Patent ID: 7226628
Filing Date: 2007-06-05
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
1. A sheet of sealed flavor-containing beverage materials for the preparation of beverage with aqueous media comprising: a plurality of beverage cartridges, each said beverage cartridge comprising a predetermined amount of flavor-containing materials and a filtration chamber for containing said predetermined amount of flavor-containing materials and for allowing said flavor-containing materials to interact with aqueous media therein to produce a beverage, said filtration chamber being adapted to allow the beverage to flow out but to retain solids therein; a substrate sheet having a first surface, a second surface and a side wall; a flexible barrier sheet adapted to seal to said first surface of said substrate sheet to form a plurality of cartridge chambers for containing said plurality of beverage cartridges, each of said plurality of cartridge chambers comprising a hermetic seal between said flexible barrier sheet and said substrate sheet to prevent the loss of aroma or flavor of said flavor-containing materials therein; and a plurality of grippable tabs on said flexible barrier sheet for dispensing said beverage cartridges, said plurality of grippable tabs being adapted to allow a user to dispense a beverage cartridge in said sheet of sealed flavor-containing materials by simply pulling a grippable tab to open a cartridge chamber and release the beverage cartridge therein, wherein said flexible barrier sheet and substrate sheet are configured to sufficiently isolate said plurality of cartridge chambers from each other so that opening of one cartridge chamber by pulling a grippable tab for said cartridge chamber will not break the hermetic seal for an adjacent cartridge chamber.