Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.

British American Tobacco (investments) Limited

Unilever Bestoods, North American, Division of Conopco, Inc.

Charanjit Singh Nandra

Miles Pennington

Alfred Vincent Spencer

Timothy Hope Jebb

David Helps

Edward Awty

Benjamin Phalan Oates

Paul Frobisher

Michael Newnham

Adrian John Maxwell

Richard Harbutt

Anthony Edward Quinn

Jane Nicholls

Derek Roberts

A deformable additive release component () for a smoking article is disclosed, comprising an aperture () through which additive may be released, an outer wall section (), an inner wall section () that defines a chamber () within which the additive is held and at least one channel () between the inner and outer wall sections to allow airflow through the component, wherein the component is configured to transmit a compressive force applied to the outer wall section to the inner wall section and to open the aperture. A filter () for a smoking article that comprises said additive release component, and a smoking article () that comprises said additive release component or said filter, are also described. Methods of manufacturing the additive release components is also disclosed.

Additive release component

Tea brewing machine

A machine for brewing tea. The machine has a housing, a vessel for receiving leaf tea and a hot water supply that supplies hot water to that vessel. The leaf tea is physically agitated within the vessel to maximise the rate and extent of infusion and the resulting infusion is siphoned out of the vessel before it is dispensed.

Tea brewing method and apparatus

A machine for brewing tea, particularly in a shoc situation. The machine has a housing and at least one brewing assembly. The brewing assembly is formed to hold a brewing cup that has a filter that defines and separates a first cavity within the brewing cup for containing tea leaves and a second cavity from which tea leaves are excluded. The housing has a water supply that supplies a predetermined volume of water at a temperature that is suitable for infusing tea leaves. It also has a water supply channel for delivering the water into the first cavity of the brewing cup, and a siphon tube that has a siphoning end that extends orthogonally upward into the second cavity of the brewing cup and a downward projecting dispensing end. The apparatus is constructed in a way that tea leaves infuse as the water is supplied into the first cavity of the brewing cup, but once the level of infused tea liquor in the second cavity of the brewing cup rises above the siphoning end of the siphon tube the tea liquor siphons down the siphon tube and is dispensed from the dispensing end of the siphon tube.

Tea brewing apparatus

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London, United Kingdom

Charanjit Singh Nandra