DE202021000704U1 - Removable coffee bean container for coffee machines and coffee grinders as well as coffee machines and coffee grinders with one or more removable coffee bean containers - Google Patents

Abstract

A removable coffee bean container (100) for storing, receiving, and supplying coffee beans, the container (100) comprising:
- a housing (110) having at least one outer wall (120) defining an inner volume (130) capable of storing coffee beans
and, the housing (110) having at least one opening (140) on the underside that defines a coffee bean outlet (141) capable of receiving coffee beans stored and received in the internal volume (130) from the external environment
to supply the housing (110);
- A closure (160) outside the lower side opening (140) of the housing (110), which has the shape and mechanics of an iris to allow the passage of coffee beans and which is able to oppose the lower side opening (140) To seal passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing (110) or to temporarily open them for passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing (110) by a mechanism of automatic or manual rotation of the shutter (160);
- a passage (170) capable of directing coffee beans released from the housing (110) through the closure (160) into the exterior of the housing (110);
- An adapter (180) which is capable of connecting the passage (170) of the coffee bean container (100) to a coffee bean inlet (220) of a
adapting a conventional coffee machine (200) to supply a predetermined amount of coffee beans to the machine (200); in which
- the closure (160) is capable of being opened simultaneously with the step of connecting to the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine and to be closed simultaneously with the step of decoupling from the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine, namely after the step of adapting the adapter by a circular movement in the plane of the contact parts of the adapter and the coffee bean inlet (220) of the Coffee machine, wherein at least one recess (184) of the closure of the coffee bean container is adapted to come into engagement with a projection (222) of the coffee bean inlet;
- the closure (160) is capable of conveying coffee beans from the coffee bean container (100) to a connected coffee bean inlet (220) of a coffee machine following opening of an aligned path between the coffee bean container (100) and the coffee bean inlet (220) to supply the coffee machine automatically or manually by the activity of the coffee machine; and
- the shutter (160) is capable of being operated and controlled to close or open the lower-side opening (140) of the housing (110) automatically or manually from the outside of the housing (110) by a mechanism selected from the A group consisting of rotating the breech (161), sliding the breech, buckling the breech, raising the breech, lowering the breech, and combinations thereof.

Description

The technical field of the invention

The present invention relates to a coffee bean container. In particular, the present invention relates to a removable coffee bean container which can be attached as a commercial product on a coffee grinder or on a coffee machine for supplying coffee beans to the coffee machine.

The invention also relates to a coffee grinder or an automatic coffee machine with a coffee grinder which is suitable for receiving coffee beans from the removable coffee bean container. Coffee machines in the context of this invention are all manual or electrical devices with a coffee grinder for brewing a coffee beverage, regardless of whether they brew filter coffee or espresso coffee.

State of the art and deficiencies in known designs

Coffee grinders or coffee machines have one or more bean containers from which coffee beans are fed in portioned quantities to one or more grinders. The customer's request to prepare different types of coffee beans one after the other and independently of one another is realized with a separate bean container for each bean type, whereby the desired bean type can be selected by the user by selecting the appropriate bean container.

The number of bean containers and thus the number of bean types is, however, structurally mostly limited to a maximum of three and is often associated with the same number of grinders in order to ensure that the individual bean types are grinded according to type.

Each additional grinder makes a coffee grinder or a coffee machine considerably more expensive and leads to complex construction and control requirements in a limited space within the device.

More recent developments mean that the bean cover can be changed from up to three bean hoppers with just one grinder. Before changing the type of bean, the grinder is grinded empty so that the next preparation can be carried out using a different type of bean. The empty grinding takes place via a locking mechanism of the respective bean container and via the motor characteristic curve, which can be used to recognize that there are no more beans in the grinder because the corresponding bean container has been closed by means of the locking mechanism and no more beans are being fed. In addition, residues of coffee beans that have already been ground are conveyed from the grinder into the grinder channel by means of tabs / vanes / paddle wheels or similar by a rotating movement coaxially to the grinder, from where they fall into the brewing unit by means of weight. The grinder is usually installed at an angle so that the ground coffee can more easily fall into the grinder channel located below and then into the brewing unit. This ensures that, apart from a few particles, there are no more residues in the grinder and grinder channel before changing the type of bean for the next preparation.

