Espresso machine (US Patent 5974949)

Patent number: 5974949 Granted: 1999-11-02 Filed: 1998-02-18 Inventors: Rene Weber (Rothrist, CH); Georges Feierabend (Aarburg, CH) Assignees: Eldom Rothrist AG (Rothrist, CH)

Abstract

The espresso machine works with filter capsules and has a scalding unit (4) with two scalding chamber parts (2, 3) which can be moved relative to each other between an opening position and a closing position. The scalding chamber parts (2, 3) enclose between them in their opening position a gap (1). The gap (1) provided for throwing in the filter capsules can be