Breville Pty Limited

Robert Grassia

Daniel Robert Corkin

Nicholas McColl

Andrew Robert Morgan

Richard Lehonde Hoare

Gerard Andrew White

Greg Upston

Norman Oliveria

Adam Preston

Chiu Keung Kenneth Lee

David Davenport

Khon Thai

Eddie Siu

Con Psarologos

Duncan Bruce Hellmers

Ashley Marsh-Croft

Pierce James Barnard

Stephen John Mcclean

Lochana Subasekara

Caroline Valentina Vasta

Andrew Domenic Gregorace

Caroline Valentina

Nicholas James Mccoll

Byron Ashley Marsh-Croft

A jug for use with a frothing apparatus. The jug comprising: a vessel body for holding a liquid to be heated; a handle attached to the vessel body, the handle for holding the jug; a user interface for receiving an operation-related user input; a communication means adapted to communicate data associated with the jug to the frothing apparatus; and a controller for controlling the user interface and the communication means. In an embodiment, The frothing apparatus comprises: a steam heater, a steam nozzle, and a steam path providing fluid communication from the steam heater to the steam nozzle for delivering heating steam to the jug; communication means adapted to receive operating data from a cooperating communication means associated with the jug, the data comprising an operation-related user input; and a controller for controlling operation of the steam heater and the steam path based on the operation-related user input.

Apparatus and method for frothing milk

There is disclosed herein a coffee machine () including: a body (); a steam wand (), to froth milk, attached to the body (); and a cleaning mechanism (), the cleaning mechanism () including: a stem () having a first end portion () attached to the body (), and a second end portion () extending longitudinally away from the first end portion (); and a supply of water under pressure to deliver water to the second end portion (), wherein water under pressure is delivered to the second end portion () to produce at least one water jet directed at the steam wand ().

Coffee machine

A device to grind and tamp including a receptacle for receiving coffee grinds from a grinder that is drivable by a first electric motor, an auger for tamping coffee grinds in the receptacle, and a processor adapted to receive a feedback signal indicating whether the coffee grinds in the receptacle have reached a level threshold value. The auger is drivable by a second electric motor. The processor is further adapted to control the first electric motor and the second electric motor according to a tamp and grind sequence. The tamp and grind sequence includes, for a first time period, operating the first electric motor and the second electric motor and subsequently receiving the level feedback signal.

Coffee grinder

The present disclosure relates to the operation of a kitchen appliance (). A processor () receives () a stored sequence of user settings and at least one recorded parameter, and applies () the stored sequence of user settings to the kitchen appliance. A sensor () senses at least one sensed parameter while the stored sequence of user settings is applied to the kitchen appliance (). The processor () determines () a difference between the at least one sensed parameter and corresponding recorded parameter(s) and, if the determined difference exceeds a difference threshold, adjusts () at least one user setting applied.

Food and beverage preparation sequence recording and playback

A coffee making device has a body with a drip tray and a removable water tank that supplies water to a heat system of the device. The water tank is internal to the device and removable by a user. The body has a fluid refill opening that leads to the tank. The tank includes an overflow channel or conduit that dispenses into the drip tray.

Coffee machine with overflow feature

Milk frothing device

A coffee puck removal device () to remove a coffee puck () from a portafilter () is disclosed herein. The coffee puck removal device () has an open compartment () containing the coffee puck (), the coffee puck () having an exposed major outer face () and a major inner face () when the coffee puck () is located in the open compartment (). The device () includes: a body () having a rim () surrounding an aperture (), with the rim () being configured to engage the portafilter (), with the open compartment () facing the body () to inhibit air passing between the portafilter () and the rim (); and a vacuum source () to remove air from the aperture () so that air pressure applied to the major inner face () is greater than air pressure applied to the exposed major outer face () so that the coffee puck () is removed from the portafilter ().

Coffee puck removal device

A tamping augur may be controlled in various ways to obtain a consistent fill height and uniformity in the distribution of coffee grinds in a portafilter.

A sensor assembly for determining a temperature and an orientation of a jug having a bottom surface to rest on the assembly, the sensor assembly comprising: a temperature sensor for producing a temperature signal indicative of the temperature of the bottom surface, the temperature sensor being urged to move in a first direction; a diaphragm, the diaphragm being sealingly engageable with the temperature sensor and a platform supporting the jug, such that the temperature sensor extends through the platform to engage the bottom surface; a retainer, the retainer being connected to the temperature sensor and limiting movement of the temperature sensor in the first direction; and a signal generator for producing a signal when the temperature sensor is moved against the urge to move in the first direction.

Sensor assembly

A steam wand assembly for an espresso machine has features for preventing overheating of the tip of the steam wand. In a first aspect there is provided a steam wand device comprising a metallic main body tube, a steam hose that passes through the tube, the steam hose also passing through a flexible spacer that is within the tube. In a further aspect there is provided a steam wand device comprising a main body tube having a metallic primary tube and a metallic tip, the primary tube and the tip being attached to one another by a polymeric steam nozzle, the nozzle having a central bore that extends from an inlet adjacent to a lower end of a steam hose to an exit opening.

Steam wand

A portafilter apparatus for an espresso machine, the apparatus comprising: a metal head that is attachable to a group head of the espresso machine, the head defines a coffee grounds compartment for containing a quantity of ground coffee; and a perforated movable floor within the head; the floor forms a filter and defines the base of the coffee grounds compartment, the floor is vertically movable with respect to the head to adjust a volume of the coffee grounds compartment.

Adjustable portafilter and grind adjustment

A tamping augur may be controlled in various ways to obtain a consistent fill height and uniformity in the distribution of coffee grinds in a portafilter. Improvements to a conical burr grinder are also disclosed.

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Summer Hill, Australia

Robert Grassia