Fitment for package and package for preparing a beverage from liquid supplied to the package by a device
AssigneeNestec S. A.
InventorsPhilippe Baenninger, Youcef Ait Bouziad, Heinz Wyss, Jean-Marc Flick
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Abstract
A fitment for a package for preparing a beverage connectable to a machine for supplying sanitized liquid to the package is disclosed. The fitment includes a sealing portion and a housing and a fluid connector for fluidly connecting to the machine and to supply liquid inside the container. Also disclosed are packages containing same and methods of producing and using same.
Claims14
A fitment for a package for preparing a beverage connectable to a machine for supplying sanitized liquid to the package, wherein the fitment comprises:
- a sealing portion for sealing to a container;
- a housing and a fluid connector for fluidly connecting to a liquid supply and treatment unit of the machine and to supply liquid inside the container, wherein the housing is configured as a guiding tube for housing the fluid connector, the housing having a front end opening for enabling the frontal portion of the fluid connector to extend beyond the housing in the treatment position and a rear end opening for forming a passage to a pusher of the machine for enabling the pusher to move the fluid connector into the treatment position;
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- wherein the fluid connector is arranged in the housing to be displaceable between a storage position in which the fluid connector is enclosed in the housing and a treatment position in which at least a frontal portion of the fluid connector including its tip with a liquid inlet extends beyond the housing.
A fitment for a package for preparing a beverage connectable to a machine for supplying sanitized liquid to the package, wherein the fitment comprises:
- a sealing portion for sealing to a container;
- a housing and a fluid connector for fluidly connecting to a liquid supply and treatment unit of the machine and to supply liquid inside the container, wherein the fluid connector comprises a portion of a needle comprising a longitudinal liquid conduit extending axially along the portion of needle from the liquid inlet at the tip to at least one liquid outlet positioned and/or extending transversally to the longitudinal liquid conduit;
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- a beverage delivery inlet communicating with a beverage delivery conduit and beverage delivery outlet;
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- wherein the fluid connector is arranged in the housing to be displaceable between a storage position in which the fluid connector is enclosed in the housing and a treatment position in which at least a frontal portion of the fluid connector including its tip with a liquid inlet extends beyond the housing;
- wherein the liquid outlet of the fluid connector is positioned to match, when the fluid connector is moved towards or into the treatment position, with a second liquid inlet in the housing communicating with a liquid conduit and a liquid outlet formed on a compartmenting surface of the fitment intended to define a part of the product compartment of the container.
A fitment for a package for preparing a beverage connectable to a machine for supplying sanitized liquid to the package, wherein the fitment comprises:
- a sealing portion for sealing to a container;
- a housing and a fluid connector for fluidly connecting to a liquid supply and treatment unit of the machine and to supply liquid inside the container, wherein the fluid connector comprises a portion of a needle comprising a longitudinal liquid conduit extending axially along the portion of needle from the liquid inlet at the tip to at least one liquid outlet positioned and/or extending transversally to the longitudinal liquid conduit, and wherein the fluid connector further comprises an air inlet, an air conduit, and an air outlet, wherein the air outlet is arranged to match with an air inlet of the housing leading to an air outlet at the compartmenting surface of the fitment;
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- wherein the fluid connector is arranged in the housing to be displaceable between a storage position in which the fluid connector is enclosed in the housing and a treatment position in which at least a frontal portion of the fluid connector including its tip with a liquid inlet extends beyond the housing;
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- wherein the liquid outlet of the fluid connector is positioned to match, when the fluid connector is moved towards or into the treatment position, with a second liquid inlet in the housing communicating with a liquid conduit and a liquid outlet formed on a compartmenting surface of the fitment intended to define a part of the product compartment of the container.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.