ITBO990113A1 - CONTAINMENT OF DISPOSABLE POWDERS OR GRANULES OF DISPOSABLE BEVERAGES REALIZED IN FOOD MATERIALS SUCH AS FLOURS AND VARIOUS PASTES. - Google Patents

Description

DESCRIPTION of the industrial invention entitled: "Packaging containing powders or granules of disposable drinks made of food material such as flours and various pastes".

TEXT OF THE DESCRIPTION

Among the various ways to take advantage of ground coffee obtaining a good drink from espresso to American coffee, Turkish coffee and so on - that of using a fixed dose of already ground coffee, duly pressed and dosed has become a reality. not negligible. The same technique of preparation of the powder product is also used to prepare drinks such as tea, barley and other drinks.

In principle, there are two systems for yielding pre-ground and pre-measured doses, generally also known as 'pods': a paper container or in a container or cage made of food-grade plastic material in which to insert the dose of drinkable product by means of automated and qualitatively indisputable procedures. to exploit.

Both systems, although very clean and practical, presently present problems of disposing of the pod or capsule, once the exploitation process has been completed.

In fact, both the paper and the plastic that wraps the amount of coffee or other product is not recycled by the natural cycle of earth's regeneration.

The present invention relates to a new cartridge, or wafer, or cage, or container, if you prefer, produced with a food mixture of flour, intended as a product obtained by grinding and subsequent sieving, or not sieved being therefore integral, of the fruits of many cereals, legumes, wheat and other dried parts of various edible plants such as potatoes, soybeans, maize, rice, chestnuts, refined and processed to obtain a food product.

It is left to the practical maker of the cartridge to study the different characteristics of the mixture according to the seeds used, the milling technique and other characteristics to achieve a greater aptitude for exploitation as explained below.

The mixture with which the beverage container is formed can be mixed with other ingredients such as vanillin, sugar, sweeteners, including low-calorie sweeteners, chocolate, coffee powder itself, barley and more, so as to constitute not only the packaging of the drink to be exploited but substantially an additional ingredient to the drink itself This creates a vast range of exploitation, as any company can specialize in certain types of drink so as to characterize its product.

The paste that makes up the cartridge can be soluble, dissolving when the exploitation water passes and thus leaving the exploited powder free to be discharged into the waste. With this solution, the solubility can enrich the flavor of the drink being prepared. If, on the other hand, the mixture is insoluble, once the exploitation of the main drink is finished, the cartridge can be removed which - if specially prepared - will have transferred the ingredients with which it was eventually impregnated to the drink itself and can be disposed of for waste or reuse. such as fertilization.

For the purpose of exploiting the main drink, you can choose different solutions such as, for example, making the paste of the porous wafer, so that in the exploitation this allows the passage of water. Or it can be perforated in various ways to allow the exploitation of the internal product.

The particular characteristics of the invention and the resulting advantages will result in more detail from the description of some preferred embodiments, illustrated by way of example, not limiting in the attached drawings in which:

With reference to the attached drawings, the food paste cartridge can be of any suitable shape, expressly dedicated to a type of machine or apparatus for exploiting the contents of the pod, or of standard dimensions and shapes, or the current market dimensions.

Figure 1 shows an overall view of the main parts of the cartridge consisting of two layers (10) and (11) which enclose the powder (20) of the beverage to be exploited inside.

Figure 2 shows a second overall view of another type of cartridge in this case made in the form of a container (30) surmounted by a lid (31) or by two containers (41) and (42) which joined together form the cartridge . The cover (31), according to construction or exploitation requirements, can be made of paper filtering material with the filtering part in paper at the inlet, or at the outlet or on both sides (fig. 3 partic.

80).

This type of cartridges are suitable, for production purposes, to be used, based on their construction characteristics, to contain 1, 2, 3 or more doses of coffee or drink.

As shown in figure 3, this can be achieved both by creating internal thicknesses (51) and (52) of the same compound as the external mixture of the cartridge and with thicknesses of this mixture mixed with ingredients that dissolve or dilute with the main substance. go to characterize the drink itself. Or, by preparing various sizes of lids (61), (62), (63), which make up for the vacuum created by the lack of doses until a maximum volume of the container is reached. A further solution can be to mix or in any case combine inside the container, even separately, the main powder (eg coffee) with additional substances, soluble or not (eg milk powder) that they give a specific drink as a final product (in our examples a cappuccino).

