Patent ID: 6606938
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
In a single serve beverage brewer wherein a beverage medium is contained in a disposable cartridge having a yieldably piercable lid and base, and wherein the cartridge lid is pierced by a tubular inlet probe through which heated liquid is admitted into the cartridge interior for combination with the beverage medium to produce a beverage, and the cartridge base is pierced by a tubular outlet probe through which the beverage is extracted from the cartridge, the improvement comprising:a brewing chamber structured and dimensioned to removably retain said cartridge between and spaced from both said inlet and outlet probes; a platen carrying said inlet probe; means for shifting said platen between a raised position at which said inlet probe is spaced from the cartridge lid, and a lowered position at which said inlet probe has pierced said lid, and resilient means responsive to movement of said platen from said raised position to said lowered position for urging said cartridge towards said outlet probe to effect piercing of the cartridge base by said outlet probe prior to the cartridge lid being pierced by said inlet probe.