Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprising: —a vessel (1) to contain coffee beans, —a heating device (12) to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel, —a control system (180) operable to control the heating device and configured to apply a roasting recipe (R) providing the temperature T@t1, T@t2, . . . to be applied at discrete successive times t1, t2, . . . , respectively, wherein for a customised quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, —the control system is configured to obtain at least the quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, and —the control system is configured to get access to at least one series of roasting recipes (Ri, Ri+1, . . . ) adapted to the roasting of different successive pre-determined quantities (Mi, Mi+1, . . . ) of beans of same type and to said pre-determined quantities Mi, Mi+1, . . . , and —based on said accessible series of roasting recipes (Ri, Ri+1, . . .

Abstract: An apparatus for roasting coffee beans includes: a vessel to contain coffee beans, a heating device to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel, and a control system operable to control the heating device and configured to apply a roasting recipe (R) providing the temperature T@t1, T@t2, . . . to be applied at discrete successive times t1, t2, . . . , respectively. For a customised quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, the control system is configured to obtain at least the quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel. The control system is configured to access at least one series of roasting recipes (Ri, Ri+1, . . . ) adapted to the roasting of different successive pre-determined quantities (Mi, Mi+1, . . . ) of beans of same type and to the pre-determined quantities Mi, Mi+1, . . . , and based on the accessible series of roasting recipes (Ri, Ri+1, . . . ) adapted to the roasting of different successive pre-determined quantities (Mi, Mi+1, . . . ) of beans of same type.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprising:—a vessel (1) to contain coffee beans,—an electrical heating device (13) to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel,—at least one temperature sensor (23) to measure temperature in the vessel, —a control system (180) operable to control the heating device, wherein the control system is configured to:—apply a roasting recipe dedicated to the roasting of partially pre-roasted beans comprising at least a temperature versus time profile by controlling the electrical heating device based on the measure of the temperature sensor,—detect a decrease of the consumption of electrical power of the heating device in function of time,—stop heating if no decrease of the consumption of electrical power happens after a set reference time ti.—continue or stop the electrical heating device depending on the type of identified beans.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (10) for roasting coffee beans comprising:—a housing (4),—a roasting chamber (1) presenting a bottom opening (11),—an air driver (2) configured to drive air inside the roasting chamber through the bottom opening of said chamber,—an electrical heater (3) positioned below the bottom opening of the roasting chamber, said electrical heater being configured to heat air driven inside the roasting chamber,—the air driver and the electrical heater being positioned inside the housing (4) and the housing comprising a hot air outlet hole (41) designed to enable the passage of hot air from the housing inside the bottom opening (11) of the roasting chamber, and the electrical heater (3) being positioned just below the hot air outlet hole (41),—the roasting chamber (1) being removably mounted to the housing (4), the bottom opening (11) of the roasting chamber cooperating with the hot air outlet hole (41) of the housing when the roasting chamber is mounted to the housing, wherein the appa

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for roasting coffee beans with a roasting apparatus (10) said roasting apparatus being positioned in a room and said roasting apparatus comprising: ?—a roasting device (1), and ?—a smoke treating unit (3) configured to treat the smoke produced in the roasting device (1) and to prevent the dispense of air contaminants in the room.

