With Agitating Or Compacting Patents (Class 99/287)
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Patent number: 12178351Abstract: A beverage infusion press includes a circular bottom structure having an outer bottom radius relative to a central axis and a filter portion operable to permit liquid to pass through the filter portion, a semi-circular top structure extending from a first end to a second end and having an inner top radius and an outer top radius relative to the central axis, and a vertical structure spacing the bottom structure from the top structure, the vertical structure comprising an interior surface, an exterior surface, and an exterior radius from the central axis to the exterior surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Inventor: Richard Westcott
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Patent number: 12161250Abstract: The invention concerns a beverage preparation apparatus (100), said apparatus comprising at least one chamber (1) for receiving and mixing water and at least one soluble beverage ingredient, said chamber comprising: —a lateral side wall (11) defining an internal mixing volume, —a bottom wall (12) comprising a beverage outlet (3), —at least one water supply device (2) configured for creating a jet of water (21) and orienting said jet of water inside the chamber, —at least one rotating device (4) configured to rotate around a rotational axis inside the mixing chamber, said rotating device comprising blades (41), wherein the blades of the rotating device are freely rotatable around the rotational axis, and wherein the jet of water introduced in the chamber is oriented to hit the blades of the rotating device and actuate the rotation of the rotating device around the rotational axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Aleksandar Sekulic, Yann Mieville, Julien Pellegrini
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Patent number: 12128334Abstract: A device and method for filtering a liquid, wherein the device (100) comprises a container (110), a filter unit (120) and a filtering medium (130). The container (110) holds the liquid (10) containing a solid substance (10a), and the filter unit (120) is slidable in the container (110). The filtering medium (130) is non-permeable to the solid substance (10a) in the liquid (10).Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Inventor: Kin Mun Chin
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Patent number: 12096875Abstract: A system for providing cooked food includes at least one container that stores an uncooked food product for dispensing of an aliquot of the uncooked food product; a source of milk; a source of steam; a mixing chamber configured to receive the milk and steam to increase the temperature of the milk and to dispense heated milk so that the heated milk contacts the dispensed aliquot of uncooked food product to cook the food product.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: The Quaker Oats CompanyInventors: Vipin Arora, Rahul Sadashiv Kamble
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Patent number: 12071337Abstract: A liquid dispensing apparatus for dispensing water and a flavored beverage. The dispensing apparatus may dispense chilled drinking water, hot drinking water and/or ambient temperature drinking water. The dispensing apparatus may further dispense a chilled, ambient temperature and/or hot flavored beverage. The flavored beverage may be coffee, tea, hot chocolate or another flavored beverage. The dispensing apparatus may include a replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle stored in a lower portion of the dispensing apparatus or an external source of water. Preferably, the liquid dispensing apparatus dispenses chilled drinking water and hot coffee from a replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle stored in a lower portion of the dispensing apparatus wherein the replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle is stored in an upright orientation, i.e., the discharge port of the replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle is oriented above a bottom of the replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignees: CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, DS SERVICES OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Philip A. Walton, Andrew Smith, Dennis Laurier Rivard
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Patent number: 11910952Abstract: An automatic beverage brewer for coffee, tea, and the like, and more particularly, which is customizable both in physical configuration including number and location of external brewing fonts, optionally in association with a bulk brewing font and receiving container, and in automatic operation to dispense hot water to the respective fonts and a main brewing basket or baskets responsive to user inputted beverage brewing commands.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NEWCO ENTERPRISES, INC.Inventors: Joseph P. Webster, Jody G. Jacobsen, David L. Brandsma, Thomas Liebe