Due to the structural limitations, however, the number of bean containers is also limited here, usually only up to three. The customer can only choose between a few types of coffee beans.

The greater the number of bean containers in a coffee grinder or a coffee machine, the smaller the volume of the individual bean containers given the dimensions of the device. This leads to smaller openings for filling the individual bean containers and thus to increasing problems with precise filling, especially in the case of free-standing devices that are placed below a wall cabinet.

A more recent development follows the principle of filling beans for one or two cups from above using a spoon in the fully automatic machine. In addition to the difficult exact portioning and the disadvantageous filling from above, which has a negative effect especially when placing a free-standing device below a wall cabinet, this principle requires a complex mechanism that closes the standard bean container when the individual portions are spooned from above be filled into the device. This mechanism is not only complex, but also prone to failure, since beans of the previously brewed bean variety can get stuck in it and thus a single-variety preparation with another bean variety is not precisely possible.

In single-portion capsule machines that produce a coffee drink using a portion capsule of ground coffee, the number of different types of coffee is infinite. There are no limits to the variety of enjoyment and thus the customer request for new, different types of coffee.

However, in single-serving capsule machines, a coffee beverage can only be made from already ground coffee and standardized in the capsules portioned coffee grounds can be prepared, but not freshly ground and individually portioned from the whole bean.

In single-serving capsule machines, the high costs per cup of coffee due to the price of the single-serving capsules are particularly disadvantageous.

One problem in particular with the single-portion capsule machines is the waste that arises due to one capsule per cup of coffee and the outer packaging of mostly 10 capsules.

Description of the technical problem and its solution

The question arises, how with coffee grinders or coffee machines any infinite variety of different types of coffee from the whole bean (in contrast to ground coffee with single-portion capsule machines) can be ground and brewed independently of one another, so that apart from a few particles a pure preparation is guaranteed.

When preparing coffee from whole beans, in addition to the infinite variety from the whole bean - individually portioned, freshly ground and brewed - it would also ensure that the price per cup would be significantly lower than with single-portion capsule machines and, at the same time, the capsule waste of the single-portion capsule machines would be omitted.

It would be desirable to have coffee beans of a type of bean of your choice that is as easy to handle as possible at any time, regardless of the type of bean previously used, i.e. spontaneous change of bean type - cup by cup.

This wish can be realized with removable bean containers, each of which is filled with one type of bean. After a coffee with the bean type 1 has been prepared, the user could change the bean container and prepare a coffee of the bean type 2. This means that any change to a type of bean would be spontaneously possible, cup by cup. Such a system would mean the “multi-portion system for whole beans”.

• • Nach Befestigung des Bohnenbehälters 1 mit Bohnensorte 1 auf dem Gerät (Kaffeeautomat oder Kaffeemühle) muss der Bohnenbehälter 1 in eine Bereitschaftsposition versetzt werden, so dass das Gerät mit Start des Kaffeebezugs die gewünschte Bohnenmenge aus dem Bohnenbehälter z.B. zeit- oder volumengesteuert beziehen kann. Wünschenswert wäre es, wenn der Bohnenbehälter mit Aufbringen auf das Gerät geöffnet würde, gleichzeitig jedoch das Gerät weiterhin verschlossen bliebe, so dass der Bohnenbehälter lediglich in Bereitschaft versetzt wird, jedoch noch keine Bohnen abgeben kann.
• • Zur Entnahme von Kaffeebohnen aus dem abnehmbaren in Bereitschaft zur Bohnenabgabe befindlichen Bohnenbehälter muss der Kaffeeautomat oder die Kaffeemühle mit einer Verschlussmechanik versehen sein, die sich relativ zum Bohnenbehälter öffnet, um Bohnen dem Mahlwerk zuzuführen und, die sich relativ zum Bohnenbehälter nach Bezug der gewünschten Bohnenmenge wieder verschließt.
• • Nach Zubereitung einer oder mehrerer Tassen mit der Bohnensorte 1 muss der Bohnenbehälter vom Gerät abgenommen werden können, ohne dass Bohnen der Sorte 1 weder als Bohnen noch als Bruchstücke von Bohnen oder als gemahlenes Kaffeemehl im Gerät verbleiben.
• • Wünschenswert wäre es, wenn der Bohnenbehälter beim Abnehmen vom Gerät verschlossen würde, so dass keine Bohnen austreten können.

