US 2,019,320,839 · Filed 2019-04-19

The Pod-Brewing Lid That Turns Any Cup Into a Coffee Maker

Imagine a lid with a built-in slot where you drop in a coffee pod or tea sachet, pour hot water through it, and the brewed drink drips straight into your cup below. No separate brewer needed—the lid does all the work, and you drink from the same container you brewed in.

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The plain-English version

What it protects

The claim covers a lid assembly designed to hold and brew single-service beverage containers (like coffee pods or tea bags) while attached to a drinking cup. What's protected here is the specific combination of a container-receiving slot, a retention mechanism to hold the pod in place, a hot-water inlet path through the pod, and a beverage outlet that lets the brewed liquid flow down into the cup below. Anyone manufacturing a similar snap-on lid system that brews pods directly into a drinking vessel would be infringing on this design.

Why it matters

This patent solves a real consumer friction point: owning multiple pieces of coffee brewing equipment. By combining the brewer and the drinking cup into one lid-and-cup system, it eliminates cleanup and storage hassles. The design is particularly valuable for portable or travel use, where carrying a full coffee maker isn't practical. For manufacturers, this represents a way to compete in the single-serve beverage market without licensing existing pod systems, since the brewing happens entirely in the lid.

Real-world use

On a camping trip or at your desk, you'd screw this lid onto any cup, drop in a coffee pod, pour hot water, and within seconds have brewed coffee ready to drink from that exact same cup.

Original USPTO abstract

A beverage service system, assembly, and method enable a consumer to portably consume a beverage output from a single-service beverage media container. The beverage service system incorporates a lid formation and a liquid container. The lid formation is configured to receive and retain a single-service beverage media container, and provides a primary beverage outlet, a container-receiving aperture, and a container retention mechanism. The single-service beverage media container is received in the container-receiving aperture and retained by the container retention mechanism. The lid formation is attached to the primary liquid container thereby forming a lid-container combination. A liquid such as hot water may be directed through the single-service beverage media container as received and retained by the lid formation for outputting beverage therefrom into the liquid container. The beverage, as outlet from the lid formation and collected in the liquid container, may then be consumed via the primary beverage outlet.

Patent details

Publication number: US 2,019,320,839
Filing date: 2019-04-19
Grant date: Application — not yet granted
Assignee: Pavel Savenok
Inventor(s): SAVENOK, PAVEL
CPC class: A47J31/005

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