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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10702102 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2017

Coffee mill and automatic coffee machine having a coffee mill

Applicant:

Eugster/frismag Ag, Amriswil, CH;

Inventor:

Heinz Eicher, Jona, CH;

Assignee:

EUGSTER/FRISMAG AG, Amriswil, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Jun S Yoo

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 42/26 (2006.01); A47J 42/36 (2006.01); A47J 31/42 (2006.01); A47J 42/00 (2006.01); F16H 1/36 (2006.01); A23F 5/08 (2006.01); A23F 5/26 (2006.01); A47J 42/40 (2006.01); F16H 1/28 (2006.01); F16H 57/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 42/36 (2013.01); A23F 5/08 (2013.01); A23F 5/26 (2013.01); A47J 31/42 (2013.01); A47J 42/00 (2013.01); A47J 42/40 (2013.01); F16H 1/28 (2013.01); F16H 1/36 (2013.01); F16H 57/02 (2013.01); F16H 2001/2881 (2013.01); F16H 2057/02034 (2013.01);
Abstract

A coffee grinder, in particular for the installation in a fully-automatic coffee machine, including an electric drive motor () for driving a grinding unit, wherein a reduction gear () formed as a planetary gear is arranged between drive motor () and grinding unit, with the sun gear () of this planetary gear being drivable by the drive motor (). The planetary gear includes multiple planetary rods () arranged in the circumferential direction around the sun gear (), these rods including a first axial portion () meshing with the sun gear () as well as an axially neighboring, second axial portion () with a second diameter different from, preferably smaller than, a first diameter of the first axial portion (), with this second axial portion meshing with a stationary ring gear (). The toothed racks are arranged to drive an output element () with their first axial portions ().

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