Patent ID: 7325491

Claim:
A manual press for coffee, comprising: a discoidal plate is rigidly mounted to a stem, said stem axially slidable within a first sleeve, a plurality of removable engagement members enabling said stem to removably engage said first sleeve, a second sleeve acting on said removable engagement members, a shell internally housing said first sleeve and said second sleeve and provided with an operating knob, first elastic means which, when the press is not in use, act on said second sleeve which maintains said members in a condition under which said stem engages said first sleeve, second elastic means which when not in use maintain the discoidal plate at its greatest distance from the knob, third elastic means acting on the stem when, following the pressing of the knob during the use of the press, the engagement members enable the stem to slide relative to the first sleeve, said first elastic means having a rigidity constant less than the second elastic means, said third elastic means having a rigidity constant between that of the first and the second elastic means, said engagement members are configured to lock said stem to said first sleeve when there is no pressing action on the knob towards the discoidal plate and an elastic reaction of the third elastic means returns the knob into its position of greatest distance from the discoidal plate, said first elastic means acting on said second sleeve to return the press to its rest configuration.