Hansa Metallwerke Ag

Nestec S.a.

Roland Huber

Alexandre Kollep

Daniel Abegglen

Thomas Kaeser

Method for producing a capsule containing beverage ingredients designed for insertion in a beverage production device in which a liquid under pressure enters the capsule in order to interact with the ingredients in the capsule and to drain a beverage from the capsule, wherein the capsule includes a body with a sealing member attached thereto. The method includes providing the body with a main cavity, injecting at least one sealing material by injection-molding onto at least a portion of the external surface of the body to mold a sealing member sealingly attached to the body, filling the cavity with food ingredients and imperviously closing the cavity with a membrane to provide a closed capsule containing the food ingredients.

Capsule for preparing a beverage with a sealing member for water tightness attached thereto and method of producing the same

A hand-held shower comprises a handle through the interior of which the water supply to the shower head is effected, the connection fitting for the shower hose is held in an axially displaceable manner: in a first axial position, the connection fitting is freely rotatable relative to the handle so that the shower hose connected to the hand-held shower is prevented from twisting. In the second axial position of the connection fitting, the free rotatability relative to the handle is suspended by a form closure.

Hand-held shower

A multifunction hand shower can be used in at least two modes of operation: in the first of these modes of operation, the shower jets emerge from the shower base (3) in a constant stream at relatively high speed and with a small cross-section ('hard jet mode') and in the second mode of operation they emerge at high speed and with a relatively small cross-section, but are intermittently interrupted ('pulse jet mode'). The periodic interruption of the 'pulse jets' is ensured by a pulse wheel (23) which is housed in a circular chamber (20) in the housing (1) in such a way that it can rotate. In the 'hard jet mode', the rotation of the pulse wheel (23) is interrupted, by a stop (45), in a quite specific angular position which allows the hard jets to emerge from the shower base (3) in a constant stream. To change over to 'pulse jet mode', the stop (45) is moved out of the path of movement of a stop (28) which is connected to the pulse wheel (23) such that the pulse wheel (23) is now able to rotate freely. The paths taken by the water inside the housing (1) and especially the water outlet openings (4) through which the water flows are the same in the 'hard jet mode' and the 'pulse jet mode'.

Multifunction hand shower

In a multifunction hand shower the mode of operation is selected by a change-over mechanism which has a slide (56) which has essentially linear movement. This can be set in three different positions. The slide (56) is connected via a guide and cam mechanism (62, 65) to a first change-over device (37) which can be moved into two different positions. The first position is adopted by the first change-over device (37) in the first mode of operation and the second position in the two other modes of operation. A second change-over device (45) can also be moved backwards and forwards between two positions which correspond to the second and a third mode of operation of the shower. Here, a spring (49) forces the second change-over device (45) into a preferred position. Whether the second change-over device (45) reaches this preferred position depends upon the position of a stop (59, 60) which is attached to the slide (56). The slide (56) is moved for preference by a rocker-type manual actuator (53).

The shower base (1) of a shower head consists of a rigid perforated plate (1a), which has a number of holes (4, 5). Set inside each of the holes (4, 5) in the perforated plate (1a) is a hose-type jet insert (6, 8) made of a flexible material which, owing to its material properties, can be automatically flexed to dislodge limescale deposits. The shower base (1) is sealed against the rest of the shower head, in particular against its housing (2) by means of one or more seals (25, 29). This/these seal(s) (25, 29) is/are made of the same material as the jet inserts (6, 8) and is/are manufactured jointly with these, for preference connected in one piece. In this way, it is not necessary for the seals (25, 29) to be manufactured, kept in store and assembled separately.

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Henschiken, Switzerland

Roland Huber