Abstract: A beverage brewing apparatus having an automatic brew cycle mode and a semi-automatic brew cycle mode.

Abstract: A device for preparing beverages of the type having a closed compartment, an open compartment, an ascension pipe connecting the two compartments and a location for a filtering device between the ascension pipe and the open compartment. The closed compartment has a bottom that has at least a first and a second area which are at different levels and has a member for separating the two areas. The first area is larger than the second area, is heated, and is at a higher level than the second level and than the end of the ascension pipe. The second, smaller area is unheated and is located near the ascension pipe, but at a level that is below the end of the ascension pipe. In one embodiment the separating member is a rim and in a second embodiment the separating member is an inclined bottom.

Abstract: Regarding a gasket for a funnel for a coffee-making apparatus of the type designed to have water brought to a boil in a closed container, whereupon the water is pressed through an ascension pipe into a funnel, where boiling water extracts aromas and flavour from the ground coffee, whereupon the finished coffee beverage is filtered back into the closed container through a filter placed at the outlet from the funnel, the object is to provide a gasket (1) for the funnel (2) of a coffee-making apparatus of the type mentioned in the introduction, where the gasket is appropriately deformed at differences of pressure greater than a few hundred millimeters of water column with a view to limiting or equalising the difference in pressure. Moreover, the gasket must be easily disassembled with a view to cleaning or replacement, and it must be able to withstand the temperatures and chemical conditions arising during the preparation of coffee.

Abstract: A machine for brewing tea, particularly in a shoc situation. The machine has a housing and at least one brewing assembly. The brewing assembly is formed to hold a brewing cup that has a filter that defines and separates a first cavity within the brewing cup for containing tea leaves and a second cavity from which tea leaves are excluded. The housing has a water supply that supplies a predetermined volume of water at a temperature that is suitable for infusing tea leaves. It also has a water supply channel for delivering the water into the first cavity of the brewing cup, and a siphon tube that has a siphoning end that extends orthogonally upward into the second cavity of the brewing cup and a downward projecting dispensing end.

Abstract: A device for preparing beverages of the type having a closed compartment (c2), an open compartment (c1), an ascension pipe (23) connecting the compartments, and a filtering device (f1) between the ascension pipe (23) and the open compartment (c1), has some disadvantages in that an external heating source is needed, thereby increasing the risk of fire and burning the operating persons. Further, the infusion time is either fixed, being decided by the distance between the lower orifice of the ascending pipe and the bottom of the closed compartment or left to the user to estimate.

Abstract: A portable espresso maker comprising a housing and a water chamber within the housing and having an o-ring mounted on the top edge. There is a heating element adjacent the bottom of the water chamber. There is a bottom tray for holding the housing and a cup positioned on the bottom tray adjacent the housing. A filter assembly is positioned within the water chamber and comprises a filter tube connected to a reservoir. A mesh screen extends over the bottom of the reservoir. A cover is positioned over the housing and the water chamber. The cover has an o-ring that engages the o-ring mounted to the water chamber to create an air-tight seal between the water chamber and the cover. The cover has a concave recess and a screen extending over the concave recess. There are a plurality of ridges positioned within the recess and extending to the screen. An exit spout extends from the recess out of the cover and toward the cup.

Abstract: A device for brewing hot beverages comprises a lower container for receiving water, an upper container for receiving brewed beverage, and a piston-cylinder assembly into which coffee grounds, tea leaves, and herbs are placed. The grounds, etc. are compressed and subjected to high temperature water and steam, to extract essences and produce a beverage, such as espresso coffee. The piston has a decompression chamber at its upper end, formed between the piston top and a perforated diffuser plate. Pressurized hot water from the lower container flows through a nozzle in the piston top, into the decompression chamber, through the holes of the diffuser plate, and then into the grounds. The piston moves upwardly to compress the grounds against an upper perforated plate, first with rising force, and then with constant force.

Abstract: Express-coffe-machine loadable with wafers (36) of coffee blend for family or professional use, includes a casing (2) containing one vessel (12) for the water to be heated, a boiler (16) in which the water is heated to a pre-established temperature and a unit (4) formed by one fixed lower head (5) and one movable upper head (6), which can be engaged one to the other so as to press a wafer (36) therebetween for delivering a beverage. The movable upper head (6) is carried by an arm (24) connected to a control lever (26), made integral with a fork (28) engaging the lower head (5), an is also provided with a spout (7) for distributing the beverage.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing beverages comprises a liquid container and a drink medium container including a housing having a tubular member extending downward into the liquid container. The drink medium container includes a filter apparatus capable of containing a drink medium. A drink container includes a tubular liquid inlet in fluid flow communication with the drink medium container. The liquid container is in fluid communication with the drink container such that when liquid in the liquid container is heated, the liquid can flow upward from the liquid container through the tubular member, filter apparatus, and through the tubular liquid inlet into the drink container. The liquid container includes a double wall construction to maintain the temperature on an outer surface thereof at a relatively low level.

