CA2037293A1 - Soft plastic film packaging for parallelepiped-shaped piles of flexible flat objects - Google Patents

Soft plastic film packaging for parallelepiped-shaped piles of flexible flat objects

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Publication number
CA2037293A1
CA2037293A1 CA 2037293 CA2037293A CA2037293A1 CA 2037293 A1 CA2037293 A1 CA 2037293A1 CA 2037293 CA2037293 CA 2037293 CA 2037293 A CA2037293 A CA 2037293A CA 2037293 A1 CA2037293 A1 CA 2037293A1
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Prior art keywords
packaging according
sealing section
top wall
side walls
perforation line
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Abandoned
Application number
CA 2037293
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French (fr)
Inventor
Franz Hadzelek
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Christian Senning Verpackungsautomaten & Co GmbH
Original Assignee
CHRISTIAN SENNING VERPACKUNGSAUTOMATEN G.M.B.H. & CO.
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Publication of CA2037293A1 publication Critical patent/CA2037293A1/en
Abandoned legal-status Critical Current

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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D75/00Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/52Details
    • B65D75/58Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
    • B65D75/5827Tear-lines provided in a wall portion
    • B65D75/5833Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall
    • B65D75/5838Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall combined with separate fixed tearing means, e.g. tabs
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D83/00Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/08Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession
    • B65D83/0847Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession through an aperture at the junction of two walls

Abstract

Abstract A soft plastic film packaging for piles of paper serviettes, for example, has in one of its covering walls a sealing section, which can be torn open or off, for an aperture for the removal of said objects, which is disposed in a corner region of a covering wall. The paper serviettes remaining in the package after opening can not fall out and the risk of their becoming dirty is only slight. When taking out the topmost paper serviette, this is automatically folded together so that it fits through the removal aperture, but it subsequently assumes its flat shape again without any creases remaining.

Description

Christian Senning Verpackungsautomaten GmbH & Co.
Kalmsweg 10, 2800 Bremen 21 __________~_______________________________________________ 10 A soft plastic film packaging for parallelepiped-shaped piles of flexible flat objects .
The invention relates to a soft plastic film packaging for parallelepiped-shaped piles of flexible flat objects, more especially of folded paper or cellulose serviettes, having plane parallel "covering" (top and bottom) walls and also ;
side walls connecting them, with a perforation line, which penetrates at least one wall, limiting a sealing section, which can be torn open or off, for an aperture for the removal of said objects.

In conventional packagings of this type, perhaps packagings for piles of folded paper serviettes, a perforation line which ex~ends in a straight line and penetrates both covering wal}s and the side walls, which are opposite one another, between said covering walls are spaced parallel to the side wall connecting those side walls, so that when the packaging is opened its "head" is torn off and removed.
~herefore the pile is exposed over the edge region adjacent to this side wall. The result is that the entire pile or individual items can slip out of the package, depending on ;how well they cling to one another. Only the handler's skill can prevent this happening. There is also the risk of the contents o~;the packagingj which have a relatively large surface,~ becoming dirty.
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~ 2037293 The object o~ the invention is to provide a packaging of the type mentioned at the beginning with a sealing section, which permits the separate removal of the stacked objects, but at the same time is not associated with the risk of the objects falling out of the packaging.

This is achieved in accordance with the invention in that the sealing section occupies a corner region of a covering wall. The topmost item in the pile can be grasped through -the withdrawal aperture produced by tearing this sealing section open or off and it can be removed because of its flexibility. A paper serviette, for example, if it is grasped by the exposed corner, automatically forms diagonally extending folds and thus reduces its square measurement (at right angles to the direction of ~ithdrawal) so that it fits through the relatively small aperture for its withdrawal. Subsequently the serviette assumes its flat shape again, without any creases remaining.

Naturally the inherent flexibility of the item packaged is a prerequisite for this operation. However it is significant that the folding operation required for the reduction in cross section automatically occurs if the corner of the flat object is pulled. ~he fold becomes more pronounced as the object is pulled out, and a narrow tapered or conical shape results.

