Tea/coffee pot with pivoting strainer
AssigneeEmsa-Werke Wulf GmbH & Co.
InventorKlaus Horstmann
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Abstract
A tea/coffee pot includes a pot body designed to be filled with a liquid, and a strainer body which is arranged therein and is pivotable by way of a handling device between a submerged position and an emerged position. The strainer body includes at least one compartment for receiving an additional substance, such as tea leaves, ground coffee. The handling device includes a pull element for pivoting the strainer body, and the pot body has a guiding device in which the pull element is displaceably guided along a predetermined path for pivoting the strainer body.
Claims39
A tea/coffee pot comprising:
- a pot body designed to be filled with a liquid;
- a strainer body in said pot body that is pivotable by means of a handling device between a submerged position and an emerged position, said strainer body comprises at least one compartment for receiving a substance,
- wherein said handling device comprises a pull element for pivoting said strainer body, and
- wherein said pot body includes a guiding device in which said pull element is displaceably guided in longitudinally displaceable fashion along a predetermined curved path for pivoting said strainer body, the curved path being convex relative to an axis of the pot.
A pot comprising:
- a pot body with a handle having a guide groove therein that defines a circular arc path;
- a strainer body that moves within said pot body in a circular arc concentric with the circular arc defined by said guide groove;
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- a pull element attached to said strainer body and sliding in said guide groove.
A pot comprising:
- a pot body with a handle having a guide groove therein;
- a strainer body that moves within said pot body
- a pull element attached to said strainer body and moving along said guide groove, said pull element being a circular arc over substantially all of its length even when said pull element extends from said guide groove.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.