EP0592299A1 - Verfahren zum Wiederverschliessen von biegsamen Paketten oder Verpackungsbeuteln, Herstellungsvorrichtung und Vorrichtungsverwendung - Google Patents

Verfahren zum Wiederverschliessen von biegsamen Paketten oder Verpackungsbeuteln, Herstellungsvorrichtung und Vorrichtungsverwendung Download PDF

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EP0592299A1
EP0592299A1 EP93402438A EP93402438A EP0592299A1 EP 0592299 A1 EP0592299 A1 EP 0592299A1 EP 93402438 A EP93402438 A EP 93402438A EP 93402438 A EP93402438 A EP 93402438A EP 0592299 A1 EP0592299 A1 EP 0592299A1
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Luc Volatier
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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
    • B65D75/04—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks
    • B65D75/06—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks in sheets or blanks initially folded to form tubes
    • B65D75/08—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks in sheets or blanks initially folded to form tubes with the ends of the tube closed by folding
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/30—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure
    • B65D85/36—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for articles particularly sensitive to damage by shock or pressure for bakery products, e.g. biscuits

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  • the invention relates to a method for reclosing a flexible packaging packet or sachet, a device for its implementation, the use of such a device and a flexible packaging packet or sachet, in particular for food products, comprising such a device.
  • an object of the invention to provide a method and a device for implementing extremely simple which do not significantly increase the consumption of packaging materials.
  • an object of the invention to provide a method and a device which do not adversely influence the appearance and / or the presentation of the packages to which they apply but, on the contrary, increase it. appeal to consumers.
  • a method of reclosing using a relatively rigid cover of a flexible package or sachet enclosing in a envelope a relatively rigid product which can preferably be extracted therefrom while keeping the filled part of said envelope a relatively stable geometric shape is characterized, according to the invention, in that the emptied part of the envelope is trapped, by creasing it and / or by folding it back on itself, in the shape cover and combined dimensions of the part remaining filled on which said cover is nested to style and close it.
  • the cross-sectional shape of the cover is substantially that of the filled part of the package or sachet, without necessarily having a form identity, and that, on the other hand, the dimension of this cross section is substantially equal or very slightly greater than that of the filled part for that the cover can be maintained on the latter when it is attached to it by styling it.
  • the cover can it be of circular cross section and of a circumference length very slightly greater than that of the cookies or, as a variant, polygonal cross section with a perimeter very slightly greater than the length of the straight section (perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder) of the filled part of the package or sachet on which the cover is simply held by pressing.
  • a device for implementing the method according to the invention is characterized in that it is constituted by a relatively rigid cover with bottom and skirt of shape and dimensions combined with those of the package or sachet for packaging and is produced in all suitable material: cardboard, plastic, metal foil or thin metal alloy of the kind used for making packaging boxes for beverages, or a similar material.
  • the height of the cover is substantially equal to the thickness of one or more products that contains the sachet or packaging package, so that the device can be used until said package or sachet is practically empty.
  • the skirt of the cover has a shape similar to that of the package or sachet and an internal perimeter substantially equal to the length of the cross section of the package or sachet packaging with which it is associated.
  • the skirt of the cover is advantageously provided with means facilitating or contributing to the fixing of the cover on the part which remains filled with the package or packaging sachet with which it is associated.
  • said means consist of elastic tabs which, in their unsolicited condition, protrude inside the skirt of the cover.
  • said means consist of tabs resulting from cutouts of the skirt and which are formed at the end of the latter remote from the bottom of the cover.
  • the bottom of the cover is covered, over all or part of its internal surface, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive which contributes to maintaining the cover on the package or sachet.
  • the invention also relates to the use of a cover constituted by a bottom and a skirt of shape and dimensions combined with those of a flexible package or sachet for reclosing said package or sachet.
  • a flexible packaging package or sachet in particular for food products, comprising a device as defined above.
  • FIGS. 1 to 3 illustrate a method according to the invention for reclosing a package or sachet of flexible packaging and a first embodiment of a device for its implementation.
  • a flexible packaging package or bag S comprises an envelope e in one or several thickness (es) of paper, plastic film, if necessary a metallic foil and / or, sometimes, corrugated paper.
  • the package or sachet S of generally cylindrical shape in the embodiment described and shown, encloses products such as round cookies, b , stacked one above the other and which give the packaging a cylindrical geometric shape, relatively stable, -before opening it as shown in Figure 1-, only after opening in part R thereof which remains filled after extraction of one or more cookie (s) b .
  • said package or sachet of packaging S is associated with a cover, 10, relatively rigid, of shape and dimensions combined with those of the packaging prior to its opening or those of the part R which remains filled. of said packaging.
  • the cover 10, which consists of a bottom 11 and a skirt 12, is made of any suitable material such as cardboard, plastic, a sheet of metal or of thin metal alloy of the kind used for the manufacture of boxes. packaging for beverages.
  • the shape and dimensions of the skirt 12 are combined with those of the packaging S, or of the part R thereof which remains filled after the package or sachet has been opened and one or more biscuit (s) b have been removed, "combined shape and dimensions” being understood to mean that the shape of the cross section (perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the packet or bag) of the cover is, here, substantially circular or , as a variant and as shown in the drawing, is of polygonal contour, the internal circumference of the skirt 12 (in the case of a circular cross section) or the internal perimeter of the contour (in the case of a polygonal cross section) being very slightly greater than the circumference of a straight section (perpendicular to the longitudinal axis) of the package or bag S.
  • the height h of the cover, -measured perpendicular to the bottom 11-, is substantially equal to the thickness of one or a few cookies b .
  • the package or sachet S ′ encloses products b ′ with a square outline and the cover 15 is then also of square cross section. It additionally comprises, at the end of its skirt 16 opposite the bottom 17, lugs like 18 resulting from cutouts 19 of said skirt which facilitate the fixing and the maintenance of the cover 15 on the part that remains filled, R ′, of the package or bag S ', Figure 5, trapping the emptied part of the envelope e' .
  • Two devices 15 a and 15 b of the type which have just been described, can be combined together to form a box allowing the transport and the conservation of a certain number of products b 'extracted from the packaging, figure 6, thus giving the process and the device of the invention an additional commercial appeal.
  • a device according to the invention can be used to close a plurality of the same packages or sachets of packaging, thus making it possible to limit the consumption of packaging materials, consumption which can also be reduced by removing, from the envelope constituting the packages or sachets, corrugated paper whose rigidity effect is then provided by the device of the invention.
  • the latter is not limited to the embodiments described and shown. Thus, it can also include, to facilitate its attachment to the part that remains filled with the package or sachet, and as shown in the embodiment of FIG. 7, elastic tabs 20 which, in the unsolicited condition, protrude inside. of the skirt 21 of the cover 22.
  • a device according to the invention can also, as shown in FIG. 8, include a packed bottom 23 on part or all of its internal face with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, 24, which contributes as well to its bonding to the flexible package packet or sachet prior to its opening, that is to say in the condition shown in FIG. 1, that when said package or packaging bag is closed again due to weak adhesion of said adhesive and of the folded and / or crumpled part of the envelope e .
  • a pressure-sensitive adhesive 24, which contributes as well to its bonding to the flexible package packet or sachet prior to its opening, that is to say in the condition shown in FIG. 1, that when said package or packaging bag is closed again due to weak adhesion of said adhesive and of the folded and / or crumpled part of the envelope e .
  • the method and the device according to the invention also find application for packages or sachets of packaging of shapes other than those illustrated, for example shapes with a flat outline of the type of those illustrated in FIG. 9 where the package or sachet of flexible packaging, S '', enclosing cookies b '' is capped by a cover 25 whose bottom 26 and skirt 27 have a shape and dimensions combined with the part remaining filled with the packaging on which said cover is fitted style and close it.

