Coffee brewing apparatus

• US 20040200357A1
• Filed: 04/09/2003
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elec-Tech International Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Elec-Tech International Company Limited
• Inventors: Wang, Donglei
• Application Number:
  US10/411,007
• Publication Number:
  US 20040200357A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 99/279
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/3609 Loose coffee being employed

Abstract

A coffee brewing apparatus, comprising an upper cover, a lower cover, a transmission unit and a rotation unit, wherein a brewing chamber is provided on the rotation unit, and the rotation unit is driven by the transmission unit so as to rotate as well as move upward and downward inside the housing enclosed by the upper cover and the lower cover. The rotation unit includes a brewing chamber, a lower filter plate assembly, a water-feeding core, and the transmission unit includes transmission gears, a motor and a brewing shaft. The lower filter plate assembly is provided in the first tubular chamber of the brewing chamber, and the water-feeding core is provided in the second tubular chamber. An intake of the feeding unit for feeding coffee and hot water and a coffee dispensing unit are provided on the upper cover. The operation of feeding, brewing and removing the consumed coffee ground can be performed by the composite motion of rotating and reciprocating upward and downward of the brewing chamber.

Claims

1. A coffee brewing apparatus comprising an upper cover and a lower cover enclosing a housing a transmission unit and a rotation unit, wherein a brewing chamber is provided on said rotation unit, and said rotation unit is driven by said transmission unit so as to rotate and move upward and downward inside the housing enclosed by the upper cover and the lower cover.

2. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

said rotation unit also includes a lower filter plate assembly and a water-feeding core;

said transmission unit includes transmission gears, a motor and a brewing shaft;

said lower filter plate assembly is provided in a first tubular chamber of the brewing chamber and said water-feeding core is provided in a second tubular chamber;

said brewing shaft is coupled to the brewing chamber through screw thread members and the first tubular chamber communicates with the second tubular chamber through a passage; and

the brewing shaft having an upper end inserted into a corresponding hole of the upper cover and having a lower end which is coupled to the transmission gear.

3. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said rotation unit rotates around the brewing shaft and moves upward and downward.

4. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said lower filter plate assembly and said water-feeding core are removably connected to the brewing chamber.

5. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

an intake of the feeding unit for feeding coffee powder and hot water and a coffee dispensing unit are provided on the upper cover;

wherein the coffee dispensing unit includes a connector for the coffee hose, a compression spring, a steel ball, an upper filter plate assembly and a consumed coffee removing plate;

said consumed coffee removing plate and the upper filter plate assembly are fixedly mounted on the upper cover and said consumed coffee removing plate has a shape of a rectangular plate;

said upper filter plate assembly provides on one end thereof a coffee inflow opening and the connector for the coffee hose is connected to the coffee inflow opening; and

a spring and a steel ball are provided inside said connector for the coffee hose so that the steel ball is pressed against the opening of the connection passage between the coffee inflow opening and said connector for the coffee hose.

6. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

a movable barrier is provided between the upper cover and the lower cover and a groove is located on the upper cover;

said brewing chamber is provided on its outer peripheral side with a protrusion, wherein;

when said brewing chamber rotates to reach the position of said movable barrier, the protrusion pushes said movable barrier to contact with the sidewall of the upper cover, and a sliding passage is defined by said movable barrier and said groove of the upper cover sidewall and said brewing chamber moves upward along the sliding passage; and

when the brewing chamber moves upward, said protrusion separates from said movable barrier, then, said movable barrier separates from the sidewall, and a sliding passage is defined by said movable barrier, said sidewall of the upper cover and said groove of the upper cover, and said brewing chamber moves downward along the sliding passage.

7. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said water-feeding core has an elongated end which interacts with the lower cover so that said water-feeding core moves upward with respect to said brewing chamber.

8. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said lower cover is provided with a protrusion for blocking the upward movement of said lower filter when said brewing chamber moves upward.

9. A coffee brewing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said brewing apparatus can be removed from said apparatus to be cleaned separately.