Foods and beverages: apparatus – Beverage – Infusors
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-30
2010-12-28
Alexander, Reginald L (Department: 3742)
Foods and beverages: apparatus
Beverage
Infusors
C099S321000, C099S323000, C426S077000, C426S082000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07856922
ABSTRACT:
A beverage brewer, adapted to discharge fresh extractable ingredients to a liquid receiving container there below including a brewing cup having an open top and having a liquid pervious bottom, adapted for holding a quantity of an infusible material for a certain time limit to allow a stirring action before dispensing the brewed beverage there from into the liquid receiving container, at least one sheet of filter element sealed along a perimeter of a bottom base of the brewing cup by a non-toxic meltable substance and thereby sealed unto the bottom base of the brewing cup, a plurality of perforations formed in the bottom base of the brewing cup wherein each of the perforations has an area of at least about 25 millimeters square and where the perforations are separated from each other by at least about 2 millimeters, at least one concave shape vent disposed on a lower part of an outer wall of the brewing cup and configured to allow escape of steam from the liquid receiving container during brewing, and a sit-on-ring configured to support the brewing cup on the liquid receiving container, the sit-on-ring including a tapered frustoconical shaped ring, and a plurality of supporting legs extending generally radially from the annular shaped ring, the legs each including at least one ridge feature configured to receive a rim of the liquid receiving container and to removably fix the sit-on-ring to the liquid receiving container.
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Alexander Reginald L
Cantor & Colburn LLP
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