US 12,408,791 B2
Brewing device for producing a beverage from a single-serve capsule
Giuseppe Fin, Valbrembo (IT)
Assigned to SAGA COFFEE S.P.A., Gaggio Montano (IT)
Appl. No. 17/440,036
Filed by SAGA COFFEE S.P.A., Valbrembo (IT)
PCT Filed Mar. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/052633
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/194156, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19164740 (EP), filed on Mar. 22, 2019; and application No. 102019000013443 (IT), filed on Jul. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0175178 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. A47J 31/36 (2006.01)
CPC A47J 31/3633 (2013.01) [A47J 31/3628 (2013.01); A47J 31/3676 (2013.01); A47J 31/368 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A brewing device for producing a beverage from a single-serve pod; wherein the single-serve pod includes a casing formed of two sheets of plastic and/or aluminium and/or paper mutually coupled to form a central body containing a brewable material, and an external annular flange extending all around, and seals, the central body; the brewing device comprising:
two functional assemblies defining respective brewing half-chambers and mutually movable along a longitudinal axis between an open configuration, in which the two brewing half-chambers mutually define a space for loading a pod, and a closed configuration, in which the two brewing half-chambers mutually define a brewing chamber for the pod; one of said two functional assemblies is a water injection assembly and the other is a beverage extraction assembly; and
a pod support device rotatably mounted about a fixed axis transverse to the longitudinal axis to move between a pod retention position, in which the pod support device is capable to receive a pod and support the pod by itself in a loading position between the two functional assemblies in said open configuration, and a disengagement position in which the pod support device is moved aside relative to the functional assemblies after having delivered the pod to the functional assemblies;
wherein a path of the pod support device from the pod retention position to the disengagement position during the rotation about the fixed axis is so designed as to cause the pod support device to insert and leave the pod in the brewing half-chamber of one of said functional assemblies.