EP2452893A1 - Capsule destinée à contenir une préparation pour boisson chaude - Google Patents

Capsule destinée à contenir une préparation pour boisson chaude Download PDF

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EP2452893A1
EP2452893A1 EP11187888A EP11187888A EP2452893A1 EP 2452893 A1 EP2452893 A1 EP 2452893A1 EP 11187888 A EP11187888 A EP 11187888A EP 11187888 A EP11187888 A EP 11187888A EP 2452893 A1 EP2452893 A1 EP 2452893A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/70—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for materials not otherwise provided for
    • B65D85/804—Disposable containers or packages with contents which are mixed, infused or dissolved in situ, i.e. without having been previously removed from the package
    • B65D85/8043—Packages adapted to allow liquid to pass through the contents
    • B65D85/8049—Details of the inlet
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D85/70—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for materials not otherwise provided for
    • B65D85/804—Disposable containers or packages with contents which are mixed, infused or dissolved in situ, i.e. without having been previously removed from the package
    • B65D85/8043—Packages adapted to allow liquid to pass through the contents
    • B65D85/8061—Filters

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  • the present invention relates to capsules for extractable products, and in particular capsules for containing a preparation for drinks.
  • the invention relates to capsules for containing preparations for hot beverages such as in particular coffee or tea or milk and so on.
  • the capsules contain a batch of a preparation and are usable in automatic machines suitable for extracting the product.
  • the automatic machines in the extraction equipment thereof, comprise an internal chamber for temporarily housing and retaining a capsule and a supply device for supplying hot water under pressure to the capsule inserted in the chamber, in order to extract the product.
  • the active ingredients and/or the fragrances of the batch of preparation are extracted or dissolved in hot water, by infusion or mixing, in this way obtaining the beverage.
  • the capsules of the prior art include a beaker-shaped body, and a cover formed by a film attached to the mouth of the beaker-shaped body by the glass, by gluing, heat sealing or ultrasonic welding, or other known technologies.
  • the known capsules are closed and sealed with the beaker-shaped body made of aluminium, and the cover made of a thin sheet, for example made of aluminium, so that the cover has a certain flexibility.
  • the water supplied into the chamber must be able to enter the capsule and then the drink has to be able to exit from the capsule such as then to be dispensed out of the machine, directly into a beaker predisposed by the user in a receiving compartment.
  • the extraction apparatus thus comprises pointed mobile elements, for example needle-shaped, which are activated to push, with the points thereof, on the bottom of the capsule, at predetermined points, such as to perforate it by puncturing and enable the water supplied by the supply device to enter the capsule from the bottom.
  • pointed mobile elements for example needle-shaped, which are activated to push, with the points thereof, on the bottom of the capsule, at predetermined points, such as to perforate it by puncturing and enable the water supplied by the supply device to enter the capsule from the bottom.
  • the mobile parts penetrate the capsule by piercing the bottom thereof, otherwise they could not make relatively large holes, which are required to supply a sufficient amount of water to a batch of preparation to form the beverage.
  • the cover takes on a convex shape, with an externally-directed curvature.
  • the perforation by puncturing of the bottom of the capsule may produce a partial obstruction of the openings thus formed by the points that have just made the openings, which implies poor efficiency of the water supply to a prepared batch.
  • the preparation is usually powder material, i.e. in a loose form, with grains of small dimension; its undesired escape from the bottom might cause damage to the quality of the dispensed drink, as the active ingredients would not have been efficiently extracted.
  • a further drawback is caused by the fact that in the known system, the water penetrates only through the perforations made by puncturing done by the mobile pointed elements, which must be in a predetermined position and also must be in a limited number such as to prevent the bottom from coming away at the edge or completely bursting when crossed by the pressurised water, which would completely prejudice the extraction and dispensing of the product.
  • An aim of the present invention is to obviate the above-mentioned drawbacks and others besides, with a capsule for a preparation of a hot drink, according to claim 1.
  • the capsule of the invention comprises a beaker-shaped body, designed to contain a batch of the preparation, and in turn comprising one or more lateral walls and a bottom wall for closing the lateral wall.
  • the capsule can be used with an extraction unit for producing the hot drink, such as the one already described, although it is clear that this destination does not in itself limit the ambit of application of the invention.
  • the extraction apparatus includes:
  • the bottom of the proposed capsule includes an abutting region predisposed to abut the top of the perforating means when the said perforation means move along the perforating run thereof.