Finally, figure 4 shows in section the two general models for the exploitation of the disposable food container, the first model (70) proposes the traditional shape and size for the standard exploitation chamber in many models of wafer equipment equipped with an upper body (71 ) and lower body (72) movable and equipped with shower (73) and filter (74). In this case, the dough that forms the sheet of this 'wafer' will be duly porous to allow the passage of the exploitation water. The second model (90) proposed, in addition to being used as the previous model, is inserted in an exploitation chamber (91) in which at the moment of extraction a special punch (92) with attached filter (93) pierces the cartridge (101) going to infuse the product to be exploited directly on the powder. In this case the mixture, being used in a different way, will have another characteristic and will be differently porous.

In constructive practice, the various solutions and the various examples indicated may be combined as desired or used in part without distorting or canceling the underlying concept of this patent and the following claims.

Claims (16)

CLAIMS 1. Disposable container cartridge, or wafer, or cage, or container, if you prefer, produced with a food mixture of flour, intended as a product obtained by grinding and subsequent sieving, or not sieved being therefore integral, of the fruits of many cereals, legumes, wheat and other dried parts of various edible plants such as potatoes, maize, rice, chestnuts, refined and processed to obtain a food product. 2. Disposable food dough container according to claim 1, the floury dough of which can include other ingredients such as vanillin, sugar, sweeteners, including low-calorie sweeteners, chocolate and more, so as to constitute not only the package of the beverage to be exploited but substantially an additional ingredient to the drink itself once exploited. 3. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 and 2, the mixture of which composing the cartridge can be soluble by dissolving when the operating water passes through. 4. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 to 3, the degree of porosity of the dough that allows the passage of water to be exploited will be determined according to the type of use and / or beverage to be exploited. 5. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 to 4, the pasty casing of which can be perforated in one or more points to allow a better or a different degree of exploitation of the beverage to be exploited. 6. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 to 5, inside which, in addition to the powder or granules of the main drink to be exploited, a variable quantity of one or more other additional products is introduced - mixed with the main substance or in any way divided from this but always inside the container itself - to prepare a specific drink made from the exploitation of the prepared mixture. 7. Disposable food mixture container according to all the preceding claims, the shape and size of which can be of any size, adopting, for commercial needs, the current standard (A-A) or commercially accepted measures. 8. Disposable container with food mixture according to all the preceding claims, of which one or more new forms of wrapping can be devised for containing the powder or granules of the beverage, while designing a machine or equipment suitably dedicated to the exploitation of the shape of the 'specially designed casing. 9. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 to 8, in which with a single size of cartridge (30) it is possible to produce different doses by means of different sizes of lids or caps (61 - 62 - 63) of product such as for 1, 2, 3 or more cups. 10. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 to 9, in the container of which, Γ insertion of special thicknesses of different sizes (51 - 52), always of food mixture, are made with a single cartridge size (30) , different doses of product such as for 1, 2, 3 or more cups. 11. Disposable food mixture container according to claims 1 to 11, whose internal thicknesses (51 - 52), soluble or non-soluble, mixed with other accessory substances such as sugar or sweeteners or more, being released into the operating water , substantially become an additional ingredient to the drink itself once exploited, giving the drink a particular characteristic. Disposable container with food mixture according to the preceding claims, with the possibility of closing and filtering the beverage to be used with a paper filter placed on one or more sides in the direction of entry only, exit only, or both. 13. Disposable food mixture container according to the preceding claims in which the combination of the main blend, additional products, caps and / or thicknesses produce a beverage with specific and particular characteristics. 14. Disposable food mixture container according to all the preceding claims, whose union of the various sheets, containers, lids, thicknesses - soluble or insoluble - can be made according to the most varied, practical and factually realistic ways practical and theoretical knowledge allows. 15. Disposable food mixture container according to the previous claims whose use can be given by the transport of substances fed by the producer to the final consumer, only as protection or as an integral part of the transported food. 16. Disposable container cartridge, or wafer, or cage, casing or container as you prefer according to all the preceding claims, produced with a food mixture of flour, in whole or in part as described, illustrated and for the purposes set out above.