Patent ID: 7946219

Claim:
A coffee machine comprising: a housing; a dispenser head on the housing for pouring brewed coffee into a cup in a zone below the dispenser head; a horizontally open steam/hot-water dispenser fixed on the housing adjacent the dispenser head; a container adapted to hold a supply of milk and having a cover; a collector body forming on the cover a collecting to chamber; a connection conduit opening into the chamber, fixed to the cover, and fittable with the steam/hot-water dispenser to receive steam or hot water therefrom; an air-suction conduit fixed to the cover and opening into the chamber; a milk-suction conduit fixed to the cover and extending from the chamber down into the milk in the container, the connection, air-suction, and milk-suction conduits all opening into the chamber such that the air or the hot-water introduced into the chamber from the steam/hot-water dispenser can draw the air or the milk into the chamber; and a discharge conduit carried on the container and opening into the chamber and shiftable into a working position directed into the zone to feed a mixture of the steam or the hot water and the air and/or the milk into the cup below the dispenser head, the container with the cover, the collecting chamber, the connection conduit, the air-suction conduit, and the milk-suction conduit being separable together with the container and the cover from the steam/hot-water dispenser and the housing.