Patent ID: 9560931
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: A47J,Y10S

Claim:
1. A steam wand apparatus for a coffee machine, the steam wand apparatus comprising: a dispensing head having an axial conduit that feeds at least two channels that end outside of said dispensing head, the at least two channels adapted to dispense steam toward a liquid contained in a container, said at least two channels being directed such that projections of axes of the respective channels of said at least two channels are tangent to a circumference having a center on an axis of said axial conduit so as to generate a whirl within the liquid in the container, each channel of said at least two channels having an inlet on said axial conduit, said at least two channels each having a sloping direction from an inside to an outside of said dispensing head with respect to a plane orthogonal to the axis of said axial conduit, the sloping direction having an inclination angle of between 20° and 70° , said dispensing head having a first section and a second section, said second section having an overturned truncated-conical profile, said at least two channels ending outside a second section of said dispensing head, each channel of said at least two channels having an outlet on a lateral wall of said second section, the outlets of said at least two channels being respectively at different heights on said lateral wall of said second section, said at least two channels respectively having different inclinations with respect to a plane orthogonal to the axis of said axial conduit.