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US 9,750,369 B1Granted
Coffee, tea, or beverage making device and method
AssigneeJoshua Taves
InventorJoshua Tyler Taves
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Abstract
One embodiment of a device used for Coffee Cupping in which coffee grounds, tea or other sediment to be extracted are mixed with a liquid in a vessel with a narrow section 24 between an upper chamber 20 and a lower chamber 26. After the sediment has settled in the lower chamber, a stopper 28 (attached to a rod 30, and a handle 32) is inserted into the narrow section 24 thereby sealing off the lower chamber 26 and allowing the now sediment-free liquid in the upper chamber 20 to be poured out using the pouring spout 22, into another vessel for tasting. Alternative embodiments are described and shown.
Claims10
An article for infusing coffee, tea, and other such beverages comprising:
- a. a vertically standing cylindrical vessel having an opening at its upper end and being enclosed at its lower end for the holding of a mixture of solid particles and liquid
- b. said vessel having an hourglass-shaped narrowing section thereby forming an upper portion and a lower portion of said vessel
- c. a stopper of predetermined size appropriate to fit into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section of said vessel
- d. an elongated member of predetermined size for use in transmission of said stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section
- e. allowability for addition of said solid particles of said mixture and then said liquid of said mixture to the vessel wherein said liquid fills all of said lower portion of said vessel and the majority of said ripper portion of said vessel
- f. means for attachment of said stopper to said elongated member at lower end of said elongated member so as to transmit said stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section
- whereby said article allows particles from said mixture to sink to the lower section of said vessel wherein same may be effectively separated from the liquid from said mixture in the upper section of said vessel upon transmission of stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section thereby allowing said liquid to be poured out of said opening with an absence of said sunken particles wherein when pouring out said liquid, said stopper is held in place by applying pressure to said upper end of the elongated member and by grasping the device simultaneously.
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A method for infusing coffee, tea, and other such beverages comprising:
- a. providing a vertically standing cylindrical vessel having an opening at its upper end and being enclosed at its lower end for the holding of a mixture of solid particles and liquid
- b. providing said vessel having an hourglass-shaped narrowing section thereby forming an upper portion and a lower portion of said vessel
- c. providing a stopper of predetermined size appropriate to fit into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section of said vessel, said stopper being non-permeable to liquid
- d. providing an elongated member of predetermined size for use in transmission of said stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section
- e. providing means for attachment of said stopper to said elongated member at lower end of said elongated member so as to transmit said stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section
- f. providing the addition of said solid particles of said mixture and then said liquid of said mixture to the vessel wherein said liquid fills all of said lower portion of said vessel and the majority of said upper portion of said vessel
- g. inserting of said stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section by means of said elongated member for the purpose of separating said upper portion from said lower portion of said vessel
- whereby said article allows particles from said mixture to sink to the lower section of said vessel wherein same may be effectively separated from the liquid from said mixture in the upper section of said vessel upon transmission of stopper into said hourglass-shaped narrowing section thereby allowing said liquid to be poured out of said opening with an absence of said sunken particles wherein when pouring out said liquid, said stopper is held in place by applying pressure to said upper end of the elongated member and by grasping the device simultaneously.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.