US 12,269,671 B2
Beverage capsule
Wolfgang Heukamp, Finnetrop (DE); and Dirk Puderbach, Zell/Mosel (DE)
Assigned to OBRIST CLOSURES SWITZERLAND, Reinach (CH)
Appl. No. 17/251,569
Filed by OBRIST CLOSURES SWITZERLAND, Reinach (CH)
PCT Filed Jun. 13, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/065625
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 11, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/238898, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 1809708 (GB), filed on Jun. 13, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0245950 A1, Aug. 12, 2021
Int. Cl. B65D 85/80 (2006.01); B65D 85/804 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 85/8043 (2013.01) [B65D 85/8064 (2020.05)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A perforable beverage capsule comprising
a generally frustoconical body having a sidewall closed at one end by a piercable inlet wall through which hot water can be injected in use,
an intermediate wall joining the sidewall and the piercable inlet wall,
wherein the piercable inlet wall includes a generally central disc and the intermediate wall includes a first circumferential array of generally triangular contiguous facets surrounding the generally central disc,
wherein the sidewall is formed by a second circumferential array of generally triangular, contiguous facets with alternating facets being oppositely oriented,
wherein facets included in the second circumferential array of generally triangular, contiguous facets of the sidewall share vertices with facets included in the first circumferential array of generally triangular, contiguous facets of the intermediate wall, and
wherein the facets included in the second circumferential array of generally triangular, contiguous facets of the sidewall have linear side edges.