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Patent number: 11882957Abstract: Provided is a coffee tamper. The coffee tamper of the disclosure includes a tamper body including a connecting hole communicated in a vertical direction, a guide portion provided in the tamper body and including an inner through-hole communicated to the connecting hole, a central connecting portion of which one side is stopped by the guide portion and of which another side penetrates the inner through-hole and extends downward, a tamping portion provided below the tamper body and configured to couple with the central connecting portion, and a compressing portion provided between the guide portion and the tamping portion and configured to downwardly compress the tamping portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Inventor: Zae Woo Lee
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Patent number: 11846466Abstract: Systems and methods have demonstrated the capability of rapidly cooling the contents of pods containing the ingredients for food and drinks.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: ColdSnap, Corp.Inventors: Matthew Fonte, Robert Devaney, John Heymans, Nicholas Fonte, Benjamin Fichera, Ian McGinty, Jason Hugenroth, Max Louis Lemoine, Daniel Ross Stelly
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Patent number: 11825990Abstract: A coffee grinding machine is described, said machine comprising a first grinder and a second grinder cooperating with each other based on a first grinding parameter for grinding coffee beans, thus obtaining a first dose of ground coffee during a first grinding cycle, wherein the coffee grinding machine also comprises a weighing device configured to measure the weight of said first dose of coffee substantially at the end of said first grinding cycle, wherein said weight measurement of said first dose measured at the end of said first grinding cycle is used to set a second grinding parameter of a second dose, ground after the first dose during a second grinding cycle. The coffee grinding machine is configured to interrupt the grinding of said second dose during said second grinding cycle in a manner not dependent on an actual weight measurement of said second dose.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: LA MARZOCCO S.R.L.Inventor: Andrea Dionisio
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Patent number: 11812888Abstract: A coffee brewing system includes a brew vessel adapted to receive water and ground coffee to produce and store a brewed beverage and to provide for a cleaning system. The brew vessel includes a filter and a magnet stirrer in the lower portion of the brew vessel. The magnet stirrer creates a water vortex for brewing the coffee. The used coffee grounds are allowed to settle on the filter creating a bed of used coffee grounds and the coffee is then filtered through both the bed of used coffee grounds and the filter and collected in a coffee storage container. A cleaning system is used to remove unsightly coffee stains and oil films in the system after a brewing cycle.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Havana Savannah, LLCInventor: Bruce D. Burrows
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Patent number: 11812887Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and system to distribute or compact coffee grounds, such as to form a puck in a portafilter. The methods, apparatus, and system may be used to compact coffee grounds wherein a resulting puck of coffee grounds in the portafilter has an even level, a uniform and or continuous density distribution, results in no or reduced formation of channels, no or reduced squirting of extracted coffee, and results in consistent and repeatable results. The methods, apparatus, and system may be used to form multiple layers in a puck, for use in preparing layered espresso.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: HYAQU, INC.Inventors: Edward T. Nista, Colin Jacob Miller, Justin Matthew Knowles
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Patent number: 11751713Abstract: The embodiment relates to the convenient amateur creation of a beverage where the extraction of flavor into a solvent is obtained using ultrasound. Where the solvent and solute are held in a removable carafe which has an ultrasound transducer. A control system will trigger ultrasound into the solvent for specific durations in order to quickly create the desired outcome. The use of one or more computers that will be able to implement a recipe, control the machine, and interact with the user ensure that the end user is able to operate the machine easily.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventors: Denis Londry, Glen Poss, Antonio Fernandez, Stephen Chang
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Patent number: 11718468Abstract: The invention relates to a pack (100) for preparing a food or beverage product from one or more food or beverage ingredients comprising an insert (10) and a container (20) where the ingredient or ingredients are stored, the insert (10) comprising at least a fluid inlet (110) configured for introducing an aqueous fluid under the form of a jet in the inner volume of the pack, the insert (10) further comprising at least an air conduit (130) configured to allow introducing air from the exterior of the pack and into the inner volume of the said pack through at least an air nozzle (132). The at least one fluid inlet (110) communicates with a depression chamber (200) through at least one liquid nozzle (120) in order to create a jet from a pressurized fluid introduced through the fluid inlet (110). The invention further relates to the use of a pack as described for preparing a food or beverage product.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Christian Jarisch, Christophe Sebastien Paul Heydel, Christian Talon
