Patent ID: 7444925

Claim:
A magazine unit ( 10 ) of a coffee machine for storing single serving capsules and processing machine readable identifications disposed on the single serving capsules for election of one of a plurality capsules in a coffee machine comprising: several magazine tubes ( 12 to 16 ), each magazine tube adapted to hold single serving capsules ( 1 ) containing various types of coffee powder where the single serving capsules have an essentially circular base ( 2 ); a registration device with at least one reading head ( 27 ) adapted to read the identification consisting of concentric circles disposed on the single serving capsules in a linear manner, wherein the reading head ( 27 ) is positioned below the magazine tubes ( 12 to 16 ) and is directed upwards, toward a plane where the bases of the single serving capsules ( 1 ) are located inside the magazine tube ( 12 to 16 ) in such a way that identification of single serving capsules can be read in a linear manner, a carrier wherein the magazine tubes ( 12 to 16 ) are located on the carrier and can each be conveyed, as selected, together with the carrier to a dispensing position ( 18 ), and that the carrier is provided with transparent sections located below each magazine tube ( 12 to 16 ) for scanning the base ( 2 ) of the single-serving capsule ( 1 ) with the at least one reading head ( 27 ), and a turntable ( 11 ) and a Maltese-cross-type drive mechanism ( 20 ) wherein the magazine tubes ( 12 to 16 ) are arranged in an essentially circular manner on the turntable ( 11 ) serving as carrier and that the Maltese-cross-type drive mechanism ( 20 ) is positioned below the turntable ( 11 ) whereby the drive mechanism ( 20 ) is connected to the turntable ( 11 ) via an actuation connection.