US 12,433,451 B2
Roasting and grinding apparatus for coffee beans
Youcef Ait Bouziad, Echandens (CH); and Alfred Yoakim, St-Legier-la Chiesaz (CH)
Assigned to Société des Produits Nestlé S.A., Vevey (CH)
Appl. No. 18/002,539
Filed by SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A., Vevey (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/065041
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/259617, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20181829 (EP), filed on Jun. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0225561 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. A47J 42/50 (2006.01); A23F 5/04 (2006.01); A23F 5/08 (2006.01); A23N 12/08 (2006.01); A23N 12/12 (2006.01); A47J 31/42 (2006.01); A47J 31/44 (2006.01); A47J 31/52 (2006.01); A47J 42/40 (2006.01); A47J 42/46 (2006.01); A47J 42/52 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 42/50 (2013.01) [A23F 5/04 (2013.01); A23F 5/08 (2013.01); A23N 12/083 (2013.01); A23N 12/125 (2013.01); A47J 31/42 (2013.01); A47J 31/4492 (2013.01); A47J 31/52 (2013.01); A47J 42/40 (2013.01); A47J 42/46 (2013.01); A47J 42/52 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A roasting and grinding system for coffee beans comprising:
a roasting device configured for receiving coffee beans from a first container and roasting the coffee beans, the roasting device comprising a first reader configured to read an optical or electromagnetically readable code of the first container to identify a characteristics of the coffee beans, the roasting device further comprising a roasting device control unit to configure a roasting profile of the coffee beans, wherein the roasting profile is configured according to;
(a) the characteristics identified by the first reader,
(b) an additional characteristics of the coffee beans in a database in the roasting device control unit,
(c) a user input, or
(d) any combination of (a), (b), and/or (c),
wherein the roasting device is further configured to dispense roasted coffee beans into one or more beans containers, wherein the roasting device further comprises an encoder configured to encode a product parameter of the roasted coffee beans on a programmable identification means of the one or more beans containers;
the one or more beans containers configured to receive the roasted coffee beans from the roasting device, wherein the one or more beans containers comprise the programmable identification means;
a grinding device comprising one or more housings for receiving the one or more beans containers, the grinding device comprising a second reader to obtain the product parameter of the roasted coffee beans from the programmable identification means of the one or more beans containers, the grinding device further comprising a grinding device control unit configured to adapt a grinding size and a quantity of roasted coffee beans to be delivered from the one or more beans containers for obtaining a certain coffee quantity and/or a certain coffee blend quantity from each of the one or more beans containers to be grinded according to:
(e) the product parameters,
(f) a recipes database,
(g) an additional user input, or
(h) any combination of (e), (f), and/or (g).