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US 2014/0234518 A1Published application
Ground roast coffee tablet
AssigneeThe Folger Coffee Company
InventorJerry Douglas Young
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Abstract
A ground roast coffee tablet which is capable of being brewed in a conventional automatic drip coffee maker, and which exhibits sufficient strength to withstand all aspects of manufacture, handling, packaging, transport without breakage but also readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing, is made by subjecting conventional ground, roasted coffee to a multi-step compaction process in which at least two compression steps are carried out in the same compaction die.
Claims11
A free-standing coffee tablet for use in an automatic drip coffee maker (ADC) comprising:
- the coffee tablet made by compressing ground roast coffee in a multi-step compaction process in which at least a first compression and a separate second compression are carried out in the same compaction die such that the coffee tablet obtained exhibits a hardness of at least about 40 N (Newtons), a friability of no greater than about 6%, a density between 0.85-0.99 g/cm3, and readily disintegrates when contacted with hot water during brewing in the ADC.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.