Beverage making pack and beverage maker including same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11549087-B2
Application number	US-201816615252-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 18, 2018
Priority date	May 22, 2017
Publication date	Jan 10, 2023
Grant date	Jan 10, 2023

Abstract

A beverage making pack may include a flexible container having a beverage making space, a pack body to which the flexible container is coupled and which has a pack opening communicating with the beverage making space and a seating part seated on a fermentation tank module, a tube connected to a lower portion of the pack body and accommodated in the flexible container, and a cap configured to open/close the pack opening.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A beverage making pack, comprising:
a flexible container having a beverage making space;
a pack body to which the flexible container is coupled and which has a pack opening communicating with the beverage making space and a seating part seated on a fermentation tank module;
a tube connected to a lower portion of the pack body and accommodated in the flexible container; and
a cap configured to open/close the pack opening, wherein the pack body is configured to be pressed downward by a fermentation lid in a state in which the seating part is seated on the fermentation tank module, wherein the pack body includes:
an outer hollow having the pack opening; and
an inner hollow allowing the pack opening and the beverage making space to communicate with each other, wherein an upward protruding cap hollow is formed in the cap, and wherein an outer circumference of the cap hollow is in contact with an inner circumference of the outer hollow.

2. The beverage making pack of claim 1 , wherein an upward protruding cap handle is formed in the cap, and wherein a catching part protruding outward in a radial direction of the cap handle is formed at an upper portion of the cap handle.

3. The beverage making pack of claim 1 , wherein a cap handle protruding upward and spaced apart from the cap hollow is further formed in the cap, and wherein the cap handle is located inside the cap hollow in a radial direction of the cap.

4. A beverage making pack, comprising:
a flexible container having a beverage making space;
a pack body to which the flexible container is coupled and which has a pack opening communicating with the beverage making space and a seating part seated on a fermentation tank module;
a tube connected to a lower portion of the pack body and accommodated in the flexible container; and
a cap configured to open/close the pack opening, wherein the pack body is configured to be downward pressed by a fermentation lid in a state in which the seating part is seating on the fermentation tank module, wherein the pack body includes:
an outer hollow having the pack opening; and
an inner hollow allowing the pack opening and the beverage making space to communicate with each other, and wherein a cap recessed part into which at least a part of the inner hollow is inserted is formed on a bottom surface of the cap.

5. The beverage making pack of claim 1 , wherein a recessed part recessed downward is formed in the pack body, and wherein the inner hollow is formed in the recessed part.

6. The beverage making pack of claim 5 , wherein the inner hollow includes:
an upper hollow protruding from the recessed part to the pack opening; and
a tube connector which communicates with the upper hollow and protrudes from the recessed part to the flexible container, and to which the tube is connected.

7. The beverage making pack of claim 6 , wherein a height of the upper hollow is larger than a height from a bottom surface of the recessed part to a bottom surface of the cap.

8. The beverage making pack of claim 5 , wherein a bottom surface of the recessed part faces a bottom surface of the cap.

9. The beverage making pack of claim 1 , wherein at least one gas discharging hole allowing the beverage making space and the pack opening to communicate with each other is formed in the pack body.

10. The beverage making pack of claim 9 ,
wherein the gas discharging hole is formed to be outer than the inner hollow in a radial direction of the pack body.

11. The beverage making pack of claim 10 , wherein a recessed part recessed downward and having the inner hollow is formed in the pack body, and wherein the gas discharging hole is vertically formed through the recessed part.

12. The beverage making pack of claim 1 , wherein the pack body includes:
a main body having the seating part and the pack opening; and
a junction body which is detachably coupled to the main body and to which the flexible container is joined.

13. The beverage making pack of claim 12 , wherein the junction body includes:
a junction part to which the flexible container is joined and which is located below the main body; and
a fastening hollow to which the recessed part of the main body is inserted and fastened.

14. A beverage maker comprising:
a fermentation tank module having an opening;
a fermentation lid configured to open/close the opening; and
a beverage making pack inserted into the fermentation tank module through the opening, wherein the beverage making pack includes:
a flexible container having a beverage making space and accommodated inside the fermentation tank module;
a pack body to which the flexible container is coupled, having a pack opening communicating with the beverage making space, and having a seating part seated on the fermentation tank module; and
a tube connected to a lower portion of the pack body and accommodated in the flexible container, wherein the pack body is configured to be pressed downward by a fermentation lid in a state in which the seating part is seated on the fermentation tank module, and wherein the fermentation lid includes:
an upper lid body having a handle; and
a passage body arranged below the upper lid body and connected to the pack opening.

15. The beverage maker of claim 14 , wherein an outer hollow having the pack opening is formed in the pack body, and wherein a lower hollow inserted into the outer hollow is formed in the passage body.

16. The beverage maker of claim 14 , an inner hollow allowing the pack opening and the beverage making space to communicate with each other is formed in the pack body, and wherein a lower passage inserted into the inner hollow is formed in the passage body.

17. The beverage maker of claim 14 , wherein a pack body pressing part configured to downward press the pack body is formed in the fermentation lid.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Hong Jinpyo
• Park Sunyoung
• Lee Daewoong

Classifications

• B65D85/72

  for edible or potable liquids, semiliquids, or plastic or pasty materials · CPC title

• C12C11/006 Primary

  Fermentation tanks therefor · CPC title

• C12C13/10 Primary

  Home brew equipment · CPC title

• B67D2210/00125

  Treating or conditioning the concentrate, e.g. by heating, freezing · CPC title

• B67D1/16

  Devices for collecting spilled beverages · CPC title