Household appliance for preparing hot beverages
AssigneeAlfonso Bialetti & Co., Fonderia in Conchiglia S.p.A.
InventorLuigi DePonti
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Abstract
An appliance for preparing hot beverages, such as a coffee maker, comprises a boiling chamber heated by an external or internal source, a vessel adjoining the boiling chamber in which water is indirectly heated to form an infusion, and a cup removably seated on that vessel for holding a liquid--e.g. milk--to be separately heated. A tube with a restricted outlet, which may be designed as a gooseneck, rises from the boiling chamber to discharge steam into the liquid contained in the cup. The boiling chamber may form a platform for the infusion-bearing vessel or may spacedly surround same, the steam tube passing axially through the vessel in the latter instance.
Claims6
An appliance for preparing a hot beverage, comprising:
- a generally flat hollow heatable boiling chamber for water to be contained therein and defining a flat surface forming a heat-transfer platform;
- a vessel removably positioned on said platform so as to be heated thereby through a heat conductive wall of said vessel and adapted to contain a liquid;
- filter means received in said vessel for supporting organic matter from which an infusion is brewed in said liquid to form said beverage;
- an upwardly open receptacle removably mounted upon said vessel and forming a cover therefor;
- conduit means rising from said platform adjacent said vessel and said receptacle and communicating with the interior of said chamber and provided with a gooseneck having a downwardly open nozzle positioned to overhang said vessel for discharging a heated fluid generated in said chamber into said receptacle.
An appliance for preparing a hot beverage which comprises:
- a lower vessel containing a body of water adapted to be heated;
- a tube rising from said vessel and adapted to conduct steam therefrom, said tube having a downwardly turned spout;
- a cup adapted to contain milk and positioned above said vessel so that said spout can enter into the milk in said cup and froth said milk;
- a receptacle mounted on said vessel and in a heat-conducting relationship therewith, said receptacle containing a body of water independent of said vessel;
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- filter means in said receptacle containing a beverage-forming substance adapted to be percolated through by water from that receptacle rising through said filter means to form a hot beverage thereupon transferred from said filter means to said cup for combination with the frothed milk therein to process a Capuccino.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.