Patent ID: 9694957
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A47J,B05D,B29C,B29L,B65D,F16J

Claim:
1. A capsule for containing beverage ingredients which is designed for insertion in a beverage production device in which a liquid under pressure enters the capsule in order to interact with the beverage ingredients in the capsule and to drain a beverage from the capsule, the capsule comprising: a body; a rim that is a flange; and a resilient sealing member formed on an outer surface of the capsule, the resilient sealing member forms a continuous portion distributed about a circumferential transition from the rim to a side wall of the capsule, an outer surface of the resilient sealing member is concave when viewed in a cross-sectional view, the outer surface continuously curving inward toward the circumferential transition of the capsule, the resilient sealing member has a maximum thickness, when measure at an angle of 45 degrees from the flange of the rim toward the side wall, of between 0.3 and 0.7 mm, and the thickness of the resilient sealing member continuously decreases towards a first end at the side wall of the capsule and a second end at the rim, respectively.