Timer tea maker
OwnerRichard Chang, Mario Bernardo Accumanno +1inventors
InventorsRichard Chang, Mario Bernardo Accumanno, Michael William Crowley
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Abstract
A timer tea maker is constructed to include an infusion cup carrying a timer, and a link mechanism provided at one side face of the infusion cup and controlled by the timer to raise a stopper from a bottom through hole of the infusion cup for enabling prepared tea to discharge out of the through hole to a tea cup below the infusion cup when the set time has expired.
Claims12
A timer tea maker comprising:
- an infusion cup, said infusion cup comprising a through hole defined in a bottom wall of said infusion cup, a link mechanism mounted at one side face of said infusion cup, and a stopper axially movably mounted in said through hole and driven by said link mechanism to close/open said through hole, said link mechanism having a bottom side coupled to said stopper, and a top side extended to a top side of said infusion cup;
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- a timer unit mounted on said infusion cup for setting an infusion period and driving said link mechanism subject to the set time, said timer unit comprising an actuating member coupled to the top side of said link mechanism.
The timer tea maker as claimed in claim I, wherein said timer unit comprises a timer, a cam wheel, and a block, wherein said timer having a time-setting shaft, said cam wheel mounted on said time-setting shaft for synchronous rotation, and said block fixedly located on said cam wheel and adapted to drive said actuating member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.