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Patent number: 11666174Abstract: A system for the preparation of a liquid product comprises a disposable cartridge filled with a single serve portion of a liquid ingredient to be combined with a base liquid for the preparation of a liquid product. Further the system comprises a dispensing apparatus with a pressurized gas source, wherein the apparatus is adapted to bring said pressurized gas source in direct communication with the reservoir of the disposable cartridge so as to allow said liquid ingredient therein to be pressurized by said gas thereby assisting the dispensing thereof from the reservoir via said one or more dispensing passages. The system is adapted to create one or more openings in said portion of the sealing film that covers the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Apiqe Holdings, LLCInventors: Jasper Jacobus Van De Sluis, Roland Waldemar Verbeek
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Patent number: 11659953Abstract: A brewer system includes a storage tank, a brew chamber movable relative to the storage tank and positioned over a mouth of the storage tank, and a filter tape positioned between the chamber and the storage tank. Brewing substance and water are added to the chamber to form a brewed beverage. The brewed beverage passes through the filter tape and into the storage tank through the mouth.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Bunn-O-Matic CorporationInventors: Scott A. Mazzini, John D. Bishop
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Patent number: 11641973Abstract: The invention relates to a beverage machine (1) having an external housing (10) and a movable beverage preparation module (20, 30) that is configured to process a beverage and/or a beverage ingredient to be dispensed. The housing (10) has a front opening (10?) and forms a cavity (10?) for housing the module (20, 30). The module (20, 30) is insertable as a unit into an operative position into the cavity (10?) and removable as a unit out of the cavity (10?) via the front opening (10?). The housing (10) has a cavity connector (11) in the cavity (10?) and the module (20, 30) has a module connector that is connected to the cavity connector (11) when the module (20, 30) is located there against while reaching its operative position and that is disconnected from the cavity connector (11) when the module (20,30) is removed from the cavity (10?).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Sergio Chioda, Marco Restelli, Laurent Sache
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Patent number: 11596261Abstract: Device and method embodiments discussed herein may be used to enhance a brewing process, extraction process, steeping process or infusing process. Such infusion processes may be used for making coffee, tea, oil, alcohol or any other suitable infused liquid where a user desires to enhance or control such a process.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: KINETIC IDEATIONS, INC.Inventors: Mike Sjaastad, Lou Lederer, Fred Sklenar
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Patent number: 11583132Abstract: A device (2) for pressing a dose of ground coffee powder includes a filter holder cup (3) having a filter (4) for depositing the dose of ground coffee powder, an attaching support (7) in which the cup (3) is separably attached, a grinder (8) for coffee beans including a slide (9) for dispensing ground coffee having an outlet (10) positioned above the mouth (5) of the cup (3), a pressing piston (15) for pressing the dose of ground coffee powder present in the filter (4) mounted in the cup (3), and a lifting mechanism for lifting the pressing piston (15) in a position above the outlet (10) of the slide (9).Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: De'Longhi Appliances S.R.L.Inventors: Giuseppe De'Longhi, Giovanni Rossetto, Maurizio Casasola, Massimo Poggioli
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Patent number: 11559165Abstract: A coffee brewer contains a brewing unit in which coffee grounds having been poured in are compressed by a plunger driven by an actuator. Heated water flows through the compressed coffee grounds. A control device controls the actuator in accordance with signals of an angle of rotation sensor. The control device first moves the plunger against a stop in an ejection position to calibrate the sensor, then moves the plunger by a predetermined distance in a downwards direction into a pouring-in position. Afterwards the control device moves the plunger by a second distance into the brewing position, a length of the predetermined distance and the second distance corresponds to a number of pulses of the sensor which are stored in the memory. The control device subsequently moves the plunger by a third distance back into the ejection position in which the coffee grounds are removed from the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: SPENGLER GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Ralf Heuberger
