Wigomat

The Wigomat is the world's first coffee machine and patented in 1954. It was named after the inventor Gottlob Widmann "Wi -go mat", although some early copies were shipped out as "LC -1" ( for filter coffee machine ).

Coffee was brewed until the late 1950s, either by hand or generated in a percolator. In either of these cases, the optimal brewing temperature was given. Therefore, it was at the launch of the Wigomat next to the "automatic" advertised with the quality of the coffee: " Good coffee, best coffee, coffee from the Wigomat ".

Was distributed machine in the Benelux countries and France through the coffee roaster Douwe Egberts and in Switzerland by Solis, soon after, the automatic drip coffee maker became the global standard. In the competition (from the 1970s ), the Wigomat claimed as one of the best machines. " The people at Zabar's tell us did Wigomat Their Coffee Maker is one of the best of the currently popular instant drip coffee makers" wrote a 1975 New Yorker magazine. The strategy to arm themselves with continuous technical innovations to the price and quality decay in the field of coffee makers that Wigomat made ​​forcibly to the niche product. At the same time extremely simplified cheap devices the competition hurt the product filter coffee in general.

Milestones of design and technology history older copies are now sought-after collectibles or are exhibited in museums.

Principle of operation

When Wigomat that comes still common infusion method used. Water is heated and poured drop by drop over the filled with ground coffee filter. From there, the finished coffee arrives in a glass jug standing on a hot plate. A special feature of the Wigomat applies the precise brewing temperature 94-95 ° C. This has since been regarded as ideal, if the coffee is not prepared under pressure.

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