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US 9,192,261 B2Granted
French press coffee maker with spent grounds removal
AssigneeHelen of Troy Limited
InventorsPaul Katz, Goeran Jerstroem
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Abstract
A French press coffee maker includes a carafe, a plunger, and a ladle. The carafe includes a base wall and an upwardly extending generally cylindrical side wall. The plunger includes a rod and a piston connected to the rod. The piston is movable with respect to the carafe in an axial direction. The ladle includes a base having a peripheral rim and an upwardly extending arm connected with the base.
Claims19
A French press coffee maker assembly comprising:
- a plunger mechanism including a plunger and a lid, the plunger including a rod and a piston connected to the rod, the lid including an opening that receives the rod of the plunger and a notch extending inwardly from a peripheral edge of the lid, the piston being movable with respect to the lid in an axial direction;
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- a ladle including a base and an upwardly extending arm connected with the base, wherein the arm of the ladle is received in the notch in the lid when the base of the ladle is disposed beneath the piston and a center of the base is aligned with a center of the piston, wherein the base of the ladle includes a rigid section and a flexible section attached to the rigid section, wherein a periphery of the flexible section forms a peripheral rim of the base.
A French press coffee maker comprising:
- a carafe having a base wall and an upwardly extending side wall;
- a plunger mechanism including a plunger and a lid, the plunger including a rod and a piston connected to the rod, the lid including an opening that receives the rod of the plunger and a notch extending inwardly from a peripheral edge of the lid, the piston being movable with respect to the lid in an axial direction, wherein the piston is receivable in and movable in the axial direction with respect to the carafe and when the piston is received in the carafe the piston contacts the side wall;
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- a ladle including a base and an upwardly extending arm connected with the base, wherein the arm of the ladle is received in the notch in the lid when the base of the ladle is disposed beneath the piston and a center of the base is aligned with a center of the piston, wherein the base of the ladle is receivable in the carafe and when base is received in the carafe with the arm of the ladle received in the notch of the lid the base contacts the side wall.
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A French press coffee maker comprising:
- a carafe having a base wall and an upwardly extending generally cylindrical side wall surrounding a central axis;
- a plunger including a rod and a piston connected to the rod, wherein the piston is movable with respect to the carafe in an axial direction;
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- a ladle including a base having a peripheral rim and an upwardly extending arm connected with the base, wherein the ladle is configured to be received in the carafe such that the peripheral rim of the base contacts the side wall of the carafe and the arm extends from the base toward an upper edge of the carafe and is disposed adjacent the side wall of the carafe, wherein the arm of the ladle is thinnest measured along a radius of the generally cylindrical side wall and is curved to generally follow the radius of the generally cylindrical side wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.