Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.v.

Egidijus Bartkus

Geoff York

Andrew Michael Halliday

Nick Andrew Hansen

Esak Shabudin

Simon Carr

Paul Alderson

Andrew Halliday

A die-cut lid for closing a container is formed from a flexible composite sheet material. The lid comprises a functional area bearing human-readable and/or machine-readable data. One or more rigidifying indentations are provided on the lid to promote flatness of the functional area in a resting state of the lid. The one or more rigidifying indentations can be in the form of one or more encircling indentations that border the functional area; and/or a planar indentation that encompasses the functional area.

Die-cut lid and associated container and method

A method of dispensing a beverage comprising: a) inserting a beverage ingredient tablet () into a beverage preparation machine (); b) measuring a characteristic associated with the thickness of at least a portion of the beverage ingredient tablet () to identify the beverage ingredient tablet (); c) configuring one or more dispense parameters of the beverage preparation machine () based on the identification of the beverage ingredient tablet (); and d) operating the beverage preparation machine () to dispense a beverage by contacting the beverage ingredient tablet () with an aqueous fluid.

Method of dispensing a beverage, a beverage preparation machine, and a system

A die-cut lid () for closing a container is disclosed; the lid being formed from a flexible composite sheet material (). The lid comprises a functional area () bearing human-readable and/or machine-readable data with the lid comprising one or more rigidifying indentations () to promote flatness of the functional area in a resting state of the lid. The one or more rigidifying indentations are selected from the group of: A lidded container () comprising such a die-cut lid and a method of forming a die-cut lid are also described.

The present invention provides a method of dispensing a beverage comprising: a) inserting a beverage ingredient tablet () into a beverage preparation machine (); b) measuring a surface finish of at least a portion of the beverage ingredient tablet () to identify the beverage ingredient tablet; c) configuring one or more dispense parameters of the beverage preparation machine () based on the identification of the beverage ingredient tablet (); and d) operating the beverage preparation machine () to dispense a beverage by contacting the beverage ingredient tablet () with an aqueous fluid.

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Banbury, United Kingdom

Egidijus Bartkus