The withdrawal aperture can be somewhat enlarged by the sealing section enclosing adjacent edge sections of the side walls ~eeting in the corner. In this case the arrangement is expediently such that the perforation lines in the side ~ ~walls extend at a slight distance parallel to the edges in ; ~ 35 contact with the top wall.

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20372g3 Furthermore the shape of the edges of the sealing section may be varied by the appropriate position of the perforation lines and may be adapted, for example, to the folding characteristics of the respective items to be packaged.

To assist the tearing open of the packaging section, a part of the perforation line, in fact its section present in the top wall which is at the greatest distance from the side lo walls, can be constructed as a longer interface, so that the user can insert a finger under the sealing section and pull it up. In combination with such an interface or instead of it, an adhesive strip coated with contact adhesive can be provided, which ~artially covers the sealing section and partially covers the adjacent wall and is provided with a tab free of adhesive on its end covering the wall (c.f.
German Patent Specification 29 49 496).

The drawings illustrate the invention by means of exemplified embodiments, and show:
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Fig. 1 a soft plastic film packaging according to the invention in perspective general view;
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25 Figures 2 a detailed view of other outline config-to 4 urations of the sealing section with an adhesive strip and an interface respect-ively at this place; and 30 ~ Figure 5 a reduced representation of the pattern for the packaging. ~!~
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The~paokaging shown~in Fig. 1 has plane parallél "covering"
top~and bottom) walls 1 and 2 and also side walls 3, 4 and ;~
35~ 5, 6,~ which are disposed opposite to one another respectively. The latter are produced~by foIding over and heat-sealing or~stioking in another~way end flaps 7 and 8.

,:: : : , -` 2Q37293 In the region of one corner 15 of the packaging (its creased edge corner in the case of objects folded several times), a sealing section 10 is defined by a perforation line ~ in the top wall 1, and its removal exposes the objects packaged underneath. As the figures of the drawings reveal, sealing section 10 extends into the adjacent side walls 3 and 5, which have edge 11 or 12 respectively mutually with top wall 1.
In top wall 1, perforation line 9 has two sections 13, 14, which extend substantially at right angles to the edges 11, 12; in contrast to the representation of the pattern shown in Fig. 5, in Fig. 1 they are inclined slightly away from the corner 15 (in which the edges 11, 12 converge). A
section 16 of perforation line 9 connects the end points of sections 13, 14, which are at the greatest distance from the edges 11, 12 and consequently the side walls 3, 5. In the region of this diagonal section 16 of the perforation line 9 is attached -at right angles to section 16 - an adhesive tape 17, which adheres partially to sealing section 10 and partially to the adjoining region of top wall 1. At its end 18 there is provided (in a per se known manner) a tab free from adhesive, which is not shown in greater detail.
--In the side walls 3, 5 are provided further sections 19 and ~-~
20 respectively of perforation line 9, which are joined and at their edges remote from the corner 15 are connected ~ cornerwise to sections 13 and 14 respectively of perforation ;~ 30 line 9 and supplement these to form a perforation line completely surrounding the sealing section 10 with the edge sections lOa and lOb of side walls 3, 5. As Figures 1 to 4 show, the perforation line sections 19, 20 extend at a slight distance parallel to the edges 11 and 12 respectively between the top wall 1 on the~one hand and the side walls 3, 5 on the other hand.

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If, when the package is first used, the sealing section lo is torn off (by means of the adhesive tape 17), in the region of the corner 15 the topmost item in the packaging -a paper serviette with its creased edge corner - is exposed and it can be grasped and be withdrawn, and automatically folded, through the aperture produced by the sealing section (in the direction determined by the longitudinal extension of the adhesive tape, which is no longer present.
Of course the arrangement can be such that the sealing section 10 is not completely removed, but remains attached to the remaining package - for example along one o~ the sections 19, 20 of perforation line 9 - and after the required item is removed from the package it is again sealed by means of the adhesive tape 17. For this purpose one section of the perforation line 9 can be left unperforated.

However for reasons of cost it is often preferred not to provide an adhesive tape 17 and instead to construct the section 16 of perforation line 9 as an interface 16a, as the respective alternatives to Figures 2 to 4 show. The interface 16a permits the insertion of a finger under sealing section 10 and then it may be torn open or off. An interface 16a may however also be provided in conjunction with an adhesive tape 17; in this case the former is (substantially) covered by the latter.

