Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
  • A47J31/00—Apparatus for making beverages
  • A47J31/005—Portable or compact beverage making apparatus, e.g. for travelling, for use in automotive vehicles
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
  • A47J36/00—Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels
  • A47J36/24—Warming devices
  • A47J36/2444—Drinking cups with heating means
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
  • A47J36/00—Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels
  • A47J36/24—Warming devices
  • A47J36/2444—Drinking cups with heating means
  • A47J36/2461—Drinking cups with heating means with electrical heating means
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
  • A47J36/00—Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels
  • A47J36/24—Warming devices
  • A47J36/2444—Drinking cups with heating means
  • A47J36/2461—Drinking cups with heating means with electrical heating means
  • A47J36/2466—Drinking cups with heating means with electrical heating means with integral heating means
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47J—KITCHEN EQUIPMENT; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; APPARATUS FOR MAKING BEVERAGES
  • A47J36/00—Parts, details or accessories of cooking-vessels
  • A47J36/24—Warming devices
  • A47J36/28—Warming devices generating the heat by exothermic reactions, e.g. heat released by the contact of unslaked lime with water

Definitions

• This patent proposes a portable automatic device containing all the raw materials necessary to prepare hot drinks, source of heat included.
• the device can be provided with either chemical elements in an isolated space to cause exothermic reaction or an external heater.
• the device consists also of: a unit containing water or any liquid to prepare drinks; a unit suitable to receive the prepared drink (cup); a unit containing the necessary powder which opens both into the water unit and the cup.
• Preparing hot drinks requires solvents, generally water, which must be heated and mixed with specific substances, following different methods: infusion or solution.
• this kind of drinks are prepared mainly in two different ways: a)-by using different kinds of devices (for private or industrial use in bars and refreshment rooms). An operator fills the device with raw materials (powder and water) separately and whenever the drink must be prepared. b)-by using automatic devices, as those available in offices and other public meeting-places, which are provided also with raw materials tanks, periodically filled up.
• This kind of device according to users' choice, can automatically mix raw materials and prepare drinks without any operation by users.
• This industrial invention patent aims to propose a portable device which contains, in a single object, the necessary elements to prepare the infusion: raw materials, source of heat and the cup to drink.
• the device is reproduced in the enclosed pictures which are non- binding suggestions.
• Picture I in drawing 1) shows the device in transparent axonometric view, in drawing 2) the device is partially sectioned.
• Picture II in drawing 4) shows the version provided with an electrical heater at the base and in drawing 3) the remaining throwaway unit.
• Picture III shows the device with a different placement of its components.
• drawing 5) the version with chemical heating is provided with two adjacent tubular sections, one for liquid solvents and the other for powders.
• Drawing 6) shows another version with the same tubular mechanism but with electrical heating. The resistance wraps up the container for liquids.
• the device consists of an external container 1. of insulating material.
• peripheral unit 2 Inside the container there is a peripheral unit 2. where the tubular container for powders is placed 3. The remaining room inside the container is divided into three separate and insulated sections: the central one 4. fitted to contain a heating chemical mixture or an electrical heater.
• the second section in the container is the area 5. between the external container and the central core. It contains the liquid for the drink.
• the third section 6. in the container is placed onto the 5. and acts as cup receiving the prepared drink.
• the cup is closed on the top by a removable lid 7. (preferably a tear off system).
• the device can be started by activating the esothermic reaction of the chemical elements placed in the central core 4.. i.e. by cutting a baffle placed between the two chemical elements in order to let them mix up.
• the hot liquid flows through the powder in the tube and comes out into the cup 6. through the upper mouth of the tube closed by a baffle which can be easily taken away by the liquid.
• This baffle can consists of a soluble pad (i.e. sugar) or of a pressure- or punching mechanism.
• the drink can be tasted simply by tearing off the seal on the cup.
• the device can be produced in many other different varieties: a)-the heating element can be an electrical heater placed in an empty- space (see drawing 4). b)-the liquid can be placed in a tubular container next to the one containing powder (see picture m drawing 5 and 6). In this version the device can be much simplified: there can be only one room filled up with heating chemical elements (mixed with inert substances) in which the tubular containers are placed (8) (9) filled up with water and powder as in drawing 5. c) -instead of chemical elements water can be warmed up, as in drawing 6) by an electrical resistance 10. wrapping up the water tubular container. In this case the bottom of the device must be filled with inert material acting as heat conductor. d)- assembling different designed pieces, serially produced by means of industrial processes and machineries such as moulding , extrusion or other automatic machineries.
• the device's weight, size and content is portable and can be "throwaway” or its heating mechanism recycled.
• the taste of the drink will be always the same not only in relation to the kind and quantity of the powder to be infused but also to the auxiliary raw materials and to the preparing methods.
• the device is organized in an original way which is very compact and suitable to be produced with modem industrial technologies and follow future developments regarding both materials and manufacturing methods.

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• 1992
  • 1992-02-07 IT ITNA920004A patent/IT1264328B/it active IP Right Grant
• 1993
  • 1993-02-04 AU AU34627/93A patent/AU3462793A/en not_active Abandoned
  • 1993-02-04 WO PCT/IT1993/000009 patent/WO1993015641A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
  • 1993-02-04 EP EP93903297A patent/EP0625020A1/de not_active Withdrawn

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