Automatic coffee or like beverage making machine
OwnerWayne Vickerinventor
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Abstract
A machine for the automatic making of coffee or like beverages from a plurality of preformed packets wherein each packet is successively delivered to a liquid delivery head and further a plurality of containers are each disposed in receiving relation with water flowing through individual ones of said plurality of packets from the delivery head for the collection of the formed beverage. A control assembly is provided to automatically regulate the synchronized movement of the delivery head into engaging relation with successively positioned packets and the supplying of liquid thereto at a predetermined time and in a predetermined quantity so that each packet, when successively and operatively positioned will form the correct amount of coffee in the aligned container.
Claims16
An automatic coffee making assembly designed to use preformed packets of coffee, said assembly comprising:
- a) a housing including a movably mounted packet carrying member structured to hold a plurality of packets thereon and a container carrying member structured to support a plurality of containers in aligned liquid receiving relation to a different one of the packets,
- b) a delivery head reciprocally mounted on said housing and movable into and out of an engaging position successively with each of the plurality of packets,
- c) fluid delivery means formed at least in part within said delivery head for the delivery of liquid through each of the packets with the resulting formation of coffee thereby, said fluid delivery means connected to a liquid supply and including valve means regulating fluid flow from said liquid supply to said delivery head and from said delivery head to a drain facility;
- d) pump means mounted on said housing in driving relation to liquid from said liquid supply to said delivery head through said valve means,
- e) a first drive means for successively positioning said packet carrying member and said container carrying member as well as the packets and containers thereon in operative communication with said delivery head, and
- f) control means including a switching means and a timer means cooperatively connected to synchronize reciprocal movement of said delivery head into and out of said engaging position with successively positioned packets aligned therewith and activation of said pump means to deliver liquid to said delivery head.
An assembly as in claim 7 wherein said valve means is connected to said conduit means in fluid regulating relation between said delivery head and said drain facility and said liquid supply and said delivery head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.