Patent ID: 8616117

Claim:
A substance dispensing system comprising, in combination: a disposable container filled with a portion of a substance, the disposable container having a deformable body with a bottom, a peripheral wall adjoining said bottom and having a top end remote from said bottom, an integral circumferential rim extending outwards from the top end of the peripheral wall and defining a filling opening of said disposable container, said disposable container being closed by a cover sheet which is sealed to the circumferential rim by means of a circumferential seal, and a dispensing apparatus comprising a compression device having a cover sheet side support member for the cover sheet side of the disposable container as well as a bottom engaging member for engaging on the bottom of the disposable container, said compression device being adapted to compress the disposable container by reduction of the distance between the cover sheet side support member and the bottom engaging member, the cover sheet side support member having a recess therein which is arranged and dimensioned so as extend across a section of the circumferential seal, so that upon compression of the initially closed disposable container the substance therein is pressurized causing the cover sheet to deform into the recess thereby breaking the circumferential seal at said section so that the substance is discharged from the disposable container, the dispensing apparatus including at least one water pump adapted to provide a portion of water to be dispensed, the compression device and the water pump being manually driven by a common manual driving device connected to both said compression device and said water pump, said manual driving device comprising: a lever: a first transmission connecting the lever to the compression device; and a second transmission connecting the lever to the water pump.