Abstract: An autonomous apparatus for cooking food includes a support body, an openable lid, an internal container which can be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body and open at the top, at least a heating device, and one or more elements to generate a flow of air toward the inside of said container. The air flow generator element is connected to a return exit with a suction mouth made in correspondence with an internal wall of said support body and cooperating with a plurality of through holes made on at least one portion of the lateral wall of the internal container.

Abstract: A machine for preparing coffee beverages comprises an infusion unit comprising an infusion chamber suitable to contain a quantity of coffee powder to be subjected to infusion, a grinding unit to grind coffee beans and obtain coffee powder, a water tank connected to the grinding unit, means for feeding and heating the water, and a dispensing unit fluidically connected to the infusion unit and configured to dispense the beverage prepared into a receptacle. The invention also concerns a method to regulate a machine for preparing coffee beverages.

Abstract: A mixing device suitable to mix substances or liquid or semi-liquid mixtures to increase the volume thereof, includes a hub which develops along a central axis and two mixing spokes connected to the hub, wherein each of the spokes includes an external lateral fin and two upper and lower connection segments, which connect respective upper and lower ends of the lateral fin to the hub.

Abstract: A method to prepare a beverage in a machine for preparing beverages, including: receiving through a user interface associated with a control and command unit the selection of a type of beverage to be prepared selected between a beverage obtained by infusion, or hot water; disenabling the commands of said user interface not related to the type of beverage selected, and enabling the commands correlated to the type of beverage selected, in order to allow the selection by the user of further specific organoleptic characteristics for the type of beverage selected; receiving and verifying the characteristics selected and conditioning the various functioning factors of said machine in relation to the specific selected characteristics and the operating parameters provided for the specific selected beverage.

Abstract: A support member for air-carrying pipes of portable air conditioners which can be applied to windows (W), comprises a first module provided with a slit made to accommodate the air pipe and at least one second module made to be coaxially sliding on the first module. The second module is continuously mobile with respect to said first module to make the length of the support member modifiable.

Abstract: A valve device includes an entry aperture and an exit aperture for a fluid, a chamber which puts the entry and exit apertures in selective communication, a housing compartment, a piston disposed in the compartment, which is mobile between a closing position in which it prevents the transit of the fluid and an opening position in which it allows the passage of the fluid, and elastic return means associated with the piston A machine for preparing beverages includes at least one said valve device.

Abstract: An automatic machine for preparing coffee beverages includes a brewing unit provided with a brewing chamber connected to a feed circuit for the water by means of an entry aperture and to an exit circuit for the beverage by means of an exit aperture. The machine also includes a valve unit, connected to the exit circuit and configured to supply a first high-pressure exit path and a second low-pressure exit path for the beverage. The invention also concerns a method to prepare a coffee beverage.

Abstract: A valve device suitable to selectively obstruct a flexible tube, includes a first body and a second body operatively associated with each other, which are mobile with respect to each other along a sliding axis, thus configuring an open operating position and a closed operating position and thus defining a passage gap configured to be passed through by the flexible tube. The invention also concerns a machine for preparing beverages which includes a valve device and a corresponding functioning method.

Abstract: A portable conditioner to cool or heat an internal space separate from an external space includes a control and command unit configured to determine at least the enthalpy difference between the internal space and the external space, and to regulate the quantity of air exchanged with the external space in relation to the enthalpy difference determined with respect to an expected value of enthalpy difference corresponding to a conditioning temperature and to a defined conditioning relative humidity. The present invention also concerns a method to regulate the portable conditioner.

Abstract: An autonomous cooking apparatus for food includes a base body, a lid defining with the base body a cooking chamber, a container, disposed in the base body and a mixing device. The mixing device is connected to a drive member configured to make it rotate with respect to the container around a central axis of rotation. The apparatus also comprises a heating device configured to heat air in the cooking chamber and a ventilation device configured to make the air circulate.

Abstract: An autonomous apparatus for cooking food includes a support body, an openable lid, an internal container which can be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body and open at the top, at least a heating device, and one or more elements to generate a flow of air toward the inside of said container. The air flow generator element is connected to a return exit with a suction mouth made in correspondence with an internal wall of said support body and cooperating with a plurality of through holes made on at least one portion of the lateral wall of the internal container.

Abstract: Autonomous apparatus for cooking food including a support body (12), a lid (14), a container (16) open at the top and able to be extracted/inserted with respect to said support body (12), and at least a main heating device (18).

Abstract: A machine for preparing coffee beverages comprises an infusion unit comprising an infusion chamber suitable to contain a quantity of coffee powder to be subjected to infusion, a grinding unit to grind coffee beans and obtain coffee powder, a water tank connected to the grinding unit, means for feeding and heating the water, and a dispensing unit fluidically connected to the infusion unit and configured to dispense the beverage prepared into a receptacle. The invention also concerns a method to regulate a machine for preparing coffee beverages.

Abstract: A machine for preparing beverages includes at least one tank for water fluidly connected to a filtering container suitable to contain an aromatic mixture and to an outlet for the beverage associated with selective delivery devices; a pump to feed the water from said tank; a heating device to heat the water in transit, and a control and command unit connected to a user interface.

Abstract: A machine to prepare beverages includes at least one tank for the water fluidically connected to a filtering container suitable to contain an aromatic mixture; a pump to feed the water from said tank; a heating device to heat the water in transit; and a control and command unit connected to a user interface. The invention also concerns a method to prepare beverages.

Abstract: A fan includes a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The main body defines an internal housing compartment.

Abstract: A fan including a main body with a vertical development with respect to a support base on which the main body is located in a condition of use. The fan has a rear longitudinal aperture, for the emission of a stream of air toward the outside, and also comprises an air suction and distribution unit, and a channeling element (20) positioned in proximity to the longitudinal aperture (16). The channeling element allows to divert the stream of air (W) so that it is conveyed toward a front part of the fan (10), at least partly following a profile (40) of an external surface (22) of the main body (12).

Abstract: A method for regulating a conditioning apparatus includes a heating/cooling device and a ventilation device which generates a flow of air toward the heating/cooling device in order to direct it toward a room to be conditioned. The method includes the step of switching on the conditioning apparatus in a switch-on instant, the step of activating the heating/cooling device and the ventilation device, the step of determining a commutation instant, and the step of driving the ventilation device so that, until the previously determined commutation instant, the ventilation device is stationary or rotates at a maximum speed equal to a certain speed of the ventilation device.

Abstract: A conditioning apparatus is provided with a control and command unit which can be activated remotely using an electronic device. A method to activate and control the conditioning apparatus includes regulating the functioning parameters of the conditioning apparatus at least as a function of a state of wakefulness or sleep of a user.

Abstract: An automatic machine to deliver a beverage containing caffeine includes a water container, a possible pump, a filtering element to contain, during use, a powdered mixture, a main pipe that connects the container to the filtering element, and a heating element, associated with the container and/or with the main pipe, able to be selectively activated to heat the stream of water delivered from the container toward the filtering element in order to infuse the powdered mixture.