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EP93402438A 1992-10-09 1993-10-05 Verfahren zum Wiederverschliessen von biegsamen Paketen oder Verpackungsbeuteln, Herstellungsvorrichtung und Vorrichtungsverwendung Expired - Lifetime EP0592299B1 (de)

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FR9212005A FR2696718B1 (fr) 1992-10-09 1992-10-09 Procédé de refermeture d'un paquet ou sachet d'emballage souple, dispositif pour sa mise en Óoeuvre et utilisation d'un tel dispositif.
FR9212005 1992-10-09

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GB2371285A (en) * 2001-11-03 2002-07-24 Paul Bernard Kane Using disc to keep biscuits fresh
GB2373491A (en) * 2001-03-23 2002-09-25 Anne Hart Preserving the condition of biscuits in a packet
GB2432142A (en) * 2005-11-12 2007-05-16 Smartboxes Ltd Closure for comestible product packet
GB2437508A (en) * 2006-04-26 2007-10-31 Andrew Mair End cap for re-closing opened end of container

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EP0160619A2 (de) * 1984-04-30 1985-11-06 SIG Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft Packung mit wiederverschliessbarem Kopfverschluss
DE8902977U1 (de) * 1989-03-10 1989-06-15 Fa. Ebert-Folien, 6200 Wiesbaden Wiederverschließbarer Verschluß für flexible Behältnisse
FR2674216A1 (fr) * 1991-03-21 1992-09-25 Duprez Sica Boite d'emballage, destinee notamment au conditionnement de friandises.

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EP0160619A2 (de) * 1984-04-30 1985-11-06 SIG Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft Packung mit wiederverschliessbarem Kopfverschluss
DE8902977U1 (de) * 1989-03-10 1989-06-15 Fa. Ebert-Folien, 6200 Wiesbaden Wiederverschließbarer Verschluß für flexible Behältnisse
FR2674216A1 (fr) * 1991-03-21 1992-09-25 Duprez Sica Boite d'emballage, destinee notamment au conditionnement de friandises.

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
GB2373491A (en) * 2001-03-23 2002-09-25 Anne Hart Preserving the condition of biscuits in a packet
GB2371285A (en) * 2001-11-03 2002-07-24 Paul Bernard Kane Using disc to keep biscuits fresh
GB2371285B (en) * 2001-11-03 2003-08-13 Paul Bernard Kane Keeping food items such as biscuits fresh
GB2432142A (en) * 2005-11-12 2007-05-16 Smartboxes Ltd Closure for comestible product packet
GB2432142B (en) * 2005-11-12 2011-02-23 Smartboxes Ltd Closure for comestible product packet
GB2437508A (en) * 2006-04-26 2007-10-31 Andrew Mair End cap for re-closing opened end of container
GB2437508B (en) * 2006-04-26 2009-10-14 Andrew Mair Improvements in an end cap

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