CARTRIDGE FOR PREPARATION OF BEVERAGE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cartridge for beverages dispensing with the installation of a complicated mechanism in use.

SOLUTION: This cartridge 1 contains one or more beverage ingredients 200 and being formed from substantially air- and water-impermeable materials, the cartridge defines a storage chamber 130 and 134 containing the one or more beverage ingredients and a manifold chamber 16, the cartridge has an opening 12 through which the one or more beverage ingredients can be filled into the storage chamber, the opening is closed by a lid 5 having a first portion overlying the manifold chamber and a second portion overlying the storage chamber, wherein the first portion of the lid is pierceable in use to accommodate an inflow of an aqueous medium into the manifold chamber and the lid is pierceable in use to accommodate an outflow of beverage formed from interaction of the aqueous medium and the one or more beverage ingredients in the storage chamber.

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