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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Applicants:
Séverine Mih, Mayenne, FR;
Thierry Dutertre, Saint Germain du Corbeis, FR;
Inventors:
Séverine Mih, Mayenne, FR;
Thierry Dutertre, Saint Germain du Corbeis, FR;
Assignee:
SEB S.A., Ecully, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An automatic ground-coffee dispenser with a ground-coffee storage vessel designed to be mounted on an automatic coffee maker. The storage vessel includes rotary serving paddles for transferring a predetermined quantity of ground coffee through an outflow opening formed in the bottom of the storage vessel and a cone-shaped driver with rotary paddles located above the outflow opening turned by a motor about a vertical axis of the storage vessel. The internal wall of the storage vessel includes at least one longitudinal rib projecting into the storage vessel.