To do this, the following requirements must be met:

• • After the bean container 1 with bean type 1 has been attached to the device (coffee machine or coffee grinder), the bean container 1 must be set to a standby position so that the device can draw the desired amount of beans from the bean container, e.g. time or volume-controlled, when the coffee starts to be dispensed. It would be desirable if the bean container were to be opened when it was applied to the device, but at the same time the device remained closed so that the bean container is only put into readiness, but cannot yet dispense beans.
• • To remove coffee beans from the removable bean container that is ready to dispense beans, the coffee machine or coffee grinder must be equipped with a locking mechanism that opens relative to the bean container to feed beans to the grinder and that opens relative to the bean container after the desired amount of beans has been obtained closes again.
• • After preparing one or more cups with bean type 1, it must be possible to remove the bean container from the device without beans of type 1 remaining in the device as beans, broken beans or ground coffee.
• • It would be desirable if the bean container were closed when it was removed from the device so that no beans could escape.

List of reference symbols

100

Coffee bean container

110

casing

120

Outer wall of the housing

130

Internal volume of the housing

140

Opening for the coffee bean outlet

141

Coffee bean outlet

145

protective cap

146

Seal / seal

150

Additional opening for coffee bean inlet

151

Cap for additional opening

160

Iris closure

161

Rotatable closure

163

Kink-tilt closure

164

Double arrows with direction of movement

168

Dead end

169

Vertical channel

170

Passage

180

Intermediate piece / adapter

184

Recess

200

Coffee brewer

210

Coffee bean storage container of the coffee brewer

220

Coffee bean inlet of coffee brewer 200

222

head Start

230

Water storage tank

235

Water inlet

237

Water passage

238

Water heating device

239

Passage for heated water

240

Passage for coffee beans

250

Coffee grinder or grinder

251

Drive means / motor

252

Gear ratio / gear

253

Directional arrow for coffee bean movement

255

Ground coffee passage

260

Coffee brewing unit

270

Spout for brewed coffee

280

Drinking vessel

290

Spout for used coffee

300

Holder for several coffee bean hoppers 100

320

Carrier adapter for coffee bean hoppers

322

head Start

330

Carrier coffee bean passage

340

Adapter for connecting the carrier 300 to the brewing device

• • Der Bohnenbehälter ist aus einem beliebigen Material und kann eine beliebige Form haben, so kann der Bohnenbehälter auch als Verkaufsverpackung ausgeprägt sein.
• • Der Bohnenbehälter kann mit einer Versiegelungskappe versiegelt sein.
• • Nach Abnahme der Versiegelung ist der Bohnenbehälter verwendbar.
• • Der Bohnenbehälter ist am Gerät vorzugsweise mit einer drehenden Bewegung und vorzugsweise mit einem Bajonettverschluss anbringbar und wieder abnehmbar.
• • Der abnehmbare Bohnenbehälter ist mit einer Verschlussmechanik, vorzugsweise der Mechanik einer Iris-Blende versehen.
• • Die Iris-Blende ist verschlossen, bevor der Bohnenbehälter auf das Gerät aufgesetzt wird.
• • Beim Aufsetzen des Bohnenbehälters auf das Gerät wird ein Bauteil, das mit der Iris-Blende verbunden ist, nach dem Vater-Mutter-Prinzip in einer Halterung im Gerät fixiert.
• • Mit dem Aufsetzen des Bohnenbehälters auf das Gerät, vorzugsweise mit einer drehenden Bewegung gegebenenfalls mit einem Bajonettverschluss, wird der Bohnenbehälter, d.h. die Iris-Blende, mittels einer sich überlagernden Bewegung gleichzeitig geöffnet.
• • Das Bauteil an der Iris-Blende ist in der Halterung am Gerät fixiert, so dass durch die Drehbewegung gleichzeitig der Bohnenbehälter am Gerät angebracht und die Iris-Blende geöffnet wird.
• • Der Bohnenbehälter ist somit in Bereitschaft zur Abgabe von Bohnen, da er geöffnet ist.
• • Zeitgleich ist aber der Verschluss am Gerät verschlossen.
• • Erst beim Bezug eines Kaffees öffnet sich der Verschluss des Gerätes, so dass Bohnen zeit- oder volumengesteuert aus dem Bohnenbehälter in das Mahlwerk fallen können.
• • Nach dem Bezug der gewünschten Bohnenmenge schließt der Verschluss des Gerätes wieder. Die Iris-Blende ist jedoch weiterhin geöffnet, d.h. in Bereitschaft.
• • Nur wenn beide Verschlüsse (Verschluss am Gerät und Iris-Blende des Bohnenbehälters) geöffnet sind, können Bohnen in das Mahlwerk fallen.
