Tea Machines
AssigneeOld Lyme Tea Inc.
InventorsDavid Bikerman, Thomas Muckle
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to tea machines that utilize infusion bag dispensing systems to dispensing tea or other substances from canisters into the infusion bag. The tea machine comprises a canister container, one or more canisters containing infusible substance removably held in the canister container, a plurality of empty infusion bags to receive infusible substance, an infusion bag dispenser to store the empty infusion bags and retrieve the empty bags one at a time for filling; and a measuring cup for measuring a quantity of tea to be filled from the canister to the infusion bag. The tea machine of the present invention may be manually operated, or may be operated electronically, or may be controlled by a microprocessor or/and be programmed by the end user.
Claims19
A tea machine for making tea, the tea machine comprising:
- a canister container;
- one or more canisters containing infusible substance removably held in the canister container;
- a plurality of empty infusion bags to receive infusible substance, each of the infusion bags having a porous-walled bag for the infusible substance;
- an infusion bag dispenser having a container to store the empty infusion bags, a retriever and opener to retrieve the empty bag individually from the container, hold and open the retrieved bag for filling the infusible substance;
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- a measuring cup for determining the quantity of infusible substance to be filled from the canister to the infusion bag.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.