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US 2019/0134578 A1Published application
Coffee Densifier
AssigneeModern Process Equipment, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Richard Ephraim, Christopher Martin Spatz
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Abstract
A coffee densifier is disclosed having an elongated housing having a chamber configured to receive ground coffee. The mixing chamber has an inlet end opposite a discharge end. The discharge end has a discharge door. The densifier has a shaft driven by a motor, the shaft extending along a longitudinal length of the mixing chamber. The densifier has a plurality of paddle-less pins fixed to the mixing shaft and configured to agitate a bed of coffee within the mixing chamber.
Claims16
A coffee densifier, comprising:
- an elongated chamber configured to receive a ground coffee, the chamber having an inlet and a discharge opening, the discharge opening comprising a discharge door, the inlet for receiving the ground coffee;
- a densifier motor;
- a shaft driven to rotate by the densifier motor and extending along a longitudinal length of the chamber;
- a plurality of paddle-less pins fixed to the shaft and configured to polish a plurality of coffee particles of the ground coffee within the elongated chamber when the plurality of densifier members are rotated by the shaft through the ground coffee within the chamber;
- the plurality of paddle-less pins are arranged about the shaft in four pin rows, each pin row of the four pin rows comprising at least two pins of the plurality of paddle-less pins, each pin row is oriented ninety degrees from adjacent pin rows in each direction about the shaft so that each pin row is either perpendicular to or co-planer with every other pin row;
- and,
- the pins of each pin row are longitudinally offset from the pins in each immediately adjacent pin row in each direction about the shaft.
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A coffee processor, comprising:
- a coffee grinder comprising
- a pair of grinding rollers;
- a grinder drive motor configured to drive the pair of grinding rollers to rotate;
- a grinder inlet above the pair of grinder rollers;
- a grinder outlet below the pair of grinder rollers;
- and,
- a coffee densifier comprising
- an elongated chamber configured to receive a ground coffee, the chamber having an densifier inlet and a discharge opening, the discharge opening comprising a discharge door, the densifier inlet is located below the grinder outlet for receiving ground coffee;
- a densifier motor;
- a shaft driven to rotate by the densifier motor and extending within the chamber;
- a plurality of paddle-less pins fixed to the shaft and configured to polish a plurality of coffee particles of the ground coffee within the elongated chamber when the plurality of densifier members are rotated by the shaft through the ground coffee within the chamber;
- the plurality of paddle-less pins are arranged about the shaft in four pin rows, each pin row of the four pin rows comprising at least two pins of the plurality of paddle-less pins, each pin row is oriented ninety degrees from adjacent pin rows in each direction about the shaft so that each pin row is either perpendicular to or co-planer with every other pin row;
- and,
- the pins of each pin row are longitudinally offset from the pins in each immediately adjacent pin row in each direction about the shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.