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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Adrian John Maxwell, Coventry, GB;
Charanjit Singh Nandra, London, GB;
Miles Pennington, Middleesex, NL;
Anthony Edward Quinn, West Sussex, GB;
Assignee:
Lipton, division of Conopco, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 3/102 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 3/102 ;
Abstract
A machine for brewing tea. The machine has a housing, a vessel for receiving leaf tea and a hot water supply that supplies hot water to that vessel. The leaf tea is physically agitated within the vessel to maximise the rate and extent of infusion and the resulting infusion is siphoned out of the vessel before it is dispensed.