EP0410937B1 - Spenderpackung - Google Patents

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EP0410937B1
EP0410937B1 EP90810572A EP90810572A EP0410937B1 EP 0410937 B1 EP0410937 B1 EP 0410937B1 EP 90810572 A EP90810572 A EP 90810572A EP 90810572 A EP90810572 A EP 90810572A EP 0410937 B1 EP0410937 B1 EP 0410937B1
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Roland Maeder
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Flawa Schweitzer Verbandstoff und Wattefabriken AG
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS 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
    • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
    • B65D75/52—Details
    • B65D75/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
    • B65D75/5827—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion
    • B65D75/5833—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS 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
    • B65D31/00—Bags or like containers made of paper and having structural provision for thickness of contents
    • B65D31/06—Bags or like containers made of paper and having structural provision for thickness of contents with rigid end walls
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS 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
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/28—Strings or strip-like closures, i.e. draw closures
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS 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
    • B65D83/00—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents
    • B65D83/08—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession
    • B65D83/0805—Containers or packages with special means for dispensing contents for dispensing thin flat articles in succession through an aperture in a wall

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  • the present invention relates to a dispenser pack for receiving packaged goods, in particular disc-shaped packaged goods, with a bag in which deformable pieces of the packaged goods form a stack, this stack resting on a bottom of the bag.
  • a dispenser pack of this type is disclosed for example in DE-B 23 33 063.
  • This dispenser pack has a sleeve made of a film, in which cotton wool is filled.
  • the essentially sleeve-shaped envelope is closed with the aid of a straight seam, and the packaged goods rest in the position of use of the package on the floor created in this way.
  • the sleeve-shaped casing is also closed with the aid of a weld seam.
  • One of the corner parts of this flattened edge area of the envelope serves to hang the spander pack. To remove the contents of the bag, the other corner portion of this edge region of the bag is cut off and the opening thus created, which can be at the top or back of the pack in the position of use, pulls the desired amount of cotton wool out of the pack.
  • Such a dispenser pack is not suitable for removing cotton rags or other individual items because such individual items are most likely to be damaged when removed through this opening and could thus be rendered unusable.
  • the object of the present invention is to eliminate these and still further disadvantages of the known dispenser package.
  • the dispenser pack for receiving packaged goods has a bag 1 in which the pieces 2 of the packaged goods are accommodated.
  • the pieces 2 of the packaged goods are accommodated.
  • cotton ridges or cotton discs form the packaged goods.
  • the rondelles 2 lie one on top of the other so that they form a stack.
  • Pieces of goods of a different design can also be considered as packaged goods, which at least partially fill the interior of the bag 1 and which can be removed individually or at least in groups from the bag.
  • the bag 1 comprises an essentially cylindrical envelope 5.
  • this envelope 5 is made of a film, advantageously of a plastic film.
  • This envelope 5 consists of two square pieces of film which are placed on top of one another, after which two of the opposite edges of these pieces of film are connected to one another, for example by welding. These edge portions of the film pieces then have seams 6 and 7.
  • the shell 5 can, however, if appropriate, also consist of a thicker and thus also firmer or stiffer material.
  • the bag 1 further comprises a bottom 10, which is located in the area of one of the end parts of the envelope 5. This end game is the end part of the bag 1, which lies below when the dispenser pack is ready for operation.
  • the stack 2 of the good rests on the bottom 10 of the bag 1.
  • the bottom 10 is designed so that it is relatively stiff. In any case, the bottom 10 is made of a piece of material that is stiffer than the cover 5 made of a film.
  • the bottom 10 can, for example, be made from a piece of cardboard. To form the bottom 10, however, a plate made of a plastic could also be used, which is thicker and therefore also stiffer than the film 5 mentioned.
  • the outline of the bottom 10 will depend on the outline of the material.
  • connection between the sheath 5 and the base 10 takes place in such a way that an edge strip 8 of the last-mentioned end portion of the sheath 5 is pulled or put over at least a portion of an edge portion 11 (FIG. 2) of the areal base 10, after which this are connected to each other, advantageously by welding.
  • the edge 9 of the edge strip 8 is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 as a fairly irregular line. This is because it is a film whose edge runs irregularly after being welded to the bottom edge part 11.
  • the bottom or bottom portion 10 of the bag 1 has at least one that can be torn off in the central area thereof Section 12 (Fig. 2).
  • This tear-off section 12 is delimited by a weakening cut 13 with respect to the rest of the part, ie with respect to the edge part 11 of the base 10.
  • a weakening cut can be a cut in which two sections of a piece of material are not completely separated from one another and in which this separation takes place only when force is applied.
  • the weakening cut can be made, for example, in such a way that the knife of a corresponding cutting device merely penetrates the piece of material and does not penetrate it.
