Method and apparatus for capturing a rimmed single serving cup in an adapter
OwnerAdrian Riverainventor
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Abstract
A single serving filter paper cup for making a brewed beverage. The filter paper cup includes a receptacle having a rim captured between an adapter base and lid. The receptacle is formed by pleats in a receptacle wall and the rim around the top of the receptacle wall. Preferably, a heat seal filter paper is used and the pleats are adhered by the heat to retain shape. The receptacle is inserted into an adapter and brewing material is placed into the receptacle. The cover is folded over the rim and an adapter lid is attached to the adapter. The adapter lid and body sandwich the cover and receptacle rim to hold the filter paper cup against the lid to pack the brewing material against the lid and facilitate injection of hot water into the brewing material.
Claims22
A method of assembling a single serving beverage brewing capsule, the method comprising:
- manufacturing a filter paper cup comprising the steps of:
- providing water permeable material;
- cutting a greater diameter flat circular lower portion from the water permeable material;
- shaping the lower portion to form a floor and walls creating a downward concave cup shaped receptacle to receive and hold a single serving of brewing material;
- forming a generally flat annular rim of the lower portion, surrounding an upward opening of the receptacle
- inserting the filter paper cup into a reusable adapter body;
- placing a single serving of brewing material into the filter paper cup;
- capturing the annular rim between a reusable adapter lid and the reusable adapter body;
- and
- completing assembling the single serving beverage brewing capsule outside and independent of a coffee maker.
A method of assembling a single serving beverage brewing capsule, the method comprising:
- obtaining a filter paper cup comprising:
- a concave receptacle formed from a flat circle of heat sealable filter paper, the receptacle shaped to receive and hold a single serving of brewing material, the receptacle comprising:
- a floor;
- pleated walls reaching upward from the floor to an upper opening, first pleats of the pleated walls are a product of forming the receptacle from the flat circle of heat sealable filter paper, the first pleats adhered to adjacent ones of the first pleats by adhesive in the heat sealable filter paper;
- and
- an outward reaching pleated rim at the upward opening of the walls, second pleats of the pleated rim a product of forming the rim from the flat circle of the heat sealable filter paper, the second pleats adhered to adjacent ones of the second pleats by the adhesive in the heat sealable filter paper;
- inserting the filter paper cup into a reusable adapter body, the adapter body comprising:
- a flat base;
- and
- walls rising from the base;
- placing a single serving of brewing material into the filter paper cup;
- and
- capturing the annular rim of the concave receptacle between a reusable adapter lid and the adapter body, the adapter lid comprising:
- a flat top;
- a passage for injection of liquid into the adapter body;
- and
- a downward reaching cylindrical edge;
- advancing the downward reaching cylindrical edge of the adapter lid into the adapter body;
- and
- engaging the downward reaching cylindrical edge of the adapter lid with the adapter body to attached the adapter lid to the adapter body to form the single serving beverage brewing capsule outside and independent of a coffee maker.
A method of assembling a single serving beverage brewing capsule, the method comprising:
- obtaining a filter paper cup comprising:
- a concave receptacle made from water permeable material shaped to receive and hold a single serving of brewing material, the receptacle comprising:
- a floor;
- walls reaching upward from the floor to an upper opening;
- and
- a rim at an upward opening of the walls;
- obtaining an adapter comprising:
- an adapter body;
- and
- an adapter lid attachable to the adapter body by cooperation of features of the adapter lid with features of the adapter body;
- inserting the filter paper cup into the adapter body;
- placing a single serving of brewing material into the filter paper cup;
- and
- attaching the adapter lid to the adapter body, including capturing the annular rim between the adapter lid and the adapter body to assemble the single serving beverage brewing capsule outside and independent of a coffee maker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.