• • Beide Verschlüsse (Verschluss am Gerät und Iris-Blende des Bohnenbehälters) liegen parallel mit der geringsten möglichen Distanz übereinander, so dass keine Kaffeebohne zwischen die beiden Verschlüsse passt.
• • Die Mühle wird bei jedem Kaffeebezug leer gemahlen bis sich keine Bohnen mehr im Mahlwerk befinden, was an der Motorkennlinie des Mahlwerks zu erkennen ist.
• • Mittels Laschen/Flügeln/Schaufelrädern o.ä. wird durch eine drehende Bewegung koaxial zum Mahlwerk das gemahlene Kaffeemehl aus dem Mahlwerk befördert, so dass sich keine Residuen der vorangegangenen Bohnensorte mehr im Mahlwerk befinden, wenn die Bohnensorte gewechselt wird.
• • Die Mühle kann schräg eingebaut sein, so dass das gemahlene Kaffeemehl leichter aus dem Mahlwerk herausfällt.
• • Die Antriebseinrichtung der Mühle kann vorzugsweise nicht unterhalb der Mühle angeordnet, sondern kann auch oberhalb der Mühle oder seitlich zur Mühle angeordnet sein, so dass das Kaffeemehl nach unten und nicht zur Seite aus dem Mahlwerk fallen kann.
• • Die Iris-Blende wird erst verschlossen, wenn der Bohnenbehälter in entgegengesetzter Drehbewegung wieder vom Gerät abgenommen wird.
• • Nach Abnahme des Bohnenbehälters vom Gerät kann er mit der Versiegelungskappe wieder aromadicht verschlossen werden.
• • Anschließend kann ein aus der Menge unendlich verschiedener Bohnenbehälter, der mit einer anderen Bohnensorte befüllt ist, auf das Gerät aufgesetzt werden.

The following embodiment of the invention fulfills the above requirements as follows:

• • The bean container is made of any material and can have any shape, so the bean container can also be designed as sales packaging.
• • The bean container can be sealed with a sealing cap.
• • After removing the seal, the bean container can be used.
• • The bean container can be attached to the device and removed again, preferably with a rotating movement and preferably with a bayonet lock.
• • The removable bean container is provided with a locking mechanism, preferably the mechanism of an iris diaphragm.
• • The iris screen is closed before the bean container is placed on the device.
• • When the bean container is placed on the device, a component that is connected to the iris is fixed in a holder in the device according to the father-mother principle.
• When the bean container is placed on the device, preferably with a rotating movement, if necessary with a bayonet lock, the bean container, ie the iris diaphragm, is opened at the same time by means of an overlapping movement.
• • The component on the iris diaphragm is fixed in the holder on the device, so that the bean container is attached to the device and the iris diaphragm is opened at the same time as the rotary movement.
• • The bean container is ready to dispense beans because it is open.
• • At the same time, however, the lock on the device is locked.
• • The device does not open until a coffee is drawn off, so that the beans can fall into the grinder from the bean container in a time or volume-controlled manner.
• • After the desired amount of beans has been drawn off, the device locks again. However, the iris diaphragm is still open, ie on standby.
• • Beans can only fall into the grinder if both locks (lock on the device and iris cover on the bean container) are open.
• • Both locks (lock on the device and iris diaphragm on the bean container) are parallel with the smallest possible distance on top of each other, so that no coffee bean fits between the two locks.
• • The grinder is ground empty each time coffee is dispensed until there are no more beans in the grinder, which can be seen from the motor characteristic of the grinder.
• • By means of lugs / vanes / paddle wheels or similar, the ground coffee grounds are conveyed out of the grinder by a rotating movement coaxially to the grinder, so that there are no more residues of the previous bean type in the grinder when the bean type is changed.
• • The grinder can be installed at an angle so that the ground coffee grounds fall out of the grinder more easily.
• • The drive device of the mill can preferably not be arranged below the mill, but can also be arranged above the mill or to the side of the mill, so that the coffee grounds can fall down and not to the side out of the grinder.
• • The iris screen is only closed when the bean container is removed from the device by turning in the opposite direction.
• • After removing the bean container from the device, it can be closed again with the sealing cap so that it is aroma-tight.
• • Then a bean container which is infinitely different from the quantity and which is filled with a different type of bean can be placed on the device.

