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| 20090047389 | BEVERAGE-INGREDIENT CAPSULE AND CAPSULE-BASED BEVERAGE PRODUCTION METHOD - A sealed capsule for containing an ingredient is provided with at least one essentially rigid inner jet direction-diverting member being arranged close to the inner side of a face of the capsule. The inner jet direction-diverting member is designed to divert the direction of at least a portion of a water jet injected through an opening produced in the face. The invention further proposes the dynamical profiling of inner channels in at least one face of the capsule by pressing the face of the capsule against a profiling member of the beverage production device. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090293736 | BREWING DEVICE AND BREWING CAPSULE SYSTEM WITH A CAPSULE HOLDER FOR FACILITATING INSERTION AND REMOVAL OF CAPSULES - A brewing device for the brewing of a capsule containing beverage ingredients. This device includes a frame, first and second capsule enclosing members for at least partially enclosing the capsule during brewing, wherein the first enclosing member is mobile along the frame in relation to the second enclosing member, a closing mechanism to actuate the first enclosing member, the closing mechanism including an actuation member; a capsule holding member for receiving the capsule during insertion of the capsule between the first and second enclosing members and for holding it in place during closing of the enclosing members. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090308258 | BREWING DEVICE FOR CAPSULE WITH CLOSURE MECHANISM OF VARIABLE TRANSMISSION RATIO - A brewing device for the brewing of a capsule containing a beverage ingredient, the device including a main frame, a first capsule holding part, a second capsule holding part for at least partially holding the capsule mobile relative to the first capsule holding part in the frame and linked to the frame by a closing mechanism that includes knuckle joints; and a manual handle forming lever to activate via the closing mechanism the second holding part from the open position to the closed position and vice versa. The closing mechanism includes an additional force transmitting member associated with the handle and arranged to de-multiply the force applied by the handle on the knuckle joints that compensates for the increase of the force needed for closing the holding parts on the capsule. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100100241 | AUTONOMOUS FOOD AND BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION MACHINE - The invention proposes an autonomous mobile robotic device in the form of an integrated machine for producing beverages or liquid comestibles. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100147156 | CAPSULE WITH FLOW REGULATING TECHNOLOGY - A capsule comprising beverage ingredients therein, and including a closed enclosure hermetically sealed to gas; and a perforated flow-regulating disc member which is arranged in the closed enclosure, perpendicularly to the liquid flow path inside the capsule, and which is configured for separating the ingredients at least partially into at least two ingredient spaces and which enables liquid to spread more evenly and transversely across one ingredient space and to the periphery of the enclosure to facilitate extraction of the beverage ingredients in the ingredient spaces. The capsule also may include an insert located within the enclosure and having tubular portions which are respectively open away from the center of the enclosure, wherein the insert is centrally arranged inside the capsule, and the ingredients are entirely provided radially outside the tubular portions of the insert. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110003046 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE BY CENTRIFUGATION - An apparatus for preparing a beverage liquid from beverage forming ingredients contained in a receptacle by passing water through the ingredients by centrifuging the receptacle. The apparatus includes a centrifugal driver for driving the receptacle around its central axis of rotation (I), a device for feeding water into the receptacle, a filter placed in the receptacle, and at least one beverage flow outlet of variable cross-section for enabling the beverage to flow out of the receptacle. | 01-06-2011 |
