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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2018
Pepsico, Inc., Purchase, NY (US);
Keyonna Anderson, Chicago, IL (US);
Girish Nilkanth Deshpande, Carmel, NY (US);
Bruno Telesca, Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Michael I. Custer, Batavia, IL (US);
Thierry Jean Robert Fabozzi, Geneva, CH;
Jae Young Jeon, Des Plaines, IL (US);
Brent Lindberg, St. Charles, IL (US);
Jenna Walsh, Batavia, IL (US);
PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY (US);
Abstract
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.