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Patent number: 11534018Abstract: A beverage brewer includes a brewing chamber, a hollow injection nozzle, a rotation member, and a motor. The brewing chamber is configured to receive and hold a brewing cartridge. The injection nozzle is arranged in fluid communication with a liquid supply and configured to enter a brewing cartridge when the brewing cartridge is disposed in the brewing chamber and to provide fluid communication from the liquid supply to an interior of the brewing cartridge. The rotation member is arranged at a periphery of the brewing chamber. The motor is configured to rotate the rotation member. The beverage brewer can also include a hollow extraction nozzle arranged opposite an opening of the brewing chamber and configured to enter the brewing cartridge when the brewing cartridge is disposed in the brewing chamber and to provide fluid communication from an interior of the brewing cartridge to an exterior of the brewing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventor: Adrian Rivera
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Patent number: 11510519Abstract: A steeping apparatus (10) includes a container (12) and a partition (22) dividing the container into upper and lower chambers (24, 26). The partition has a central aperture (32, FIG. 2) which interconnects the chambers and is arranged to trap a volume of air 38 in the lower chamber when the container is filled with liquid. Hot water poured into the upper chamber (24) passes through the aperture to partially fill the lower chamber, trapping a volume of air (38). Brewing material (34) located in the upper chamber (24) steeps in the hot water to produce a beverage and gradually sinks into the lower chamber (26) through the aperture. The air (38) trapped in the lower chamber applies a force to the liquid inhibiting movement of liquid between the chambers so that the brewing material (34) is isolated from the beverage. In other embodiments, the partition is pressed down through the container after brewing to isolate the brewing material.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventor: Abdul Ebrahim Patel
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Patent number: 11446717Abstract: A self-cleaning food processor includes a body and a crushing assembly. The crushing assembly includes a cup body, a cup lid, a crushing electric motor and a crushing device, wherein the cup lid cooperates with the cup body to form a crushing cavity, an output shaft of the crushing electric motor extends into the crushing cavity, the crushing device is located in the crushing cavity and is connected to the output shaft of the crushing electric motor, and the volume of the crushing cavity is V1. A cleaning process is provided after the food processor completes food processing, and in the cleaning process, cleaning water, the volume of which is no less than V0, is injected into the cup body at least twice, and the crushing device is controlled to drive the cleaning water to move in the crushing cavity, wherein 0.2V1?V0?0.6V1.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: JOYOUNG COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Xuning Wang, Hongwei Guo, Yanhua Wu, Qilang Huang
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Patent number: 11432676Abstract: The present invention discloses a coffee brewing device, which comprises a brewing head assembly, a powder box assembly, a screw assembly, a body fixing frame assembly, a movable frame assembly and a powder guide box assembly which are correspondingly provided. The present invention realizes the direction-variable movement of the powder box assembly in the movement process, and swings to corresponding positions for adding coffee powder, brewing, pushing out residues, scraping residues and realizing restoration.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: SUZHOU DR.COFFEE SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventor: Zicong Huang
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Patent number: 11412880Abstract: A drinking container with filtering cover comprises a cup cover component, an inner plug component, a cup body, and a bottom cover component. A first accommodating space is formed in the cup body; the inner plug component seals the first accommodating space; the cup cover component is connected with the cup body; the bottom cover component is connected to the lower part of the cup body; the bottom cover component comprises a bottom cover and a filtering mesh cover. A second accommodating space is provided in the bottom cover; the filtering mesh cover is placed in the second accommodating space. A third accommodating space is provided in the filtering mesh cover; a filtering mesh member is provided on the filtering mesh cover; and the filtering mesh cover is rotatably connected with a folding supporting component and forms an accommodating position and a supporting position by rotating the folding supporting component.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Haers HK LimitedInventor: Lizhen Lyu
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Patent number: 11382451Abstract: Temperature control for extracted beverages, including coffee, via controlled vacuum, and associated systems and methods are shown. A representative system includes a brew chamber, a beverage chamber in fluid communication with the brew chamber, a vacuum source in fluid communication with the beverage chamber, and a flow control device positioned to vary the force applied by the vacuum chamber on the brew chamber via the beverage chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Voga Coffee, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Lewis Avins, Eli Salomon
