Adjustable volume brewer

A beverage making apparatus for controllably producing a beverage from a beverage making substance by combining heated water with a beverage substance, the apparatus comprising:

• a beverage making substance compartment for retaining a beverage making substance;
• a controller;
• a water source;
• a water dispensing line communicating with the water source;
• a flow meter associated with the water dispensing line and coupled to the controller for providing information to the controller corresponding to a volume of water flowing through the dispensing line;
• a controllable heated water reservoir communicating water dispensing line and coupled to the controller for controllably heating water for use in making beverages;
• a spray head communicating with the heated water reservoir and to deliver water to the brewing substance compartment;
• an user operable adjustment control assembly coupled to the controller for allowing a user to selectively adjusting the volume of water dispensed to the beverage making substance compartment, the user operable adjustment control assembly including a potentiometer coupled to the controller;
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• whereby the controller uses the information from the setting selected at the adjustment control assembly and monitors the information from the flow meter to facilitate dispensing of a volume of water to the beverage making substance compartment corresponding to the selection by the user at the adjustment control assembly.

A beverage making apparatus for controllably producing a beverage from a beverage making substance by combining water with a beverage substance, the apparatus comprising:

• a beverage making substance compartment for combining a beverage making substance with water to produce a beverage;
• a controller;
• a water source;
• a water dispensing line communicating with the water source;
• a flow control associated with the water dispensing line and coupled to the controller for controlling the flow of water to the beverage making substance compartment;
• a user operable variable adjustment control assembly coupled to the controller for allowing a user to selectively set a characteristic of the beverage produced by the apparatus;
• the user operable variable adjustment control assembly is coupled to a potentiometer communicating with the controller to provide a variable range of settings;
• whereby the controller uses the information from the setting selected at the user operable variable adjustment control assembly and monitors the information from the flow control to facilitate dispensing of a selected volume of water to the beverage making substance compartment to produce beverage corresponding to the selection by the user at the user operable variable adjustment control assembly;
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• wherein the characteristic controllable at the user operable variable adjustment control assembly corresponds to the volume of water dispensed to the beverage making substance compartment.

A beverage making apparatus for controllably producing a beverage from a beverage making substance by combining water with a beverage substance, the apparatus comprising:

• a beverage making substance compartment for combining a beverage making substance with water to produce a beverage;
• a controller;
• a water source;
• a water dispensing line communicating with the water source;
• a flow control associated with the water dispensing line and coupled to the controller for controlling the flow of water to the beverage making substance compartment;
• a user operable variable adjustment control assembly coupled to the controller for allowing a user to selectively set a characteristic of the beverage produced by the apparatus, the user operable variable adjustment control assembly is coupled to a potentiometer communicating with the controller to provide a variable range of characteristic settings;
• whereby the controller uses the information from the setting selected at the variable adjustment control assembly and monitors the information from the flow control to facilitate dispensing of a selected volume of water to the beverage making substance compartment to produce beverage corresponding to the selection by the user at the variable adjustment control assembly;
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• wherein the variable adjustment control assembly includes a touch panel screen which can be operated to select at least one of the variable range of characteristics of the resultant beverage.