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US07861646B2 Device for producing small batches of coffee from liquid coffee concentrate 失效
用于从液体咖啡浓缩物生产小批量咖啡的装置

  • Patent Title: Device for producing small batches of coffee from liquid coffee concentrate
  • Patent Title (中): 用于从液体咖啡浓缩物生产小批量咖啡的装置
  • Application No.: US12004551
    Application Date: 2007-12-21
  • Publication No.: US07861646B2
    Publication Date: 2011-01-04
  • Inventor: Robert H. Bockbrader
  • Applicant: Robert H. Bockbrader
  • Main IPC: A23F5/00
  • IPC: A23F5/00 B67D7/80
Device for producing small batches of coffee from liquid coffee concentrate
Abstract:
A device for brewing batches, such as, but not limited to, relatively small one or two cup batches, of coffee from water and liquid coffee concentrate, preferably shelf stable. The size of the device, preferably similar to an automatic drip coffee maker, allows the device to be conveniently utilized in the home, an office, a hotel suite, or hospitality area or the like. The device includes a metered volumetric mix valve assembly that, when activated, admits simultaneously or sequentially a finite volume of water and liquid concentrate to a mixing chamber or conduit where they are mixed and then dispensed to a container such as a carafe, cup, mug or the like. Mixing can take place in one or more of the mixing chamber or conduit and the container in which the water and concentrate are dispensed. In this manner, repeatable beverage solutions are obtained. Advantageously, the device is constructed so that the liquid concentrate flows gravimetrically to the volumetric mix valve assembly, and a costly concentrate pump is not necessary. The device can be sealed so that theft of the coffee concentrate can be prevented.
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