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Apparatus for dispensing a metered amount of ground coffee. The apparatus comprises a housing and a rotatable metering assembly. The housing has a storage chamber for the coffee and an isolated passageway terminating in a spout. The storage chamber has an outlet at its bottom. The metering assembly includes plural metering chambers located below the outlet of the storage chambers and which, when the assembly is rotated, brings a number of them under the outlet, whereupon the particulate material flows therein. The housing also has a wiper disposed at the outlet to wipe extra particulate material from the filled metering chambers as the metering assembly is rotated so that they do not overflow. The rotation of the metering assembly to selected rotational positions brings a selected number, i.e., one or more, of the filled receiving chambers into communication with the passageway, whereupon the user of the apparatus may invert it so that the coffee from the one or more receiving chambers flows into the passageway at one time to exit at the spout. The housing also includes a pair of covers, pivotally connected to each other, for closing off the cavity and the pouring spout.
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