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US 5,290,444 AGranted
Coffee filter retainer
OwnerAlton Campbellinventor
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Abstract
A device for securing a coffee filter paper in a grounds container comprising a single thin sheet of thermo-plastic, heat resistant, resilient material having a plurality of fingers spaced symmetrically around the periphery, for placing adjacent a paper filter with its open central core at the center of the filter and in combination therewith wedged into a coffee grounds container with the instant invention exposed.
Claims3
A coffee filter element for supporting the side walls of disposable coffee filters, said element comprising:
- a) an essentially flat, thin, flexible, circular, stamped sheet of thermo-plastic material having an open central core surrounded by an apron;
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- b) a plurality of rhomboid shaped fingers, culminating in a radius at the distal end of each finger, spaced symmetrically around the periphery, projecting outwardly from said apron.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.