chamber while the brew basket is releasably attached between an upright position in which the closed top is above the open bottom and the releasably attached brew basket, andan upside down position in which the open bottom and the releasably attached brew basket are above the closed top. 2. The beverage brewer of claim 1 in which the mixing chamber assembly has a sealed water inlet coupler for receipt of dispense water into the mixing chamber. 3. The beverage brewer of claim 2 in which the mixing chamber assembly has a sealed pressurized gas inlet coupler for receipt of pressurized gas into the mixing chamber. 4. The beverage brewer of claim 3 including a source of compressed gas with a gas outlet connected with the sealed pressurized gas inlet coupler. 5. The beverage brewer of claim 2 including a water tank with a water outlet and a solenoid controlled water outlet valve connected between the water outlet and the sealed water inlet, and in whichthe controller has a program to automatically, selectively energize the solenoid controlled water outlet valve to infuse a preselected quantity of water from the water tank through the solenoid controlled valve and into the rotatable mixing chamber after the rotatable mixing chamber has been automatically moved to the upside down position. 6. The beverage brewer of claim 1 in which the electromechanical apparatus is a reversible electric motor. 7. The beverage brewer of claim 1 including means responsive to the controller for automatically infusing a preselected quantity of water into the mixing chamber after the mixing chamber has been rotated to the upside down position, andmeans responsive to the controller for automatically pressurizing the mixing chamber with air after the mixing chamber with the preselected quantity of water has been rotated to the right side up position after lapse of a preselected seeping time period to facilitate rapid discharge of beverage from the mixing chamber through the open bottom, through the filter and through the drain hole of the brew basket. 8. The beverage brewer of claim 7 in which the pressurizing means includes an air compressor tank, and air pump responsive to the controller for pressurizing the tank to a preselected pressure and a solenoid controlled gas valve responsive to the controller and connected between the mixing chamber and the compressor tank. 9. An electrical automatic beverage brewer, comprising: a rotatably mixing chamber assembly for mixing water with a dry beverage ingredient to make beverage, said rotatable mixing chamber having a rotatable mixing chamber with a closed top and an open bottom, andmeans for mounting the mixing chamber for rotation about a rotary axis, between an upright position and an upside down position with open bottom located above the closed top;a brew basket with an open top and a bottom with a drain hole, andmeans for releasably mounting the brew basket to the mixing chamber with the open bottom of the brew basket pressed against the open bottom of the mixing chamber, andmeans for releasably holding a filter and beverage ingredient supported by the filter within the brew basket and outside of the mixing chamber. 10. The beverage brewer of claim 9 in which the mixing chamber has a filter connection surface adjacent the open bottom and the releasable filter holding means includes a filter connector surface adjacent the open top of the filter basket that presses the filter against the filter connection surface when the filter basket is releasably mounted to the mixing chamber. 11. The beverage brewer of claim 10 in which the filter connection surface is a truncated conical collar opening outwardly from the open bottom and the filter connector surface is a truncated conical collar surrounding the open top of the brew basket. 12. The beverage brewer of claim 9 in which the brew basket has a double-walled construction with a solid, water impervious, outer wall and an inner wall that is at least partly water pervious and separated from the inner wall by a gap. 13. The beverage brewer of claim 12 in which the drain hole is formed in the outer, water impervious wall. 14. The beverage brewer of claim 12 in which the water pervious wall is formed of plurality of spaced apart wires. 15. The beverage brewer of claim 12 in which the inner wall is configured to snugly mate with a conical filter. 16. The beverage brewer of claim 9 in which the filter basket has a releasable connector and the rotatable mixing chamber has another releasable connector for mating releasable connection with the one releasable connector of the filter basket to hold the filter therebetween. 