  • the weakening cut 13 completely surrounds the tear-off or separable bottom section 12 and has a circular course.
  • the weakening or separating cut 13 can also have a different course. This can consist, for example, of straight sections or of such as well as of arcuate sections (not shown).
  • the separating cut 13 need not be closed as shown is. It can also be open (not shown), so that a material tongue is present between the central section 12 and the edge section 11 of the base 10.
  • the material in the area of this tongue is not weakened, so that this tongue can serve as a flexible hinge, via which the middle section 12 is connected to the edge section 11.
  • the central opening in the bottom 10 can thus be closed repeatedly by the central section 12 as if by a cover.
  • the inner section 12 is broken out of the base 10.
  • this base portion 12 is pressed into the interior of the dispenser package.
  • the central section 12 is located inside the dispenser package and because of the rigidity of the base material, it is not easy to remove this base section 12 from the inside of the dispenser package.
  • a further tear-off section 15 (FIG. 2) is provided in the bottom 15.
  • This further floor section 15 lies within the tear-off section 12 already mentioned and is therefore smaller than the first-mentioned floor section 12. Therefore, the first removable floor section 12 is here also the larger floor section and the second removable floor section 15 is also referred to here as the smaller bottom section.
  • the second, smaller bottom section 15 is separated from the first, larger bottom section 12 with the aid of a further separating or weakening cut 16.
  • This second separating cut 16 can be made the same as the first separating cut 13 and it can also have the material bridges 14 already described.
  • the second separating cut 16 can, as shown, run in a circle. In the example shown, the separating cuts 13 and 16 are concentric.
  • the contours of the bottom sections 11, 12 and 15 can be at equal distances from one another and from the outer edge 17 of the edge section 11 of the bottom 10.
  • the second separating cut 16 can also have a course other than circular, whereby the statements made in connection with the first separating cut 13 apply to this course. If this is expedient, then a certain part of the second separating cut 16 can be closer to the first separating cut 13 than the rest of the same.
  • FIGS. 4 to 6 Three phases of the operation of such a dispenser pack are shown in FIGS. 4 to 6.
  • a finger With a finger, one first presses on the inner, smaller inner floor section 15 (FIG. 4), which thereby separates from the outer, larger inner floor section 12 is cut along the inner, shorter parting cut 16.
  • the smaller base section 15 can be easily pressed into the interior of the dispenser pack because the inner edge 16 of the larger base inner section 12 becomes free. Now you can reach under this inner edge 16 with the tip of your finger (FIG. 5) and pull.
  • the larger base section 12 separates from the edge portion 11 of the base 10 in the area of the outer, longer separating cut 13 and the outermost rondelle 2, which is the lowest in the dispenser pack, then appears in the opening 13 of the base 10, as shown in FIG 3 is shown. Then one or more rondelles 2 can be pulled out of the dispenser pack (FIG. 6).
  • the other or upper end portion 19 of the dispenser pack shown in FIG. 1 is provided with a cord closure 20.
  • This end portion 19 of the cylindrical bag cover 5 would normally be open.
  • a strip 23 of the casing material in this end part 19 is folded inwards and then downwards.
  • the free edge of this folded-over strip of material is firmly connected to the section 25 of the bag cover 5 underneath, for example by welding.
  • a channel is formed in the upper edge part of the bag cover 5, through which a cord 21 passes.
  • the ends of this cord 21 are knotted together, so that this cord 21 is a self-contained structure.
  • the larger section of this cord loop 21 is located as a pulling section thereof outside the channel in the sheath 5.
  • the material of the upper end section 19 of the bag 1 contracts and the opening in this end section is closed.
  • the dispenser package can be hung on a hook or the like with the help of the outer section of the closure cord 21, so that the bottom 10, as already mentioned, is at the bottom.
  • the bottom 22 of the embodiment of the casing 5 just mentioned is, however, smooth and there is no possibility of hanging such a dispenser pack on a hook or the like, which is usually required by the buyers. So that the upper end part 19 of the sleeve-shaped casing 5 can also be provided with a cord closure 20, the bottom 22 is located Sleeve 5 inside the end portion 19 of the shell having this bottom 22. That edge strip 23 of the jacket of the sleeve 5, which directly adjoins the sleeve base 22 and which is located between this base 22 and the upper edge 24 of the sleeve jacket, is consequently also located in the interior of this sleeve end part 19.
  • Such a dispenser can only be opened with one hand and is also very easy to open. Afterwards, the dispenser pack can remain open for the removal of further pieces of packaged goods because the opening 13 for removing further packaged goods 2 is located in the bottom 10 of the dispenser pack. For this reason the pieces of good 2 remaining in the dispenser pack cannot be contaminated, for example, by dust, splashing water or the like. Since the diameter of the removal opening 13 in the edge part 11 of the base 10 is somewhat smaller than the outer diameter of the good pieces 2, the good pieces still present in the pack cannot fall out of the dispenser pack. Since the dispenser pack is kept in the suspended state, the pieces of good 2 still present inside the same lie on the floor 10 in an orderly manner.

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US7681756B2 (en) 2001-01-03 2010-03-23 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Stretchable composite sheet for adding softness and texture
US7879172B2 (en) 2001-10-09 2011-02-01 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Methods for producing internally-tufted laminates
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