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Patent number: 11383883Abstract: A portable beverage container includes a portion pack and a fixing cap, wherein the portion pack includes a tubular-shaped fastening part having a first screw formed on an outer circumferential surface thereof; and a storage part extending from the fastening part and configured to store a tea bag or a concentrate therein, and the fixing cap includes an inner insertion part disposed by inserting into the fastening part of the portion pack and having a second screw formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof to be screwed with a screw formed at an inlet of a bottled water container; and an outer insertion part extending from an upper end of the inner insertion part parallel thereto and having a third screw formed on an inner circumferential surface thereof to be screwed with the first screw formed on the fastening part of the portion pack.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: ROYALGREENS CO., LTD.Inventor: Jee Lim Choi
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Patent number: 11337439Abstract: Systems and methods have demonstrated the capability of rapidly cooling the contents of pods containing the ingredients for food and drinks.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ColdSnap, Corp.Inventors: Matthew Fonte, John Heymans, Nicholas Fonte, Robert Devaney, Ian McGinty, Vincent Weaver, Benjamin Fichera
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Patent number: 11109707Abstract: A portable beverage press mug is includes a vessel and a press head assembly. The press head assembly includes a screen (or filter) and a valve arrangement covering the screen. The valve arrangement is movable in response to fluid pressure to create a gap between the valve arrangement and the frame and permit fluid to pass through the screen and the gap.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Streamline Design, LLCInventor: David J. Yakos
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Patent number: 11039710Abstract: The coffee machine has at least one infusion unit and at least one filter holder that is manually connected to and disconnected from the infusion unit for preparation of coffee, and it comprises at least one added support element of the filter holder for keeping it attached to the coffee machine when the filter holder is not connected to the infusion unit, said added support element comprising heating means for heating said filter holder to a predetermined temperature. The additional support element can be implemented also as a standalone element and, therefore, not connected to the coffee machine.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: CMA MACCHINE PER CAFFE' S.r.l.Inventors: Beppino Ceotto, Giovanni Rossetto
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Patent number: 11000147Abstract: The present invention discloses a brewing device (1) adapted for preparing beverages, in particular aromatic beverages such as espresso coffee and similar, by means of mixing a pressurized flow with an edible substance contained in a capsule (2). Said brewing device (1) comprises a force transmission disposition (3), an injection disposition (4), a collection disposition (5) and a structural disposition (6), as well as a base support (7) provided on the downwards-oriented side of said injection disposition (4) and projecting beyond thereof so as to provide support to a downwards-oriented part of said capsule (2), whereby said base support (7) is provided so that can be moved together with said injection disposition (4), and moved relative thereto.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: NOVADELTA—COMÉRCIO E INDÚSTRIA DE CAFÉS S.A.Inventor: Rui Miguel Nabeiro
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Patent number: 10993458Abstract: A unit for receiving and treating capsules containing a basic preparation for an ice cream product includes: a housing configured to receive a capsule containing a basic preparation for an ice cream product; and an unloading device adapted to trigger expulsion of the capsule from the housing. The unloading device includes an impact portion adapted to engage the capsule and a locking portion configured to lock the unloading device to the unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: ALI GROUP S.R.L.—CARPIGIANIInventors: Andrea Cocchi, Roberto Lazzarini
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Patent number: 10973363Abstract: A beverage brewing press has an open topped container for receiving a liquid and particulate matter to be brewed into a beverage, a hollow plunger shaft, a sealing filter piston disposed on the plunger shaft, the sealing filter piston having a peripheral seal slidably sealing to an interior of the container and for separating the interior of the container into a first compartment and a second compartment, the piston having a filter thereon for allowing brewed beverage to be filtered from the first compartment into the second compartment upon displacement of the piston, an agitator disposed below the piston, the agitator being fastened to an agitator shaft disposed concentrically rotatably and slidably in the hollow plunger shaft, a displaceable distance being provided between the agitator and the piston, the agitator shaft being slidable in the plunger shaft to take-up the displaceable distance between the agitator and the piston when the piston moves toward the agitator due to an axial force exerted on the pType: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Inventor: Daniel L. Dujmich
