Patent ID: 8596188

Claim:
A brewing device for a coffee machine, comprising a brewing cylinder with a cylindrical bore and two pistons, which close the brewing cylinder in a closed position to form a brewing chamber, the brewing cylinder and the pistons being displaceable relative one another and being drivable via a drive device, a coffee powder supply device, by means of which coffee powder is fillable into the brewing chamber before the brewing operation and before the closing off of said chamber, and a stripping device provided with a stripping element, with which a coffee powder cake, ejected from the brewing chamber by one of said two pistons, is able to be stripped off into a collection container, wherein a stationary dividing element is disposed between said stripping element and said collection container, which said stationary dividing element is positioned to separate into pieces said coffee powder cake, stripped off by said stripping element, before said coffee powder cake ends up in said collection container, wherein said container has an opening at the top and a bottom surface such that said coffee powder cake is moved by said stripping element into said stationary dividing element to form the separate pieces of said coffee powder cake which fall across said entire opening onto said bottom surface of said container, whereby accumulated said separate pieces of said coffee powder cake in said container are disposed of by emptying said container when it is full.