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Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Helen of Troy Limited, Belleville, St. Michael, BB;

Inventors:

Alex Lee, New York, NY (US);

Davin Stowell, New York, NY (US);

Joern Vicari, New York, NY (US);

Anthony Vipan Torris, New York, NY (US);

Richard Besen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Helen of Troy Limited, Belleville, St. Michael, BB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 31/46 (2006.01); A23F 5/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A47J 31/46 (2013.01); A23F 5/262 (2013.01); A47J 31/465 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hot beverage maker includes a pump, a kettle, a pumped fluid conduit, and a brew basket assembly. The kettle includes a reservoir, a heating element in the kettle for heating water in the reservoir, a spout for pouring water from the reservoir, and a pump inlet opening for providing heated water from the reservoir to the pump inlet. The pumped fluid conduit is connected with the pump outlet and includes a pumped fluid outlet. The brew basket assembly includes a pumped fluid outlet receptacle and a brew basket. The reservoir is selectively fluidly connectable with the brew basket via the pump inlet opening in the kettle being selectively fluidly connected with the pump inlet or the pumped fluid conduit outlet being selectively fluidly connectable with the pumped fluid outlet receptacle to selectively provide heated water from the reservoir to the brew basket.


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