Liquid infusion pods containing insoluble materials

US7594470B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• John Scarchilli · Cincinnati, US
• James Earl Trout · Sharonville, US
• Roger William Gutwein · Cincinnati, US
• Robert G. Cox · Kalamazoo, US
• Matthew David Fitts · Lancaster, US
• Michael Picca · Covington, US
• Stephen Westerkamp · Medina, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 12, 2007
• Grant date: Sep 29, 2009
• Expiry date: Mar 31, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65D85/8067
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A liquid infusion pod having a fluid distribution member and a liquid permeable first filter member. The filter member is sealed to the fluid distribution member forming a first interior chamber that contains a liquid dispersible material. The fluid distribution member has at least one injection nozzle protruding downward from the top of the fluid distribution member into the interior chamber. The injection nozzle has at least one infusion port that directs fluid into the first interior chamber in a direction that is not normal to the top plane of the fluid distribution member.