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Patent number: 10952937Abstract: The present disclosure provides a capsule comprising one or more solid oral care ingredients, said capsule being adapted for use in an apparatus that combines a solvent, for example water, and the oral care ingredients to provide a liquid, for example aqueous, oral care composition. The present disclosure also provides apparatus adapted to provide an aqueous oral care composition by directing water through the capsule; aqueous oral care compositions prepared by use of the capsule and/or apparatus, and methods for the use of the aqueous oral care compositions.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Robert Pierce, Nagarajan Jayaraman
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Patent number: 10881241Abstract: The brewing system disclosed herein includes a moving inlet nozzle for use in intermixing hot water and coffee in a coffee cartridge. The inlet nozzle may include one or more flow ports that inject hot water into an inner chamber of the coffee cartridge at select angles, locations and pressures to create the desired fluidized mixture of hot water and beverage medium.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Coffee Solutions, LLCInventor: Bruce D. Burrows
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Patent number: 10863855Abstract: A centrifugal device for brewing coffee includes a spinning assembly, the spinning assembly includes a piston element, a cylinder element including a peripheral wall, a filter, a motor and a spindle connected to the motor. The piston element includes a nut. During centrifugal rotation, the piston element is in a coffee brewing position, and during the centrifugal rotation the piston element is rotated by the spindle via the action on the nut and is pressed against the upper rim, where a centrifugal force is created which forms a bed of coffee against the peripheral wall and which drives hot water through the bed of coffee and through the filter. A stopping device includes an engagement member and an actuator, the engagement member being movable by the actuator between an engaged position engaging the piston element of the spinning assembly and a disengaged position.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Spinn Holding B.V.Inventor: Jan Cornelis Van Hattem
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Patent number: 10863856Abstract: A beverage preparation apparatus for preparation of a beverage from a capsule in a clamp assembly (30). The clamp assembly has a first clamp member (31) and a second clamp member, where the inner surfaces of the first clamp member and the second clamp member form a clamp chamber (33) for substantially enclosing and supporting a capsule (10) during beverage preparation. The second clamp member comprises a rigid peripheral frame (32) having a central void and a resilient layer (37) extending across said central void. There is a piston (36) positioned in the central void and resiliently coupled to the peripheral frame (32) to allow limited resilient movement of the rigid peripheral frame (32) relative to the piston (36).Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Lavazza Professional North America, LLCInventors: Paul Fletcher, David Knowles, Mark Thompson, Philip Mould, Peter Austin
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Patent number: 10830529Abstract: Systems and methods have demonstrated the capability of rapidly cooling the contents of pods containing the ingredients for food and drinks.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Sigma Phase, Corp.Inventors: Matthew Fonte, Robert Devaney, John Heymans, Nicholas Fonte, Benjamin Fichera, Ian McGinty, Jason Hugenroth, Max Louis Lemoine, Daniel Ross Stelly
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Patent number: 10820747Abstract: A beverage dispensing unit (1; 13; 15; 17) for an apparatus for supplying a beverage (in particular, coffee) which comprises an infeed section (21) and a dispensing section (23), which comprises three dispensing spouts (31, 32, 33). Two ducts (41, 42) are interposed in parallel between the infeed section and the dispensing section. Each duct receives a respective part of the beverage and has an outfeed (44). A movable member (5; 53; 7) is shiftable to change a liquid transfer path between the outfeeds of the two ducts and the dispensing section: when the movable member is in a first position, the respective parts of beverage are introduced into a same first dispensing spout (31); when the movable member is in a second position, the respective part of beverage of one duct (41) is introduced into a second dispensing spout (32) and the respective part of beverage of the other duct (42) is introduced into a third dispensing spout (33).Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: CAFFITALY SYSTEM S.P.A.Inventors: Italo Andrea Alvarez Virtoli, Sergio Zappella