Abstract: A method of roasting coffee beans with a roasting device positioned in a room, and the roasting device includes a roasting device and a smoke treating unit configured to treat the smoke produced in the roasting device and to prevent the dispense of air contaminants in the room. The method includes introducing coffee beans in the roasting device and heating the coffee beans during a time, and a part of the whole quantity of smoke produced during the time of the step of heating is dispensed in the room without being treated by the smoke treating unit.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system (10) of a package (2) containing a product and an apparatus (1) using said product, the apparatus being refilled by the product contained in the package, wherein a code (21) related to the contained product is associated to the package, said code being a two dimension code and said code presenting a predetermined surface Scode, and wherein the apparatus comprises a code reader (11) to read the code associated to the package, said code reader being an image capturing device, said image capturing device being defined by: —a predetermined focal range, —a horizontal angle of view ? and a vertical angle of view ?, wherein the apparatus comprises a housing structure (16) and a cavity (12) inside the housing structure, wherein the image capturing device is positioned at the back side of the cavity.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for roasting coffee beans comprising : —a housing (4), —a roasting chamber (1) presenting a bottom opening (11) and a top opening (12), —a smoke and particles collector (6) configured to collect smoke and particles from the top opening (12) of the roasting chamber, —the roasting chamber (1) being removably mounted to the housing (4), the bottom opening (11) of the roasting chamber cooperating with a hot air outlet hole (41) of the housing and the top opening (12) of the roasting chamber cooperating with the smoke and particles collector (6) when the roasting chamber is mounted to the housing, —a chamber locking assembly (5) for locking the roasting chamber to the housing in a removable manner, wherein said chamber locking assembly (5) comprises: a bottom device (51) for connecting the bottom opening (11) of the chamber to the hot air outlet hole (41) of the housing, said bottom device being configured to receive the bottom (1a) of the chamber and to hold the

Abstract: The invention concerns a method to select the smoke treating unit (3) of a system (1) of a roasting apparatus (2) and an associated smoke treating unit when said system is used in a room (10), said method comprising:—receiving room data input,—receiving roasting use data input in order to determine the quantity of each contaminant produced by the roasting apparatus during a period,—for each system of the roasting apparatus and of one smoke treating units, calculating the concentration of each contaminant present in the room during said period,—for each system and for each contaminant, comparing the calculated concentration of said contaminant present in the room during the period with the concentration of said contaminant authorised according to local health and safety regulations,—selecting the smoke treating unit of the system in the list of smoke treating units providing for each contaminant a calculated concentration inferior to the authorised concentration.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system for roasting coffee beans comprising: —a roasting apparatus (1), said apparatus producing smoke, and—a smoke treating unit (2) configured to collect and treat smoke produced by the roasting apparatus, wherein: —the roasting apparatus comprises a smoke outlet (11), and—the smoke treating unit comprises: a smoke inlet (21) configured to cooperate with the smoke outlet of the roasting apparatus, a smoke filtering sub-unit (22) comprising at least an active carbon filter (221), a smoke driver (23) configured to circulate smoke through the smoke treating unit from the smoke collecting device to an outlet (25) of the smoke treating unit, wherein the smoke treating unit (2) comprises an air inlet (24) configured to mix the smoke produced by the roasting apparatus (1) with ambient air before the smoke is circulated through the smoke filtering sub-unit (22).

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (10) for roasting coffee beans comprising:—a roasting chamber (1) presenting a bottom opening (11),—an air driver (2) configured to drive a flow of air inside the roasting chamber through the bottom opening of said chamber,—an electrical heater (3) positioned below the bottom opening of the chamber configured to heat said flow of air driven to the bottom opening of the roasting chamber, wherein the apparatus comprises a conduit (6) to drive the flow of hot air from the heater (3) to the bottom opening (11) of the roasting chamber, and wherein said conduit (6) comprises a local transversal constriction (61), and wherein at least one temperature probe is positioned at said local transversal constriction (61) of the conduit.

Abstract: The invention concerns a system (10) of a package (2) containing a product and an apparatus (1) using said product, the apparatus being refilled by the product contained in the package, wherein a code (21) related to the contained product is associated to the package, said code being a two dimension code and said code presenting a predetermined surface Scode, and wherein the apparatus comprises a code reader (11) to read the code associated to the package, said code reader being an image capturing device, said image capturing device being defined by: —a predetermined focal range, —a horizontal angle of view ? and a vertical angle of view ?, wherein the apparatus comprises a housing structure (16) and a cavity (12) inside the housing structure, wherein the image capturing device is positioned at the back side of the cavity.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus (10) for roasting coffee beans comprising:—a housing (4),—a roasting chamber (1) presenting a bottom opening (11),—an air driver (2) configured to drive air inside the roasting chamber through the bottom opening of said chamber,—an electrical heater (3) positioned below the bottom opening of the roasting chamber, said electrical heater being configured to heat air driven inside the roasting chamber,—the air driver and the electrical heater being positioned inside the housing N (4) and the housing comprising a hot air outlet hole (41) designed to enable the passage of hot air from the housing inside the bottom opening (11) of the roasting chamber, and the electrical heater (3) being positioned just below the hot air outlet hole (41),—the roasting chamber (1) being removably mounted to the housing (4), the bottom opening (11) of the roasting chamber cooperating with the hot Nair outlet hole (41) of the housing when the roasting chamber is mounted to the housing, wherein the a

