US Patent Issued to LA MARZOCCO on Feb. 17 for "Hopper for coffee grinder machine equipped with a lower closure device to save beans and coffee grinder machine equipped with this hopper" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,059, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LA MARZOCCO S.R.L. (Scarperia, Italy).

"Hopper for coffee grinder machine equipped with a lower closure device to save beans and coffee grinder machine equipped with this hopper" was invented by Andrea Dionisio (Scarperia, Italy) and Mario Donnini (Scarperia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is disclosed a hopper for a coffee grinder machine with a closing device comprising an actuation member, a shutter member, an actuation plane and a shutter plane, wherein the shutter plane is arranged below the actuation plane, wherein the shutter organ comprises: a single circular sector which is fi...