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US 11,998,136 B2Granted
Beverage brewing system
OwnerAdrian Riverainventor
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Abstract
A beverage brewer includes a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top, and a brewing material holder configured to be suspended into the container and to hold beverage brewing material in contact with liquid held in the container. The brewer also includes a pressure assembly operable to provide pressurized liquid flow through the brewing material holder within the container, and/or a heating element configured to be arranged at least partially in an interior of the container and operable to heat liquid held in the container.
Claims24
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be suspended below the pressure assembly within the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable and arranged to provide pressurized liquid flow through the brewing material holder within the container by causing a pressure difference between two open portions of the brewing material holder;
- thereby drawing liquid from the container to the brewing material holder using a lower end of the pressure difference, and flowing the liquid through the brewing material holder and back to the container using a higher end of the pressure difference.
3 more elements
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be suspended below the pressure assembly within the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to provide liquid flow through the brewing material holder within the container;
- and
- wherein the brewing material holder is further configured to hold the beverage brewing material submerged in liquid held in the container.
4 more elements
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be suspended below the pressure assembly within the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to provide liquid flow through the brewing material holder within the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly includes a pump;
- and
- wherein the pump is a bidirectional pump.
5 more elements
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be removably coupled at the open top of the container;
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be removably coupled below the pressure assembly such that the brewing material holder is suspended within the container when the pressure assembly is coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a mesh panel configured to be removably arranged between the brewing material holder and the pressure assembly;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to draw liquid from the container through the brewing material holder and to return the liquid through the brewing material holder to the container.
3 more elements
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be removably coupled at the open top of the container;
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be removably coupled below the pressure assembly such that the brewing material holder is suspended within the container when the pressure assembly is coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a mesh panel configured to be removably arranged between the brewing material holder and the pressure assembly;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to draw liquid from the container through the brewing material holder and to return the liquid through the brewing material holder to the container;
- and
- wherein the brewing material holder is further configured to hold the beverage brewing material submerged in liquid held in the container.
5 more elements
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be removably coupled at the open top of the container;
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be removably coupled below the pressure assembly such that the brewing material holder is suspended within the container when the pressure assembly is coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a mesh panel configured to be removably arranged between the brewing material holder and the pressure assembly;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to draw liquid from the container through the brewing material holder and to return the liquid through the brewing material holder to the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly includes a pump;
- and
- wherein the pump is a bidirectional pump.
6 more elements
A beverage brewer, comprising:
- a container configured to hold liquid;
- a pressure assembly configured to provide a pressure differential between an inlet port of the pressure assembly and an outlet port of the pressure assembly;
- and
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable and arranged to provide pressurized liquid flow through the brewing material holder by applying the pressure differential between two open portions of the brewing material holder;
- thereby drawing liquid from the container to the brewing material holder using a lower end of the pressure differential, and flowing the liquid through the brewing material holder and back to the container using a higher end of the pressure differential.
3 more elements
A process of brewing a beverage, comprising:
- providing beverage brewing material within a brewing material holder of a beverage brewer, wherein the beverage brewer comprises:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- the brewing material holder, configured to hold the beverage brewing material and to be suspended below the pressure assembly within the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to provide liquid flow through the brewing material holder within the container;
- providing a liquid to the interior of the container;
- seating the pressure assembly on the container such that the beverage material holder is at least partially submerged in the liquid in the interior of the container;
- operating the pressure assembly to provide pressurized flow of the liquid from the container through the brewing material holder, thereby brewing a beverage from the beverage brewing material;
- and
- providing the brewed beverage to the container.
8 more elements
A process of brewing a beverage, comprising:
- providing beverage brewing material within a brewing material holder of a beverage brewer, wherein the beverage brewer comprises:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a brewing material holder configured to hold beverage brewing material and to be suspended below the pressure assembly within the container;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to provide liquid flow through the brewing material holder within the container;
- providing a liquid to the interior of the container;
- operating the pressure assembly to provide pressurized flow of the liquid from the container through the brewing material holder, thereby brewing a beverage from the beverage brewing material;
- and
- providing the brewed beverage to the container;
- wherein providing the brewed beverage to the container includes operating the pressure assembly to reverse the pressurized flow of the liquid from the brewing material holder to the container.
8 more elements
A process of brewing a beverage, comprising:
- providing beverage brewing material within a brewing material holder of a beverage brewer, wherein the beverage brewer comprises:
- a container configured to hold liquid and having an open top;
- a pressure assembly configured to be removably coupled at the open top of the container;
- the brewing material holder, configured to hold the beverage brewing material and to be removably coupled below the pressure assembly such that the brewing material holder is suspended within the container when the pressure assembly is coupled at the open top of the container;
- and
- a mesh panel configured to be removably arranged between the brewing material holder and the pressure assembly;
- wherein the pressure assembly is operable to draw liquid from the container through the brewing material holder and to return the liquid through the brewing material holder to the container;
- providing a liquid to the interior of the container;
- seating the pressure assembly on the container such that the beverage material holder is at least partially submerged in the liquid in the interior of the container;
- operating the pressure assembly to provide pressurized flow of the liquid from the container through the brewing material holder, thereby brewing a beverage from the beverage brewing material;
- and
- providing the brewed beverage to the container.
9 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.