Patent ID: 7798373

Claim:
In an airpot beverage dispenser with an insulated hollow body having an interior defined by a bottom, an open top and a surrounding sidewall joining the top to the body, a dispense tube with an exterior outlet adjacent the top and an interior inlet located adjacent the bottom for passing beverage from adjacent the bottom to the outlet when the interior of the hollow body is pressurized, the improvement being a brew-through assembly, comprising: a cover assembly mounted to the top and having a cover body for substantially closing the open top except for a brew-through passageway substantially smaller than the open top and extending between an upwardly facing exterior brew-through inlet and an interior outlet; and a bellows assembly carried by the cover assembly for pressurizing the interior of the insulated hollow body, said bellows assembly including a bellows body with a central opening mounted to the cover body, the brew-through passageway being substantially centrally located relative to the hollow body surrounding sidewall and passing through a central opening in the bellows body, and a bellows actuator linked to the bellows body for distorting the bellows to pressurize the interior of the hollow body.