Abstract: In the area of beverage distributors, document FR 1 564 088 is known that discloses an automatic dispenser device suitable for preparing beverages of various kind. The beverages may be hot or cold ones obtained from liquid or concentrated products, solid and powderly products contained in hermetically closed capsules of troncoconical shape, in turn contained, stacked one on the top of the other, in certain tubular containes. The dispenser is provided with a number of groups of containers each of which contains a certain number of capsules of a certain product so that the dispenser may be activated by a user for delivering a desired beverage. The dispenser is such that the content of any capsule falls into a mixing chamber where it mixes with hot or cold liquid poured therein and is certainly not adapted to brew an aspresso coffee.

Abstract: A container (6) filled with coffee pods is engaged adjacent to the extraction chamber of the coffee machine and a mobile closure element (10) operates underneath the container mouth to control the opening and closure of the container, so that the bottommost pod may drop out and be received by elements that transport it to the open extraction chamber (3), which is then closed to permit the percolation of a cup of coffee; the elements that effect the passage of the pod from the container to the extraction chamber, just like those that cause the opening and closure of the container mouth and the closure and opening of the extraction chamber, as also the activation of the pump that moves the percolation water and the removal of the exhausted pod, may be either manual or automatic.