EP0698562A1 - Aufreissfaden für die Verpackung eines Gegenstands - Google Patents

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EP0698562A1
EP0698562A1 EP95401903A EP95401903A EP0698562A1 EP 0698562 A1 EP0698562 A1 EP 0698562A1 EP 95401903 A EP95401903 A EP 95401903A EP 95401903 A EP95401903 A EP 95401903A EP 0698562 A1 EP0698562 A1 EP 0698562A1
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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
    • B65D75/66—Inserted or applied tearing-strings or like flexible elements
    • 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
    • B65D2211/00—Anti-theft means

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  • the invention relates to the field of packaging of objects, in particular of objects of current use or of large consumption sold in specialized stores and / or of large distribution.
  • pads For rigid articles, such as boxes, pouches, and the like, flexible labels or pads (pads) are offered, which are self-adhesive (with an adhesive strong enough to resist untimely peeling), and which bear a metallic filament wound in a spiral or arranged in a straight line, this filament being designed to be detected by an electronic monitoring system operating on a magnetic detection principle.
  • the user does not generally deactivate the detection means, which limits the use to objects which are not worn or transported later. by the user (for example, a cosmetic product placed in a bag after its purchase would later trigger the alarm during a subsequent passage in front of the detectors or gates).
  • FR-A-2,605,747 describes a process consisting in permanently integrating into an object (cassette, CD disc) a resonant flat circuit composed of a coil and a capacitor, which circuit is used inside a gantry emitting an electromagnetic wave at radio frequency.
  • FR-A-2 358 713 describes an anti-theft marker made of ferromagnetic material fixed on the object to be protected, either by providing a layer of adhesive on the marker, or by superimposing a printed label.
  • WO-A-85 02285 describes an alarm system using a tape in two overlapping strips sandwiched between one face of the object and a protective label, the two strips having different magnetic characteristics to neutralize the alarm by magnetization of a strip, thanks to a barcode reader equipped for this purpose with a fork whose branches end in a magnet.
  • the invention aims precisely to solve this problem, by devising a mode of integration of a detection means in a package which provides optimal discretion, while benefiting from the sensitivity of the sophisticated electronic surveillance systems currently available on the market.
  • a tear strip for packaging an object of the type allowing the opening of the packaging, by tearing of the wall constituting said packaging, by a traction exerted on one end of said strip, characterized in that it carries a metallic filament extending along the length of said strip, said filament being arranged to constitute an antenna for an electronic monitoring system operating on a principle of magnetic detection.
  • the tear strip according to the invention has moreover nothing to do with those which are already used as a recording medium for coded information, such as the tear strips whose internal and / or external face is coated with 'a magnetic material serving as a recording medium (see for example EP-A-0 317 202) and which do not produce resonance phenomena.
  • Such a tear strip with integrated antenna is thus not only undetectable, but it also makes it possible to elegantly resolve the problem of deactivation by the user of the purchased object.
  • a strip is completely industrializable by packaging manufacturers who are also used to providing for its integration as a means of opening, and therefore have machines already suitable for laying a strip of uprooting.
  • the metal filament is secured to a self-adhesive support strip intended to be glued by its adhesive face to the internal face of the packaging, or in a variant secured to a support strip coated on one of its faces with an adhesive material, in particular a heat-reactivatable adhesive, said face constituting an adhesive face by which said support strip is glued to the internal face of the package.
  • the metallic filament can then be glued against one face of the support strip, said face constituting said adhesive face once it is coated with a suitable adhesive material, or even be embedded in the mass of the support strip.
  • the support strip can be added, but it is more advantageous to provide that the tear strip consists exclusively of the support strip and the metallic filament which is integral with it.
  • the tear-off strip is packaged in the form of a long wound length, from which a section of strip is drawn having the desired length for the packaging concerned. It is then wound by being oriented so that its adhesive face is disposed against one or more turns already wound.
  • the tear strip is associated with a packaging consisting of a sleeve of heat-shrinkable plastic essentially oriented in the transverse direction which is retracted on the object concerned, said strip is then preferably glued to the internal face of the sleeve not yet retracted.
  • the tear strip can then be arranged essentially along a generatrix of the sleeve. If it is a sleeve which has an inner flap resulting from its formation by covering and sealing from a flat sheet, which flap extends along a generatrix of said sleeve, it is advantageous to provide that said strip is torn off at the inner flap, between the two wall thicknesses of the sleeve.
  • the tear strip can be arranged essentially along a peripheral profile surrounding the object concerned.
  • the tear strip can be associated with a heat-shrinkable sleeve comprising a tamper-indicating means such as microperforations, primers or specific cuts.
  • Figures 1 to 3 illustrate various objects A having a package 10 equipped with a tear strip 11 according to the invention.
  • the object A is a cylindrical tube having a cap, for example a tube of mascara
  • the object A is a cylindrical box
  • the object A is a bottle surmounted by a removable cap.
  • the packaging 10 is here constituted by a sleeve of heat-shrinkable plastic, which is retracted on the object A.
  • the tear strip according to the invention will be able to equip very diverse types of packaging for objects.
  • this strip has a gripping end 12 allowing the opening of the packaging, by tearing of the wall constituting the latter, by means of a traction exerted on this gripping end 12.
  • the tear strip 11 carries a metal filament 13 extending along the length of said strip, said filament being arranged to constitute an antenna for an electronic surveillance system (not shown here) operating on a magnetic detection principle.
  • the object can be used normally, without risk of any subsequent triggering of an electronic monitoring system.