  • the capsule according to the invention as set out in claim 1, is characterised in that:
  • the disclosed capsule can be used in the preparation of drinks with the described apparatus without any need for tearing the bottom, due to the presence of the inlet filter which enables access of the liquid to the preparation ⁇ the liquid being pressurised hot water ⁇ for the aim of forming the hot drink.
  • the abutting region is recessible in the capsule, and, importantly, the perforating means are housed in the housing which consequently forms outside the capsule, at the bottom thereof, there is the advantageous result that the bottom is not torn to create large through-perforations.
  • the above type of perforations is produced because the perforating means (usually pointed elements having needle- or pin-shape) penetrate into the capsule in the prior art, crossing through the bottom.
  • the abutting region displaces, retreating to inside the capsule when the perforating means advance on the perforating run thereof; in this way a space is left externally in which the perforating means are located (until, that is, they return into the original position).
  • the disclosed capsule though having been designed such as to be usable with the above-described apparatus, has also been invented expressly such as to be used with other types of apparatus, in various types of machine for automatic dispensing of beverages.
  • the capsule can very well be used in machines that include no means for perforating the bottom.
  • the capsule 1 of the invention comprises a body 10 having a beaker shape, in turn comprising a lateral wall 12 and a bottom 11 which inferiorly closes the lateral wall.
  • the capsule 1 is preferably realised in a single body, and made of polypropylene, a completely non-toxic material.
  • the bottom 11 is substantially circumferential in the periphery (although not flat in all its parts, as will emerge) and the lateral wall 12 is located in whole or in part on the lateral surface of an ideal cone, thus giving the beaker-shaped body a shape that resembles a truncated cone.
  • the lateral wall 12 is located on the lateral surface of a cone (or of a truncated cone) at least up to the connecting edge with the bottom 11, in which the capsule 1 can exhibit special aspects, as described in detail herein below.
  • the lateral wall 12 and the bottom 11 of the beaker-shaped body 10 define the internal volume 100 of the capsule 1 for containing the preparation for hot drinks.
  • the capsule 1 can also include an abutment fashioned around the mouth 101 (see both figures), which is substantially an upper collar 13 protruding laterally from the edge of the mouth 101, and can be used to attach the cover over it (not shown in the figures), of which more information will be given later together with other relevant but optional aspects relating to the upper collar 13.
  • the capsule 1, above the beaker-shaped body 10, also exhibits the collar 13.
  • the input filter and the abutting region are generally indicated by 110 and 111 in the figures.
  • inlet filter 110 is not shown in figure 2 in order to make the figure clearer to view (though it is illustrated in figure 2 ).
  • the capsule 1 can be configured to have an abutting region coinciding with the bottom 11, in the sense that the whole bottom 11 can be used generally to abut the point or points of the perforating means (for example, in a case of a multiplicity of points arranged side by side) and recede internally of the capsule 1 itself, in practice displacing into the internal volume 100 that contains the preparation.
  • the input filter 110 can be located almost anywhere in the bottom 11 itself, in the sense that the means for enabling the pressurised hot water to enter and for enabling the preparation not to leave the capsule 1 (which means are more fully described in their preferred embodiment herein below) are located in different positions along the length of the bottom 11.
  • the preferred version of the capsule 1 is described below, including its operation within the extraction apparatus, which apparatus is not illustrated in the figures as it is of known type and not an object of the invention (for which reason the components thereof which have already been introduced will not be further described in detail for the sake of brevity and clarity).
  • the abutting region 111 of the bottom 11 comprises a resistant portion 112.
  • the resistant portion 112 is arranged facing the point (or points) of the perforating means, when the capsule 1 is in use in the equipment, such to be able to receive the point/s and be thrust thereby, when the perforating means move along the perforating run.
  • the resistant portion 112 is the part of the abutting region 111 of the bottom 11 which directly receives the point of the perforating means and which therefore can be pierced, and especially pushed thereby.
  • the abutting region 111 is flexible inwardly of the capsule 1 such as to define the above-mentioned housing that at least in part receives the perforating means.
  • the flexibility can for example be given the fact that at least the abutting region 111 is made of polypropylene, a point which will be expanded upon in the following, but it is clear that various flexible materials different to polypropylene are known.
  • the resistant region 112 has a resistance to perforation which is sufficient to prevent complete perforation by the points of the perforating means which press thereon during the perforating run.
