Patent ID: 7866255

Claim:
In a beverage brewer having a source of hot water, a hot water dispense system, a brew basket for holding ingredient to be mixed with the hot water to make a freshly brewed hot beverage and a controller for controlling the delivery of hot water from the hot water dispenser system to the brew basket, the improvement being a spray distribution assembly, comprising: a spray head having a generally vertical passageway connectable with the hot water dispense system for receipt of hot water; and a spray plate with an umbrella-like body with a downwardly, outwardly tapered top with radiating, outwardly, downwardly directed, upwardly facing grooves, and an upwardly standing central core snuggly received within the passageway, said core having an upwardly facing top, a bottom joined to the top of the umbrella-like body and a plurality of radially, outwardly facing grooves extending from the top to the bottom to form a plurality of peripheral closed channels for passing hot water from the top of the core to the top surface of the umbrella-like body.