Patent ID: 9560863
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: A23F,A47J

Claim:
1. In a beverage brewer having a plurality of controllable operational elements needed for brewing a hot beverage, a method of operating the brewer, comprising the steps of: providing at a control panel a plural total number of hidden brewer function selection switches respectively associated with a plural total number of different operator selectable brewer functions; entering into a non-operational program mode during which the brewer is disabled from utilizing the operational elements for brewing beverage; during the non-operational program mode, revealing and using some of the brewer function selection switches for preselecting only one of the plurality of different operational modes of the brewer; respectively associating different beverage quantities with different groups of a preselected one or ones of the plural total number of function selection switches, each of said groups having a number of operational function selection switches less than the plural total number of function selection switches; during an operational mode, selectively revealing to an operator only the hidden function switches of the group associated with the one mode of operation preselected during the non-operational program mode to an operator in accordance with the mode of operation that has been preselected; and controlling the operational elements to perform one of the selectable brewer functions directly in response to actuation of the associated operational function selection switch of the group that has been selectively revealed to the operator.