Container for preparing and using alcoholic extracts
OwnerJames P. Robertsoninventor
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Abstract
Alcoholic extracts of particulate solids for food or drink, and particularly of coffee grounds, are prepared in a squeezable plastics container which has a fabric filter disc across its outlet to trap the soaked grounds when the liquor extract is dispensed. A pull-off seal or cap is provided to close the container until needed. In use, liquid can be sucked back into the container by squeezing and releasing it, and used to wash a further extract from the solids.
Claims17
A method of providing an alcoholic extract for use in food or drink, comprising:
- providing a resiliently squeezable plastics container having an outlet;
- charging particulate extractable solids into said container;
- charging alcoholic liquor into said container to wet the particulate solids;
- securing a filter across the container outlet, said filter having a pore size smaller than said particulate solids;
- closing the filter outlet with a closure seal to seal the alcoholic liquor and particulate solids inside the container;
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- allowing the particulate solids to soak in the alcoholic liquor over a period of time, to form an alcoholic extract thereof sealed in the resiliently squeezable container.
A product for providing an alcoholic extract for use in food or drink, comprising:
- a resiliently squeezable plastics container, said container having an outlet, and having a volume of 10 ml to 150 ml;
- alcoholic liquor in the container;
- alcoholically-extractable particulate solids, said solids being selected from the group consisting of coffee, tea, cocoa, herbs, seeds, roots and fruit solids, said solids soaking in said alcoholic liquor in the container to form an alcoholic extract thereof in the container;
- seal closure means closing off the outlet to seal the alcoholic liquor and the soaking solids inside the container while said alcoholic extract forms;
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- a filter, said filter having a pore size smaller than the particle size of said solids, and being positioned to prevent escape of said solids from the container through the outlet when said seal closure means have been removed,
- and wherein said container is sufficiently resilient to suck liquid back through the filter into the container when the container is released after squeezing, with the outlet thereof immersed in said liquid, to contact the solids with said liquid.
A product for use in preparing a flavored food or drink, said product comprising:
- a flexible plastics container, said container comprising a body portion and a neck portion and having a single outlet which is provided at said neck portion;
- alcoholically-extractable particulate solids in the body portion of the container, and alcoholic liquor soaking said solids to produce an alcoholic extract thereof;
- pull-off closure means on the neck portion of the container, closing the outlet of the container whereby said liquor and solids are sealingly enclosed inside said container, and
- filter means in the neck portion of the container, for retaining the particulate solids inside the container;
- said container body being squeezable whereby alcoholic extract is dispensable therefrom through said filter and said outlet by squeezing said container body portion, and said container body portion being resilient whereby liquid may be sucked back into the container, through the outlet and filter, on releasing the squeezed container body with the outlet immersed in said liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.