1210results about "Spice mills" patented technology

Various illustrative systems, devices, and methods for espresso machines are provided. In general, an espresso machine is configured to brew and dispense espresso. In an exemplary implementation, the espresso machine includes a grinder configured to grind coffee beans. The grinder is configured to be adjustable to allow for adjustment of coffee bean grind size, which may help that ensure that a particular beverage brewed and dispensed by the espresso machine is prepared using an optimal grind size. The espresso machine is configured to prevent jamming of the grinder automatically in response to grind size adjustment.

A gravity-type double-ended pepper grinder includes a housing and a material storage cup. The material storage cup is partitioned into two material chambers. The housing is correspondingly provided with two independent material channels butted with the two material chambers respectively. Discharge ends of the material channels are provided with a grinding assembly separately. A control module and a power module for supplying power to the control module and the grinding assembly are mounted in the housing. The control module is electrically connected to the grinding assembly. A first ball switch for controlling the on-off of the power module and a second ball switch for controlling an operating state of the grinding assembly are arranged on the control module. The first ball switch and the second ball switch extend out of the surface of the housing.

Various illustrative systems, devices, and methods for beverage machines (e.g., drip coffee machines, espresso machines, etc.) are provided. In an exemplary implementation, an espresso machine is configured to brew and dispense espresso. In an exemplary implementation, the espresso machine is configured to determine a recommended coffee bean grind size for a beverage, e.g., an espresso or a sprover-style drink, selected by a user and to provide the recommended coffee bean grind size to the user.

The utility model relates to a coffee machine grinder capable of uniformly distributing powder, which aims at solving the technical problems that a powder feeding channel of the existing like product is easy to block, the powder distribution effect is poor, nonuniformity and residues are generated, and a bean box is placed in place, and a detection trigger structure is complex in design. The coffee machine grinder is characterized in that powder distribution fan blades are arranged in a powder outlet channel at a grinding knife assembly of the coffee machine grinder, a powder screening net is arranged at a bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel, the powder screening net is fixed to the bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel through a powder outlet cover in an internal and external thread mode, and a motor shaft of a powder distribution motor extends into the powder outlet channel to be connected with the powder distribution fan blades. A notch is formed in one side of the spiral blade of the powder distribution fan blade, and a top channel opening of the powder outlet channel on one side of the sharpening assembly is exposed out of the machine body; self-locking protruding tongue assemblies are symmetrically arranged on the inner walls of the two sides of the inner bottom of the bean box tray, switch ejector rod assemblies are symmetrically arranged on at least one side of the outer diameter of the bean box tray, and the other switch ejector rod assembly is arranged on one side of the sleeving position of a bean feeding opening of the bean box tray and a knife edge of the knife sharpening assembly.

Disclosed in the present invention is a high-precision externally-adjustable coffee grinder, including a main housing, a lifting rod, a grinding assembly and a coarseness adjusting structure, where the coarseness adjusting structure includes an external adjusting ring, an internal driving ring, a transmission gear; the external adjusting ring is sleeved and rotates relative to the main housing; the external adjusting ring is engaged with the internal driving ring through the transmission gear; and the external adjusting ring drives the internal driving ring to rotate to drive the lifting rod to adjust a grinding disc gap. The adjusting precision of the adjusting structure is greatly improved, the advantages of convenient adjustment of the externally-adjustable coffee grinder and clear scale indication of a one-turn coffee grinder are retained, and the problem of low precision of the one-turn adjusting coffee grinder in the prior art is solved.

An apparatus for roasting coffee beans includes: a vessel to contain coffee beans, a heating device to heat coffee beans contained in the vessel, and a control system operable to control the heating device and configured to apply a roasting recipe. For a customised quantity m of coffee beans of type Ny introduced inside the vessel, the control system is configured to obtain at least the quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel and the type Ny of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, and based on the obtained type Ny, the control system is configured to get access at least to a roasting recipe Ry. The recipe is adapted to the roasting of one pre-determined quantity M of beans of type Ni, and to the pre-determined quantity M, and based on the accessible roasting recipe Ry and on the obtained quantity m of coffee beans introduced inside the vessel, the control system is configured to determine the roasting recipe to be applied to the quantity m of coffee beans of type Ny introduced inside the vessel.

