# US 2014/0190863 A1 · In-mould labelled capsule for beverage preparation > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0190863 A1 - Document ID: US20140190863A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/239,573 - Filed: 2012-07-27 - Published: 2014-07-10 - Earliest claimed: 2011-08-19 - Assignees: Nestec S.A. - Inventors: Thierry Jean Robert Fabozzi; Delphine Musset; Klaus Wessolleck; Rafael Mittler - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140190863A1 ## CPC - B65D 81/18: providing specific environment for contents, e.g. temperature above or below ambient (with thermal insulation B65D81/38) - B29C 45/14008: {Inserting articles into the mould (B29C45/14827 takes precedence)} - B29C 45/14336: {Coating a portion of the article, e.g. the edge of the article (B29C45/14573 and B29C45/14598 take precedence)} - B65B 29/022: {packaging infusion material into capsules} - B65D 85/8058: {Coding means for the contents} - B29C 45/1418: {the inserts being deformed or preformed, e.g. by the injection pressure} - B29C 2045/14057: {feeding inserts wrapped on a core} - B65D: CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES - B29C: SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING (making preforms B29B11/00; making laminated products by combining previously unconnected layers which become one product whose layers will remain together B32B37/00 - B32B41/00) - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract The present invention concerns a beverage preparation capsule (11) defining a closed chamber for enclosing a mass of soluble and/or extractable food material, for use in a beverage preparation machine, comprising: (i) a capsule body with side walls (12), a bottom wall (13) open with a dispensing opening (14), said capsule body walls comprising an injection-moulded oil-based or biomass-based thermoplastic material, which is not a gas-barrier material, (ii) a gas and moisture impermeable top membrane (15), pierceable by injection means (N) of the machine which are adapted to inject an extraction liquid under pressure inside said chamber, and (iii) a gas and moisture impermeable bottom membrane (16) sealed inside the capsule body near the bottom wall (13), (iv) means (18) adapted to open said chamber by relative engagement with the bottom membrane under the effect of the liquid pressure increase in the chamber during injection of said liquid, characterized in that the inside or outside surface of the capsule body is at least partially covered by a gas-, and optionally moisture-, impermeable label (20) permanently attached by in-mould labelling to said capsule body wall, said label having a tridimensional shape such that the labelled capsule is gas and moisture tight. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A beverage preparation capsule defining a closed chamber for enclosing a mass of soluble and/or extractable food material, for use in a beverage preparation machine, comprising: a capsule body with side walls, a bottom wall having a dispensing opening, the capsule body walls comprising an injection-moulded oil-based or biomass-based thermoplastic material, selected from the group consisting of: polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polystyrene (PS), polycarbonate (PC), polyethylene terephtalate (PET), and polylactic acid (PLA), (ii) a gas and moisture impermeable top membrane, pierceable by an injection member of the machine which is adapted to inject an extraction liquid under pressure inside the chamber, (iii) a gas and moisture impermeable bottom membrane sealed inside the capsule body near the bottom wall; and a member adapted to open the chamber by relative engagement with the bottom membrane under the effect of the liquid pressure increase in the chamber during injection of the liquid, and the inside or outside surface of the capsule body is at least partially covered by a gas impermeable label (20) permanently attached by in-mould mold labelling to the capsule body wall, said label having a tri-dimensional shape such that the labelled capsule is gas and moisture tight. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) A capsule according to claim 1, wherein the capsule body walls comprise a circumferential step directed inwardly, which is located between the side and bottom walls. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) A capsule according to claim 2, wherein the label covers the outside surface of the capsule body side walls, and the outside surface of the step. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) A capsule according to claim 2, wherein the label covers the outside surface of the capsule body side walls, the outside surface of the step, and the outside surface of the body bottom wall. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) A capsule according to claim 2, wherein the external diameter of the bottom membrane is greater than the inside diameter of the label in the step region, creating an overlap between the bottom membrane and the label in the step region. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) A capsule according to claim 5, wherein the overlap is between 1 and 3 mm wide. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) A capsule (11) according to claim 2, wherein the step is horizontal relative to the vertical symmetry axis of the capsule. ### Claim 8 A process for making a body of a beverage preparation capsule comprises the steps of: providing a gas and moisture barrier flat label having a general shape of an arc segment; positioning and then forming the flat label around a core having a frusto-conical shape, into a frusto-conical label band; positioning the label band with its step inside a mold and closing the mold; and injecting a thermoplastic material inside the mold so as to form a one layer thermoplastic capsule body which is labelled with the label, wherein the capsule body comprises side walls, a bottom wall open with a dispensing opening, and such that the label covers the inside or outside surface of the capsule body side walls. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) A process according to claim 8, wherein the label comprises fringes on the smallest edge of the arc segment, so that the punching step bends the fringes inwardly, creating at least partial overlaps between adjacent fringes. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) A process according to claim 9, wherein the fringes are located tangentially perpendicular relative to the edge of the label arc segment. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) A process according to claim 9 wherein the fringes are located tangentially oblique relative to the edge of the label arc segment.