Method of fabricating coffee pods at point of sale

A method of fabricating coffee pods from a coffee pod fabricating device comprising the following steps:

• moving a pod advancing means of said coffee pod fabrication device so as to draw a compressed coffee pod linear array into an operational location on said pod advancing means;
• advancing said pod linear array to a pod well expansion means;
• expanding a filter well of said pod in the coffee pod linear array in preparation to receive a volume of ground coffee;
• advancing said pod with expanded well until it resides operationally adjacent a first coffee filling means;
• grinding a volume of coffee beans in said first coffee filling means;
• delivering said volume of ground coffee beans into said pod filter well;
• advancing said coffee pod through a cleaning station removing any debris from a top planar face of a lid of said pod;
• cleaning said top planar face free of debris in preparing for sealing said lid;
• advancing said pod to a sealing station;
• adhesively sealing said lid, covering said well;
• advancing said pod to an ejection station;
• detaching said pod from adjacent pods in said coffee pod linear array;
• ejecting said pod from the pod advancing means.

A method of fabricating coffee pods from a coffee pod fabricating device comprising the following steps:

• advancing a compressed coffee pod linear array into a fabrication stream;
• sequentially expanding a coffee pod filter well of at least one coffee pod in the coffee pod linear array with a linear actuator;
• grinding a volume of coffee beans;
• sequentially delivering said ground coffee beans into at least one expanded coffee pod filter well;
• sequentially sealing said filter well of least one coffee pod;
• sequentially detaching said coffee pod from adjacent pods in said coffee pod linear array;
• and
• sequentially ejecting said coffee pod from said fabrication stream.