Dispensing unit for manually-operated hot drink dispensing machine with pre-manufactured throwaway capsules of two sizes

• US 4,775,048 A
• Filed: 05/27/1986
• Issued: 10/04/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aldo Bozzolini, Alfredo Baecchi, Carlo Mori, Tancredo Santoni
• Original Assignee: Aldo Bozzolini, Alfredo Baecchi, Carlo Mori, Tancredo Santoni
• Inventors: Baecchi, Alfredo, Bozzolini, Aldo, Santoni, Tancredo, Mori, Carlo
• Primary Examiner(s): Foster, Jimmy G.
• Application Number:
  US06/867,382
• Time in Patent Office: 861 Days
• Field of Search: 99/295, 99/305, 99/306, 210/476, 210/479, 206/0.5, 220/74, 220/306, 220/368, 422/278, 426/77-80, 426/82, 426/84, 426/112, 426/432, 426/433, 426/435
• US Class Current: 206/.5
• CPC Class Codes: A47J 31/407 with ingredient-containing cartridges; Cartridge-perforating means

Abstract

A container for beverages for use with a beverage dispensing apparatus. The container is also provided with a cover which controls the heat content of the liquid supplied to the container and contains a substance suitable to be dissolved in water. The container and cover are each provided with mating flanges, and the cover includes elements cooperating with the water supply. A dispensing unit is provided which includes a cylinder forming a sleeve for the containers during use, an inner cylinder forming two chambers suitable for forming a housing for the corresponding containers, and a water supply head equipped with several ports for hot water and a separate port for cold water. The cover of the containers is provided with two raised annular elements, suitable for forming a chamber communicating with the port for the cold water so that when a container, inserted into the cylinder is pressed against the head, only the introduction of hot water into the container is permitted and the heat content of the liquid supplied to the substance in the body is controlled.

Claims

1. A container for beverages for use with a beverage dispensing apparatus having a liquid supply head including at least one hot liquid supply port and a cold liquid supply port separate from said hot liquid supply port, each of the supply ports being adapted for supplying a liquid to the container, and wherein the container to receive the liquid cooperates with said dispensing apparatus and controls the heat content of the liquid supplied to the container, said container comprising;

a generally lower body including a base and a cylindraceous outer portion connected with said base to form a cupshaped member for holding such beverages, said body having an outer upper peripheral flange; and

a cover for said body, said cover having an outer peripheral upper flange fitting over the outer upper peripheral flange of said body;

said cover including dispensing apparatus liquid sealing means on said cover for controlling the heat content of the liquid supplied to said body, and said sealing means cooperating with said liquid supply head when placed in compression thereagainst and forming a liquid tight seal with said head, said body being suitable to house a pre-manufactured substance suitable to be dissolved in the liquid;

said dispenser apparatus sealing means cooperating with said flanges on said body and said cover to control the heat content of the liquid supplied to the substance in said body; and

said liquid sealing means on said cover including two annlar cuspidal raised concentric elements forming an annular chamber to communicate with the liquid supply head of the dispensing apparatus for closing off the cold liquid supply port to prevent the supply of cold liquid by compressing the liquid supply head against said annular, cuspidal raised, concentric elements.

2. The container of claim 1, wherein said container flange has an anchoring lower collar proximate to said container for suspending said container in said dispending unit apparatus.

3. A container for beverages for use with a beverage dispensing apparatus, said beverge dispensing apparatus including a water supply head with at least one hot water suppy port and a cold water supply port separate from said hot water supply port for supplying water to the container wherein the container to receive the water controls the heat content of the supplied water;

said container comprising;

a generally lower body including a base and an upper portion forming a cup-shaped member for holding such beverages, said body having an outer peripheral flange;

a cover for said body, said cover having an outer peripheral upper flange fitting over said outer peripheral flange of said body;

said cover including two raised, annular, cuspidal sealing elements adapted to cooperte with said water supply head when placed in compression thereagainst and to form a water tight seal with said head, said two cuspidal annular elements forming an annular chamber, said body being suitable to house a pre-manufactured substance suitable to be dissolved in water; and

said cuspidal sealing elements and said flanges on said body and said cover cooperating with each other to control the heat content of the liquid supplied to the substance in said body.

4. The container of claim 3, wherein:

said lower body comprises two cylindrical sections, one of said cylindrical sections being of a greater diametrical extent than the other, and a collar in the shape of a truncated cone joining said two cylindrical sections; and

said two annular, cuspidal, raised, concentric elements on said cover forming an annular chamber to communicate with the cold water port in said water supply head, one of said two elements being subjected to bending in a centripetal direction.