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US 2020/0138230 A1Published application
Customizable multiple port automated beverage brewer and system
AssigneeNewco Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsJoseph P. Webster, Jody G. Jacobsen, David L. Brandsma, Thomas Liebe
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Abstract
An automatic beverage brewer for coffee, tea, and the like, and more particularly, which is customizable both in physical configuration including number and location of external brewing fonts, optionally in association with a bulk brewing font and receiving container, and in automatic operation to dispense hot water to the respective fonts and a main brewing basket or baskets responsive to user inputted beverage brewing commands.
Claims20
An automatic beverage brewer, comprising,
- a base structure comprising a hot water holding tank and at least two hot water dispensing fonts connected thereto by automatically controlled hot water dispensing valves, respectively, and a computerized controller connected in operative control of the hot water dispensing valves to control dispensing of hot water from the hot water dispensing fonts, respectively, the computerized controller comprising at least one processor, a memory, and at least one computerized operator interface, operable to store and execute individualized valve operation commands to selectively open and close the hot water dispensing valves to dispense approximate amounts of the hot water from the hot water holding tank through the hot water dispensing fonts, respectively, responsive to inputted beverage brewing commands from the at least one computerized operator interface.
A customizable automatic beverage brewer, comprising,
- a base structure comprising a hot water holding tank and configured to removably support at least one arm sidewardly extending therefrom to carry multiple hot water dispensing fonts, the hot water holding tank having multiple hot water dispensing ports for individual connection to automatically controlled hot water dispensing valves operable to receive the hot water from the hot water holding tank and connectable to the hot water dispensing fonts, respectively, to controllably deliver quantities of the hot water thereto, and a computerized controller and memory, connected in operative control of the hot water dispensing valves, programmable for individually controlling the hot water dispensing valves to deliver hot water to the fonts, respectively, according to programmed beverage brewing commands.
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