Coffee beverage system, coffee bean packaging cartridge for use with said system, method of preparing a beverage, method for brewing coffee, method of supplying coffee beans, cartridge for coffee bean material, method of supplying coffee bean material

The second coffee bean packaging cartridge according to 118, wherein the transportation means include a rotatable element, such as a rotatable axle, that is at least partly located inside the interior volume.

The method according to claim 167, wherein the transportation means of the first coffee bean packaging cartridge is driven longer than is required for completely filling or at least substantially completely filling the metering chamber with coffee beans.

A method for preparing a beverage by means of a coffee beverage system, wherein the method comprises the following steps:

• in a first step, driving transportation means of a first coffee bean packaging cartridge longer than required for filling the metering chamber with coffee beans;
• and then
• in a second step which follows after the completion of the first step activating a grinding device longer than is required for emptying the metering chamber and for grinding all the coffee beans which were collected in the metering chamber during the first step.

A method for brewing coffee wherein a cartridge filled with coffee beans is coupled to a coffee brewing apparatus to form a metering chamber, wherein subsequently the, the method comprising:

• filling the metering chamber with coffee beans from the cartridge, then subsequently emptying the metering chamber by activation of a grinder, grinding the coffee beans of the metering chamber by the activation of the grinder and subsequently brewing coffee with the coffee brewing apparatus based on the ground beans and heated water.

A cartridge for holding and supplying coffee bean material, including a housing enclosing an interior volume in which the coffee bean material can be held, the housing having an outlet for releasing the coffee bean material from the interior volume and for supplying the coffee bean material to a hosting external apparatus, wherein the cartridge further includes conveyor means for transporting the coffee bean material towards the outlet, wherein the conveyor means include a moveable structure that is, at least partly, present in the interior volume for contacting the coffee bean material, and wherein the conveyor means further include manually operable actuation means that are, at least partly, provided outside of the interior volume for manually actuating the moveable structure.

A method of supplying coffee bean material from a cartridge to an external apparatus, including holding the coffee bean material in a housing that encloses an interior volume of the cartridge, and releasing the coffee bean material from the interior volume through an outlet of the housing, wherein the method further includes transporting the coffee bean material by means of conveyor means towards the outlet, wherein transporting the coffee bean material includes contacting the coffee bean material by means of a moveable structure of the conveyor means that is, at least partly, present in the interior volume, the method further including actuating the moveable structure by means of manually operable actuation means of the conveyor means that are, at least partly, provided outside of the interior volume.