Removable Coffee Basket with Attachment Points for Easy Cleaning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home coffee brewing often results in poor quality and taste due to inadequate brewing methods, and users may face challenges with existing systems that do not allow for easy installation, detachment, and cleaning of coffee grounds.
Innovation Solution
A coffee brewing system featuring a basket with a frame that holds coffee grounds, allowing for easy attachment and detachment from a coffee machine, with features like holes for water ingress and egress while preventing coffee from exiting, and an optional baffle for enhanced agitation and brewing efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a traditional coffee brewing system is used, then coffee can be brewed at home, but the quality and taste of the coffee deteriorates due to inadequate brewing methods
Solution Approach 1:
The brewing system is divided into separate functional components: a removable basket for coffee grounds, a water reservoir, and a brewing chamber. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized for its specific function while maintaining overall system simplicity for the user.
Solution Approach 2:
A specialized basket with attachment points serves as an intermediary component between the user and the brewing mechanism. The basket includes features like a baffle and specific hole patterns that mediate the brewing process to achieve consistent quality without requiring user expertise in brewing parameters.
2Ease of operation
If a fixed coffee brewing system is used, then brewing can be performed, but cleaning and removal of coffee grounds becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The basket is designed as a separate, removable component from the main brewing system. This allows the basket to be easily detached for cleaning and coffee ground removal without disassembling the entire brewing device, simplifying the cleaning process while maintaining functional integration during brewing.
Solution Approach 2:
The basket containing coffee grounds is extracted as a removable unit from the brewing system. The attachment points with connectors enable easy separation of the basket from the brewing chamber, allowing users to remove spent grounds and clean the basket without affecting the main brewing mechanism.
3Productivity
If a basket with holes is used for water flow, then water can ingress and egress freely, but coffee grounds may escape through the holes
Solution Approach 1:
The basket walls feature locally differentiated properties: larger holes or open areas for water flow in certain regions, and smaller holes or mesh areas for coffee ground containment in other regions. This local variation in hole characteristics allows simultaneous optimization of water permeability and coffee ground retention.
Solution Approach 2:
The basket incorporates porous or perforated wall structures with specifically sized openings that allow water to pass through while physically blocking coffee grounds. The pore size and distribution are engineered to differentiate between water molecules and coffee ground particles, enabling selective permeability.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system enables efficient brewing with improved coffee quality by ensuring thorough interaction between coffee grounds and water, reducing mess and simplifying the brewing process, while allowing for easy cleaning and use with various coffee machines.
Implementation Method 1
The frame includes a plurality of holes that generally permit water to ingress and egress the frame while substantially prevents the amount of coffee from exiting the frame during the normal brewing process
Data Source
AI summary
According to present invention, a basket for brewing coffee is disclosed. The basket includes an interior volume intended to receive an amount of ground coffee. The basket includes a plurality of openings that are sized to permit water to pass therethrough but to retain ground coffee in the interior volume. The basket includes at least one attachment point for attaching to a complementary connector on the coffee machine. The coffee machine includes a complementary connector intended to be inserted into the attachment point on the basket containing ground coffee. The attachment point and complementary connector enable a user to attach and detach a basket filled with coffee grounds to the coffee machine in a quick and efficient manner.