Coffee machine
AssigneeSGL Italia S.r.l.
InventorVirginio Cortese
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Abstract
A coffee machine wherein a pressurized-hot-water sprinkler is aligned, along a horizontal first axis, with a hydraulic cylinder, a piston of which supports a dispenser cup for housing a ground-coffee container, and is movable along the first axis to move the dispenser cup to and from an infusion position in which the dispenser cup is connected to the sprinkler; and wherein the dispenser cup is connected to the piston to oscillate, with respect to the piston and about a horizontal second axis, between a load setting in which the dispenser cup is tilted upwards towards a vertical loading conduit, and an unload setting in which the dispenser cup is tilted downwards.
Claims25
A coffee machine comprising:
- a horizontal dispenser assembly, in turn comprising a boiler with a pressurized-hot-water sprinkler;
- a dispenser cup for housing at least part of a ground-coffee container, the dispenser cup being positioned facing said sprinkler;
- a hydraulic thrust cylinder aligned with the boiler along a horizontal first axis and located on the opposite side of said dispenser cup to the boiler, the hydraulic cylinder comprising a piston for moving the dispenser cup to and from an infusion position in which the dispenser cup is connected to said sprinkler;
- a vertical loading conduit for loading a said container between said sprinkler and said dispenser cup;
- said dispenser cup is supported by said piston to oscillate, with respect to the piston and about a second axis crosswise to said first axis, between a load setting in which the dispenser cup faces at least partly upwards and towards said loading conduit, and an unload setting in which the dispenser cup is oriented at least partly downwards, and via an infusion setting assumed by the dispenser cup in said infusion position, and in which the dispenser cup is coaxial with said first axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.