Foods and beverages: apparatus – Beverage – Infusors
Patent
1996-09-12
2000-01-04
Alexander, Reginald L.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Beverage
Infusors
99305, 99306, A47J 3100
Patent
active
060097930
ABSTRACT:
A coffee maker has a housing having a upstanding tower, a carafe support platform extending horizontally forward from the lower end of the tower, and a fixed, tubular filter basket support extending horizontally forward from the upper end of the housing above the platform. A horizontal filter basket cover, including a water spreader, is disposed above the filter basket support and carried by the housing for pivotal movement about a vertical axis. A cover pivotal about a horizontal axis is provided over a water reservoir defined by the housing. A valve mechanism is provided that operates upon pivoting of the filter basket cover to selectively permit heated water to be supplied to the water spreader, thereby preventing burns from heated water when the water spreader is not located above the filter basket support. The coffee maker also includes an electronic controller having a control pad on the front surface of the housing platform. A pivotal cover is provided to shield the control pad from spilled coffee. To permit the filter basket to be easily removed from the filter basket support, the filter basket is provided with a pivotal bail.
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Six photographs (AR1-AR6) showing Black & Decker coffeemaker Model DCM20WH admitted to be prior art.
Unpublished description of Black & Decker coffee maker Model DCM20WH entitled "Description of Reference AR" prepared for this IDS.
Blankenship Paul M.
Brady Martin
DeLong Derwood S.
Morecroft Michael J.
Romandy Mark K.
Alexander Reginald L.
Dybvig Roger S.
Hamilton Beach, Proctor-Silex, Inc.
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