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprising: —a vessel (1) to contain coffee beans, —a heating device (12) to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel, —a control system (180) operable to control the heating device and configured to apply a roasting recipe (R), wherein for a customised quantity m of coffee beans of type Ny introduced inside the vessel, —the control system is configured to obtain at least the quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel and the type Ny of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, and —based on the obtained type Ny, the control system is configured to get access at least to a roasting recipe Ry, said recipe being adapted to the roasting of one pre-determined quantity M of beans of type Ni, and to said pre-determined quantity M, and —based on the accessible roasting recipe Ry and on said obtained quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, the control system is configured to determine the roasting recipe (R) to be applied to

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for roasting partially pre-roasted coffee beans comprising:—a vessel (1) to contain coffee beans,—an electrical heater (13) to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel,—at least one temperature sensor (23) to measure temperature in the vessel,—a control system (180) operable to control the heater, wherein the control system is configured to:—apply a roasting recipe dedicated to the roasting of partially pre-roasted beans comprising at least a temperature versus time profile,—measure the concentration of at least one volatile organic component (VOC) in the smoke produced in the vessel during the time the roasting recipe is applied,—detect an increase of the measured concentration in function of time,—stop heating if no increase of the measured concentration happens after a set reference time t1.

Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprising:—a vessel (1) to contain coffee beans,—an electrical heating device (13) to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel,—at least one temperature sensor (23) to measure temperature in the vessel, —a control system (180) operable to control the heating device, wherein the control system is configured to:—apply a roasting recipe dedicated to the roasting of partially pre-roasted beans comprising at least a temperature versus time profile by controlling the electrical heating device based on the measure of the temperature sensor,—detect a decrease of the consumption of electrical power of the heating device in function of time,—stop heating if no decrease of the consumption of electrical power happens after a set reference time ti.—continue or stop the electrical heating device depending on the type of identified beans.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for roasting coffee beans with a roasting apparatus (10) said roasting apparatus being positioned in a room and said roasting apparatus comprising: ?—a roasting device (1), and ?—a smoke treating unit (3) configured to treat the smoke produced in the roasting device (1) and to prevent the dispense of air contaminants in the room.

Abstract: An automatic beverage dispensing machine (1) provided with: a controller (2); a human-machine interface module—HMI (4), for acquiring the selection made by a user of recipes for the preparation of beverages; and an actuator module (6), to cause the dispensing of a beverage into a receptacle (25), prepared according to a recipe selected via the human-machine interface module (4). The human-machine interface module is provided with: a display unit (10); and a control unit (12), to cause the display of a graphical user interface—GUI (22), and to cause the display, in an area (22c) of the GUI, of a recipe time bar (34) having a number of portions (35), each associated with a respective ingredient and with a respective preparation step of the recipe.

Abstract: An automatic beverage dispensing machine (1) provided with: a controller (2); a human-machine interface module—HMI (4), for acquiring the selection made by a user of recipes for the preparation of beverages; and an actuator module (6), to cause the dispensing of a beverage into a receptacle (25), prepared according to a recipe selected via the human-machine interface module (4). The human-machine interface module is provided with: a display unit (10); and a control unit (12), to cause the display of a graphical user interface—GUI (22), and to cause the display, in an area (22c) of the GUI, of a recipe time bar (34) having a number of portions (35), each associated with a respective ingredient and with a respective preparation step of the recipe.