Abstract: A machine for the preparation and dispensing of espresso coffee comprises: a coffee boiler, a filter holder with a filter for a pressed coffee powder puck, and a pre-infusion chamber and a hydraulic circuit for transporting pressurized water from the coffee boiler to the pre-infusion chamber. The machine further comprises a device for detecting a parameter indicative of the filling of the pre-infusion chamber and of the hydraulic circuit so that the step of dispensing of an espresso coffee can be started on the basis of the detected filling parameter.

Abstract: Means for cooling drinks, especially soft drinks and beer contained in cans, aboard a running motor vehicle, in correspondence of air gratings of the passenger compartment of said motor vehicle. It comprises, on the one hand, a support (1) consisting of a wire, bent at is center, so as to define a housing to contain a can (11) or the like, and whose ends (6), projecting at right angles from said housing, slightly diverging and elastically strainable, from elements, which can be inserted and engaged in the openings of an air grating (8) in the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, on the other hand, a strip or cover (10) of soakable material, to be applied wet to the can (11) or the like before putting it on said support, exposed to the air jet going out through said grating (8).