Melitta-werke Bentz & Sohn

Melitta Haushaltsprodukte Gmbh & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft

Hans-Jurgen Slomka

Thomas Salomon

A machine for preparing brewed beverages includes a housing; a collecting vessel station disposed in the housing for receiving a brewed beverage collecting vessel thereon; a brewing water supplying station disposed in the housing above the collecting vessel station; a filter vessel for receiving a filter and a beverage material to be extracted therein; and a filter vessel holder for vertically receiving the filter vessel therein. The filter vessel holder is pivotally attached to the exterior of the housing for rotation between a brewing position in which the filter vessel received therein is substantially disposed between the brewing water supplying station and the collecting vessel station, and a filling position in which the filter vessel received in the filter vessel holder is spaced from the interior of the housing.

Machine for preparing brewed beverages

Coffee or tea maker has an intermediate vessel for holding heated water, a siphon for periodically emptying the intermediate vessel into a coffee or tea filter, a ventilation pipe for venting the intermediate vessel, and a water inlet for filling said intermediate vessel with heated water. The intermediate vessel is closed except for the siphon, the ventilation pipe, and the inlet pipe. There is a siphon inlet on an upper part of the siphon and which extends upwardly further than a lower delimiting plane on a lower portion of a downwardly open chamber located within the intermediate vessel. The ventilation pipe opens into the downwardly open chamber for venting air therefrom, and the lower delimiting plane lies below the overflow edge of the siphon inlet for preventing air from entering the downwardly open chamber when the water level in the intermediate vessel is at least at the level of the lower delimiting plane for preventing further venting of air from the intermediate vessel for enhancing siphoning by the siphon.

Coffee or tea maker

A flow through fluid heater having a tubular hollow body having a flattened region on which is printed and sintered a resistive paste to form an electric heating element. The hollow body can be made of aluminum oxide or steel with a ceramic coating.

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Minden, Germany

Hans-Jurgen Slomka