Adapter for use in a coffee machine

-6. (canceled)

(canceled)

An assembly of an adapter comprising a rigid disc-shaped body having a beverage collecting structure on an upper surface and a perimeter arranged for sealing engagement with a pad holder of a beverage machine, the pad holder having a beverage exit opening, and the perimeter being arranged for positioning between the pad and the beverage exit opening, and a pad comprising a covering of filtering sheet material enclosing a beverage preparation product, wherein the adapter has a restricted opening extending there through to reduce in volume a beverage leaving the pad and flowing to the beverage exit opening of the pad holder.

A system including a coffee machine equipped with a pad holder comprising at least one beverage exit opening and being arranged for accommodating a pad, a lid for closing the holder, and a fluid supply member configured for generating a time controlled amount of water under pressure into the holder, wherein the system further comprises an adapter comprising a rigid disc-shaped body having a beverage collecting structure on an upper surface and a perimeter arranged for sealing engagement with the pad holder of the beverage machine, and being arranged for positioning between a pad and the beverage exit opening, and at least one pad with a covering of filtering sheet material enclosing a beverage preparation product suitable for use in the coffee machine, wherein the adapter has a restricted opening extending there through to reduce in volume a beverage leaving the pad and flowing to the beverage exit opening of the pad holder.

-28. (canceled)

(canceled)

-47. (canceled)

A method for preparing at least one part of a single beverage serving with an adapter comprising a rigid disc-shaped body having a beverage collecting structure on an upper surface and a perimeter arranged for sealing engagement with a pad holder of a beverage machine, the perimeter being arranged for positioning between a pad and a beverage exit opening of the pad holder, and at least one pad with a covering of filtering sheet material enclosing a beverage preparation product suitable for use in the coffee machine, wherein the adapter has a restricted opening extending there through to reduce in volume a beverage leaving the pad and flowing to the beverage exit opening of the pad holder, wherein the at least one pad and the adapter are placed in the pad holder equipped with the at least one beverage exit opening, closing the pad holder containing the pad with a lid that has at least one fluid opening, supplying hot water under pressure to the at least one fluid opening, so that the hot water is fed to the beverage preparation product in the pad, allowing a beverage formed in the pad to leave the pad via the restricted opening of the adapter, and allowing the beverage to leave the pad holder through the at least one beverage exit opening.

-50. (canceled)