  • the flexible abutting region of 111 is forced to flex due to the pressure exerted by the perforating means on the resistant portion 112 by means of the point, causing the region of 111 to recede into the capsule 1, making way for the perforating means which are performing the above-mentioned perforating run into the chamber housing the capsule 1.
  • the perforating means are gradually received, at least in part, into the housing, while the housing is being formed.
  • the resistance to perforation is a physical property of objects, which varies depending on materials and shapes, measured in kilograms per centimetre (kilogram-force, naturally) using well-known measurement systems.
  • the perforating means move to perform the perforating run thereof, as if they were directed at perforating the bottom of a capsule.
  • the tip or tips of the perforating means encounter the resistant portion 112 and push it: since the abutting region 111 can flex, instead of piercing the bottom 11, the thrust from the points displaces the abutting region 111 and causes it to recede into the capsule 1 (or towards the inside of the containing volume 100).
  • the above delivery device delivers pressurised hot water or another fluid suitable for the purpose that floods the chamber, if the capsule 1 is smaller than the space inside the chamber, and especially through the inlet filter 10; therefore the liquid reacts with the preparation to form the beverage in widely known ways (see a following part of the description for the outlet of the thus-prepared drink).
  • the perforation means comprise one or more pointed elements, having a shape of pins or needles, which are orientated perpendicularly to the bottom 11 of the capsule 1 when it is in the chamber.
  • the pointed elements When activated in the perforating run, the pointed elements slide axially towards the bottom 11 of the capsule 1, for a certain tract of their length, which tract is in practice equal to the excursion performed during the run.
  • a longitudinal section of the pointed elements having a same length as the tract is received in the housing which is defined with the receding of the abutting region 111 (except, possibly, a very small section at the point which can in some cases penetrate into the wall of the resistant portions 112 without passing through).
  • the capsule 1 of the invention can include a cover, not illustrated, glued on the collar 13, which can be made either of aluminium or "filter paper", i.e. a known pre-perforated layer made of a compound of cellulose and polypropylene.
  • the outlet of the beverage can occur similarly to with known capsules: the pressure that forms in the internal volume 100 when the water enters through the inlet filter 11 is such that the cover is deformed, taking on an externally-convex curvature and thus abutting upper points, opposite the perforating means, which pierce the cover and cause the form beverage to exit, which can then be dispensed using known methods.
  • the cover is made of filter paper, as it is pre-perforated, it may even not deform to such an extent as to encounter the points, as in any case the drink exits from the holes, causing the pressure inside the internal volume 100 to automatically drop.
  • the cover made of filter paper also functions as a retaining filter of the preparation resides in the case of infusion drinks.
  • the filter paper as is known, lets the drink pass through the holes but retains residues that are granular, as known also from everyday experience.
  • the bottom 11 it is made in a single body and the above-mentioned sufficient resistance is attributed to the resistant portion 112 due the fact that it has an increased thickness with respect to the remaining part of the abutting region111, as can be seen also from figure 1 .
  • the resistant portion 112 is a thickening of the abutting region 111 (and thus the bottom 11).
  • the bottom 11, or at least the abutting region 111, as mentioned, can be made of polypropylene which is a suitable material in both terms of the required properties of flexibility and in terms of sufficient resistance by dint of the thickening (in the case of application thereof to the production of capsules, naturally).
  • the thickening 112 can also be a little more rigid than the rest of the abutting region, whose flexibility, and thus recessibility, is in any case absolutely guaranteed by the remaining part thereof which is not thickened.
  • the points of the perforating means when pushing on the thickened part 112 of the bottom thus cannot completely perforate it; at most they can slightly pierce it and penetrate it over a very short tract thereof, enabling the retraction and the creation of the housing, mentioned herein above at several points, thanks to the flexibility of the rest of the abutting region.
  • the abutting region 111 may have an annular thickening 112 such as to receive points of elements of perforating means that are arranged in a circle, as often happens in practice; that is, more precisely, the are arranged within an ideal area between two ideal concentric circles.
  • the annular thickening 112 is preferably housed in the bottom 11, i.e. inside the internal volume 100.
  • a projecting lower part could go to abut with the perforating means before they perform the perforating run, thus creating problems not only of insertion but also of functionality.
  • the capsule 1 can be used with an extraction device in which the perforating means include a plurality of pointed elements, with their points placed side by side, because of the providing of an abutting region 111 with increased thickness 112 over an area facing the points, naturally when the perforating means perform their perforating run.
  • the abutting region 11 comprises an annular thinning 113, i.e. a slimming of the bottom wall 11, having an annular hollow shape, arranged about the resistant portion 112 and having a smaller thickness than the rest of the abutting region 111.
