Robert Krups Gmbh & Co Kg

Dorothea Pytlik

Michael Borgmann

Erich Hoffmann

Hans-Jurgen Mehnert

The present invention concerns a water filter designed to be inserted into a drinking water circuit. The water filter has a support designed to house removably one or more different filters each having a different filtering property and adapted to be mounted either independently of each other or associated in a particular combination so as to effect a filtration of the drinking water according to its composition.

Water filter

Filter holder having a dish (1) designed to be mounted on an 'espresso' coffee machine and having a cup (2) whose bottom wall forms a filtering surface (3) and which is designed to receive a quantity of coffee, the fineness of whose grounds may vary. The dish also has a collection chamber for froth (4) provided between its bottom (10) and the filtering surface (3), and communicating via an exit passage (5) with distribution funnels (6) enabling the infusion to flow out of the dish (1). The cup (2) has structure for partially blocking the filtering surface (3) of the bottom wall of the cup (2), this structure being formed by at least one blocking area (9) arranged in the bottom (10) of the dish (1) and distant from the bottom (10) at a certain level (A). The cup (2) is mounted so as to be able to move in height so as to occupy at least two positions, either a blocking position in which a part of the filtering surface (3) is brought adjacent to the level (A) of the blocking area (9), or an outflow position in which the filtering surface (3) is situated at a distance from the blocking area.

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Solingen, Germany

Dorothea Pytlik