APPARATUS FOR GRINDING AND EXTRACTING COFFEE BEANS.

Abstract

The invention relates to a grinding and extraction apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprising a grinding device (60) and an associated extraction device (70); the grinding device (60) comprising one or more housings for receiving one or more bean containers (10, 20) containing roasted coffee beans of the same or different types; the grinding device (60) comprising a reader (62) for obtaining product parameter information from the roasted coffee beans in the one or more bean containers (10, 20); the grinding device (60) further comprising a control unit configured to adapt the grind size and the quantity of roasted coffee beans to obtain a specific coffee blend from each bean container to be ground according to these product parameters and / or according to a recipe database (64) comprising beverage information associated with the beverage to be prepared;The grinding device (60) further comprises an encoder (62) for encoding beverage information into programmable identification means (65) on a product holder (61) in the grinding device (60), to which the ground coffee is sent;The extraction device (70) is configured to receive the product carrier (61) and comprises reading means (72) for identifying beverage information on the identification means of the product carrier (65). The extraction device (70) further comprises a control unit for extracting the beverage according to the retrieved beverage information and / or beverage information retrieved from a beverage database in this control unit. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for grinding roasted coffee beans and preparing a beverage from them using a grinding and extraction apparatus as described, and also relates to the use of such a grinding and extraction apparatus to supply a certain beverage from roasted coffee beans.

Claims

1. A grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans comprising a grinding device (60) and an associated extraction device (70); the grinding device (60) comprising one or more housings for receiving one or more bean containers (10, 20) containing roasted coffee beans of the same or different types; the grinding device (60) comprising a reader (62) for obtaining product parameter information from the roasted coffee beans in the one or more bean containers (10, 20); the grinding device (60) further comprising a control unit configured to adapt the grind size and the quantity of roasted coffee beans to obtain a specific coffee blend from each bean container to be ground according to these product parameters and / or according to a recipe database (64) comprising beverage information associated with the beverage to be prepared;The grinding device (60) further comprises an encoder (62) for encoding beverage information on programmable identification means (65) in a product carrier (61) in the grinding device (60), to which the ground coffee is sent; the extraction device (70) is configured to receive the product carrier (61) and comprises reading means (72) for identifying the beverage information on the identification means of the product carrier (65); the extraction device (70) further comprises a control unit for extracting the beverage according to the beverage information retrieved and / or the beverage information retrieved from a beverage database in this control unit.

2. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to claim 1 characterized in that the beverage information comprises one or a plurality of the following data: beverage type, beverage volume, brewing temperature and / or brewing pump profile, brewing profile according to time.

3. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the characteristics of the coffee beans are one or a plurality of the following: type of coffee beans, origin of the coffee beans, batch volume, recommended roasting level or levels, harvest date, production date, production data, farmer data, expiration date, company and / or marketing information.

4. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the product support (61) comprises connection means that quickly connect and / or disconnect to the grinding device (60) and the extraction device (70) so that it can be freely interchanged (plug & play).

5. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the product support (61) is locked in the grinding device (60) and in the extraction device (70) to allow a firm fixation of the product during the grinding and extraction operations, respectively.

6. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the coffee beans received by the grinding device (60) comprise identification means (21) with the characteristics of these roasted coffee beans to be read by the reading means (62) in the grinding device, these identification means being optical, such as a barcode, OID and / or a QR code, and / or electromagnetically readable identification means such as an RFID tag.

7. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the amount of coffee to be ground, the grind size and the mixture in the grinding device (60) are adapted as a function of the type of beverage to be prepared from the roasted and ground coffee beans in combination with the product parameters of the roasted coffee beans from one or more bean containers (10, 20) connected to the grinding device (60).

8. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to any of the preceding claims, characterized in that one or more of the coffee bean containers (10, 20) have an integrated dosing device for dosing only the required amount of roasted coffee beans into the grinding device (60).

9. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to claim 7 characterized in that the grinding device (60) comprises a motor and a unit for controlling the integrated dosing device of one or the plurality of the coffee bean containers (10, 20) to dose only the required dose of roasted coffee beans to the grinding device (60).

10. Grinding and extraction apparatus for roasted coffee beans according to claim 7 characterized in that the grinding device (60) comprises an RFID tag reader (62) for obtaining product parameter information of the roasted coffee beans from one or more bean containers (10, 20) connected thereto.

11. A method for grinding roasted coffee beans and preparing a beverage therefrom using a grinding and extraction apparatus according to any of claims 1-10, comprising the following steps: reading the product parameters on the coffee bean container (10, 20); adjusting the grind size according to the read product parameters and / or according to a recipe database; dispensing a predetermined quantity of roasted coffee beans from a bean container (10, 20) into the grinding device (60); performing the grinding with respect to the grind size and quantity according to the read product parameters and / or according to a recipe database; encoding the beverage information on the product holder (61) in the grinding device (60); transferring the product holder (61) to the extraction device (70) manually or automatically;read the beverage information from the product holder (61) using the extraction device (70) and extract the beverage according to the retrieved beverage information and / or the beverage information retrieved from a beverage database.; 12. A method for grinding roasted coffee beans and preparing a beverage therefrom according to claim 11 wherein a certain coffee mixture is produced in the grinding device (60) and placed in the product holder (61), the method comprising the following additional steps: attaching a plurality of coffee bean containers (10, 20) to the grinding device (60); reading the product parameters on each of the plurality of coffee bean containers (10, 20); carrying out the grinding according to the size and quantity of each of the coffee bean containers (10, 20) according to the product parameters read for each and the type of beverage to be prepared from the recipe database using the roasted and ground coffee beans.

13. Use of a grinding and extraction apparatus according to any of claims 1-10 to supply a certain beverage from roasted coffee beans.

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