A force sensor has a sensing system including a target piece and a sensing element, configured to provide changes of a magnetic field, being generated by motion of the target piece. The sensing element senses these changes and provides a signal representative of the position of the target piece. An integrated circuit with processing means can process signals from the sensing element. A semiconductor package includes at least the integrated circuit. A flexible piece includes the target, and it is attached to the semiconductor package. The attachment area between the flexible piece and the semiconductor package does not extend beyond the top projection, or outline, of the semiconductor package. The flexible piece receives a force stimulus, so that upon exerting a force on the flexible piece, the displacement of the target piece with respect to the surface of the semiconductor package can be sensed by the sensing element.

The utility model discloses a bean bin fixing structure for a grinding coffee machine, and relates to the technical field of bean grinders, the bean bin fixing structure comprises a bean bin assembly and a top cover assembly; wherein the bean bin assembly comprises a bean bin, a powder blocking cover, a blocking cover, a fixed knob cover and a bean bin cover; the top cover assembly comprises a coffee machine top cover, a left push rod, a left elastic component, a right push rod, a right elastic component, a microswitch fixing component, a microswitch, an adjusting ring connecting frame and a thickness adjusting ring. According to the bean bin fixing structure for the grinding coffee machine, the bean bin fixing mode is convenient to operate, disassembly is convenient, and coffee powder residues in the cutter assembly can be conveniently cleaned.

The utility model discloses a bean grinder, which relates to the technical field of bean grinders and comprises a bean grinder body, an upper connecting cover is arranged at the upper end of the bean grinder body, a bean storage bin is fixedly mounted at the upper end of the upper connecting cover, and a bin cover is inserted into the upper end of the bean storage bin. The lower end of the bean storage bin communicates with a bean grinding bin chamber of the bean grinding machine body through an upper connecting cover, a touch screen is arranged on the front face of the bean grinding machine body, a discharging pipe is arranged on the front face of the bean grinding machine body, and the upper end of the discharging pipe communicates with the bean grinding bin chamber of the bean grinding machine body. By the adoption of the structure, when the collecting disc needs to be cleaned, only the pull rod needs to be pulled through the pull block, the pull rod pulls the movable plate to slide between the first mounting groove and the second mounting groove, the clamping block connected with the movable plate can be separated from the connecting block, and then the collecting disc can be directly pulled out of the lower connecting cover to be used for cleaning.

A method for calibrating a coffee grinder comprises receiving a plurality of sets of extraction data (20) inputs generated by a coffee preparation machine relating to one or more coffee extraction process parameters, processing the extraction data (20) using a machine learning based artificial intelligence model (30) algorithm, generating an output data set (21), it includes information for calibrating the coffee grinder (18).

A manual meat grinder is provided. The manual meat grinder includes a bottom cover and an upper cover. The bottom cover includes lower grinding teeth disposed at intervals, and the upper cover includes upper grinding teeth disposed at intervals. The upper cover covers the lower cover and is rotatably connected to the lower cover, so as to grind meat through cooperation of the upper grinding teeth and the lower grinding teeth. At least one of the bottom cover and the upper cover includes blocking components disposed at intervals, and the blocking components are correspondingly disposed at at least one of a periphery of the lower grinding teeth and a periphery of the upper grinding teeth. In this way, meat is prevented from moving toward edges of the manual meat grinder in a meat grinding process, so as to improve a meat grinding effect.

Disclosed in the present invention is a high-precision externally-adjustable coffee grinder, including a main housing, a lifting rod, a grinding assembly and a coarseness adjusting structure, where the coarseness adjusting structure includes an external adjusting ring, an internal driving ring, a transmission gear; the external adjusting ring is sleeved and rotates relative to the main housing; the external adjusting ring includes an internal toothed ring; the internal driving ring includes an external toothed ring; the external adjusting ring is engaged with the internal driving ring through the transmission gear; and the external adjusting ring drives the internal driving ring to rotate to drive the lifting rod to adjust a grinding disc gap. The number of turns of the internal driving toothed ring is increased, so that the adjusting precision of the adjusting structure is greatly improved, the advantages of convenient adjustment of the externally-adjustable coffee grinder and clear scale indication of a one-turn coffee grinder are retained, and the problem of low precision of the one-turn adjusting coffee grinder in the prior art is solved.

Provided are a system and method for a utility container with grinder (“UCWG”). In general, the UCWG includes a housing providing an at least one internal storage area proximate to a first end. A grinder is provided proximate to a second end opposite from the first end, the grinder having a removable grinder cap. An internal separator separates the at least one internal storage area from the grinder. The first end has a lid structured and arranged to temporarily seal the at least one internal storage area, the lid having an external depression structured and arranged to hold a known volume of ground material. The removable grinder cap structured and arranged to be disposed within the housing below the lid. An associated method of use is also provided.

