A beverage making assembly, including an enclosure assembly having first and second ends, wherein the enclosure assembly includes a first and a second plurality of notches and a first and a second set of perforations, a tea sachet assembly substantially located within the enclosure assembly, wherein the tea sachet assembly includes a tea sachet and a string having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the string is connected to the tea sachet and the second end of the string extends a predetermined distance outside of the first end of the enclosure assembly, and a beverage container having hot or cold liquid located within the beverage container, wherein the tea sachet and the first end of the string are capable of being located in the hot or cold liquid in order to make a beverage in the beverage container.

A drip bag includes a bag main body formed of a water permeable filter sheet and hooking members made of a thin plate-like material on two opposite outer surfaces. Each hooking member includes upper bonded, central, and a pair of arm portions from the central to toward the upper bonded portion, and a pair of hooking portions. The arm portions are mutually spaced with a bag main body width center line between them. Each hooking portion extends downward in and are not bonded onto the bag main body. Each arm portion can be pulled up from the bag main body at an upper part, and has a fixed side on the bag main body at a lower part. The fixed side is inclined relative to a bag main body width direction. A bag main body opening portion opens wider even when a cup opening diameter is small.

A tea bag device is described which is for use with a beverage container having a lid. Method of forming a beverage container containing the tea bag device and for steeping tea are also provided. The tea bag device includes (a) a tea bag enclosing a volume of tea and (b) a snap-fit attachment comprising male and female snap portions. The snap-fit attachment is configured so that when the male and female portions are reversibly engaged with each other, and the snap-fit attachment is engaged with the tea bag and the lid the tea bag is biased against an undersurface of the lid.

An extraction bag 1A includes a bag main body 3 formed of a water permeable filter sheet 2, a thin plate-like member 10 provided on an outer surface of the bag main body 3, and an extraction material filled in the bag main body 3. The bag main body 3 has a first surface 3A and a second surface 3B opposed to each other, and an upper side 4a corresponding to edges thereof. The thin plate-like member 10 includes a first member 10A on the first surface 3A of the bag main body, and a second member 10B on the second surface 3B of the bag main body, and these 10A and 10B are continuous with each other via a first horizontal folding line Lh1 extending along the upper side 4a. The thin plate-like member 10 includes a pair of elongated regions 12 (opposed to each other) sandwiching a central bonded portion 11 of the first member 10A from its left and right sides that are provided astride the first member 10A and the second member 10B and are pulled out from the bag main body, and a vertical folding line Lv1 along which the elongated regions 12 can be pulled out. This extraction bag 1 is a tea bag type extraction bag filled with an extraction material such as ground coffee and capable of allowing the bag main body to be easily sunk into the hot water or moved up and down.

An extraction bag 1A includes a bag main body 3 formed of a water permeable filter sheet 2, a thin plate-like member 10 provided on an outer surface of the bag main body 3, and an extraction material filled in the bag main body 3. The bag main body 3 has a first surface 3A and a second surface 3B opposed to each other, and an upper side 4a corresponding to edges thereof. The thin plate-like member 10 includes a first member 10A on the first surface 3A of the bag main body, and a second member 10B on the second surface 3B of the bag main body, and these 10A and 10B are continuous with each other via a first horizontal folding line Lh1 extending along the upper side 4a. The thin plate-like member 10 includes a pair of elongated regions 12 (opposed to each other) sandwiching a central bonded portion 11 of the first member 10A from its left and right sides that are provided astride the first member 10A and the second member 10B and are pulled out from the bag main body, and a vertical folding line Lv1 along which the elongated regions 12 can be pulled out. This extraction bag 1 is a tea bag type extraction bag filled with an extraction material such as ground coffee and capable of allowing the bag main body to be easily sunk into the hot water or moved up and down.

An Improved Beverage Bag comprising pre-measured pouches of tea or coffee, along with sugar, artificial sweetener, and/or non-dairy creamer, all within honeycomb inspired packaging to provide consumers who enjoy enhanced beverages with a convenient, quick, no-mess means of creating the perfect cup of tea or coffee.

An Improved Beverage Bag comprising pre-measured pouches of tea or coffee, along with sugar, artificial sweetener, and/or non-dairy creamer, all within honeycomb inspired packaging to provide consumers who enjoy enhanced beverages with a convenient, quick, no-mess means of creating the perfect cup of tea or coffee.

A tea bag is configured to be inserted within a water bottle. The tea bag includes a long, thin tea containment bag configured to be inserted within the water bottle and be removed from the water bottle after steeping without compressing with an opening of the water bottle tea leaves within the tea containment bag as the bag is removed from the bottle. The tea bag additionally includes a tea bag line useful to suspend the tea containment bag within the water bottle.

A disposal means for preparing a beverage from a particulate product, the means comprising a rigid base and a container to be filled with the particulate product, said container being formed of a liquid-permeable material, wherein the container has a flat mouth portion attached to the base by one part thereof, and the base being provided with at least one folding line. The base can be formed of a hard but readily flexible material such as plastic, cardboard and similar materials. The base can be provided with a holding member. The holding member can be in the form of a protrusion, a hook or an element punched from the central part of the base along an unclosed contour, such that the element can be bent away. The base can be provided with a recess. The folding line can be in the form of a crease, a weakened line, a perforated line, a partial cut, a combination thereof, or it can be obtained by another suitable method. The container can be formed of an easily compressible and liquid-permeable material such as cellulose, filter paper and other materials suitable for the proper function of the means.

There is disclosed a method for forming tea using a tea material, the method includes providing a vessel comprising an internal space configured to receive a liquid, inserting a container assembly into the vessel, the container assembly configured to contain the tea material and allow the liquid to interact with the tea material when submerged within the liquid, injecting steam through a double-walled nozzle into the vessel to heat the liquid while maintaining an exterior surface of the steam nozzle below the temperature of the steam, and allowing the tea material to stew within the liquid to form the tea. There is also disclosed an apparatus for forming a tea configured to inject steam into a vessel to heat a liquid to be infused with a tea material, and a beverage cartridge for forming a tea to be deposited into the vessel.