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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2014
David Bikerman, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Muckle, Old Lyme, CT (US);
David Bikerman, New York, NY (US);
Thomas Muckle, Old Lyme, CT (US);
Other;
Abstract
This disclosure relates to tea machines that utilize infusion bag dispensing systems to dispensing tea or other substances from canisters into the infusion bag. The tea machine comprises: a canister housing; one or more removable canisters, each canister configured to be refillable with loose tea and/or infusible sweetener; a plurality of empty infusion bags configured to contain tea and/or other infusible substance; an infusion bag dispenser adapted to hold a plurality of empty porous-walled infusion bags and configured to retrieve an empty infusion bag and hold and open the retrieved bag for filling with tea and/or other infusible substance; and a measuring cup adapted for determining the quantity of tea or other infusible substance to be extracted from the canister(s) and dispensed into the infusion bag. The tea machine of the present invention may be manually operated, or may be operated electronically, or may be controlled by a microprocessor or/and be programmed by the end user.