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
  • A47J31/04—Coffee-making apparatus with rising pipes
  • A47J31/057—Coffee-making apparatus with rising pipes with water container separated from beverage container, the hot water passing the filter only once i.e. classical type of drip coffee makers
  • A47J31/0573—Coffee-making apparatus with rising pipes with water container separated from beverage container, the hot water passing the filter only once i.e. classical type of drip coffee makers with flow through heaters
• • 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
  • A47J31/40—Beverage-making apparatus with dispensing means for adding a measured quantity of ingredients, e.g. coffee, water, sugar, cocoa, milk, tea
  • A47J31/404—Powder dosing devices
• • 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
  • A47J31/44—Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
  • A47J31/52—Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus
• • 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
  • A47J31/44—Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
  • A47J31/52—Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus
  • A47J31/525—Alarm-clock-controlled mechanisms for coffee- or tea-making apparatus ; Timers for coffee- or tea-making apparatus; Electronic control devices for coffee- or tea-making apparatus the electronic control being based on monitoring of specific process parameters
• • 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
  • A47J31/44—Parts or details or accessories of beverage-making apparatus
  • A47J31/60—Cleaning devices

Definitions

• the present invention refers to an electric coffee maker with reservoir and automatic coffee powder doser with a powder intensity selector, composed by a reservoir of powder as indicator of the amount of powder, automatic coffee powder doser with a powder intensity selector and a digital electronic timer.
• the machinery and equipment industries mainly the household industry require practical products, the comfort and consumer technological innovation, such as, an electric coffee maker with timer, where the user has the facility to program the hour to the coffee maker prepare the coffee.
• Another problem is that there's not exactness in the coffee powder dosage, because the operation is manually, mainly if the user varies constantly the intensity of the coffee flavor, compromising the efficiency of the coffee powder and the intensity of the prepared coffee flavor.
• Another disadvantage of the existent electric coffee makers is the dilution of the coffee powder, which is made in the coffee maker filter, where the user adds the coffee powder, because when the coffee maker is turned on, this throws water over the powder that is going to be used, .bus not creating an homogeneous mixture of powder with the water, what ends up compromising the intensity of the flavor and/or the outcome of the coffee, specially to small quantities preparation.
• the present invention aims as objective to avoid the inconvenient of the electric coffee makers described previously, presenting to this, an electric coffee maker, with reservoir and automatic coffee powder doser with a selector of coffee powder intensity, a simple and compact system that disregards the use of electronic circuits and several sets to control de dosage of the coffee powder and the quantity of coffee to be prepared.
• the dosage of the coffee powder is done "simultaneously" with the hot water in the orificed upper cone of the filter holder, to, after dilution, fall into the coffee maker's filter.
• This system enables the preparation of any quantity of coffee, enabling to regulate the intensity of the desired coffee flavor, because the coffee powder intensity selector controls exactly the amount of powder that is going to be diluted in the water to prepare the coffee.
• the user will not need to arrange a place to store the coffee powder, because all of the content of a new package will be stored in the coffee powder reservoir, thus hermetically closed, keeping the coffee flavor and aroma.
• To prepare the coffee the user will have only to place a new clean filter, add the quantity of water in the water reservoir, and through a powder intensity selector, elicit the intensity of the desired flavor that goes from mild to extra-strong.
• the coffee maker will automatically do the rest; will dose the exact quantity of coffee powder, according to the intensity of the desired flavor.
• Figure 1 presents, in a transversal view the electric coffee maker with reservoir and automatic powder doser.
• Figure 4 is the upper view of the powder reservoir with the mover blade portraying the direction of the spin.
• Figure 5 shows the bottom view of the powder reservoir.
• Figure 6 is the upper view of the electric coffee maker without the powder reservoir.
• Figure 7 shows, in a transversal view of the electric coffee maker, the position where water and coffee powder fall.
• Figure 8 is the front view of the powder reservoir.
• Figure 9 is the exploded view of the powder reservoir.
• I Figure 10 presents a transversal view of the electric coffee maker with reservoir and automatic powder doser with the positioning of the electric engine placed in the upper part of the coffee maker.
• Figure 11 presents a transversal view of the electric coffee maker with powder reservoir placed in the upper part of the coffee maker to show that the powder reservoir might be detached of the coffee maker.
