	US 12,226,043 B2
	Coffee maker
Peter Sinzig, Moosseedorf (CH); Bruno Aeberhard, Zuchwil (CH); Andy Lienhard, Derendingen (CH); Franco Kissling, Solothurn (CH); and Miguel Alexandre Pinto Da Costa, Oberramsern (CH)
Assigned to SCHAERER AG, Zuchwil (CH)
Filed by Schaerer AG, Zuchwil (CH)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/232,759.
Application 17/232,759 is a continuation of application No. 16/083,698, abandoned, previously published as PCT/EP2017/055556, filed on Mar. 9, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 00321/16 (CH), filed on Mar. 11, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0228018 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 31/44 (2006.01)

CPC A47J 31/4403 (2013.01)

8 Claims

1. An outlet plate for a coffee machine,

the outlet plate having an essentially planar shape and comprising a multiplicity of straight tubular outlets through the outlet plate;

wherein said outlets are arranged adjacent to one another and parallel to an outlet direction,

wherein said outlet direction is perpendicular to a plane of the outlet plate,

wherein the outlet plate is at least partially composed of an elastomer material,

wherein said outlets each have an upper end on a first side of the outlet plate for receiving a beverage or beverage additive from a dispensing line of the coffee machine, and an outlet opening on a second side of the outlet plate opposite to the first side of the outlet plate for dispensing the beverage or beverage additive,

wherein said tubular outlets are composed of said elastomer material,

wherein said outlets are elastically deformable for flaking off crusts built-up on the outlet opening,

wherein the outlet plate is insertable into an outlet unit of the coffee machine by a latching-in action, and

wherein the outlet plate includes a dimensionally stable frame part that comprises a detent hook for latching the outlet plate to the outlet unit of the coffee machine.