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US 5,895,595 AGranted
Apparatus for making beverages
AssigneeD. H. Haden Limited
InventorJohn Denis Haden
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Abstract
The apparatus for making beverages comprises a kettle 15, a stand 10 and separable electrical connector means 16a,b to automatically connect the kettle with an electrical power supply connector in the stand when the kettle is placed on the stand; the stand is extended and provides a platform for a pot 13 and an electric heating member 14 is provided to heat a vessel on the platform alongside the kettle, and is provided with switch means to selectively energize the heating member and/or the kettle.
Claims10
Apparatus for making beverages comprising:
- a) a cordless electric kettle, a stand, and separable electrical connector means to automatically electrically connect the kettle with an electrical power supply connector in the stand when the kettle is placed on the stand,
- b) the stand includes an extended portion having an electrical vessel heating member providing a platform for a vessel, and single manually operable switch means having an off-position, a kettle energizing position and a heating member energizing portion,
- c) said vessel heating member being effective to heat a vessel when disposed on the platform at a location alongside the kettle, and
- d) said single switch means being effective to selectively energize the vessel heating member and/or the kettle to operate the kettle without energizing said vessel heating member and to energize the vessel heating member while the kettle is removed.
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Apparatus for making beverages comprising:
- a) a cordless electric kettle, a stand, and separable electrical connector means to automatically electrically connect the kettle with an electrical power supply connector in the stand when the kettle is placed on the stand,
- b) the stand includes an extended portion having an electrical vessel heating member providing a platform for a vessel,
- c) said vessel heating member being effective to heat a vessel when disposed on the platform at a location alongside the kettle, and
- d) the kettle includes a kettle heating element, a cut-off switch, and manually resettable temperature sensitive switch means having heat responsive means effective to open said switch to cut-off the power to the kettle heating element when a predetermined temperature is reached, and
- e) said switch means includes manually actuable means to control said vessel heating member.
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Apparatus for making beverages comprising:
- a) a cordless electric kettle including kettle switch means, a stand, and separable electrical connector means to automatically electrically connect the kettle with an electrical power supply connector in the stand when the kettle is placed at a first location on the stand,
- b) an electrical heating member providing a platform at another location on the stand to heat a vessel on the platform alongside the kettle, and
- c) electric control circuit means including clock timer means, clock time on/off switch means, and setting switch means to energize the heating member and the kettle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.