CARTRIDGE AND BEVERAGE PREPARATION METHOD Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC B65D85/804 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: cartridge containing one or more beverage ingredients contains: an inlet for letting water medium into the cartridge, an outlet for the beverage produced from the said one or more beverage ingredients and a flow path connecting the inlet to the outlet; additionally, the cartridge contains a filter (400) positioned within the flow path; the filter contains multiple holes, each having a maximum surface area, on the filter upstream side; additionally, the cartridge contains a hole positioned downstream relative to the filter and made to create a beverage jet in the course of operation; the maximum surface area of each hole on the filter upstream side exceeds the surface area of the said hole positioned downstream the filter.

EFFECT: holes diameter enables through passage of elongated and agglomerated particles which results in prevention of the hole locking; the milk jet is saturated with a greater quality of air which positively affects the foamed milk quantity.

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