Abstract: The percolator comprises a substantially cylindrical decoction chamber (9) through which water passes from the lower chamber (7) to the upper chamber (8), a counteracting surface (16) upperly bounding the decoction chamber (9), and an annular gasket (17) positioned against the counteracting surface to form a seal between the lower chamber (7), the upper chamber (8) and the decoction chamber (9). Within the decoction chamber (9) there is provided a support element (30) movable in a vertical direction and arranged to support a bag (20) of ground substance in the form of a substantially cylindrical tablet; elastic thrust member (35) is also provided within the decoction chamber (9) to vertically urge the support element (30) in such a manner as to elastically press the bag (10) against the counteracting surface (16) and/or against the annular gasket (17).

Abstract: An expresso coffee maker includes a steam outlet valve for supplying steam to froth milk for making cappuccino coffee. A valve member automatically closes off a tube when a water level in a water compartment falls below a low level. This closing off completes each expresso making cycle and ensures that sufficient water is retained, and sealed off, inside the compartment to sustain a supply of steam for frothing the milk.

Abstract: An improved machine for preparing a coffee infusion, in particular for home use has an unique construction including a plurality of elements, i.e. a water boiling chamber, on the top of which can be threaded a coffee infusion collecting chamber, having a filter containing the coffee powder.The machine is characterized in that, starting from the inside of the water boiling chamber and coaxially proceeding along a fitting cylindric element, there extends a hollow vertical cylinder in which a piston can be displaced, the piston causing in turn a given water amount to be displaced toward the filter.

Abstract: The present invention consists of a single-dose espresso maker for preparing infusions in general, to be disposed of after being used. It consists of two glass-shaped containers, one of which contains water to be heated and the other of which, equipped with a filtering bottom wall, contains the infusion product; the mutually opposite mouths of both said containers are coupled with each other by grafting, with the interposition of a water-sealing disk-shaped element of pre-established strength, which can be broken by the pressure developed by heating water; and of at least one perforated disk-shaped element. After heating the water containing element, the pressure of generated water vapor causes the breakage of said sealing disk, enabling water to flow through the filter-container containing the infusion product and hence the desired infusion to be produced and fed to a container associated with the espresso maker.

Abstract: An automatic coffee pot which can be used interchangeably to make espresso, "American" coffee, or cappuccino within the same unit, uses a disk-shaped clamp having a plurality of filter openings therethrough seated on the coffee grounds in the interior of the filter basket to prevent the coffee from being driven by steam and boiled water generated in the pot upwardly and outwardly towards the outer diameter of the basket thereby subjecting all of the coffee beans to the steam and boiled water passing therethrough so that the beans are fully cooked or brewed and not wasted, enabling less coffee to be brewed with a given volume of water so that weaker "American" coffee can be made in the pot. A telescoping tube with a handle is provided which is disposed over a hollow longitudinal tube in an upper chamber of the pot after cream is poured into the upper chamber before or as the coffee is brewed therein and passed through the inner tube.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coffee-brew percolator. The percolator comprises an outer vessel, a bottomless boiler slidably and removably arranged in the vessel, and one or more filters designed to confine in the vessel a space above the boiler for accommodating coffee powder. The boiler has one or more calibrated openings or holes through which steam or vapor can be discharged in use. The boiler is free to slightly move towards and away from the space containing coffee powder so that the latter is packed and amounts of water calibrated in accordance with the pressure level in the boiler are released from the bottom of the boiler towards the coffee powder in the space.

Abstract: There is disclosed a machine for preparing so called "espresso" coffee which is particularly suitable for household use. The machine comprises a water container for heating a quantity of water which is then caused to pass under high pressure through a layer of powdered coffee arranged in a percolating chamber. Before reaching the percolating chamber the hot water passes through a coiled tube which is immersed in a cooling fluid separated from the hot water, thus causing a controlled cooling of the hot water passing in the coiled tube. Between the container for the water to be heated and the chamber in which the cooling fluid is arranged there is provided a partition wall having the purpose of limiting heat transfer between the water container and the cooling chamber.

Abstract: A coffee brewing device which includes an upper container and a lower container in screw-threaded engagement and captivating a coffee holder between the two. In the upper container an annular distribution ring with a plurality of holes is arranged on the floor so that sugar can be distributed about it. The ring is connected in fluid communication with the coffee holder by an upwardly extending central stem and a downwardly extending tube connected to the distribution ring. When heat is applied to the lower container, water is heated and passes through a bed of coffee in the coffee holder to be brewed and the brew enters the upper container after passage upwardly through the stem and, thence, downwardly through the tube to the distribution ring and out the holes where it dissolves the sugar on the upper container floor to brew a sweetened cup of coffee.

Abstract: Coffee brewer apparatus adapted for the selective brewing in a brewing cartridge of coffee from ground coffee charges either in loose form carried on a cup-shaped filter sheet, or in enclosed form carried in a filter bag. The brewer apparatus includes selectively mountable hot water delivery elements and an adaptor selectively disposable in the cartridge for use in combination with the delivery element adapted for brewing coffee with bagged charges. The brewing cartridge is selectively positionable on a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket may be retained to a support wall portion of the brewer by the selectively mounted water delivery element.