Coffee machine for hot and iced coffee
AssigneeThe Steelstone Group LLC
InventorsBinyumen Itzkowitz, Meilech Friedman, Joseph Deutsch, Kalman Wertzberger, Robyn De Luca, Wenhui Huang
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Abstract
A coffee machine is provided which includes a hot water source for providing hot water for brewing, a warming plate for warming a receptacle for receiving coffee, and a heating element for heating both water at the hot water source and the warming plate. Also provided is a removable insulator for insulating the warming plate from the receptacle. The removable insulator insulates the warming plate from the receptacle in an iced coffee configuration and the removable insulator is removed from the warming plate in a hot coffee configuration.
Claims7
A coffee machine comprising:
- a hot water source for providing hot water for brewing;
- a warming plate for warming a receptacle for receiving coffee;
- a heating element for heating both water at the hot water source and the warming plate;
- a removable insulator for insulating the warming plate from the receptacle;
- wherein the removable insulator insulates the warming plate from the receptacle in an iced coffee configuration and wherein the removable insulator is removed from the warming plate in a hot coffee configuration, and
- wherein the removable insulator is textured so as to provide a plurality of first air pockets between the warming plate and the receptacle, the plurality of first air pockets being separated from each other in a plan view of the warming plate,
- wherein the removable insulator includes:
- a base plate, and
- a plurality of second air pockets that are separated from each other in the plan view of the warming plate, and
- wherein the plurality of first air pockets are disposed between the base plate and the receptacle, and the plurality of the second air pockets are disposed between the base plate and the warming plate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.