• Figure 12 is the front view of the electric coffee maker with reservoir and coffee powder automatic doser.
• Figure 13 presents in a transversal view of the electronic coffee maker with reservoir and automatic coffee powder doser with digital electronic timer.
• Figure 14 is the front view of the digital electronic timer, showing the display of "F”, "P” and "LD” keys and led lights.
• Figure 17 is the front view of the digital electronic timer that shows on its display the Auto-off function.
• Figure 18 is the front view of the digital electronic timer that shows on its display the Auto-cleaning function.
• the electric coffee maker with reservoir and automatic coffee powder doser is composed by a powder reservoir 1 with reservoir powder lid 4 and with coffee powder quantity indicator 5, powder mover blade 6 with a conic form projection 7, intensity selector 8, orificed upper cone 10 with holes 11 , electric engine 12, transmission axle 13 , water level sensor 14, luminous switch key 15, electric wire with plug 16, fuse 17, evaporator 18, thermostat 19, heating plate 20, water reservoir 21 , water reservoir lid 22, cups number indicator 23, sphere valve 25, spouter 26, filter holder 27, anti-dropping valve 28, pot lid 29, pot 30, filter 31 detachable or washable.
• the coffee preparation process of the electronic coffee maker consists in filling the powder reservoir 1 with the content of a new coffee powder 32 package, close it with the powder reservoir lid 4 and through a powder intensity selector 8, elicit the intensity of the flavor of the desired coffee, observing the powder intensity indicator 9, that varies from mild to extra-strong, sliding it horizontally. After the coffee maker is filled and regulated, it won't be necessary to handle the coffee powder 32. To prepare the coffee, only will have to place a quantity of water 33 in the reservoir 21 observing the cups number indicator 23, close the water reservoir lid 22 and place a filter 31 clean and detachable or washable in the filter holder 27. At each coffee preparation it might be adjusted the intensity of the coffee flavor, only having to modify the powder intensity selector 8 regulation.
• the coffee powder automatic doser is integrated to the powder reservoir 1 of the coffee maker and it's composed by the powder reservoir 1 with a projection 2 and a hole 3, by the powder blade mover 6 with a conic projection format (7), by an powder intensity selector 8, powder intensity indicator 9, electric engine 12 with transmission axle 13 and water level sensor 14.
• Figure 2 is a transversal view of the powder reservoir 1 showing the projection 2.
• Figure 3 is the upper view of the powder reservoir 1 that shows its hole 3 and the outline of the projection 2.
• Figure 4 is the upper view of the powder reservoir 1 , where an arrow shows the direction of the rotation of the powder mover blade 6, that is its anti-clockwise direction and the powder intensity selector 8.
• Figure 5 is an bottom view of the powder reservoir 1 that shows the hole 3, powder intensity selector 8 and the movement direction from left to right, as indicated by the arrow.
• Figure 6 is an upper view of the electric coffee maker without the powder reservoir 1 , and shows the orificed upper cone (10) with it's holes 11 where the water 33 and the diluted coffee powder 32 go through, a pot 30 below the filter holder 27, the indicator of cups number 23, the spouter 26, the transmission axle 13, the water reservoir lid 22 and the water reservoir 21.
• the coffee powder 32 starts to fall into the orificed upper cone 10, as the electric engine 12 activated by the water level sensor 14 propels the powder mover blade 6. Anyhow, the water 33 takes few seconds to pour by the spouter 26, because the evaporator 18 takes few seconds to make the water 33 boil. This is important, because it's necessary a small quantity of powder coffee 32 in the superior orificed cone 10 to avoid the pouring of pure water 33 in the detachable or washable filter 31.
• the filter holder 27 is mobile and removable, what makes it easier to place and withdraw the filter and it's cleaning.
• the passage of the water 33 by the spouter 26 is placed next to the edge of the orificed upper cone 10, and the leaving of the coffee powder 32 by the hole 3 is positioned in a way that the powder dust 32 falls between the pouring of the water 33 of the spouter 26 and the holes 11 that are positioned at the center of the orificed upper cone 10. This way, through gravity, the water 33 that pours, goes diluting all the coffee powder 32 towards the holes 11 in the orificed upper cone 10 to fall into the filter 31.
