Automatic coffee brewing machine

Claim 1

A MACHINE FOR PREPARING BEVERAGES WHICH COMPRISES: SUPPORTING STRUCTURE, A VESSEL ON SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE ADAPTED TO CONTAIN A QUANTITY OF HOT WATER, RECEPTACLE MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE AND ADAPTED TO HAVE DISPOSED THEREIN MATERIAL FROM WHICH THE BEVERAGE IS PREPARED, A RESERVOIR ON SAID SUPPORTING STRUCTURE AND DISPOSED AT A HIGHER ELEVATION THAN THIS RECEPTACLE MEANS, MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING A MEASURED AMOUNT OF HOT WATER FROM SAID VESSEL TO SAID RESERVOIR AND A GRAVITY FLOW CONDUIT EXTENDING FROM SAID RESERVOIR AND OPENING ABOVE SAID RECEPTACLE MEANS FOR DELIVERING SAID MEASURED AMOUNT OF HOT WATER BY GRAVITY FEED FROM SAID RESERVOIR TO SAID RECEPTACLE MEANS WHEREIN THE WATER GRAVITY FLOWS THROUGH THE MATERIAL TO PROVIDE THE BEVERAGE, SAID GRAVITY FLOW CONDUIT RESTRICTING THE FLOW OF HOT WATER TO A RATE WHICH IS SLOWER THAN THE RATE OF TRANSFER OF SAID MEASURED AMOUNT OF HOT WATER FROM SAID VESSEL TO SAID RESERVIOR, WHEREBY THE RATE OF FLOW OF THE HOT WATER FROM SAID RESERVOIR TO SAID RECEPTACLE MEANS IS DETERMINED ENTIRELY BY SAID GRAVITY FLOW CONDUIT AND IS INDEPENDENT OF THE RATE OF TRANSFER OF THE HOT WATER FROM SAID VESSEL TO SAID RESERVOIR, SAID VESSEL BEING DISPOSED AT A LOWER ELEVATION THAN SAID RESERVIOR, SAID TRANSFERRING MEANS INCLUDING A MOTOR DRIVEN PUMP AND SWITCHING MEANS CONNECTED TO THE PUMP FOR CONTROLLING THE AMOUNT OF HOT WATER TRANSFERRED BY THE PUMP FROM SAID VESSEL TO SAID RESERVOIR.