Patent ID: 6431056
Filing Date: 2002-08-13
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
An apparatus for brewing beverages, comprising:a brewing receptacle; a brewing sieve for said brewing receptacle, said brewing sieve being a porous holder formed as a perforated plastic container or a sheet metal container for material requiring brewing, said container being submergable in a brewing liquid and being introducible into said brewing receptacle and having a lighter specific weight than water, or having on its underside a hollow space for entrapping a bubble of air rising up in the brewing liquid, or a float made from foamed plastic or cork, said porous holder being guided inside said brewing receptacle; weighing-down means being an upwardly open container filled with water, said upwardly open container having an opening at its bottom through which water in said upwardly open container, for initially weighing down said porous holder, is intended to flow through, said upwardly open container further including a stopper hole with an associated floating stopper for being able to seal the stopper hole from underneath, so that, once water falls below a predetermined level in a pre-set length of time in said upwardly open container, said floating stopper comes out of said stopper hole so that said upwardly open container is drainable through the stopper hole and is thereby able to be relieved by lightening so that said porous holder rises upwardly by virtue of its own buoyancy and ensuring that, once said porous holder has floated upwardly, the material requiring brewing is completely isolated from the brewing liquid.