Coffee package with enhanced aroma impact
AssigneeKraft Jacobs Suchard AG
InventorNeil Sanders
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Abstract
A coffee pack and method of packaging a coffee product. The coffee pack comprises a shell that forms separate coffee and aroma compartments with a small communicating hole or channel between the compartments. A quantity of a particulate coffee product, preferably soluble coffee, is located in the coffee compartment, and a quantity of a coffee aroma liquid containing aromatic volatiles, preferably coffee oil, is disposed in the aroma compartment. The communicating hole or channel between the compartments allows the aromatic volatiles to pass from the aroma compartment to the coffee compartment, without allowing any mixing, or at least any substantial mixing, in the coffee compartment between the coffee product and the coffee aroma liquid.
Claims8
A coffee package with enhanced aroma impact comprising:
- a compartmented container comprising first and second compartments and a flange portion around the perimeter of the container defining a plane,
- a quantity of particulate coffee contained in said first compartment,
- a quantity of coffee aroma liquid containing aromatic volatiles contained in said second compartment,
- and a lid sealed to the flange of the container to cover the first and second compartments with said particulate coffee and said coffee aroma liquid contained respectively therein,
- said container in combination with said lid providing a small channel between said first and second compartments which allows gaseous communication therebetween such that said aromatic volatiles emitted from said coffee aroma liquid pass from the second compartment to said first compartment and such that said particulate coffee and said aroma liquid are inhibited from passing between the first and second compartments so as to at least substantially prevent any mixing between said particulate coffee and the coffee aroma liquid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.