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Patent number: 10716426Abstract: A portable beverage press mug is includes a vessel and a press head assembly. The press head assembly includes a screen (or filter) and a valve arrangement covering the screen. The valve arrangement is movable in response to fluid pressure to create a gap between the valve arrangement and the frame and permit fluid to pass through the screen and the gap.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Streamline Design, LLCInventor: David J. Yakos
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Patent number: 10694883Abstract: A beverage brewing device is configured to brew beverages such as coffee and tea. A brewing canister having a filter at a bottom end is held partially within a receiving beaker, and a seal is created between the canister outer surface and the beaker inner surface. Brewing media such as coffee grounds and brewing fluid such as hot water are added to the canister, mixed, and allowed to brew. At a desired time, the receiving beaker is moved relative to the brewing canister so that the brewing canister is partially removed from the receiving beaker. As such, a vacuum is formed between the bottom end of the brewing canister and the receiving beaker. The filter stops brewing media from flowing into the receiving beaker, but the vacuum draws the brewed beverage through the brewing media and filter and into the receiving beaker.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Inventor: David Harper
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Patent number: 10682005Abstract: A beverage dispenser, in which a filter is arranged between the lower end of a brewing chamber and the upper end of a fluid receptacle, and a beverage brewed by supplying a raw material and water to the chamber and filtered by the filter is received in the fluid receptacle, and is thereafter delivered to a cup along a beverage path. The beverage dispenser includes a pump arranged partway along the beverage path, and that reduces a pressure in the fluid receptacle to draw the beverage from the chamber, and delivers it to the cup. A predetermined quantity of the raw material and a first quantity of water are supplied to the chamber, and thereafter, during the delivering of beverage, a second quantity of water is supplied to the chamber, so that without interruption, the beverage is delivered to and served in the cup C.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: SANDEN RETAILS SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Mitsuo Suzuki, Taiichi Tsutsumi
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Patent number: 10479038Abstract: A juicer cartridge includes a liquid impermeable compartment at least partially surrounding food matter. An information region may be disposed on the liquid impermeable compartment, wherein the information region includes information for controlling at least one pressing parameter for pressing the juicer cartridge, such as a desired pressing speed, force profile, pressing temperature, total pressing stroke, number of pauses, number of press and/or retract cycles, and a distance of a press and/or retract cycle. The juicer cartridge may be used by placing it in the pressing chamber of a juicer that reads information from the information region and presses the juicer cartridge using the information.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: FRESH PRESS LLCInventors: Douglas Evans, Paul Katz, Neil Schultz, Andrew Murphy
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Patent number: 10368561Abstract: A coffee product including a sealed container having a liquid portion and a headspace. The liquid portion has coffee with a non-oxygen gas dissolved therein and the headspace contains at least approximately 3% oxygen and an amount of a non-oxygen gas. A method of manufacturing the coffee includes dissolving oxygen into a liquid coffee product and packaging the liquid coffee product with oxygen dissolved therein into a sealed container.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Kerflummox Holdings, LLCInventors: Janice Benson, Oussama Sabky
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Patent number: 10342377Abstract: Various beverage preparation systems, components, and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes a brewer machine and a beverage pod. The brewer machine can include a brew chamber unit, which can receive the beverage pod. The brew chamber unit can be adapted to receive multiple beverage pod types. Some embodiments include a drawer that includes the brew chamber and that moves to present the brew chamber unit to a user. Certain embodiments include locking mechanisms.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Starbucks CorporationInventors: Fred Cable, Peter Gale
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Patent number: 10285534Abstract: A motorized beverage machine (1) has a brewing unit (2) that comprises a first assembly (13) and a second assembly (14) cooperating together, each assembly (13,14) delimiting part of a brewing chamber (29) for containing an ingredient capsule (30). At least one of these assemblies (14) is: movable away from the cooperating assembly (13) into an open position within such machine for forming between said assemblies a passage (31) for inserting into and/or removing from the brewing unit the ingredient capsule (30); and movable to the cooperating assembly into a closed position for forming the brewing chamber (29).Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventor: Peter Mori
