Apparatus for making one or more consumption units of coffee
AssigneeDouwe Egberts Koninklijke Tabaksfabriek-Koffiebranderijen-Theehandel N.V.
InventorsLouris Kaper, Daniel A. J. Dijs
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Abstract
An apparatus for making one or more consumption units of coffee, comprising coffee container, means for metering a portion of coffee at a metering station immediately prior to use, means for compacting the coffee in a compacting space at a compacting station, as well as means for transferring the coffee from the metering station to the compacting station and furthermore means for transferring the compacted coffee to an extraction unit connected to a hot water source. Extraction is effected more efficiently by compacting the coffee at a pressure on the coffee of about 1,000 kg/cm.sup.2.
Claims4
An apparatus for making at least one consumption unit of coffee comprising:
- a container for holding unground coffee;
- means for defining a metering station for metering a portion of unground coffee from said container, a compacting station and a extracting station and for transferring said metered portion to said compacting station from said metering station and from said compacting station to said extracting station;
- means for compacting said portion at said compacting station including a punch for applying a pressure on the coffee of approximately 1,000 kg/cm.sup.2 to break open all closed cells in the coffee;
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- means for transferring the compacted coffee at the extraction station to a hot water source for extraction to make said consumption unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.