Abstract: A continuous automatic beverage brewer is provided for producing a brewed liquid beverage, such as coffee, in any desired pre-selectable amount. The brewer includes means for supplying a liquid, such as heated water, and a solid particulate beverage ingredient, such as ground coffee, to a mixing duct through which the mixture passes for a time sufficient to effect proper brewing. A moving filter intercepts the mixing duct so that a fresh surface of the filter is continually presented to the mixture of brewed beverage and spent solid residue of the beverage ingredient to thereby achieve effective filtering. Preferably the moving filter comprises a continuous belt of filter material, the surface of which moves continually past the output of the mixing duct so as to continually remove the spent solid residue. When continuously brewing a hot liquid beverage (e.g.

Abstract: A device for dispensing particulate or granulated material, comprises a container having sloped walls for retaining the material and feeding it to a plunger mechanism which can be actuated manually to discharge a portion of the material from the container. The plunger is disposed to move horizontally within an expandible sheath thereby permitting movement through the material.