Braun Aktiengesellschaft

Dietwald Schotte

Harry Gaus

Jeffrey Johnson

Udo Milutziki

Udo Milutzki

Klaus Ramspeck

Holger Hild

The invention is directed to a method of controlling the water temperature in a beverage-brewing apparatus, wherein the water is initially heated in an open water reservoir up to the boiling point, said boiling point being reached in that the water is heated from the initial temperature T.sub.i up to a temperature T.sub.HIGH at which it is ensured that the water does not boil as yet under conventional environmental conditions, in that the rate of change of the temperature dT/dt during heating from the initial temperature T.sub.i to the temperature T.sub.HIGH is determined, in that on reaching the temperature T.sub.HIGH a period of time t.sub.heiz is determined from the difference between 100.degree. C. and T.sub.HIGH as well as from the rate of change of the temperature dT/dt, and in that on reaching the temperature T.sub.HIGH the water continues to be heated during the period of time t.sub.heiz. The temperature T.sub.HIGH is 75.degree. C., approximately.

Method of controlling the water temperature in a beverage-brewing

The invention is directed to method for controlling a pump for delivering the water in an apparatus for the production of brewed beverages, in particular espresso, coffee, cappuccino, wherein a switch is provided which, on actuation, starts the pump. The pump is started both when a temperature requirement is satisfied and when the switch is actuated, with the pump being started only if actuation of the switch has occurred after the temperature requirement is met.

Method for controlling a pump for delivering the water in an apparatus

A control mechanism for automatically raising, swinging and lowering the pickup arm of a record player in response to the positioning of a finger of a user. The user's finger will selectively bridge pairs of contacts to establish an electrical circuit and generate an input signal to logic circuitry. The logic circuitry provides control signals which, through suitable transducers, control the motion of the arm.

Pickup arm control mechanism and electrical circuitry therefore

A control mechanism for raising, swinging and lowering the pick-up arm of a record player comprising a disc having an arcuately shaped depression in the periphery thereof. The contacts of an electrical contact sensor switch are located in the disc peripheral depression and bridging of these contacts will cause generation of a first command signal for the control mechanism. Devices for generating second and possibly third command signals are associated with the disc which may be rotatably mounted.

Control mechanisms for pick-up arms of record players

When the user presses a touch-activated switch a first time, a first digital storage device becomes set and furnishes a platter-motor-start signal to the control electronics of the platter drive motor. If the touch-activated switch is pressed a second time, the first digital storage device becomes reset, and the signal commanding that the platter drive motor operate terminates. A second digital storage device likewise assumes its set and reset states in response to the first and second pressing of the touch-activated switch. Sensors ascertain various operating conditions during the course of turntable operation, such as the swinging of the tone arm to the position corresponding to the lead-in groove of a phonograph record. The states of the digital storage devices are additionally dependent upon the conditions sensed by the sensors. Logic circuitry interprets the combinations of states of the digital storage devices and causes the requisite turntable operations to be performed, e.g., lifting and lowering of the tone arm, inward and outward swinging of the tone arm, initiation and termination of rotation of the platter, audio muting, and the like.

Phonograph turntable control system

When a touch-activated switch unit is touched a first time, a platter-motor flip-flop arrangement assumes its motor-operate state, and when the switch unit is touched a second time, the flip-flop assumes its motor-not-operate state. A tone-arm swing-in flip-flop assumes its swing-in state when the platter-motor flip-flop assumes its motor-operate state. A tone-arm swing-out flip-flop assumes its swing-out state when the platter-motor flip-flop assumes its motor-not-operate state. A signal-transmission switch closes the transmission path between the swing-in and swing-out flip-flops and the electrical drive of the tone-arm swing mechanism, but only when the tone-arm lift mechanism has lifted the tone arm to raised position. A touch-activated lift-tone-arm switch is operated when touched for generating a lift-tone-arm command signal. An OR-gate has an output connected to the tone-arm lift mechanism for activating the latter in response to the lift-tone-arm command signal, in response to assumption of the swing-in state by the swing-in flip-flop, and in response to assumption of the swing-out state by the swing-out flip-flop.

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Dietwald Schotte