Brewing apparatus for preparing a beverage from a single-serve capsule
AssigneeGruppo Gimoka S.r.l.
InventorMassimiliano Valsecchi
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Abstract
A beverage brewing apparatus for preparing a beverage from a single-serve capsule, the beverage brewing apparatus comprises a capsule holder to receive a capsule in a brewing position, and an injection unit to perforate a capsule in the brewing position and to feed a brewing fluid into the capsule; the injection unit comprises a pair of hollow needles designed to supply respective flow rates different from each other, and an actuator to bring, during a beverage production cycle, only one of the two needles to an operating position, in which the needle perforates the capsule and injects a certain amount of brewing fluid into the capsule.
Claims9
A beverage brewing apparatus for preparing a beverage from a single-serve capsule containing a dose of infusible or soluble material;
- the beverage brewing apparatus comprising:
- a capsule holder having a seat to receive a capsule in a brewing position, and an brewing fluid injection unit configured to perforate the capsule in the brewing position and to feed a brewing fluid into the capsule;
- wherein the brewing fluid injection unit comprises a pair of needles, and an actuator configured to move the needles from and to a perforation and injection position;
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- wherein the brewing fluid injection unit is designed to cause the needles to deliver a same brewing fluid with different flow rates, and to cause the actuator, during a beverage production cycle, to bring only one of the two needles to said perforation and injection position, in which the needle perforates the capsule and injects brewing fluid into the capsule.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.