The invention relates to the field of grinding equipment, and discloses a self-cooling grinding mechanism of a bean grinder. A water tank is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the water outlet pipe; a connecting pipe is fixedly connected to the lower surface of the water tank; an electromagnetic pump is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the connecting pipe; a water inlet pipe is fixedly connected to the outer surface of the output end of the electromagnetic pump; the outer surface of the water inlet pipe is fixedly connected to the other end of the heat exchange pipe to form circulation, the upper grinding wheel serves as a main part in the grinding period, heat is generated in the grinding period, an inner groove makes full contact with stainless steel of the heat exchange pipe, and cold water is pumped to the water inlet pipe from the water tank through the connecting pipe through the electromagnetic pump. The NTC temperature probe monitors the temperature in real time and is connected with an electronic circuit arranged at the position of the electromagnetic pump to control the working power of the electromagnetic pump and adjust the water flow speed, and then the heat exchange efficiency is adjusted.

The present application relates to a kind of coffee grinder of even powder distribution, it is to solve the technical problems of the powder channel of existing similar product being prone to blockage, powder distribution effect is poor, uneven and residual is generated, and the design of bean box placement in place detection trigger structure is complex.The key points are that the powder distribution fan blade is arranged in the powder outlet channel of the grinder assembly of the coffee grinder, the powder screen is arranged in the bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel, the powder screen is fixed in the bottom channel opening of the powder outlet channel by the screw thread type inside and outside the powder outlet cover, the motor shaft of the powder distribution motor is connected with the powder distribution fan blade by extending into the powder outlet channel, the spiral blade of the powder distribution fan blade is provided with a notch on one side, the top channel opening of the powder outlet channel on one side of the grinder assembly or the exposed body;Two side inner walls of the inner bottom of the bean box tray are symmetrically provided with self-locking tongue assembly, at least one side of the outer diameter of the bean box tray is symmetrically provided with switch top rod assembly, and one side of the lower bean opening of the bean box tray and the knife opening sleeve of the grinder assembly is provided with another switch top rod assembly.

An electric grinding device includes an outer barrel, an inner shell disposed in the outer barrel and provided therein with a battery and a motor, two guiding channels formed between the outer barrel and the inner shell, a hopper located below the two guiding channels and communicating with the two guiding channels, and a grinding sleeve and a grinding head disposed in the grinding sleeve, which are located below the hopper. A grinding gap communicating with the hopper is formed between the grinding head and the grinding sleeve. The two guiding channels enable the material to be ground to enter the hopper through anyone of the guiding channels smoothly and then enter the grinding gap to be ground into small particles.

The utility model discloses a lock ring type bean grinder that is easy to disassemble freely, comprising a base body, a bean grinding assembly and a lock ring, wherein a driving motor and an assembly cavity are arranged in the base body, and an opening communicating with the assembly cavity is also arranged on a first end surface of the base body; a step structure is arranged on the outer side of the bean grinding assembly, and one end provided with the step structure can be detachably stored in the assembly cavity; the lock ring is movably sleeved on the protruding end of the bean grinding assembly and is detachably connected to the first end of the base body; the base body and the bean grinding assembly arranged in a module are quickly assembled and disassembled by the lock ring, and in the assembled state, the lock ring is tightened to press the step structure, thereby realizing stable assembly of the base body and the bean grinding assembly, and keeping them relatively still so as to perform the bean grinding work better; in the disassembled state, the bean grinding assembly and the base body are separated from each other, which is convenient for users to clean and maintain.

The invention discloses a bean grinding coffee machine capable of adjusting a bean grinding gear by rotating a bean box, belongs to coffee beverage manufacturing equipment, and aims to solve the problems that an existing bean grinding coffee machine adjusts the thickness of ground coffee powder through a rotary knob and a transmission structure which are independently arranged, the structure is complex, the assembly is tedious, and the manufacturing cost is high. A stop pin capable of stretching up and down is arranged at the top of the machine body, a pin hole is formed in the bean baffle, a pushing part is arranged on the box body, and the rotation range of the box body comprises a first continuous rotation angle and a second continuous rotation angle; when the box body rotates within a first rotation angle, the stop pin is inserted into the pin hole to brake the bean blocking plate so that the box body can rotate relative to the bean blocking plate to open or close the discharging opening, and when the box body rotates from the first rotation angle to a second rotation angle, the stop pin is pushed out of the pin hole by the pushing and abutting part. When the feed opening is kept open, the bean grinding gear is adjusted by changing the position of the second grinding wheel relative to the first grinding wheel through the box body. The structure is simple, the assembly is simplified, and the manufacturing cost is reduced.

