PREPARING TEA WITH THE AID OF A TEA PAD AND A COFFEE MAKER

摘要

A tea pad is provided for preparing tea. More particularly, the tea pad provides at least one consumption unit of tea with the aid of a coffee maker. The coffee maker is provided with a holder for receiving at least one pad filled with a product to be extracted, and means for pressing hot water under pressure through the pad for obtaining an extract of the product while, preferably, the applied pressure of the water is 1-2 bar. The pad is provided with a covering, such as filtering paper which is at least partly transmissive to a liquid such as water and, which is at least virtually non-transmissive to tea. The covering comprises at least one space which is at least partly filled with tea.

主权项

1. An assembly comprising:
a holder including an inside space formed by a bottom and an upstanding sidewall of the holder; a pad received in the holder and filled with a product to be extracted; and a lid bounding the inside space of the holder with which the holder is closed off; wherein the holder includes an outflow path which begins in the bottom of the holder and ends outside the holder for dispensing the extracted product while, in use, hot water is fed to the holder and is pressed through the pad for obtaining the extract which, then, leaves the pad and, thereupon, leaves the inside space and the holder via the outflow path; wherein the pad is a tea pad for preparing tea, more particularly, at least one consumption unit of tea, with the aid of a coffee maker; wherein the coffee maker is provided with the holder for receiving at least one pad filled with a product to be extracted, and means for pressing hot water under pressure through the pad for obtaining an extract, while the applied pressure of the water is 1-2 bar; wherein the pad includes a covering such as filtering paper which is at least partly transmissive to a liquid such as water and which is at least virtually non-transmissive to tea; wherein the covering comprises at least one space which is at least partly filled with tea, wherein the volume of the tea is 60-90% of the volume of the space in the tea pad in which the tea is included; and wherein a tea bed of the tea pad has a greatest height which is smaller than a greatest height of the space in the tea pad.