Figures 2 to 4 show modifications of the perforation line 9 in the region of its sections 13, 14 and 16; only the length of sections 19, 20 changes as a function thereof. Thus sections 13, 14 and 16 in the example o~ Figure 2 have the shape of a continuous quarter circle with,the sections 23 and 24. In the example shown in Figure 3 the sections 33, 34 .
extend parallel to: one another and to the longitudinal :.
direction of the adhesive tape 17; they are connected to one another by a section 36 of semi-circular shape. A section : .
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46, in the shape of a part of a circle, of per~oration line 9 is also shown in the example of Figure 4; to this are connected outwardly curved sections 43 and 44 and form an obtuse angle with the edges 11, 12 not affected by sealing section lO.

The modifications to Figures 2 to 4, which are represented on the right-hand side of the page next to them, comprise an interface 16a in the perforation line 9 instead of the lo adhesive tape 17.

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Claims (12)

1. A soft plastic film packaging for parallelepiped-shaped piles of flexible flat objects, more particularly of folded paper or cellulose serviettes, having plane parallel covering (top and bottom) walls (1, 2) and also side walls (3, 4, 5, 6) connecting them, with a perforation line (9), which penetrates at least one wall limiting a sealing section (10), which can be torn open or off, for an aperture for the removal of said objects, characterised in that the sealing section (10) occupies a corner region of the top wall (1).
2. A packaging according to Claim 1, characterised in that the sealing section (10) encloses adjacent edge sections (10a, 10b) of the side walls (3, 5) which meet in the corner.
3. A packaging according to Claim 1 or 2, characterised in that the perforation line (9) in the top wall (1) comprises sections (13, 14; 23, 24; 43, 44) diverging towards the side walls from a point or section (16) which is the most distant from said side walls (3, 5).
4. A packaging according to Claim 3, characterised in that curved sections (43, 44) of the perforation line (9) in the top wall (1) enclose an obtuse angle with the edges (11, 12) not affected by the sealing section (10) between the top wall (1) and the side walls (3,
5).

5. A packaging according to Claim 3, characterised in that the rectilinear sections (13, 14) of the perforation line (9) in the top wall (1) extend substantially at right angles to the edges (11, 12) between the top wall (1) and the side walls (3, 5).
6. A packaging according to Claim 1 or 2, characterised in that rectilinear sections (33, 34) of the perforation line (9) in the top wall (1) extend parallel to one another and enclose an acute angle with the edges (11, 12) not affected by the sealing section (10) between the top wall (1) and the side walls (3, 5).
7. A packaging according to one of Claims 2 to 6, characterised in that sections (19, 20) of the perforation line (9) in the side walls (3, 5) extend at a slight distance parallel to their connecting edges (11, 12) with the top wall (1).
8. A packaging according to one of the preceding Claims, characterised in that one section of the perforation line (9) is designed as an interface (16a).
9. A packaging according to Claim 8, characterised in that the interface (16a) is disposed in the section of the perforation line (9) which is the furthest from the corner (15).
10. A packaging according to one of the preceding Claims, characterised in that an adhesive tape (17) coated with contact adhesive partially covers the sealing section (10) and partially covers the adjacent wall (1) and at its wall end (18) is provided with a tab free from adhesive.
11. A packaging according to Claim 10, characterised in that the adhesive tape is aligned along a straight line connecting the centre of the packaging with the corner (15) of the sealing section (10).
12. A packaging according to one of the preceding claims for piles of crosswise folded objects, characterised in that the sealing section (10) is disposed in the corner of the creased edges of the objects.
CA 2037293 1990-03-10 1991-02-28 Soft plastic film packaging for parallelepiped-shaped piles of flexible flat objects Abandoned CA2037293A1 (en)

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DEP4007709.8-27 1990-03-10
DE19904007709 DE4007709A1 (en) 1990-03-10 1990-03-10 Soft foil pack for square stack of flexible objects - has perforations ground corner area to provide removal opening, closure section and lid wall

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