Abstract: The device includes a pair of passages (4--4') meeting at a top neck (5) communicating with and coupled laterally to the outlet of the mill (1). The junction between the passages (4--4') has a hinged trapdoor (7) which in a stable position seals one of the passages whilst holding the other one open.

Abstract: The machine is paired as concerns the receptacle (8-8') for the batched coffee and the piston (5) and (5') pressing such batches, and the ejector (12-12') in such a way that the pairing allows the machine to make one or two coffees at the same time and indeed three if one of the receptacles (8) or (8') has a double capacity and a double distribution outlet. Each seat or support (4) mounted also to turn with the main shaft (1) has a cavity in which a support (18) is positioned for a filter (19) through which the coffee infusion passes in each case. The angular separation in positioning the receptacles (8-8') is the same as for the pressing pistons (5-5') in order to allow the same to face the receptacles (8-8') simultaneously, the ejectors (12-12') for the cake (13) of used coffee being mounted with the same separation or spacing.

Abstract: An automatic vending machine for dispensing coffee infusions wherein a quantity of coffee is duly batched and compacted, and hot water is passed over the batched coffee thereby to obtain a coffee infusion which is discharged and collected in a suitable can, comprises a batcher and a mechanism for obtaining the infusion. The batcher includes a cylindrical body with a rotary vane in which two cavities are formed, which are alternately filled with batched coffee to be hauled upon rotation, to an ejector duct reaching a receptacle, the bottom of which is formed by a lower seat. The lower seat and the receptacle are mounted on a common shaft which can travel up and down and can rotate to allow the batched coffee to be carried from the ejector duct to face a compacting piston provided in a fixed body so that a batched coffee is compacted and hot water is passed therethrough. The shaft is driven by a cylinder piston.