Dual brewer for tea and coffee
CA 2109130 C · Owner: Reese, Robert J. · Inventors: Poag, Andrew F.; Reese, Robert J.
Overview
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A dual brewing system for a vending machine in which a pair of separate brewers are mounted for simultaneous movement through a brewing and dumping cycle even though only one of the brewers is actually used to brew a beverage, such as tea or coffee, at a time. A filter paper feed mechanism is provided for one of the brewers used primarily for coffee. The paper feed mechanism is controlled so that it is only advance after the brewer which it is associated with is used and not when the other brewer is used.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 25, 1993 and granted May 13, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 25, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 25, 2015.
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