Bevrage maker with average dispense rate and volume control

In a beverage brewer having a heating means, a brewing liquid storage means and a housing therefore, the improvement being a dispensing system, comprising:

• means for storing a plurality of dispense time periods of a brew cycle during which a known quantity of brewing liquid is to be dispensed onto a top of a beverage ingredient;
• means for preselecting one of the plurality of stored dispense time periods;
• means for storing a plurality of control periods into which the dispense time may be divided;
• means for preselecting one of the plurality of stored control periods during which beverage liquid is capable of being dispensed onto a top surface of the beverage ingredient layer in accordance with the one of the stored dispense time periods that has been selected;
• means for storing a duty portion for each of the control periods based on the dispense time period and the know quantity of beverage to be dispensed;
• means for automatically selecting one of the plurality of duty portions for each of the control periods based on the dispense time period and the known quantity to be dispensed;
• and
• means for dispensing the brewing liquid onto the top surface during the selected portion of each of the selected control periods to dispense all of the known quantity of brewing liquid during and substantially throughout the preselected dispense period.

In a beverage brewer having a heating means, a brewing liquid storage means and a housing therefore, the improvement being a dispensing system, comprising:

• means for preselecting a total quantity to be dispensed during a dispense period composed of a plurality of control periods of a brewing cycle during which brewing liquid is capable of being dispensed onto a top of a beverage ingredient layer;
• means for automatically selecting a duty portion of at least some of the plurality of control periods during which the brewing liquid is capable of being dispensed onto a top surface of the beverage ingredient layer of at least some of the control periods in accordance with the total amount to be dispensed that has been preselected;
• and
• means for dispensing the brewing liquid onto the top surface during the duty portions of the control periods that have been selected until the total quantity has been dispensed substantially throughout the dispense period.