1. a) Im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen Kaffeeautomaten und Kaffeemühlen
   • - Eine unendliche Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Kaffeesorten aus der ganzen Bohne kann nacheinander unabhängig voneinander in beliebiger Reihenfolge zubereitet werden.
   • - Die Konstruktion ist denkbar einfach, insbesondere einfacher als Geräte mit mehreren fixen, d.h. nicht abnehmbaren Bohnenbehältern oder mehreren Mühlen.
   • - Die Bedienung ist denkbar einfach, da mit nur einer Drehbewegung der Bohnenbehälter auf das Gerät aufgebracht und gleichzeitig in Bereitschaft versetzt wird.
   • - Die Erfindung kann mit einem oder mehreren Bohnenbehältern gleichzeitig auf dem Gerät aufgebracht mit nur einer Mühle umgesetzt werden.
   • - Die Erfindung bietet eine Lösung für Kaffeemühlen und alle Kaffeeautomaten mit Mühle (z.B. Filter-Kaffeeautomaten, Kaffee-Vollautomaten, Siebträger-Automaten).
   • - Die Erfindung ist im Haushalt ebenso vorteilhaft wie im Außer-Haus-Markt.
   • - Für den Gastronomen im Außer-Haus-Markt bietet die Erfindung die Möglichkeit, eine Menükarte von (unendlich vielen) Kaffee-Spezialitäten anzubieten (analog einer Weinkarte).
   • - Die Iris-Blende ermöglicht eine maximale Durchlassöffnung für Bohnen des Bohnenbehälters bei gegebenem Radius der Öffnung.
   • - Die Mühle wird leergemahlen, so dass keine Residuen der vorangegangenen Bohnensorte im Mahlwerk verbleiben.
   • - Die Erfindung verkörpert das Multi-Portion-System für ganz Bohnen.
   • - Der Bohnenbehälter kann als Verkaufsverpackung ausgeprägt sein, so dass die Verkaufsverbpackung unmittelbar an das Gerät angebracht werden kann.
2. b) Im Vergleich zu Single-Portion-Kapselmaschinen
   • - Es können auch zwei Tassen gleichzeitig zubereitet werden.
   • - Der Preis pro Tasse ist signifikant geringer.
   • - Der Abfall der Single-Portion-Kapseln entfällt.
   • - Die Kaffeebohnen werden frisch gemahlen.
   • - Die Kaffeestärke ist durch die Bohnenmenge je Tasse variierbar.
   • - Der Mahlgrad ist veränderbar (Bei Single-Portion-Kapseln ist der Mahlgrad vorgegeben).

