Patent ID: 6827003
Filing Date: 2004-12-07
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
Percolator unit with a movable infusion chamber and detachable without using tools, adapted to make, under fully automatic conditions, a hot beverage, due to a cycle including phases of filling, compression, infusion, extraction and sweeping of the grounds, wherein a combination of a mechanical unit is arranged horizontally, comprising, on the one hand, a stationary part including a base provided with two rails, a powering component, a driving component, and an injection piston, and, on the other hand, a movable part including an infusion chamber, a counter-plunger and an articulated scraper assembly, the movements of the counter-plunger and of the scraper being actuated by the displacements of said infusion chamber ensured due to two tie-rods sliding in borings provided to this end in a vertical piston bearing plate that is affixed to the base, one of the ends of each tie-rod being fixed to a movable plate being displaced on the rails and actuated by a driving system capable of moving the infusion chamber in both directions along two horizontal secondary rails affixed to a movable slide bearing a front plate and the hot beverage flow conduit, said secondary rails sliding in the two rails of the base.