Patent ID: 9119503
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: A47J

Abstract:
1. A beverage machine comprising: an outer casing containing one of a water injection assembly and a holding assembly that are relatively movable towards each other forming a brewing unit, and providing an ingredient capsule passage which can be opened between the water injection assembly and the holding assembly for introducing or removing an ingredient capsule and closed for brewing a beverage from the ingredient capsule; the passage having an opening which is arranged for guiding an ingredient capsule into the brewing unit; a closure part associated with the outer casing, with the closure part configured and dimensioned to be larger than the passage opening and uniformly spaced from the holding assembly that surrounds the passage opening; such that the holding assembly is relatively movable into and out of the outer casing with a generally parallel relative movement from: an open relative position in which the ingredient capsule can be passed into the brewing unit via the opening; to a closed relative position, in which the opening is closed by the closure part as the holding assembly is moved into the outer casing to form the brewing unit.