Patent ID: 9415930
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: A47J,B65D

Claim Text:
1. A method of making a beverage from a cartridge containing one or more beverage ingredients, the cartridge comprising a flow path defined by an inner member and an outer member, the inner member comprising a skirt portion, said skirt portion being disposed about a tube such that an annular channel is disposed therebetween, and a filter located in the annular channel, the method comprising the steps of: introducing an aqueous medium into the cartridge; mixing the aqueous medium with the one or more beverage ingredients to form a beverage mixture; passing the beverage mixture through a the filter, the filter having a plurality of elongate slots, each with a maximum area, on an upstream face of the filter; wherein said one or more beverage ingredients comprise a liquid beverage ingredient and elongate agglomerate particles of beverage ingredient; and wherein the elongate slots are sized such that a substantial portion of the elongate agglomerate particles are retained on the upstream side of the filter; and generating a jet of the beverage mixture by passing the beverage mixture through an aperture located downstream of the filter, the maximum area of each elongate slot on the upstream face of the filter being no more than ten times the area of the aperture.