Wire cloth coffee filtering systems

• US 7,318,374 B2
• Filed: 01/21/2004
• Issued: 01/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Victor Guerrero
• Original Assignee: Victor Guerrero
• Inventors: Guerrero, Victor
• Primary Examiner(s): ALEXANDER, REGINALD
• Application Number:
  US10/762,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20040182247A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• Field of Search: 993/21, 993/22, 993/23, 993/17, 993/06, 993/20, 992/99, 993/15, 992/87, 220/713, 220/521, 220/501, 220/371, 220/372
• US Class Current: 99/322
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/0626 with means for securing the filter holder to the beverage container
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/0631 with means for better or quicker spreading the infusion liquid over the filter spreader plates for drip coffee makers A47J31/4478
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/08 Paper filter inlays therefor to be disposed after use

Abstract

A beverage filter assembly, including a frame having a plurality of openings passing therethrough; and a wire cloth filter disposed within the frame.

Claims

1. A beverage brewing and drinking cup with filter assembly, comprising:

a beverage cup assembly;

a frame at the top of the beverage cup assembly;

a removable filter positioned within a filter hole in the frame, wherein beverage particles are received into an open top end of the removable filter; and

a top lid covering the frame and the removable filter, the top lid having a drinking hole passing therethrough, wherein the drinking hole is not positioned over the open top end of the removable filter and wherein the frame comprises at least one frame hole through which fluid level in the beverage cup passes up through when the top lid has been removed to pour water into the removable filter, wherein the at least one frame hole is positioned beside the filter hole, and wherein the frame comprises a vertically extending inner portion around the removable filter, and a vertically extending outer portion dimensioned to be slipped into the beverage cup assembly and rest against an interior side of the beverage cup assembly, such that a fluid pooling channel is formed between the vertically extending inner portion and the vertically extending outer portion, and wherein the at least one frame hole is disposed at the bottom of the pooling channel.

2. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the filter is a wire cloth filter.

3. The assembly of claim 2, wherein the wire cloth filter is made of stainless steel.

4. The assembly of claim 3, wherein the wire cloth filter is gold plated.

5. The assembly of claim 2, wherein the wire cloth filter has a density of at least 325 strands per square inch.

6. The assembly of claim 2, wherein the wire cloth filter has a density of at least 375 strands per square inch.

7. The assembly of claim 1, wherein beverage particles are received into a wire cloth filter.

8. The assembly of claim 1, wherein the frame further comprises an inner lip between an edge of the filter hole and the vertically extending inner portion of the frame.

9. An assembly, comprising:

a frame dimensioned to be received into a top of the beverage cup assembly, the frame having a filter hole passing therethrough and at least one frame hole passing therethrough, wherein the at least one frame hole is positioned beside the filter hole, and wherein the frame also comprises a vertically extending inner portion around a removable filter, and a vertically extending outer portion dimensioned to be slipped into the beverage cup assembly and rest against an interior side of the beverage cup assembly, such that a fluid pooling channel is formed between the vertically extending inner portion and the vertically extending outer portion, and wherein the at least one frame hole is disposed at the bottom of the pooling channel.

10. The assembly of claim 9, further comprising:

a beverage cup, wherein the frame and removable filter are received into the beverage cup; and

a top lid covering the frame and the removable filter, the top lid having a drinking hole passing therethrough, wherein the drinking hole is not positioned over the open top end of the removable-filter.

11. The assembly of claim 9, wherein the frame further comprises an inner lip between an edge of the filter hole and the vertically extending portion of the frame.