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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2004
Richard Chang, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Mario Bernardo Accumanno, East Hanover, NJ (US);
Michael William Crowley, Randolph, NJ (US);
Other;
Abstract
An tea maker is constructed to include an infusion cup, the infusion cup having a skirt for supporting on any of a variety of cups, a stopper mounted in the bottom through hole of the infusion cup, a resilient member secured between a base of the stopper and the bottom wall of the infusion cup to hold the stopper in the closed position to seal the bottom through hole of the infusion cup against leakage, a link, and a rocker arm fastened pivotally with the infusion cup and coupled between the stopper and the link and adapted to lift the stopper from the bottom through hole upon downward movement of the link by the user.