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US 7,458,315 B2Granted
Liquid flavor beverage system
AssigneeBunn-O-Matic Corporation
InventorsBurton L. Hart, John T. Knepler, Kevin G. Lowe, David Wurtzler
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Abstract
A beverage apparatus (30) having a plurality of dispensing modules (32) and a housing (34) that defines a chamber (36) containing water or liquid suitable for use in brewing.
Claims8
A liquid flavor dispensing system in combination with beverage brewing apparatus for providing heated water to infuse a beverage brewing substance, the combination comprising:
- a brewing container for retaining a brewing substance during a brewing cycle;
- a controllable heated water supply coupled to the brewing container for controllably delivering heated water to the brewing container during the brewing cycle;
- means for generally holding a charge of the brewing substance in the brewing container for infusing a brewing substance in the brewing container to extract a brewed beverage therefrom;
- a container for retaining a liquid flavoring;
- a passage connecting the liquid flavoring container to the brewing container;
- and
- a controllable pump moving liquid flavoring from the liquid flavoring container through the passage to the brewing container so that liquid flavoring is present in the heated water while the heated water is infusing the brewing substance and mixed with the brewed beverage extracted therefrom.
4 more elements
A method of combining liquid flavoring for use with a beverage brewing apparatus, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a brewing substance;
- providing a liquid flavoring;
- providing a passage for dispensing the liquid flavoring to a beverage brewing apparatus;
- brewing the brewing substance by infusing a beverage brewing substance with hot water;
- dispensing a quantity of liquid flavoring through the passage;
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- combining the dispensed liquid flavoring with the beverage brewing substance for modifying the flavor of the beverage so that the flavoring, hot water and beverage brewing substance are present at the same time during brewing.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.