Entries by Sara Giacomelli

1905

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VICTORIA. THE FIRST MACHINE

Young Pier Teresio had to immediately acknowledge that the world of café shops and bars was changing just like the machines were becoming old school. He proposed to create a new type of device, a machine that ensured the quick, easy and secure way to supply coffee. He also understood that the boiler needed to be replaced in order to maximize efficiency. Using the technical experience cultivated at school and the confidence obtained with locomotives during his military time (he worked closely with steam boilers), he started working on a concept machine.

1910

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DOUBLE TAP SYSTEM

In 1910 Pier Teresio Arduino dedicated himself to a new project: this he didn’t want to recreate just a machine that heats the already prepared coffee, but a real machine for the instant preparation of coffee. The new device had on one side, the portafilter handle with a fast hook system for the coffee preparation, and on the other side a filtered container filled with ground coffee that could be pressed and squeezed until the infusion occurred through a screw rod. In 1910 the patent of the creation with number 108873 with registration n. 325/195910 was confirmed.

1920

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FAMILY TYPE MACHINE

Among the emerging models during this period by Victoria Arduino, there was a machine called ‘family-type.’ It was completely chrome, with electrical functions, able to make from one to six coffees at the same time. Let’s say it was a real beauty and efficient at the same time.The machine was only 30 cm in height, and when the steam of the boiler reached the optimal pressure, through the opening of the tap placed on top, the water was pushed outright through the ground coffee.

1922

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THE MURAL MACHINE

The ‘mural machine’ is genuinely original. Called ‘mural’ because bolted to the walls of café shops, the device supplied water directly from the aqueduct through the thrust of the piston pump, that switched on through a manual lever sending the correct quantity of water to the heater (electrical, gas, or other.)

1927

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THE MACHINE WITH A PUMP

In 1926 Victoria Arduino presented the request for industrial property right released in 1927. The right allowed the company to patent a new system able to use high-temperature water to brew the coffee instead of steam. To try out the patent, Victoria Arduino constructed a two-group machine with each group having a manual pump that, through a piston, pushed the water at the ideal temperature, into the ground coffee.

1946

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WAT SERIES. LUIGI CACCIA DOMINIONI

In 1946, Victoria Arduino collaborated with Luigi Caccia Dominioni, a famous international architect and designer. The architect created the ‘WAT series’, which was included the models ‘Unovat’ with one group, ‘Supervat,’ and Watt with four groups.

1951

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MOBIL BAR

In 1951 Victoria Arduino also made a transportable stand named ‘Carrel bar’, with a gas boiler chamber made precisely for traveling street baristas. This mobile bar became an essential part of events, exhibitions also found on the sidewalks of central train stations.

1953

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THE AUTOMATIC MACHINE

In the 1950s’ Victoria Arduino created its first automatic token coffee machine, kind of like those machines we often see everywhere nowadays.

1968

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VENUS SERIES

At the end of the 1960s’, the production of vertical machines started to be appreciated again. It was during this era that the new models ‘Venus’ and ‘Venus family’ we created and still today have an important production and success. The ‘Venus family’ was distinct for its vibration pump.

2001

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NUOVA SIMONELLI ACQUIRED THE VICTORIA ARDUINO BRAND

At the end of 2001, Michele Mercandelli, owner of the company, decided to hand over Victoria Arduino to Nuova Simonelli.The two companies were already collaborating for different years, so the acquisition was finalized for this reason. It is thanks to this cooperation that the project started by Pier Teresio Arduino in the first 1900s’ began to flourish. He desired a bigger picture of the company, not only selling coffee machines but integrating philosophical and literary theories and spread the coffee culture worldwide.