The utility model discloses a grinding device of a coffee machine, which comprises a grinding base, a transmission shaft, a gear motor and a grinding cutter group sleeved on the transmission shaft, the grinding cutter group is arranged in a grinding cavity of the grinding base, a bearing seat hole is arranged at the bottom of the grinding cavity, and the transmission shaft is rotatably arranged in the bearing seat hole through a plurality of bearings. An output shaft of the gear motor is movably connected with the lower end of the transmission shaft; the grinding cutter set comprises an outer grinding cutter and an inner grinding cutter, the outer grinding cutter is annular, the inner grinding cutter is arranged in the outer grinding cutter, the outer grinding cutter is arranged in the grinding cavity through the lifting adjusting mechanism, and the transmission shaft penetrates through a center hole of the inner grinding cutter and drives the inner grinding cutter to rotate in the outer grinding cutter. According to the device, noise can be greatly reduced, and meanwhile it is guaranteed that coffee powder uniform in thickness can be ground through the inner grinding cutter and the outer grinding cutter.

The utility model discloses a switch interlocking linkage device and a bean grinder thereof, the switch interlocking linkage device comprises a slide block, the slide block comprises a microswitch, and the microswitch can be pressed to be started; one end of the ejector rod is connected with the sliding block; a switch push button; when the sliding block is located at the locking position, the switch push button is far away from the microswitch, the microswitch cannot be pressed and started when the switch push button moves, when the ejector rod moves from the keeping position to the starting position, the ejector rod exerts force towards the unlocking position on the sliding block so that the sliding block can move to the unlocking position, and when the sliding block is located at the unlocking position, the ejector rod exerts force towards the unlocking position on the sliding block. And the switch push button is close to the microswitch, so that the switch push button moves from the first position to the second position to press and start the microswitch. The sliding block is located at the locking position or the unlocking position, and the switch push button can be controlled to press the microswitch, so that the use safety of the electric appliance is improved.

The present invention relates to a knife-adjusting device for a bean grinder and a bean grinder thereof, belonging to the technical field of bean processing, the knife-adjusting device comprises a bean grinding bracket, a lower knife disc assembly and an upper knife disc assembly adapted to the lower knife disc assembly are installed in the bean grinding bracket, and also comprises an adjusting member, the adjusting member and the upper knife disc assembly are threadedly connected and matched, and the rotating adjusting member can drive the upper knife disc assembly to move axially so as to adjust the distance between the upper knife disc and the lower knife disc, and a plurality of interruption areas are arranged on the thread structure of one side of the adjusting member and / or the upper knife disc assembly in the threaded connection and matching place, and the interruption area is connected to the upper and lower sides of the thread structure and forms a cleaning channel, and with the relative rotation of the inner and outer screw teeth, the screw teeth drive the powder and impurities to be scraped off and fall out of the outside of the thread structure. The knife-adjusting device for a bean grinder and a bean grinder thereof disclosed by the present invention can solve the problems of the current bean grinders, such as the difficulty of rotation adjustment and the easy jamming of the screw teeth.

The invention relates to a coffee bean grinder bean grinding flow weighing pre-judgment method and circuit. The coffee bean grinder bean grinding flow weighing pre-judgment method comprises the steps that a corresponding sliding window is constructed according to weighing data, and corresponding accumulated weight data is calculated; according to the sliding window, the corresponding powder discharging rate is calculated; according to the target weight data and the accumulated weight data, whether corresponding shutdown control operation is executed or not is judged; according to the accumulated weight data and the target weight data, calculating corresponding predicted powder discharge time, and according to the predicted powder discharge time and the powder discharge rate, judging whether to execute corresponding deceleration control operation; when corresponding deceleration control operation is executed, a corresponding interpolation prediction model is constructed to calculate corresponding predicted downtime, and downtime and deceleration prediction control is performed by continuously acquiring weighing data based on a fixed sampling time interval and cooperating with a target weight set by a user. Accurate control over the bean grinding process under multi-factor interference is achieved.

