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US 10,893,769 B2Granted
Beverage machine material holder
AssigneeKeurig Green Mountain, Inc.
InventorsSteffen F. Koury, Paul K. Metaxatos
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Abstract
A beverage machine with a holder including front and side walls around an opening where beverage material is held to form a beverage where the walls slope downwardly and inwardly toward the opening. A peripheral wall may extend upwardly from the opening and form a trough around the opening with the front and side walls.
Claims8
A beverage forming system comprising:
- a liquid supply arranged to provide a liquid for forming a beverage;
- a brew chamber arranged to hold a beverage material for mixing with the liquid to form a beverage;
- a liquid conditioner arranged to heat or cool the liquid that is provided to the brew chamber;
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- a control circuit arranged to control the liquid supply and the liquid conditioner to deliver heated or cooled liquid to the brew chamber to form the beverage,
- wherein the brew chamber includes a holder with an opening through which the beverage material is received into the holder, the holder including walls that slope downwardly and inwardly toward the opening on at least a front side and left and right sides of the opening,
- wherein the walls at the front side, left side and right side of the opening form a U-shaped wall,
- and wherein the holder includes a bottom wall in which the opening is formed, the bottom wall being planar and extending outwardly from the opening to the walls.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.