Apparatus and method for brewing and cooling a beverage
AssigneeFBW, Inc.
InventorsJoel Freedman, Shea Barr, Michael Willson
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Abstract
All integrated apparatus for brewing and cooling a beverage and a method for brewing and cooling a beverage. The integrated apparatus includes a hot water supply subsystem that heats water to form hot water, a brewing subsystem that mixes the hot water with a beverage additive to form a hot beverage, and a cooling subsystem that receives and cools the hot beverage to form a cooled beverage. The cooling subsystem discharges the cooled beverage to a freezing subsystem where it can be frozen into ice.
Claims24
An integrated apparatus for brewing and cooling a beverage, the integrated apparatus comprising:
- a hot water supply subsystem configured to heat water to form hot water;
- a brewing subsystem configured to receive and mix the hot water generated by the hot water supply subsystem with a beverage additive to form a hot beverage;
- a cooling subsystem configured to receive the hot beverage generated by the brewing sub-system, cool the hot beverage to form a cooled beverage, and discharge the cooled beverage to a cool beverage reservoir of a freezing subsystem;
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- wherein liquid flow of the hot water, the hot beverage, and the cooled beverage along a primary beverage processing flow path from the hot water supply subsystem to the cool beverage reservoir of the freezing system is gravity driven.
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A method of brewing and cooling a beverage comprising:
- a) heating water in a first portion of a beverage processing flow path to form hot water;
- b) gravity flowing the hot water generated in the first portion of the beverage processing flow path through a second portion of the beverage processing flow path, and introducing an additive into the hot water while the hot water is flowing through the second portion of the beverage processing flow path, thereby forming a hot beverage;
- c) gravity flowing the hot beverage from the second portion of the beverage processing flow path into a third portion of the beverage processing flow path, and cooling the hot beverage while in the third portion of the beverage processing flow path, thereby forming a cooled beverage;
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- d) gravity flowing the cooled beverage from the third portion of the beverage processing flow path into a freezing subsystem.
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An integrated apparatus for brewing and cooling a beverage, the integrated apparatus comprising:
- a hot water supply subsystem configured to heat water to form hot water;
- a brewing subsystem configured to receive and mix the hot water generated by the hot water supply subsystem with a beverage additive to form a hot beverage;
- a heat exchanger configured to receive the hot beverage generated by the brewing sub-system and cool the hot beverage to form a cooled beverage;
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- an air flow generator configured to generate a cooling air flow across the outer surfaces of the heat exchanger.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.