Patent ID: 8668928

Claim:
A capsule for a powder, said capsule having a body which is provided with an internal chamber to hold the powder and first and second openings to an exterior environment, said second opening and said internal chamber having a common major dimension, the body adapted to be displaced from a filling state, in which the first and second openings are placed in fluid communication with one another through the internal chamber thereby enabling creation of an airflow through the body from the second opening to the first opening which is able to entrain powder in the exterior environment into the internal chamber for filling thereof with the powder, to a sealing state in which the internal chamber is sealed from the exterior environment so as to retain the powder held therein, in which the body has first and second parts which are moved relative to one another to bring the body to its filling and sealing states, wherein in the sealing state the first part is disposed in a first position relative to the second part in which it sealingly closes the first and second openings, and wherein in the filling state the first part is disposed in a second position relative to the second part in which it opens the first and second openings.