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Patent number: 10258190Abstract: The invention concerns a food or beverage preparation machine (1) for preparing a flowable food product or a beverage by mixing a fluid with a precursor ingredient, said machine comprising: a base (2) having a fluid source, a pump means suitable for conducting said fluid from the source through fluid-conducting pipes to a fluid delivery port (9), and a functional element (3) detachable from the base (2), comprising connecting means (6, 7, 8) for connecting fluidly to the delivery port (9) of the base, characterized in that said base (2) and said detachable functional element (3) both have cooperating magnetic attachment means such that the detachable element and the base can be removably connected with an attracting magnetic effect, and then disconnected by rotating said detachable element relative to said base with a repelling magnetic effect.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Youcef Ait Bouziad, Fabien Ludovic Agon, Alexandre Perentes, Alfred Yoakim, Philippe Dumur
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Patent number: 10182678Abstract: This invention provides a novel solution for a device and method including a hand-operated brewing press 100 and a separate brewing container 120 configured to brew a beverage. The beverage is brewed via the hand-operated brewing press 100 by first attaching the portafilter 126 container a portion of the pre-ground brewing medium onto a press plate 130. Next, the cylinder is attached onto the portafilter 126. Next, a portion of hot fluid 129 is poured into the cylinder. Next a piston 122 is inserted into the cylinder. Next, a force is applied to the lever 110 resulting in the piston 122 sliding downward inside the cylinder applying a pressure to the portion of hot fluid 129, the portion of hot fluid 129 is forced to flow into the portafilter 126 and through the portion of the pre-ground brewing medium 127 to produce the brewed beverage.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Inventor: Sergio Landau
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Patent number: 10167135Abstract: The present invention discloses a single-portion package (1) presenting a flow distribution element (4) provided so as to divide the internal volume into a first free space (1.1) and a second compartment (1.2) containing at least one substance, and whereby said flow distribution element (4) is displaced along successive positions along and relative to the sidewall (3.1) under the fluid pressure developing on said first space (1.1), and so that it initially confines said substance and it then confines and/or compresses said substance. The present invention further relates to a system (10) for preparing liquid products and comprising at least two of said single-portion packages (1, 1?) preferentially presenting different flow distribution elements (4, 4?) so that it results for example in different first spaces (1.1, 1.1?) and respective compartments (1.2, 1.2?).Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: MITACA S.r.l.Inventors: Edoardo Macchi, Francesco Minerba
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Patent number: 10130206Abstract: A beverage machine includes a brewing unit with a main body defining a hollow for receiving different types of portable pad and/or capsule holders, and a lid connected to the main body for opening and closing the hollow. The beverage machine further includes first and second holders for receiving first and second types of a pad or capsule, respectively. The shape of the hollow is configured such that it may either receive the first or second holder. The lid includes (i) a first sealing member configured to seal a first brewing chamber between the lid and the first holder, when the first holder is inserted into the hollow, and (ii) a second sealing member which is different from the first sealing member and is configured to seal a second brewing chamber between the lid and the second holder, when the second holder is inserted into the hollow.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Peter Rijskamp, Rodin Enne Bruinsma, Hendrikus Lodewijk Joseph Franciscus Holten
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Patent number: 10085588Abstract: The method for adjusting the quantity of coffee comprises the steps of: dispensing a predetermined quantity of coffee powder into an infusion chamber (36); by means of an electric actuator (19), closing said infusion chamber compressing the coffee powder in the infusion chamber. The method also provides for detection of at least one parameter of the electric actuator during at least a part of the step to close the infusion chamber and compress the coffee powder; and setting of the quantity of coffee powder dispensed in a subsequent dispensing cycle as a function of said parameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2008Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Gianni Remo, Ciro Adelmo Pilone, Riccardo Ziani