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Coffee grinder

US4967649A · kind A · utility

21Cited by
3References
9Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 16, 1989
Grant dateNov 6, 1990
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Expiry dateAug 16, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA47J42/16
  • WIPO fieldFurniture, games
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A coffee grinder useful in business offices or small restaurants. A hopper for coffee beans has an outlet in its lower wall. A motor is mounted vertically within the hopper. A stationary grinding burr and a rotatable grinding burr, which is driven by the motor via a vertical shaft extending through the outlet, cooperate to grind such beans into smaller grounds and to expel such grounds radially and horizontally between the burrs. A wall having an aperture surrounds the burrs and prevents such grounds from being expelled except through the aperture. A deflector mounted to the wall, outside the aperture, deflects such grounds downwardly in a concentrated stream.

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