• the powder intensity selector 8 of the coffee powder automatic doser has an powder intensity indicator 9 to show the intensity of the coffee powder 32 that will be diluted with the water 33, that is, the intensity which the coffee flavor is going to be prepared with.
• the coffee powder automatic doser controls the quantity of the powder coffee 32 that is going to be used in the preparation of the coffee the powder intensity selector 8, as the lever is slided from the left to the right, will increase the opening of the hole 3 of the powder reservoir 1, consequently increasing the proportion of coffee powder 32 that is going to be diluted with the water 33.
• This systems control efficiently the quantity of coffee powder 32 that is going to be diluted with the water 33, that is, controls the intensity of the flavor of the coffee that is going to be prepared.
• the coffee cup will be prepared in the mild flavor.
• the powder intensity selector 8 in the same position, that is, in the mild position, the five cups of coffee will be prepared with the same previous flavor, that is, the mild flavor.
• the powder intensity selector 8 previously described, was the manual type one, nonetheless, a powder intensity selector 8 with movement adjusted by an electric engine controlled by keys.
• the keys that control the electric engine can be placed beside the coffee maker timer or not, having an electronic control to make easier the programming of the coffee maker.
• the electronic control might have regulation of intensity flavor coffee patterns such as "mild”, “medium”, “strong” or “extra-strong” and might have intermediate to these.
• An electronic control may allow direct programming to the coffee maker auto-cleaning, closing automatically the flow of powder coffee of the coffee powder automatic doser when the auto-cleaning is activated. To prevent the lack of coffee 32, the coffee 32 consumption can be seen through an indicator of coffee powder quantity indicator 5, which is transparent. Only after the coffee maker is used several tires, the powder reservoir 1 will have to be filled again.
• the powder mover blade 6 presents a conic projection 7 in it's center, because this way, when the coffee powder 32 of the powder reservoir 1 is ending, this projection enables the total use of the coffee 32, avoiding that deposits to settle in the center of the powder mover blade 6.
• Figure 9 is an exploded view of the powder reservoir 1 that shows the powder reservoir lid 4, shows the powder mover blade 6 with its projection in the conic format 7, the powder reservoir 1 with tht projection 2 and the hole 3 and the powder intensity selector 8.
• the passage of water 33 of the spouter 26, the falling of the coffee powder 32 from the hole 3 and the orificed upper cone 10 were placed in a way to be exposed, to a better dissipation of the vapors that leave the spouter 26, and to allow the user a visualization of the dosing process and the mixture of the coffee powder 32 with the water 33, but in another form of accomplishment is possible to the spouter 26 hidden, the falling of the coffee 32 and the hole 3 and the orificed upper cone 10, with side exits or rear exits to the vapor.
• the orificed upper cone 10 is not attached to the filter holder 27, to allow the placement and withdrawing of the filter 31. In another accomplishment the orificed upper cone 10 can be attached to the coffee maker, to allow free movements and withdrawing the filter holder 27 without its interference.
• the electric engine 12 used a motor-reducer in synchrony with the rotation of exit of 2,5 to 3 rotations per minute.
• the advantages of this type of engine is that they have their dimensions quite reduced, what facilitates the coffee maker fabrication, excellent durability, because they have a high leaving strength and a low cost.
• the electric engine 12 was placed in the lower part of the coffee marker to make it easier the assemblage of the electric system, but as indicated in the figure 10, another form of accomplishment of the transmission is possible, positioning the electric engine in the upper part of the coffee maker using the transmission axle 13 short.
• the evaporator 18, with its temperature controlled by the thermostat 19, in contact with the heating plate 20 will be functioning, transmitting heat to the pot 30 keeping the coffee warm.
• the powder reservoir 1 is removable from the coffee maker, that is, it's not attached to the coffee maker, allowing it's removal to be washed, because after being filled several times, there might be accumulation of coffee powder.
• the figure 11 shows a transversal view of the electric coffee maker where the powder reservoir 1 , the powder reservoir lid 4, a powder mover blade 6, all separated from the coffee maker to show that they are removable from the coffee maker. Also show the fitting of the transmission axle 13 to fit the powder mover blade 6.
• the electric coffee maker with reservoir and coffee powder automatic coffee doser also has an auto-cleaning system that allows the auto-cleaning of the coffee maker.
