Brewing unit with a water heater
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips N.V.
InventorsGiuseppe Fin, Massimo Baldo, Marco Santini
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Abstract
The brewing unit comprises: a brewing chamber comprising at least two brewing chamber portions (215B, 227; 321, 323; 421, 423) movable one with respect to the other; a water heater (207; 315; 403); a hot water duct for feeding hot water from said water heater in said brewing chamber; a beverage dispensing duct (219; 334; 434) from which a beverage is dispensed. The water heater has a cavity (207C; 315E; 403C) through which the beverage dispensing duct extends for connection to an outer beverage dispensing spout (5; 5A).
Claims19
A brewing unit for the production of a beverage, comprising:
- a brewing chamber comprising at least two brewing chamber portions movable one with respect to the other;
- a flow through water heater comprised of an electric resistor and a water heating duct;
- a hot water feeding duct for feeding hot water from said water heater in said brewing chamber;
- a beverage dispensing duct from which said beverage is dispensed;
- wherein said water heater has a body made of heat-conductive material and surrounding a cavity through which said beverage dispensing duct extends for connection to an outer beverage dispensing spout;
- wherein said body encloses an electric resistor and a water heating duct, such that heat generated by the electric resistor, when powered, heats the water flowing through the water heating duct by heat conduction through the material forming the body.
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Brewing unit according to 12, wherein said control lever controls cam profiles which act on said retention members to disengage said capsule from said retention members when the brewing chamber is opened by said control lever.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.