Patent ID: 8727457

Claim:
A drawer and single-serve-beverage cartridges, wherein each cartridge has a container holding a beverage medium and a rim surrounding the top edge of the container; wherein the drawer comprises compartment lanes in which the single-serve-beverage cartridges are stored; wherein each compartment lane comprises a stocking region having a floor and a partition extending upwardly from each longitudinal edge of the floor; wherein rim-resting ledges extend laterally between top edges of adjacent partitions in neighboring compartment lanes; and wherein each compartment lane and the cartridges are dimensioned such that the, cartridges are single-file situated in the stocking region of each compartment lane, and supported solely by their rims resting on the ledges, with the rims of cartridges in neighboring compartments do not overlap each other, with a gap between the floor and the bottoms of the cartridge containers, and with a clearance between the partitions and the sides of the cartridge containers to minimize frictional engagement of the cartridges with the drawer.