US 11,832,753 B2
Pour over frame, and related components and methods
Geoff Henkel, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to MIIR HOLDINGS, LLC, Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by MiiR Holdings, LLC, Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Aug. 6, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/533,546.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/723,349, filed on Aug. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0315390 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. A47J 31/06 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 31/06 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device coupleable with another, corresponding device to form a pour-over frame, the device comprising:
a panel having a body between a first end of the panel, a second end of the panel opposite the first end, a top of the panel, and a bottom of the panel opposite the top, wherein:
the first end includes a slot having a width,
the second end includes a tongue having a region and a lock, the region having a thickness that is less than the slot's width but greater than one half of the slot's width, and configured to extend into the slot of another, corresponding device when the device is coupled with the other corresponding device, the lock being operable to hold the tongue's region in the slot of the other, corresponding device when the device is coupled with the other corresponding device,
the bottom includes an interface operable to contact a container to support the panel above a container when the device is coupled with another, corresponding device; and
wherein, when the device is coupled with another, corresponding device to form a pour-over frame that holds a coffee filter with coffee grounds disposed in the filter while one pours water on the coffee grounds:
the region of the device's tongue extends into the slot of another, corresponding device and is allowed to move within the slot toward the top of the panel of the other, corresponding device when the tongue is urged in the direction of the top of the panel of the other, corresponding device, and
the slot of the device receives a region of another, corresponding device's tongue.