Foods and beverages: apparatus – Beverage – Hot beverage means
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-04
2011-01-04
Fuqua, Shawntina (Department: 3742)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Beverage
Hot beverage means
C099S275000, C099S279000, C099S292000, C099S297000, C099S300000, C099S30200C, C222S146100, C222S146200, C222S146600
Reexamination Certificate
active
07861646
ABSTRACT:
A device for brewing batches, such as, but not limited to, relatively small one or two cup batches, of coffee from water and liquid coffee concentrate, preferably shelf stable. The size of the device, preferably similar to an automatic drip coffee maker, allows the device to be conveniently utilized in the home, an office, a hotel suite, or hospitality area or the like. The device includes a metered volumetric mix valve assembly that, when activated, admits simultaneously or sequentially a finite volume of water and liquid concentrate to a mixing chamber or conduit where they are mixed and then dispensed to a container such as a carafe, cup, mug or the like. Mixing can take place in one or more of the mixing chamber or conduit and the container in which the water and concentrate are dispensed. In this manner, repeatable beverage solutions are obtained. Advantageously, the device is constructed so that the liquid concentrate flows gravimetrically to the volumetric mix valve assembly, and a costly concentrate pump is not necessary. The device can be sealed so that theft of the coffee concentrate can be prevented.
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“KARMA Coffee-Captain Liquid Coffee Dispensers Models 670 & 672”, 2 pgs., Publisher believed to be Karma, P.O. Box 433, Watertown, WI 53094, date and place of publication unknown.
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