Beverage machine with beverage collector

A machine for preparing a beverage from a flavouring ingredient by mixing water with the flavouring ingredient comprising:

• a beverage processing unit formed of a first processing unit member and a second processing unit member that delimit a chamber and that are movable between a distant configuration in which the flavouring ingredient is received in the chamber and a proximate configuration in which the flavouring ingredient is held and mixed with the water in the chamber during beverage preparation;
• a beverage collector for collecting the beverage from the beverage processing unit during beverage preparation, the beverage collector having at least one collecting wall directing the beverage out of the collector to a beverage dispensing area via a beverage dispensing opening, the dispensing area being configured to receive a user-receptacle;
• a water source for delivering the water towards the beverage processing unit;
• a water guide for guiding the water between the water source and the chamber;
• a supporting structure which has a base that is stationary during beverage preparation and that supports the beverage collector during beverage preparation,
• the beverage processing unit and/or the beverage collector having a peripheral upright drainage wall external to the chamber and extending at least partly about the chamber for collecting the beverage outside the chamber after the beverage has exited the chamber via at least one outlet;
• the at least one outlet comprising in a loop an outlet forming a continuous passage extending along substantially an entire interface section between the first and second processing unit members and/or a plurality of outlets forming discrete spaced apart passages distributed along an entire interface section between the first and second processing unit members;
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• the beverage collecting wall extends below a bottom part of the drainage wall and right underneath the beverage processing unit to collect the beverage when draining off from the drainage wall and to direct the beverage from the collecting wall out of the collector.