Method to roast coffee beans
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsFlavien Florent Dubief, Joel Morend
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Abstract
The invention concerns a method to roast coffee beans in a room (100), said method comprising the steps of wherein, when at least one roasting operation is implemented, —obtaining desired roasting data input of said at least one roasting operation, said desired data input, —getting access to information relative to the room and to the coffee beans roasting apparatus, and —before initiating the at least one roasting operation: determining the concentration of each contaminant generated in the room during said at least one roasting operation, for each contaminant, comparing the determined concentration of said contaminant generated in the room with the concentration of said contaminant authorized according to local health and safety regulations.
Claims18
A method to roast coffee beans in a room using a roasting system, the roasting system comprising a roasting apparatus, and the method comprises at least one roasting operation comprising:
- obtaining, by the roasting apparatus, desired roasting data input of the at least one roasting operation, the desired data input determining at least:
- a type of coffee beans to be roasted,
- a quantity of coffee beans to be roasted per the at least one roasting operation or over a period of time, and
- a level of roasting to be applied to the coffee beans, and
- getting, by the roasting apparatus, access to:
- information relative to the room, the room information comprising at least:
- local health and safety regulations, a volume of the room and a ventilation rate of the room,
- information relative to the roasting apparatus, the roasting apparatus information comprising at least a quantity of each contaminant produced by the roasting apparatus during the at least one roasting operation of roasting a specific quantity of a specific type of coffee beans up to a specific roasting level, and
- before initiating the at least one roasting operation:
- determining, by the roasting apparatus, a concentration of each contaminant generated in the room during the at least one roasting operation from the obtained desired roasting data input and accessible information relative to the roasting apparatus and to the room,
- for each contaminant, comparing the determined concentration of the contaminant generated in the room with a concentration of the contaminant authorised according to the local health and safety regulations,
- if, for each contaminant, the determined concentration is inferior to the authorised concentration according to the local health and safety regulations, enabling the at least one roasting operation, and
- if, for at least one contaminant, the determined concentration is superior to the authorised concentration according to the local health and safety regulations, displaying an alert.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.