The advantages of the invention

1. a) Compared to conventional coffee machines and coffee grinders
   • - An infinite variety of different types of coffee from whole beans can be prepared one after the other, independently of one another, in any order.
   • The construction is very simple, in particular simpler than devices with several fixed, ie non-removable bean containers or several mills.
   • - Operation is very easy, as the bean container is placed on the device with just one turning movement and is set to standby at the same time.
   • - The invention can be implemented with one or more bean hoppers applied to the device at the same time with only one grinder.
   • The invention offers a solution for coffee grinders and all coffee machines with a grinder (eg filter coffee machines, fully automatic coffee machines, portafilter machines).
   • - The invention is just as advantageous in the household as in the out-of-home market.
   • - For the restaurateur in the out-of-home market, the invention offers the possibility of offering a menu of (infinitely many) coffee specialties (analogous to a wine list).
   • - The iris diaphragm allows a maximum passage opening for beans in the bean container with a given radius of the opening.
   • - The grinder is grinded empty so that no residues of the previous bean type remain in the grinder.
   • - The invention embodies the multi-portion system for whole beans.
   • - The bean container can be designed as sales packaging so that the sales packaging can be attached directly to the device.
2. b) Compared to single-serving capsule machines
   • - You can also prepare two cups at the same time.
   • - The price per cup is significantly lower.
   • - There is no need to waste single-serving capsules.
   • - The coffee beans are freshly ground.
   • - The coffee strength can be varied by the amount of beans per cup.
   • - The grinding degree can be changed (with single-portion capsules the grinding degree is preset).

Claims (9)

