Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D85/8055—Means for influencing the liquid flow inside the package

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a capsule for infusion of products in granules, powder or leaves, such as, for example, coffee, barley, powered milk, tea, chamomile etc.
• the capsules described above have a plurality of drawbacks .
• the main problems are the impregnation of the infusion product with the water to form the beverage, the possibility that some of the infusion product may not be concerned by the water entering into the capsule and the possibility that part of the infusion product may exit from the bottom wall.
• the first two problems are mainly due to preferential channels that the water uses to pass from the inlet to the outlet of the capsule. Furthermore, the first two problems are also due to the excessive passage speed of the water across the capsule.
• a capsule for infusion products comprising:
• a lid which is arranged so as to close said cup- shaped body and is provided with a water inlet area;
• figure 1 is a perspective top view of a capsule made according to the dictates of the present invention.
• figure 2 is a perspective bottom view of the capsule in figure 1 ;
• figure 4 is a view on enlarged scale of a part of the cup-shaped body in figure 3;
• figure 5 is a plan view of the cup-shaped body in figure 3.
• Lateral wall 3 has an upper annular edge 8 onto which lid 5 is fixed, which is in close contact with the lower face of the upper body of the percolation chamber in use: furthermore, lateral wall 3 has a lower annular edge 9 which extends beyond the level of bottom wall 4 and is in close contact with the upper face of the lower body of the percolation chamber in use. Furthermore, an annular abutment 10, which defines an annular groove 11 with the edge 9, extends outwards from bottom wall 4 (figures 3 and 4) .
• a plurality of abutments 12 arranged on several rows concentric to one another extend from the inner face of the bottom wall 4.
• holes 7 are made in the central part of the bottom wall 4, and then a first row of abutments 12 arranged equidistant from one another along a first circumference with center in the center of the bottom wall 4 is defined about them.
• a second row of abutments 12, also equidistant from one another and with the space defined between two subsequent abutments 12 at an abutment 12 of the first row of abutments 12, is defined about that, at a given distance and concentrically to the first row of abutments 12.
• a fourth row of abutments 12, also equidistant from one another and with the space defined between two subsequent abutments 12 at an abutment 12 of the third row of abutments 12, is defined about that, at a given distance and concentrically to the third row of abutments 12. It is ⁇
• the abutments 12 of each row are equal in size and that the size of the abutments 12 of each row is different from the size of the abutments of the other rows.
• the longitudinal axis of the abutments 12 of the first and of fourth row are defined along a diametrical axis with center in the center of the bottom wall 4, while the longitudinal axis of the abutments 12 of the second and third row is tangent to the circumference of the respective row.
• the abutments 12 of the fourth row have a longitudinal end which originates from the inner face of the lateral wall 3.
• the disc 13 has a diameter that is smaller than the diameter of the inner face of the lateral wall 3 at the same level of the disc 13, and for this reason, the disc 13 rests only on an inner portion of the fourth row of abutments 12. In this manner, an annular passage 14 of the water is created between the peripheral edge of the disc 13 and the inner face of the lateral wall 3.
• the water which mixes with the infusion product present in the chamber defined in the cup-shaped body 2 over the disc 13 is made to enter into the cup- shaped body 2 through the holes 6.
• the beverage thus defined by such a mixing is conveyed through the passage 14 into the labyrinth-shaped channels created by the rows of abutments 2 and from such channels the beverage exits from the capsule 1 through the holes 7.
• disc 13 has micro holes appropriately spaced out from one another so that the water may be channeled towards the labyrinth either through passage 14 and micro holes or through the micro holes alone when the 13 has a diameter equal to the inner diameter of lateral wall 3 and thus when the passage 14 is not present.
• cup-shaped body 2 and/or lid 5 are made of PET and/or PP, which, as known, are plastic materials of the polyolefin class.
• the entire capsule 1 is preferably made of a biodegradable plastic material, which, as known, is defined by a plastic material appropriately blended with already known substances, or alternatively by using biopolymers which make the capsules 1 biodegradable.

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