Nestec S.a.

Pepsico, Inc.

Thierry Jean Robert Fabozzi

Lucio Scorrano

Yann Epars

Nihan Dogan

Heinz Wyss

Alain Meier

Sophie Abraham

Nicolas Bezet

Yasmine Doudin

Frédéric Doleac

Brent William Lindberg

Bruno Telesca

Girish Nilkanth Deshpande

Jenna Lee Walsh

Laura A Dellevigne

Nicolas Jean-Guy Bezet

Frederic Doleac

Stephane Hentzel

Martin Antoine Mathelier

Zenon Ioannis Mandralis

Vincent Martin

Jae Young Jeon

Shari Lee Morse

Roland Lehmann

Keyonna Anderson

Michael I Custer

Stéphane Hentzel

Rafael Mittler

Klaus Wessolleck

Delphine Musset

Alain Contal

Karine Laithier

Hans-Markus Kohli

A beverage ingredient pod for releasing beverage ingredients into a bottle to create a mixed beverage includes a liquid-ingredient chamber, a solid-ingredient chamber, a frangible membrane between and separating the liquid-ingredient chamber and the solid-ingredient chamber, and a rigid piercer that extends to a point toward the frangible membrane. Upon a force applied to the beverage ingredient pod, a portion of the pod collapses and drives the rigid piercer through the frangible membrane. This mixes contents of the liquid-ingredient chamber with contents of the solid-ingredient chamber and releases the mixed contents from the beverage ingredient pod into a bottle below that is filled with a liquid, creating a mixed beverage.

Beverage ingredient pod

An over-cap device for use with containers having caps. The over-cap device includes an outer wall, a cap engagement wall, and a spacing wall. The cap engagement wall may non-releasably engage an outer surface of the cap and the spacing wall may engage a top surface of the cap. The cap may releasably engage a container.

Container closure with over-cap device

The invention concerns a container () for storing and dispensing a flowable product comprising a tank () and a dispensing closure for dispensing the product from the tank comprising disc member () with apertures () therein, one of the disc () being rotatable and susceptible to cooperate with a rotatable shaft. The invention also concerns a machine susceptible to be fed with a flowable product stored in such a container, said machine comprising disc members () with apertures () therein, one of the disc () being rotatable and cooperating with a rotatable shaft ().

System of a container for storing and dispensing a product and a machine for dosing the product

The present invention concerns a beverage preparation capsule () defining a closed chamber for enclosing a mass of soluble and/or extractable food material, for use in a beverage preparation machine, comprising: (i) a capsule body with side walls (), a bottom wall () open with a dispensing opening (), said capsule body walls comprising an injection-moulded oil-based or biomass-based thermoplastic material, which is not a gas-barrier material, (ii) a gas and moisture impermeable top membrane (), pierceable by injection means (N) of the machine which are adapted to inject an extraction liquid under pressure inside said chamber, and (iii) a gas and moisture impermeable bottom membrane () sealed inside the capsule body near the bottom wall (), (iv) means () adapted to open said chamber by relative engagement with the bottom membrane under the effect of the liquid pressure increase in the chamber during injection of said liquid, characterized in that the inside or outside surface of the capsule body is at least partially covered by a gas-, and optionally moisture-, impermeable label () permanently attached by in-mould labelling to said capsule body wall, said label having a tridimensional shape such that the labelled capsule is gas and moisture tight.

In-mould labelled capsule for beverage preparation

A capsule for the preparation of a nutritional product in a device adapted to supply liquid into the capsule. The capsule includes at least one compartment containing nutritional ingredients for the preparation of the nutritional product in combination with the supplied liquid, and a filter adapted for removing contaminants contained in the liquid. The capsule also has a selectively openable gas inlet which is placed on or in the capsule to allow gas introduction from outside the capsule into the compartment without passing through the filter.

Capsule, method and device for preparing a nutritional product

Capsule and filter unit for the preparation of a nutritional product in a device adapted to supply liquid in the capsule. The capsule is constructed to have at least one compartment containing nutritional ingredients for the preparation of the nutritional product in combination with the supplied liquid, and a filter adapted for removing contaminants contained in the liquid. The filter is formed as a relatively rigid filter unit that includes a filter membrane and an outlet wall for supporting the filter membrane. The outlet wall has at least one liquid outlet communicating with the compartment.

Capsule for preparing a nutritional product including a filter and method

The present invention concerns an injection-molded capsule for use in a food preparation machine, said capsule for use in a food preparation machine comprising: (i) a structure () with a lower side (), at least three pillars () extending from the lower side and linked to a circular upper frame () which defines the surroundings of the capsule top side, the pillars () having cross-sections S, Sand S, the lower side () being a solid wall that comprises a dispensing opening () and is centered across the vertical symmetry axis VSA of said capsule, and (ii) a label () attached to the outer surface of the lower side (), pillars () and upper circular frame (), thus forming an envelope that defines capsule side walls, characterized in that the injection point IP of the capsule is off-centered in the vicinity of said dispensing opening (), opposed the pillar () having a cross-section Srelatively to the axis VSA, and in that S=Sand S&#x3e;S

In-mould labelled container

Capsule for the preparation of a nutritional product in a device adapted to supply liquid in the capsule, said capsule comprising: at least one compartment () containing nutritional ingredients for the preparation of the nutritional product in combination with the supplied liquid, a filter () adapted for removing contaminants contained in the liquid, wherein the filter () has a filtering surface (F) smaller than the cross section (C) of the compartment and at least a part of its filtering surface (F) is preferably offset relative to the cross section (C) of the compartment when viewed in the axial projection of the capsule.

Capsule for preparing a nutritional product including a filter

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Geneva, Switzerland

Thierry Jean Robert Fabozzi