Set comprising a plurality of mutually connected coffee grinders
AssigneeSimonelli Group S.P.A.
InventorMauro PARRINI
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Abstract
A set includes a plurality of coffee grinders, each coffee grinder including: a body, a grinding unit, actuation means to activate the grinding unit, a load cell to weigh a filter holder, and booking means to book the activation of the coffee grinder; the set has a central control unit to receive a booking signal from the booking means of each coffee grinder and create an ordered list with an activation sequence of the coffee grinders; the central control unit is connected to the load cell of all coffee grinders to send an activation command of the load cell to a coffee grinder at a time according to the sequence indicated by the ordered list.
Claims8
Set comprising a plurality of coffee grinders;
- each coffee grinder comprising:
- a body comprising an inlet for introducing coffee beans in the body and an outlet for dispensing the ground coffee from the body (1);
- a grinding unit disposed in the body to grind the coffee beans;
- actuation means connected to said grinding unit to activate said grinding unit;
- a load cell suitable for supporting a filter-holder disposed under the outlet in order to weigh said filter-holder;
- characterized in that each coffee grinder comprises booking means to book the activation of the coffee grinder;
- said set comprising a central control unit that is directly or indirectly connected to the booking means of all coffee grinders in order to receive a booking signal from the booking means of each coffee grinder and create an ordered list with an activation sequence of the coffee grinders according to the order in which the central control unit receives the booking signal from the booking means;
- said central control unit being directly or indirectly connected to the load cell of all coffee grinders in order to send an activation command of the load cell to one coffee grinder at a time, according to the sequence given in the ordered list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.