17. An electrical automatic beverage brewer, comprising: a rotatably mixing chamber assembly for mixing water with a dry beverage ingredient to make beverage mounted for rotation between an upright position and an upside down position,a brew basket;means for mounting the brew basket to the mixing chamber and with a filter and beverage ingredient supported within the filter and outside of the mixing chamber;a controller;an electromechanical apparatus responsive to the controller for automatically rotating the mixing chamber to the upside down position to dump beverage ingredient into the mixing chamber;a source of water responsive to the controller for automatically injecting water into the mixing chamber to mix with the beverage ingredient after being dumped into the mixing chamber; anda source of pressurized air responsive to the controller to automatically inject pressurized air into mixing chamber after water has been mixed with the beverage ingredient for a preselected seeping time period and the mixing chamber has been retuned to an upright position with beverage being supported by the filter and the brew basket to facilitate passage of the beverage through the filter and out of the drain hole. 18. The beverage brewer of claim 17 in which the mixing chamber has a size capacity sufficient to hold a plurality of individual servings of beverage beneath the open bottom and the brew basket when the rotatable mixing chamber is turned upside down with the open bottom located above the closed top. 19. An electrical, automatic beverage brewer, comprising: a rotatable mixing chamber for mixing water with dry beverage and having a closed top and an open bottom;a brew basket with a drain hole;means for mounting the brew basket with a filter and dry beverage ingredient to the mixing chamber for fluid communication with the mixing chamber through the open bottom;means for automatically turning the brew basket upside down to dump the dry beverage ingredient out of the filter and onto the closed top of the rotatable mixing chamber;means for automatically infusing a preselected quantity of water into the rotatable mixing chamber to a level beneath the open top and onto the dry beverage ingredient after the mixing chamber has been turned upside down; andmeans for automatically turning the mixing chamber and mounted brew basket right side up after a passage of a preselected time period to pass the beverage through the filter and out of the drain hole of the brew basket. 20. The beverage brewer of claim 19 including means for automatically injecting pressurized air into the mixing chamber after the mixing chamber has been turned right side up to hasten the passage of beverage through the filter and out of the drain hole. 21. The beverage brewer of claim 20 in which the automatically injecting means includes an air compressor tank, an air pump to pressurize the compressor tank and a pneumatic valve for connecting the compressor tank to the mixing chamber. 22. The beverage brewer of claim 21 in which the pressurized air is injected into the mixing chamber for a preselected amount of time and the preselected amount of time is greater for greater amounts of beverage being brewed than for lesser amounts of beverage. 23. The beverage brewer of claim 19 in which the brew basket includes a filter holder. 24. The beverage brewer of claim 23 in which the filter holder is a nonremovable permanent part of the brew basket. 25. The beverage brewer of claim 24 in which the brew basket has an outer solid wall with an open top and a bottom at which the drain hole is located, andthe filter holder includes an inner water pervious wall for supporting a filter that is permanently joined to the outer solid wall in spaced relationship. 26. The beverage brewer of claim 19 includes a filter connection wall that is a water impervious extension of the inner wall and surrounds an open top of the brew basket, and in whichthe rotatable mixing chamber has a downwardly extending filter connector wall for mating connection with the filter connection wall with an edge of a filter held between the filter connection wall and the filter connector wall. 27. The beverage brewer of claim 19 including means for resiliently releasably mounting the brewer basket to the mixing chamber, said resiliently, releasable brew basket mounting means includes at least a pair of mounting pins carried by one of the brew basket and the rotatable mixing chamber and at least a pair of mounting slots for mating receipt with the pair of the pair of mounting pins, respectively, carried by another one of the brew basket and the rotatable mixing chamber. 28. An electric beverage brewer, comprising: a mixing chamber for receipt and mixing of beverage ingredient with water to make an ingredient and water mixture;a brew basket releasably attached to the mixing chamber with a water permeable filter holder releasably'holding a filter;a controller;means responsive to the controller for automatically passing the mixture to the brew basket after passage of a preselected seeping time period;means responsive to the controller for injecting pressurized air into the brew basket after the mixture has been passed to the brew basket to hasten the passage of beverage through the filter and out of the brew basket. 29. The electric beverage brewer of claim 28 in which the mixing chamber is connected to the brew basket and in gaseous communication the brew basket and the pressurized air injecting means pressurizes the brew basket by pressurizing the mixing chamber.
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