A removable coffee bean container (100) for storing, receiving, and supplying coffee beans, the container (100) comprising: - a housing (110) having at least one outer wall (120) defining an interior volume (130) capable of being enabled To store and receive coffee beans, the housing (110) having at least one opening (140) on the underside that defines a coffee bean outlet (141) capable of receiving and receiving coffee beans stored in the interior volume (130) are to be supplied to the outside of the housing (110); - A closure (160) outside the lower side opening (140) of the housing (110), which has the shape and mechanics of an iris to allow the passage of coffee beans and which is able to oppose the lower side opening (140) To seal passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing (110) or to temporarily open them for passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing (110) by a mechanism of automatic or manual rotation of the shutter (160); - a passage (170) capable of directing coffee beans released from the housing (110) through the closure (160) into the exterior of the housing (110); - An adapter (180) which is capable of adapting the passage (170) of the coffee bean container (100) to a coffee bean inlet (220) of a conventional coffee machine (200) in order to accommodate a predetermined amount of coffee beans from the machine (200) to feed; wherein - the closure (160) is capable of being opened simultaneously with the step of connecting to the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine and simultaneously with the step of uncoupling to be closed by the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine, namely after the step of adapting the adapter by a circular movement in the plane of the contact parts of the adapter and the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine, wherein at least one recess (184) of the The closure of the coffee bean container is adapted to engage a projection (222) of the coffee bean inlet; - the closure (160) is capable of conveying coffee beans from the coffee bean container (100) to a connected coffee bean inlet (220) of a coffee machine following opening of an aligned path between the coffee bean container (100) and the coffee bean inlet (220) to supply the coffee machine automatically or manually by the activity of the coffee machine; and - the shutter (160) is capable of being operated and controlled to close or open the lower-side opening (140) of the housing (110) automatically or manually from the outside of the housing (110) by a mechanism which is selected from the group consisting of rotating the breech (161), sliding the breech, buckling the breech, raising the breech, lowering the breech, and combinations thereof. Removable coffee bean container (100) according to Claim 1 wherein the housing (110) is made of a disposable material; preferably wherein the housing (110) is made of a sturdy disposable material; further preferably wherein the housing (110) is made of a stable, disposable and gas-tight material; even more preferably wherein the housing (110) is made of a stable, disposable and gas-tight material which is capable of being used as a marketable coffee bean packaging; most preferably wherein the housing (110) is made of a sturdy, disposable and pliable gas-tight material which is capable of being used as a marketable coffee bean package. Removable coffee bean container (100) according to Claim 1 or Claim 2 wherein the housing (110) further comprises an opening (150) defining a coffee bean inlet capable of being charged with coffee beans to be stored and held in the interior volume (130) of the housing (110); preferably wherein the opening (150) is sealable; or wherein the at least one bottom opening (140) defining a coffee bean outlet (141) is capable of receiving coffee beans to be stored and held in the interior volume (130) of the housing (110). Removable coffee bean container (100) according to any one or more of the Claims 1 to 3 wherein the shutter (160) is capable of being automatically operated and controlled by the operation of the coffee machine. Removable coffee bean container (100) according to any one or more of the Claims 1 to 4th wherein the adapter (180) is provided with a quick release fastener; preferably with a quick-release fastener with a bayonet coupling (184); even more preferably with a quick-release fastener with a bayonet coupling and tongue and groove fit (184/222) for adapting the passage (170) of the coffee bean container (100) to the coffee bean inlet (220) of a coffee machine (200 ). Removable coffee bean container (100) according to any one or more of the Claims 1 to 5 , wherein the container (100) is capable of being adapted via its adapter (180) to at least one carrier (300) for a plurality of coffee bean containers which is capable of accommodating a plurality of coffee bean containers (100) according to FIGS Claims 1 to 5 via their respective adapters (180) and adapted, wherein the carrier (300) is either not connected to the coffee bean inlet (220) of a coffee machine (200) or the carrier (300) is connected to the coffee bean inlet (220) of a coffee machine (200) is connected so as to move the adapter (180) of a coffee bean container (100) over the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine (200) and thereby to enable the one coffee bean container (100) to have a dispenses a predeterminable amount of coffee beans to the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine, while the other coffee bean containers (100), which are accommodated in the carrier (300), are prevented from dispensing coffee beans at the same time. A coffee machine (200) comprising a coffee bean storage container (210) capable of storing and receiving coffee beans and dispensing them via a coffee bean inlet (220) for brewing coffee; a water storage container (230) which is capable of storing and receiving water and of delivering it via a water inlet (235) to a water heating device (238) for heating the water for brewing coffee; a coffee bean passage (240) connecting the coffee bean inlet (220) to a coffee bean grinder or grinder (250); a ground coffee passage (255) connecting the grinder (250) to a coffee brewing unit (260); wherein in the coffee-brewing unit (260) fresh coffee from the coffee grounds, discharged from the ground coffee passage (255) and brewing the hot water discharged from a water transport device from the water heater (238); an outlet (270) for a freshly brewed coffee beverage which fills the freshly brewed coffee into a drinking vessel (280); and a spent coffee disposal container (290): wherein the coffee maker (200) further comprises at least one removable coffee bean container (100) according to any one or more of the Claims 1 to 6th which is connected to the coffee bean outlet (220) of the coffee machine by means of the adapter (180) of the at least one coffee bean container and is capable of taking coffee beans from the at least one housing (110) of the coffee bean container through an opening on the underside (140) and delivering at least one coffee bean passage (170) of the at least one coffee bean container to the coffee machine (200); wherein outside the bottom opening (140) of the housing (110) there is a closure (160) which has the shape and mechanics of an iris to allow coffee beans to pass through and which is capable of opening the bottom opening (140) to seal against passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing (110) or to temporarily open them for passage of coffee beans to the outside of the housing (110) by a mechanism of automatic or manual rotation of the shutter (160); wherein the closure (160) is capable of being opened simultaneously with the step of connecting to the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine and being closed simultaneously with the step of decoupling from the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine, namely after the step of adapting the adapter by a circular movement in the plane of the contact parts of the adapter and the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine; and wherein the closure (160) is capable of conveying coffee beans from the coffee bean container (100) to the connected coffee bean inlet (220) of a coffee machine following opening of an aligned path between the coffee bean container (100) and the coffee bean container. Feed inlet (220) of the coffee machine automatically or manually by the activity of the coffee machine. Coffee machine (200) Claim 7 Comprising in place of the at least one removable coffee bean container (100) at least one carrier (300) for a plurality of coffee bean containers, which is capable of holding a plurality of removable coffee bean containers (100) according to the Claims 1 to 6th via their respective adapters (180), the carrier (300) being connected to the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine (200) so as to accommodate the adapter (180) of one of the plurality of removable coffee bean containers (100) over the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine (200), thereby enabling the removable coffee bean container (100) to deliver a predeterminable amount of coffee beans to the coffee bean inlet (220) of the coffee machine (200) while the other of the plurality of detachable coffee bean containers (100) received in the carrier (300) are prevented from dispensing coffee beans at the same time. Coffee machine (200) Claim 7 or Claim 8 wherein the drive device (251) of the coffee bean grinder or grinder is not arranged below the coffee bean grinder or grinder (250); preferably wherein the drive device (251) of the coffee bean grinding device or grinder is arranged above the coffee bean grinding device or grinder (250); or wherein the drive device (251) of the coffee bean grinding device or grinder is arranged to the side of the coffee bean grinding device or grinder (250).

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