  • the annular thinning 113 reduces the rigidity of the bottom 11 (more precisely of the abutting region 11) in the area where it is fashioned.
  • the bottom 11 deforms even more easily in the places where the annular thinning 113 is located.
  • annular thinning 113 is fashioned in the internal surface of the bottom 11 and has basically the form of a circumferential hollowing (or groove) and is made on the toroidal circumferential surface of or in any case, if it has a concavity facing the interior of the capsule 1 (the internal volume of 100).
  • the groove obviously concave, further decreases the rigidity of the bottom 11 when pushed in the direction in which it faces the concavity of the groove (obeying known structural laws).
  • polypropylene as a material to make the capsule 1 is fully compatible with all the functionalities described above, and enhances the properties of resistance to perforation, flexibility or rigidity of the invention.
  • the annular relief 113 is fashioned at the connecting edge between the bottom edge 11 and a lateral wall 12 of the beaker-shaped body 10 to substantially define a projecting external crease and a toroidal internal convexity, in which the thickness of the wall of the beaker-shaped body 10 is smaller than in the rest of the capsule 1.
  • the input filter 110 preferably realised in a monolithic body in the beaker-shaped body 10, comprises a multiplicity of through holes of such a size as to allow the passage of pressurised hot water and prevent passage of powder having a grain size that is equivalent to or greater than the grain size of powder preparations for hot drinks.
  • the above relates both to the fact that the holes are smaller than the smallest grains of powder preparation usable for producing hot drinks, and to the fact that they are of a sufficiently small size such that the grains of a particular preparation to which the capsule is destined cannot pass through, at least when they have a low moisture level, i.e. in the condition in which they are transported.
  • the size of the holes is relative to the beverage the preparation is for, and is not relative to residues dissolved in the hot drink, which in any case do not exit from the internal volume 100 towards the outside for the inlet filter 10 as they cannot move against the current of the water flow (or the flow of the drink being brewed).
  • the inlet filter 110 is preferably surrounded by the thickening 112 itself, because the area included in it is the one which deforms least during the receding by the capsule 1, (although it may well be the one that best recedes into the capsule 1) due to the fact that the described structure, especially if there is the thinning 113, creates a combination of forces acting on the bottom 11 cause it to deform to a considerable extent externally of the thickening 112.
  • the thickening 112 is pushed directly by the points in several places and so is less likely to bend, and with it the area comprised therein.
  • an additional portion can be provided of the inlet filter 110 fashioned between the annular thickening 112 and the thinning 113, as shown in figure 2 .
  • the internal chambers of extraction equipment are made in such a way as to be closed by insertion of a capsule, even in prior art realisations.
  • a capsule inserted in the chamber acts as a cap, with the upper collar, or similar elements of the prior art, in contact with the upper edge of the chamber or, if so desired, with the edge of a particular mouth thereof, so that the part of the beaker-shaped body of the capsule below the collar passes.
  • the beverage formed exits through the cover and at this point is already outside the chamber and can easily be destined for final dispensing to the user.
  • the upper edge of the chamber exhibits prominences at an apex of which there is an edge; the prominences are arranged in a row along the upper edge such that the apex edges are arranged flanked about the mouth of the opening (which is normally round).
  • the capsules of know type bear, below the upper collar, a silicone ring destined to be deformed on encountering the apex edges such as at least partly to fill the spaces between the prominences.
  • the disclosed capsule 1 can advantageously comprise a thinned zone (not illustrated in the figures) along a circular crown fashioned in the lower wall of the upper collar 13, for example realised with an alternation of slim blind splits and walls, which give a greater plasticity to the thinned zone with respect to the rest of the upper collar 13, such that with the encounter with the prominences, the thinned zone is deformed by the apex corners such that it goes to fill the spaces between the prominences, sealing the chamber once the capsule 1 has been inserted.
  • a thinned zone (not illustrated in the figures) along a circular crown fashioned in the lower wall of the upper collar 13, for example realised with an alternation of slim blind splits and walls, which give a greater plasticity to the thinned zone with respect to the rest of the upper collar 13, such that with the encounter with the prominences, the thinned zone is deformed by the apex corners such that it goes to fill the spaces between the prominences, sealing the chamber once the capsule 1 has been inserted.
  • the walls and the blind splits can be arranged (or "orientated") in a spoke-fashion about the beaker-shaped body 10.

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