US 11,937,733 B2
Apparatus for making a hot beverage
James Gray, Dorset (GB)
Assigned to BARISTA AND CO COFFEE LIMITED, (GB)
Appl. No. 16/966,617
Filed by BARISTA AND CO COFFEE LIMITED, Dorset (GB)
PCT Filed Feb. 1, 2019, PCT No. PCT/GB2019/000017
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 31, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/150069, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1801626 (GB), filed on Feb. 1, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0022544 A1, Jan. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 31/38 (2006.01); A47J 31/02 (2006.01); A47J 31/06 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 31/38 (2013.01) [A47J 31/02 (2013.01); A47J 31/0657 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for making a beverage and delivering it into a vessel below the apparatus, which apparatus comprises:
a hollow cylinder for containing hot water for making the beverage, said cylinder having an inner wall and extending along an axis from an open upper end to an open lower end of the cylinder;
a perforated closure releasably securable to the cylinder to hold solid material for brewing the beverage at said lower end; and
a cap carrying a plunger configured and arranged for sealing engagement with the inner wall of the cylinder,
wherein said cap is rotatable on said cylinder about said axis and is connected to the cylinder by a helical formation, such that rotation of the cap on the cylinder drives the plunger towards the lower end of the cylinder to press the hot water through the perforated closure and the solid material held thereon and thence into said vessel, and
wherein one of a radially outer surface of the hollow cylinder and the radially inner surface of said cap comprises at least one helical channel and the other of said radially outer surface of said cylinder and said radially inner surface of said comprises at least one respective projection to be received in said channel, said projection and channel together comprising said helical formation.