A cooking article includes a cooking utensil and a handle. The handle includes several hollow seasoning compartment sections. The handle also includes a rotatable handle cap, a seasoning compartment section selector, and first and second release shafts that rotate together. The first and second release shafts and a release button move together along the axis of the handle. Rotating the handle without depressing the release button, selects one of the seasoning compartment sections such that an opening of the second release shaft is positioned above an opening the selected seasoning compartment section. Pressing the release button moves the release button and the first and second release shafts such that the opening of the second release shaft is aligned with the opening of the selected seasoning compartment section, releasing seasonings from the selected seasoning compartment, through the opening of the second release shaft, into a cavity of the second release shaft.

The utility model relates to the field of coffee bean processing equipment, in particular to a bean grinder and a motor mounting frame. The motor mounting rack comprises an inner supporting ring, the inner side wall of the inner supporting ring is provided with a positioning block, the positioning block is provided with a mounting disc used for mounting a motor assembly, and a space is reserved between the mounting disc and the inner supporting ring. The mounting disc is arranged on the inner supporting ring through the positioning blocks, so that a space is reserved between the mounting disc and the inner supporting ring, and an extension piece of a lifting rod of the bean grinder can penetrate through the space. As the extension sheet can abut against the positioning block in the rotating direction, and the positioning block can limit the lifting rod to prevent the lifting rod from rotating, when the adjusting knob is rotated, the lifting rod can rotate relative to the adjusting gear and ascend and descend under the action of threads, the movable grinding disc moving along with the lifting rod is controlled to ascend and descend, and the gap between the movable grinding disc and the fixed grinding disc is adjusted; and the thickness of discharged powder can be adjusted. In the process, the positions of the motor mounting rack and the motor do not need to be moved.

The present application provides a method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for grinding beans. The method for grinding beans includes: determining the grinding duration corresponding to a second grinding rate according to a first grinding rate; after the grinding rate of the coffee grinder reaches the first grinding rate, judging whether to start grinding at the second grinding rate under the current powder output weight of the weighing sensor according to the first grinding rate, the total powder output amount, the remaining powder amount in the pipeline corresponding to the second grinding rate, and the remaining powder amount of kinetic energy; if starting to grind at the second grinding rate, grinding at the second grinding rate and sending a stop signal to the motor after the grinding duration; otherwise, continuing to grind at the first grinding rate and jumping to judge whether to start grinding at the second grinding rate under the current powder output weight of the weighing sensor to continue execution. Through the method of the present application, the coffee grinder can be made to grind beans, and the actual powder output weight of the coffee grinder is equal to the total powder output amount required by the user.

In one aspect, a method of using an automated beverage machine can include causing coffee beans to be dispensed from a hopper configured to contain the coffee beans and into a grinder configured to grind the coffee beans. The method can further include receiving, from a weight sensor configured to measure a total weight of the hopper and the coffee beans, data characterizing a weight of the hopper, and determining, based on the received data, an amount of coffee beans dispensed into the grinder.

The present invention relates to a dispensing and preparation apparatus for powdered food or beverage products, the apparatus comprising a dispensing device (60) and an associated preparation or extraction device (70); the dispensing device (60) comprising one or more housings for receiving one or more containers (10, 20) with a powdered food or beverage product; the dispensing device (60) comprising a reader (62) to obtain the information of the product parameters of the powdered food or beverage products from the one or plurality of containers (10, 20); the dispensing device (60) further comprising a control unit configured to dispense a certain amount of powdered food or beverage product from each container (10, 20) according to these product parameters and / or according to a recipes database (64) as a function of the beverage to be prepared; the dispensing device (60) further comprising an encoder (63) to encode the beverage information on programmable identification means (65) on a product holder (61) in the dispensing device (60), to where the dispensed powdered food or beverage product is sent; the preparation or extraction device (70) being configured for receiving the product holder (61) and comprising reading means (72) to identify the beverage information in the said product holder identification means (65), the extraction device (70) further comprising a control unit to extract the beverage according to the beverage information retrieved from the product holder (61) and / or from the beverage information retrieved from a beverage database in this control unit. The invention further relates to a method for dispensing powdered food or beverage products and preparing a beverage from them using a dispensing and extraction apparatus as the one described. The invention also relates to the use of a dispensing and extraction apparatus as the one described for delivering a certain beverage from powdered food or beverage products.

The present invention is directed to a hand-held modular kitchen multitool having a universal powerhead capable of being used with a variety of kitchen appliance attachments, such as a blender, a whisker, a wine opener, a can opener, and a spice grinder. A dual spice grinder attachment is also disclosed that can select one of two spices to grind. Also disclosed is a wine opener that automatically removes a cork from a bottle.

The invention disclosed herein relates generally to appliances, and more specifically to devices, systems, and methods for grinding a material and filling a receptacle with ground material.