Axial Pocket Trap Patents (Class 222/304)
  • Automated hot beverage brewing machine
    Patent number: 10980367
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for brewing hot beverages, and more particularly to an apparatus for automated brewing of coffee or tea. The apparatus for automated brewing of coffee comprises a frame structure defining an interior space, wherein the interior space houses a ground coffee feed system, a carousel assembly, a water system, a waste system and a coffee storage and dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Inventor: Roger G. Lawson
  • Dispensing apparatus
    Patent number: 8870024
    Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for gravity feeding of a dispensable product includes containing means and dispensing means. The containing means is adapted to contain the dispensable product and is operatively connected to the dispensing means whereby the dispensing means includes a chute means. Rotation of the chute means can cause the dispensable product to be able to be dispensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Durapod Systems Limited
    Inventors: Tomas Antonio Dos Santos Mendes, Kenneth Christie Hargraves
  • Device and methods for dispersing multiphasic materials
    Patent number: 7832654
    Abstract: A spraying device for multiphase material, comprising: a cylinder, a pair of liquid-conveying pipes, a pair of material-conveying pipes, a nozzle, a pair of switches, at least one pair of storage chambers, a pair of valves, a mixing chamber, and a conveying pump; wherein the conveying pump is connected to the storage chambers via the liquid-conveying pipes, the conveying pump, the switches and the valves control material transmission of the material-conveying pipes, the conveying pump is connected to the mixing chamber via the material-conveying pipes, and the mixing chamber is disposed in front of the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Pharmaceutical Factory of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University
    Inventors: Xiaobin Xu, Shujian Gan, Ribao Qin, Jinhui Huang
  • Instant coffee dispenser
    Patent number: 4019660
    Abstract: A device for dispensing a pre-measured amount of a particulate solid such as instant coffee utilizing a rotatable hollow cylinder having an opening in the side wall extending radially for between 45.degree. and 135.degree. along a portion of the cylinder. The cylinder is positioned in a jar attachment member which holds an inverted jar above the hollow cylinder. As the cylinder is rotated, the hollow opening therein is filled and when the opening is oriented downwardly the particulate matter is ejected. Piston means are positioned within the hollow cylinder to adjust the volume of the opening to permit pre-measuring the amount which will be released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Inventor: R. Scott Berkey