Patent ID: 8613245
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. In a beverage brewer with a hot water tank, means for maintaining a supply of hot dispense water at a preselected temperature and a brew basket for holding ingredient to be brewed during a brew cycle into a preselected quantity of beverage by dispensing a preselected total quantity of hot dispense water into the brew basket, the improvement being an automatic rate selectable dispense system, comprising: a variable rate dispense valve assembly capable of selectively passing hot dispense water from the supply to the brew basket at different preselected, continuous, non-zero, nonintermittent flow rates; means for selecting one of a plurality of selectable brew cycles with a plurality of combinations of predetermined batch size and dispense period of predetermined duration; a start brew switch; and an electronic controller responsive to a single momentary, actuation of the start brew switch for automatically performing the selected brew cycle, said controller including means for automatically determining, based on the brew cycle selected, a plurality of nonintermittent, continuous flow rates at which hot dispense water will be passed to the brew basket during different preselected portions respectively, of the dispense period associated with the selected brew cycle; said selected brew cycle being performed by the controller providing to the variable rate dispense valve assembly, in accordance with a preselected brew cycle program, the dispense period