Automatic coffee machine for delivering coffee alone or, combined with milk, in the form of cappuccino
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1. Automatic coffee machine comprisinga feeder containing coffee beans;
- a grinder having a grinding chamber in which beans coming from the feeder are reduced to a powder in the grinding chamber of the grinder;
an infusion chamber into which the coffee powder is deposited;
an infuser piston and a filter piston, and in said infusion chamber, means for compressing the coffee powder between said infuser piston and said filter piston and from said infusion chamber the coffee exits as a beverage,a grinding unit comprises said grinder, said grinding chamber adjacent to a channel chute; and
means for supporting said grinding unit for movement between an initial position in which the coffee beans can enter from the feeder into the grinding chamber and a final position in which the ground coffee can pass from the grinding chamber through the adjacent channel chute into said infusion chamber.
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Abstract
Automatic machine for a coffee beverage, deliverable as coffee alone or, combined with milk, in the form of cappuccino, in which the unit, formed by the coffee grinder, its grinding chamber, and a channel chute, is capable of being moved.
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1. Automatic coffee machine comprising
a feeder containing coffee beans; -
a grinder having a grinding chamber in which beans coming from the feeder are reduced to a powder in the grinding chamber of the grinder; an infusion chamber into which the coffee powder is deposited; an infuser piston and a filter piston, and in said infusion chamber, means for compressing the coffee powder between said infuser piston and said filter piston and from said infusion chamber the coffee exits as a beverage, a grinding unit comprises said grinder, said grinding chamber adjacent to a channel chute; and means for supporting said grinding unit for movement between an initial position in which the coffee beans can enter from the feeder into the grinding chamber and a final position in which the ground coffee can pass from the grinding chamber through the adjacent channel chute into said infusion chamber. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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