Patent ID: 8857316

Claim:
An apparatus for producing a beverage, comprising: a movable brewing cylinder having an open top and an open bottom; an upper brewing piston movable into and out of said open top of said brewing cylinder, a lower brewing piston movable into and out of said open bottom of said brewing cylinder, said brewing cylinder and said upper and lower brewing pistons when at least partly present in said brewing cylinder forming a brewing chamber, said apparatus defining a loading station in which said brewing cylinder is loadable through said open top of said brewing cylinder, while said upper brewing piston of said brewing cylinder is out of said brewing cylinder, with material for preparation of the beverage, said apparatus defined a brewing position in which the material loaded into said brewing cylinder is brewed, said brewing cylinder being movable, while said lower brewing piston is situated at least partly in said brewing cylinder, between said loading station and said brewing position, said lower brewing piston of said brewing cylinder being removable from said brewing cylinder to enable expulsion of the material from said brewing cylinder through said open bottom of said brewing cylinder; and a pivot arm connected to said lower brewing piston and that enables movement of said lower brewing piston into and out of said brewing cylinder; said lower brewing piston including a conduit communicating with said brewing chamber; and said pivot arm including a conduit communicating with said conduit in said lower brewing piston to enable brewed material from said brewing chamber to be conveyed out of said brewing chamber through said pivot arm.