Foods and beverages: apparatus – Beverage – Infusors
Patent
1992-06-26
1993-05-18
Hornsby, Harvey C.
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Beverage
Infusors
99295, 200296, A47J 3144
Patent
active
052111032
ABSTRACT:
A reconfigurable beverage brewing apparatus having an independently configurable funnel support device and control device for orienting the apparatus in more than two operational configurations. The apparatus includes an overhanging hood and a funnel supported under the hood for retaining brewing substance. A discharge tube is retained in the hood proximate to the funnel and extends through the hood portion for delivering heated water to the brewing substance retained therein. The funnel support device includes a base with two channel members attached thereto and anchoring devices. Open ends of each of the channel members are positioned opposite each other and spaced apart a distance for receiving and retaining the funnel. The discharge tube projects through a passage formed through the base. The anchoring devices attach the base to an underside of the hood and prohibit rotation of the base portion. The control devices include a panel portion with multiple openings formed therethrough which is removably attachable to the apparatus; control devices which are engageable in the slots formed through said apparatus; and device positioning members for removably retaining the control devices in a desired position behind the panel.
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Bunn-O-Matic Corporation
Cooley Charles
Hornsby Harvey C.
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