COFFEE MAKER HAVING A BEAN GRINDER AND COFFEE BEAN GRINDER

摘要

A coffee maker or coffee bean grinder has a bean hopper for storing coffee beans, a bean grinder for grinding coffee beans into coffee grounds, and a bean delivery device for delivering a quantity of beans from the bean hopper to the bean grinder. The bean delivery device has a bean receptacle and is movable between first and second positions. In the first position, the bean receptacle communicates with the bean hopper and, in the second position, the bean receptacle communicates with the bean grinder. A controller controls movement of the bean delivery device between the first and second positions