Apparatus for metering coffee beans
AssigneeCreatrix AG
InventorsLouis Deuber, Claudio Foscan, Patrick Schrepfer, Christian Schultheiss
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Abstract
An apparatus for dosing coffee beans for the purpose of selecting a metered quantity to be ground comprises a portioning device with a metering chamber having a receiving volume for receiving the coffee beans. The receiving volume is variable. Preferably, the setting of the metered quantity is performed mechanically, wherein the effect of the settings on the portioning device takes place mechanically. Preferably, the apparatus comprises a setting ring for manually adjustment of the metered quantity.
Claims17
An apparatus for dosing coffee beans for the purpose of selecting a metered quantity to be ground, the apparatus comprising a portioning device with a metering chamber having a receiving volume for receiving the coffee beans, wherein the receiving volume is variable,
- wherein the apparatus comprises a coffee bean container for storing the coffee beans, the coffee bean container and the portioning device being configured in a common container module,
- wherein the container module is configured for removable connecting to a module receptacle of a coffee device, wherein the module receptacle leads to a grinder,
- wherein the container module comprises a setting ring for manual adjustment of the metered quantity,
- wherein a selection of the metering quantity takes place manually by rotating the setting ring, a size of the metering chamber being varied on account rotating the setting ring,
- wherein the coffee bean container does not conjointly rotate with said setting ring,
- wherein the selection is maintained when the container module is removed from the module receptacle, and
- wherein the selection does not have to be performed again for each additional new use of the apparatus even when another container module having another selection of the metering quantity was connected to the module receptacle of the coffee device and used and removed again in between.
An apparatus for dosing coffee beans for the purpose of selecting a metered quantity to be ground, the apparatus comprising a portioning device with a metering chamber having a receiving volume for receiving the coffee beans,
- wherein the receiving volume is variable, wherein the portioning device has a first chamber part and a second chamber part,
- wherein the metering chamber is configured between the first chamber part and the second chamber part, the distance between the first chamber part and the second chamber part being changeable, whereby the receiving volume of the metering chamber being changeable,
- wherein the portioning device has a first rotating disk with the first chamber part and a second rotating disk with the second chamber part, the spacing of said disks relative to each other being variable,
- wherein the first rotating disk and the second rotating disk being conjointly rotatable relative to a base of the portioning device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.