Coffee grinder with storage and dispensing means
AssigneeAppliance Development Corporation
InventorsDov Z. Glucksman, Samuel T. Kjellman, Constantine Pezaris
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Abstract
A coffee grinder with a removable storage and dispensing element that has a housing and rotatable assembly in the housing. The rotatable assembly includes a distributor allows a single one of multiple open sectors to be filled in any given position. A dispensing component has an open sector angularly offset from the open sector of the distributor. When the dispensing component open sector aligns with a filled sector, the beans drop into a hopper for grinding. A grinder operates until all the beans in the hopper are ground.
Claims14
A coffee grinder comprising:
- A) a coffee bean grinder including grinder heads and a motor for driving one of said grinder heads,
- B) a storage and dispensing element for premeasuring an appropriate volume of coffee beans for brewing a desired number of cups of coffee for transfer to said grinder,
- C) means for energizing said motor,
- D) a control for initiating operation of said motor grinder head including load sensing means attached to said motor for sensing the load level of said motor and means connected to said to load sensing means and said energizing means for maintaining the energization of said motor while the motor load is above a predetermined load level.
In a coffee grinder including grinder heads and a motor and a storage and dispensing element for premeasuring a volume of coffee beans for brewing a desired number of cups of coffee for transfer to said grinder heads, a method for controlling the grinding of the coffee beams comprising the steps of:
- A) initiating the operation of the grinder motor,
- B) sensing the load level of said grinder motor, and
- C) continuing the operation of said grinder motor while the sensed motor load is above a predetermined level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.