藥 科 (二 )期 末 報 告
T h o m s o n I n n o v a t i o n
---Drip coffee bag---
指導老師：吳建德老師
系級：藥學系三年級
學號：B303098121
姓名：徐安立
一、Introduction
Recently the number of people who live alone is increasing, and the number of family members is decreasing because of the trend toward a nuclear family and because of the drop in birth rates. As a consequence, a disposable drip coffee bag for one person (hereinafter called drip bag) for easily making one cup of coffee is commonly seen on the market in various formats, rather than the conventional paper drip type mainly used for making several cups of coffee.
Conventionally, a paper drip type coffee making method, which easily allows making genuine coffee, has been widely used. With this paper drip type coffee making method, normally coffee for several individuals (several cups) is made at one time. As described, various cup on type and cup in type products are on the market as drip bags, and although each has advantages and disadvantages, there exists no drip bag which has the advantages of both types, that is, good tasting coffee, easy to set on a cup and easy to pour hot water of the cup on type, and the compact structure and low manufacturing cost of the cup in type.
Cup on type Cup in type
Advantages
*prevent undesirably components affect coffee flavor
*dripper is made of molded plastic, therefore not easily deformation *easy to pour hot water into the dripper
*manufactured at low cost and save resource materials
Disadvantages
*require manual assembly *unstable and move on the cup *normally large
*difficult to obtain the good taste of coffee
*may cause scalding 二、Bibliography
Original Title Coffee drip bag
Assignee/Applicant Standardized: OHKI CO LTD
Original: Ohki CO. LTD., Osaka 542 0081, JP
Inventor Saitoh Mitsunori c/o Ohki CO. LTD., Osaka 542
0081, JP Ishihara Toyoko c/o Ohki CO. LTD., Osaka 542 0081, JP Miyahara Fumio c/o Ohki CO. LTD., Osaka 542 0081, JP
Publication Date (Kind Code) 2003-09-03 (B1)
Application Number / Date EP1999108799A / 1999-05-03
三、Statement
It is accordingly an object of the present invention to solve the above problems of prior art, and to provide a new drip bag of the type suspended above the liquid to be brewed and which can make tasty coffee equivalent to coffee made by an original paper drip type, comprised of a simple structure, and which can be set on a cup very easily with a stable form after setting on a cup, and can be disposed easily and safely after brewing coffee.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a drip bag comprising a bag main body made of water-filterable sheet material having an opening part at the top end, and a hooking member made of a thin plate material disposed on two oppositely facing outer surfaces of the bag main body, wherein the hooking member comprises an edge part formed along the edge sides, an arm part which is inside the edge part and can be pulled up and away from the bag main body, and a tongue part formed inside the arm part, wherein the edge part and the arm part are continuous at one end, top or bottom, of the arm part, the arm part and the tongue part are continuous at the other end, top or bottom, of the arm part, and either the edge part or the tongue part is glued on the outer surface of the bag main body. This hooking member can be easily obtained by making a specific cut line into the rectangular thin plate material. This means that the drip bag of the present invention can save resource materials and can be manufactured at low cost.
Therefore when the tongue part is glued on the outer surface of the bag main body, pulling up the arm part raises the edge part as well, which makes it possible to hook the drip bag on the sidewall of a cup. In this case, the bag main body is pulled in opposite directions, away from the facing two surfaces, by the arm parts, and the drip bag is suspended at the top center of the cup in a state where the opening part at the top end of the bag main body is wide open. The sidewall of the cup is sandwiched by the edge part or the tongue part and the arm part, and the outer surface of the sidewall of the cup is pressed by the edge part or the tongue part, therefore the drip bag is secured at the top of the cup in an extremely stable state.
So according to this drip bag, pouring hot water to brew coffee is easy. This drip bag is hooked to the top of the cup, and is still above the level of brewed coffee liquid after brewing coffee. This makes it possible to make delicious coffee, just like the original paper drip type. Also, the drip bag is not soaked in the brewed coffee liquid after brewing the coffee;
therefore disposal of the drip bag after brewing coffee is easy, free from the danger of scalding.
The coffee drip bag of the present invention comprises the drip bag as above, wherein ground coffee is filled into the bag main body and the opening part of the bag main body is closed. So according to this coffee drip bag, a consumer can make tasty coffee casually, easily and safely merely by opening the top part, setting the coffee drip bag on a cup and pouring hot water.
四、Pictures
A plane view of a coffee drip bag of the present invention, and explanatory drawings depicting the state of use.
Drawings depicting the state of using the coffee drip bag of the
present invention.
A plane view of a hooking member to be used for the drip
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