Patent ID: 8069778

Claim:
Milk foaming device, comprising: a mixing chamber arranged downstream of a steam supply pipe and connected to a milk supply pipe or milk and air supply pipes, a foaming chamber, arranged downstream of the mixing chamber, including a baffle arranged transverse to the flow direction, and a discharge device for the mixture, arranged downstream of the foaming chamber, including: an at least regionally truncated conical or spherical end area and a number of discharge channels with inlet openings that are distributed in the baffle and discharge openings that intersect the conical or spherical end area, and a plug-on sleeve, plugged onto a plug-on connection piece arranged downstream of the mixing chamber, which borders the foaming chamber to the side and which has the baffle with the discharge channels at the lower end, wherein the discharge openings of the discharge channels are sloped at an angle (Î±) to the cross-sectional plane of the discharge channel, and the slope angles (Î±) of the discharge openings of the discharge channels have the same vertex.