Michael J Fagan

US Patent:

6595445, Jul 22, 2003

Filed:

Dec 26, 2001

Appl. No.:

10/030201

Inventors:

Michael J. Fagan - Libertyville IL
Marek K. Kwiatkowski - Round Lake IL
Wit Gavin Niesiolowski - Des Plains IL

Assignee:

Food Equipment Technologies Company, Inc. - Lincolnshire IL

International Classification:

B02C 2308

US Classification:

241 791, 2411863, 241245, 241 7, 241 26, 99286, 99290

Abstract:

A coffee grinder assembly with a housing containing a pair of hoppers for containing coffee beans with a pair of hopper outlet chutes, or grinding chamber inlet chutes for feeding beans into a grinding chamber where the beans are ground by powered grinding discs or blades and then passed to a removable brew basket via an outlet chute with an outlet end that is in communication with a negative ion generator that ionizes the air in the outlet chute through which the ground coffee and chaff pass on their way to the brew basket to electrically neutralize the chaff to reduce chaff dispersion due to electrostatic repulsion of positively charged chaff.