Patent ID: 9446361
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: A23F,A47J,B01F,B02C,B30B,B65B

Claim Text:
1. A method of densifying coffee, comprising the steps of: feeding a ground coffee into an inlet of an elongated chamber from a coffee grinder driven by at least one grinder motor, to form a bed of ground coffee in the chamber, the chamber comprising the inlet, a shaft, a discharge opening, and a plurality of removable paddle-less pins fixed to the shaft; polishing a plurality of coffee particles of the ground coffee within the elongated chamber by rotating the plurality of paddle-less pins through the bed of ground coffee, a densifier motor driving the shaft and the plurality of paddle-less pins to rotate through the bed of ground coffee independent from the at least one grinder motor; measuring, with a motor load sensor, a motor load on the densifier motor driving the plurality of paddle-less pins polishing the ground coffee in the chamber; moving a discharge door, by providing a signal from a controller to a discharge door actuator, when the controller detects the motor load, reported by the motor load sensor, is outside a predefined motor load operating range to increase or decrease a density of the ground coffee exiting the chamber through the discharge opening.