Beverage packages
AssigneeGeneral Foods Corporation
InventorsAndrew C. Bentley, Christine A. King, Alistair J. MacMahon, Robert W. Tansley, Alec T. Newman
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Abstract
A sealed beverage package containing one or more beverage ingredients and being formed from substantially air- and water-impermeable materials, the said package comprising a body portion having a compartment containing the beverage ingredients and a beverage outlet channel formed therein, the beverage outlet channel and the compartment of the body portion containing the beverage ingredients communicating in such a manner that, in use, the said compartment and the outlet channel co-operate to act as a filter during the preparation of a beverage from the package.
Claims9
A sealed beverage package containing one or more beverage ingredients and being formed from substantially air-and water-impermeable materials comprising:
- (a) a body portion;
- (b) a compartment within said body portion for holding beverage ingredients;
- (c) an inlet channel for water flowing through said compartment;
- (d) slots in said compartment;
- said slots of a specific size to maintain the beverage ingredients in said compartment;
- (e) an outlet channel formed along at least part of the perhiphery of said compartment wherein liquid or beverage flows through said slots of said compartment into said outlet channel during the preparation of a beverage from the package;
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- (f) a collection chamber communicates with said outlet channel for collecting the liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.