Patent ID: 8784915

Claim:
A container containing a liquid drink preparation substance, said container comprising: a preformed deformable body defining a filling cavity filled with the liquid drink preparation substance; and a cover sheet, said preformed deformable body having: an opening at said cavity, an integral planar circumferential rim surrounding said opening; and a dispensing region separated from said opening by said planar circumferential rim, said opening, said planar circumferential rim and said dispensing region being covered by said cover sheet, which is sealed to said planar circumferential rim at a circumferential sealing seam, and a dispensing passage for the liquid drink preparation substance being formed between the dispensing region and the cover sheet, said circumferential sealing seam including a seam portion upstream of and contiguous with said dispensing passage, said seam portion being configured to permit flow of said liquid drink preparation substance across said seam portion and along said dispensing passage between said cover sheet and said dispensing region, responsive to predetermined compression of said body, said cover sheet including a planar portion covering at least said dispensing region; said dispensing region being a flat dispensing region having an edge; said dispensing passage including at least two outwardly directed sealing seams sealing said cover sheet to said flat dispensing region; said outwardly directed sealing seams extending, at a distance from one another, from said circumferential sealing seam to said edge of said dispensing region; and said edge of the dispensing region between said two outwardly directed sealing seams being provided with a recess lying in the plane of the flat dispensing region.