Patent ID: 11925289
Assignee: MELITTA PROFESSIONAL COFFEE SOLUTIONS GMBH & CO. KG
Field: Furniture, games (Other fields)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A method for adjusting a desired dispensing temperature of a hot beverage from an automatic beverage maker, comprising the following steps:
providing hot water by a boiler;
providing the hot beverage by a brewing unit supplied with the hot water from the boiler;
measuring a temperature of the hot beverage output from the brewing unit to produce a first measured temperature;
comparing the first measured temperature with the desired dispensing temperature of the hot beverage;
adjusting the first measured temperature of the hot beverage to the desired dispensing temperature by cooling, that is effected at least partially by a machine-controlled addition of cold water using a controllable metering valve for metering an amount of cold water supplied to the hot beverage provided by the brewing unit or to the hot water supplied to the brewing unit; and
before the cold water is supplied to the hot beverage output from the brewing unit or to the water supplied to the brewing unit, measuring a temperature of the cold water to produce a second measured temperature; and
carrying out the adjusting step by the metering the amount of cold water supplied by the controllable metering valve as a function of the second measured temperature.