Patent ID: 8512886

Claim:
Capsule for the preparation of a beverage in a beverage machine comprising: a brewing enclosure containing one or more beverage ingredients; filtering means defining at least one filtering side of the brewing enclosure; beverage flow guiding means designed to guide the beverage to a beverage outlet of the capsule; a shell and a protective cover that is attached to the shell and forms with the shell a gas tight container for the beverage ingredients; and opening means comprising an opening element located outside the brewing enclosure and designed to open the gas-tight container in order to create the beverage outlet, the gas tight container integrally housing the beverage flow guiding means and the opening element, wherein the opening element is a perforating element for perforating an outlet in a wall of the gas-tight container or an element adapted to create an outlet by breaking a joint between two parts of the gas-tight container.