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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Nick Andrew Hansen, Banbury, GB;
Nick Andrew Hansen, Banbury, GB;
Other;
Abstract
This disclosure relates to improvements in beverage/food product preparation systems and in particular to beverage/food product preparation systems having machines of the type which use pre-packaged cartridges containing beverage or food ingredients. The cartridge () contains one or more beverage or food ingredients for use in a machine for preparing a beverage or food product from said ingredients. The cartridge () includes a base (), an outlet aperture () in the base (), and a collar () extending from the cartridge base () around the outlet aperture (). The cartridge () is inserted into a holding receptacle () of a machine the collar () interacts with an element () of the machine and the collar () is configured to determine the pressure in the cartridge () during the preparation process.