• the powder intensity selector 8 To the auto-cleaning system work, the powder intensity selector 8 must be placed all to the left, in the position closed of the coffee powder intensity indicator 9. With the filter 31 withdrawn from the coffee maker, water 33 is put in the water reservoir 21 of the coffee maker, observing the water level indicator for auto- cleaning 24 in the cups number indicator 23, that indicates the ideal quantity of water 33 to the auto-cleaning system work and turn the coffee maker on.
• powder intensity selector 8 will close the hole 3 preventing the flux of coffee powder 32, there only being the flux of water 33 that will clean the coffee maker components such as the orificed upper cone 10, the filter holder 27, the anti- dropping valve 28, the pot lit 29 and the pot 30. After it's finished, turn the coffee maker out and dispose the water of the pot.
• Figure 12 is a front view of the electric coffee maker that shows the powder reservoir 1 with its lid 4 showing the coffee powder quantity indicator 5, the cups number indicator 23 with water 33, the auto-cleaning water level indicator 24, the filter holder 27, the orificed upper cone 10, the powder intensity selector 8 and the powder intensity indicator 9.
• the powder intensity selector 8 in the c'osed position allows the moving of the coffee maker with the powder reservoir 1 completed, what prevents an eventual coffee powder 32 loss by the hole 3.
• the electric coffee maker with reservoir and coffee powder automatic coffee powder doser with coffee powder intensity selector might be produced with a digital electronic time 34 where the same is composed by an electronic circuit that controls all the coffee maker's functions.
• the digital electronic timer 34 has the function key "F” 36, program key “P” 37, switch-on-off “LD” 38 key, indicator led 39, liquid crystal display 35, with a daily programming that allows to program the hour to the coffee maker to start to prepare the coffee automatically.
• a daily programming that allows to program the hour to the coffee maker to start to prepare the coffee automatically.
• Figure 14 is the digital electronic timer 34 showing the display 35, the function keys “F” 36, program “P” 37, switch-on-off “LD” 38 and indicator led 39.
• the functions of the digital electronic timer 34 are:
• - clock function shows on the display 35 the hour 40, the minutes 41 and the seconds 42.
• the hour 40, the minutes 41 and the seconds 42 are adjusted by pressing the function key "F” 36 three seconds and then pressing the program key "P” 37.
• - timer function as shown on figure 16 allows to program beforehand the hour 40 and the minutes 41 to the beginning of the coffee preparation.
• the timer function is accessed pressing the function key "F" 36.
• the display 35 will show the letter "T” 43.
• the hour 40 and the minutes 41 to the preparation of the coffee are adjusted by pressing the program key "P" 37.
• press "LD" 38 making that the indicator symbol of "activated timer function" 44 appear or disappear on the display 35.
• - auto-off function allows the auto-off of the coffee maker in the programmed timing after the preparation of the coffee, that is, how long the coffee will be kept warm by the heating plate 20 of the coffee maker.
• the auto-off function is accessed pressing the "F" 36 function key.
• the display 35 shows the letters "AD” 45.
• the duration of hours and minutes that the coffee maker will keep the coffee warm, are adjusted by pressing the program "P" 37 key.
• press "LD" 38 making that the indicator symbol of the "auto-off function activated" 46 show or disappear on the display 35.
• - auto-cleaning function of the digital electronic timer 34 allows the functioning of the coffee maker just the necessary time to perform the auto-cleaning of the coffee maker, turning-off itself automatically after the process of cleaning the coffee maker is finished.
• To activate the auto-cleaning function just move the powder intensity selector 8 all to the left, keeping it on the closed position, pour water 33 on the water reservoir 21 of the coffee maker observing the water level indicator for auto-cleaning 24 in the cups number indicator 23, as shown on figure 12. After the auto-cleaning is accessed by pressing the function key "F" 36, making it show on the display 35 the letters "AL" 47 and pressing the "LD” key 38 to activate the auto-cleaning.
• the clock function turn the coffee maker on or off immediately to press the "LD" 38 key. All the time that the coffee maker is turned on, either by the timer function, make coffee function out auto-cleaning function, the indicator led 39 will turn on to indicate that the coffee maker is turned on, disappearing only when the functions were finished and the coffee maker turned off.

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