An apparatus for preparing brewed beverages on demand is disclosed. After a beverage concentrate is brewed using hot water, the temperature of the beverage concentrate is reduced from a first temperature to a second temperature upon the brewing of the beverage concentrate. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is further reduced from the second temperature to a third temperature. After receiving a specific beverage order from a user via a touch screen, a tea-serving manifold combines the beverage concentrate from the storage receptacle, hot water and tap water to generate a specific beverage to fulfill the specific beverage order for the user, and the specific beverage is dispensed to the user via a delivery nozzle.
A47J 31/40 - Appareils à préparer des boissons avec des moyens de distribution pour ajouter une quantité mesurée d'ingrédients, p. ex. du café, de l'eau, du sucre, du cacao, du lait, du thé
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A47J 31/52 - Mécanismes commandés par un réveil-matin pour les appareils à préparer le café ou le thé
An apparatus and method for automated preparation and delivery of a beverage. A first cup-transfer-mechanism is configured to receive a cup from a cup dispenser and to move the cup along a first axis within the apparatus during the preparation of the beverage. A second cup-transfer mechanism is configured to receive the cup containing the beverage from the first cup-transfer mechanism after the beverage has been prepared, wherein the second cup-transfer mechanism is configured to move the cup along at least one of a second axis and a third axis within the apparatus, wherein the first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are mutually perpendicular. A pick-up station where the customer picks up its beverage is configured to receive the cup from the second cup-transfer mechanism and to make room to receive subsequent cups without requiring human interaction. Multiple beverages can be prepared and delivered simultaneously.
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A47J 31/36 - Appareils à préparer le café dans lesquels l'eau chaude passe sous pression à travers le filtre avec de l'eau chaude sous pression d'un liquide avec des moyens mécaniques pour produire la pression
A47J 31/40 - Appareils à préparer des boissons avec des moyens de distribution pour ajouter une quantité mesurée d'ingrédients, p. ex. du café, de l'eau, du sucre, du cacao, du lait, du thé
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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED PREPARATION AND DELIVERY OF BEVERAGES
An apparatus and method for automated preparation and delivery of a beverage. A first cup-transfer-mechanism is configured to receive a cup from a cup dispenser and to move the cup along a first axis within the apparatus during the preparation of the beverage. A second cup-transfer mechanism is configured to receive the cup containing the beverage from the first cup-transfer mechanism after the beverage has been prepared, wherein the second cup-transfer mechanism is configured to move the cup along at least one of a second axis and a third axis within the apparatus, wherein the first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are mutually perpendicular. A pick-up station where the customer picks up its beverage is configured to receive the cup from the second cup-transfer mechanism and to make room to receive subsequent cups without requiring human interaction. Multiple beverages can be prepared and delivered simultaneously.
A47J 31/41 - Appareils à préparer des boissons avec des moyens de distribution pour ajouter une quantité mesurée d'ingrédients, p. ex. du café, de l'eau, du sucre, du cacao, du lait, du thé d'ingrédients liquides
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G07F 13/10 - Appareils déclenchés par pièces de monnaie pour commander la distribution de fluides, de produits semi-liquides ou de produits granuleux contenus dans des réservoirs avec en même temps distribution de récipients, p. ex. tasse ou autres articles
An oven includes a cooking chamber, a blower, an air plenum configured to receive air from the blower, and first and second jet plates disposed within the cooking chamber and configured to direct a flow of air from the air plenum into the cooking chamber to cook the food product. Each one of the first and second jet plates includes one or more openings. At least one of the first and second jet plates is movable relative to the other jet plate to provide, in a first configuration, an impingement air stream to the cooking chamber and, in a second configuration, a convection air stream to the cooking chamber. At least one of the first and second jet plates is movable relative to the other jet plate to periodically oscillate, during a single cook setting, to provide an impingement air stream to first and second areas of a food product.
A method and apparatus for brewing a beverage. A beverage concentrate is brewed using hot water. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is reduced from a first temperature to a predetermined second temperature upon the brewing of the concentrate. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is further reduced from the predetermined second temperature to a third temperature. An apparatus used to brew the beverage is self-cleaning. In the apparatus, a brewed cleaning solution is recirculated, for a predetermined period of time, between a reservoir and the storage receptacles that hold beverage concentrates.
A method and apparatus for brewing a beverage. A beverage concentrate is brewed using hot water. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is reduced from a first temperature to a predetermined second temperature upon the brewing of the concentrate. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is further reduced from the predetermined second temperature to a third temperature. An apparatus used to brew the beverage is self-cleaning. In the apparatus, a brewed cleaning solution is recirculated, for a predetermined period of time, between a reservoir and the storage receptacles that hold beverage concentrates.
A47J 31/40 - Appareils à préparer des boissons avec des moyens de distribution pour ajouter une quantité mesurée d'ingrédients, p. ex. du café, de l'eau, du sucre, du cacao, du lait, du thé
A47J 31/52 - Mécanismes commandés par un réveil-matin pour les appareils à préparer le café ou le thé
A method and apparatus for brewing a beverage. A beverage concentrate is brewed using hot water. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is reduced from a first temperature to a predetermined second temperature upon the brewing of the concentrate. The temperature of the beverage concentrate is further reduced from the predetermined second temperature to a third temperature. An apparatus used to brew the beverage is self-cleaning. In the apparatus, a brewed cleaning solution is recirculated, for a predetermined period of time, between a reservoir and the storage receptacles that hold beverage concentrates.
A cooking oven comprising a housing, a cavity, an oven door, an air plenum, an infrared heating element, and a thermal insulating layer placed between the infrared heating element and the air plenum is disclosed. The infrared hearing element comprises a wire-like heating element shaped in a serpentine-pattern to form a plurality of fingers. The thermal insulating layer comprises a plurality of air channels interconnecting the air plenum and the cavity, and one or more temperature decoupling chambers for thermally insulating the air plenum from the infrared heating element. The air channels are positioned interleavingly between the plurality of fingers so that airstreams coming from the air plenum through each of the air channels into the cavity do not substantially contact and convectively cool the infrared heating element. The temperature decoupling chambers may use air as a thermal insulator.
A method for cooking food items in an oven is disclosed. A history of instant oven temperatures is initially obtained during a cook of a first food item. A salient representation of the oven temperature history is stored in a non-volatile memory. The salient representation includes multiple average oven temperatures, each selected to represent a summary of the instant oven temperatures at various specific time periods throughout the cook of the first food item. During a cook of a second food item that is substantially similar to the first cook item, the current cook settings are dynamically adjusted during the cook of the second food item based on the results of a comparison between the instant oven temperatures and the stored average oven temperatures in order to duplicate the result of the cook of the first item.
History of instant oven temperatures is initially obtained during a cook of a first food item; Salient representation of the oven temperature history is stored in non-volatile memory; including multiple average oven temperatures, each selected to represent a summary of the instant oven temperatures at various specific time periods throughout the cook of the first food item. During a cook of a second food item that is substantially similar to the first cook item, a set of instant oven temperatures is obtained at the same various specific time periods during the cooking of the first cook item, and the current cook settings are dynamically adjusted during the cook of the second food item based on the results of a comparison between the obtained instant oven temperatures and stored average oven temperatures in order to duplicate the result of the cook of the first item.
