Patent ID: 9586709
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: A47J,B30B,B65B

Claim:
1. A tool for making a brewing cartridge, comprising: a cartridge holder including a generally horizontally residing holder rim configured for supporting a cartridge rim of a brewing cartridge base inserted into the cartridge holder; a spacer configured to reside over the cartridge rim and having a cross-sectional area corresponding to a mouth of the brewing cartridge base and a depth selected to capture an additional portion of untamped brewing material, a total volume of the untamped brewing material in the brewing cartridge base and the spacer tampable to reside entirely in and filling the brewing cartridge base; and a tamper piston configured to insert into the spacer and configured to tamp the untamped brewing material into the brewing cartridge base, wherein: the holder rim resides at a forward end of a holder arm; the tamper piston is at a tamping end of a tamper arm; and the tamper arm is pivotally attached to the holder arm to align the tamper piston with the spacer for tamping.