  • the tear strip 11 equipped with its metal wire 13 can be arranged essentially along a generator of the sleeve 10, as illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 3, or alternatively according to a peripheral profile surrounding the object concerned, as illustrated in figure 2.
  • FIG. 4 shows part of the wall of the package 10, and makes it possible to distinguish, by transparency, the tear strip 11 equipped with its metallic filament 13.
  • the outer wall of the package 10 and 10b has been noted 10a its inner wall.
  • the metallic filament 13 is thus very discreet for an ordinary customer whose eye is not particularly attracted by the presence of a tear strip which he is used to encounter. This is a fortiori the case if the tear strip is printed or colorized, insofar as the metallic filament 13 emerges even less clearly.
  • tamper-indicating means 15 such as microperforations, primers for precutting or specific cuts.
  • the tear strip fulfills an additional function of tamper indicator, but this function was already known in this technical field with tear strips used only for opening the packaging.
  • the metal filament 13 will preferably be secured to a support strip, which support strip or alternatively consists of the tear strip itself, as is illustrated for the two variants shown in FIGS. 6a , 6b, and 7a, 7b, or is constituted by an independent strip which is glued to the tear strip, as illustrated in the variants of FIGS. 8a, 8b and 9a, 9b.
  • the support strip 11 is glued by its adhesive face 14 to the internal face 10b of the packaging 10. It may be a self-adhesive support strip, or even a strip -support coated on one of its faces with an adhesive material, in particular a heat-reactivatable adhesive, said face then constituting an adhesive face 14 by which the support strip is glued to the internal face 10b of the package 10.
  • the metallic filament 13 is embedded in the mass of the support strip 11.
  • FIG. 6a illustrates the strip equipped with its metallic filament before it is bonded to the internal face 10b of the packaging
  • FIG. 6b illustrates the whole secured by gluing.
  • FIGS. 7a and 7b differs from the previous one by the fact that the metallic filament 13 is glued against one face of the support strip 11, said face constituting the adhesive face 14 once it is coated with a material. adequate adhesive. Again it may be a self-adhesive backing strip, or a backing strip coated on one of its faces with an adhesive material, such as a heat-reactivatable adhesive. It should be noted that the metal filament 13 is thus perfectly trapped between its support strip and the internal wall of the package 10, so that its retention in position and its protection are perfectly ensured.
  • a support strip 18 carrying the metal filament 13 is used, which strip is initially independent of the tear strip proper 11.
  • the strips 11 and 18 each have, on a determined face , an adhesive 14, so that the assembly can be easily joined by gluing, as can be seen in FIG. 8b.
  • the metal filament 13 is embedded in the mass of its support strip 18, as for the variant of FIGS. 6a, 6b.
  • FIGS. 9a and 9b differs from the previous one by the fact that the support strip 18 is glued against the internal wall of the package 10, while the tear strip 11 itself is glued to this support strip. which is then sandwiched.
  • the other difference lies in the fact that the metallic filament 13 is no longer embedded in the mass, but glued against one face of the support strip 18.
  • FIGS. 6a, 6b In practice, to develop an industrializable concept, it will a priori be preferable to choose the variant of FIGS. 6a, 6b or the variant of FIGS. 7a, 7b. This in fact avoids having two separate strips, requiring having a double bonding.
  • the tear strip can be packaged in the form of a long wound length, as illustrated in FIG. 10. It is thus possible to build up a reserve of very long length, in particular several tens of kilometers of long, which is wound on a drum 21, to constitute a coil of reserve from which a section of strip having the desired length for the packaging concerned can be drawn.
  • the tear strip 11 will be wound by being oriented so that its adhesive face 14 is disposed against one or more turns already wound.
  • a winding was already known for a traditional tear strip whose function was limited to the opening of a package.
  • the thinness and flexibility of the metallic filament forming the antenna does not preclude such winding of the tear strip according to the invention.
  • the packaging 10 is constituted by a heat-shrinkable sleeve, that is to say made of heat-shrinkable plastic essentially oriented in the transverse direction, which sleeve is retracted on the object concerned
  • the strip of tearing off 11 carrying its metallic filament 13 is preferably bonded to the internal face 10b of the sleeve 10 not yet retracted.
  • Specialists in the manufacture of such heat-shrinkable sleeves already use continuous laying machines making it possible to place a tear strip against the internal wall of such a sleeve, before the sleeve is placed on the object to be packaged, and of course before the retraction of said sleeve on this object.
  • the the fact that the tear strip comprises in this case in addition a metal filament allows easy integration into existing laying machines (working by continuously unwinding the tear strip from a reel) and retraction of heat shrink sleeves .
  • FIG. 11 there is shown a cross section of an envelope made in the form of a heat-shrinkable sleeve, with its tear strip antenna carrier 11 glued against the inner wall of said sleeve.
  • the sleeve 10 may have an inner flap 16 resulting from its formation by covering and sealing from a flat sheet, which flap extends along a generatrix of the sleeve.
  • the tear strip equipped with its metal filament is also easily integrated into machines for continuously laying tear strips of conventional type, thanks to packaging in a wound form, which allows easy industrialization of such a means. detection.
  • the use of such a tear strip with integrated antenna totally solve the problem of the deactivation of the detection means by the user of the purchased object.
  • the tear strip according to the invention can facilitate the management of products packaged with a packaging equipped with such a strip. Indeed, we can take advantage of the fact that the resonance wavelength depends directly on the length of the metallic filament used, by organizing classifications into groups of products or distributors thanks to a choice of predetermined different filament lengths, groups each of which is immediately recognizable by the resonance wavelength associated therewith. This gives real traceability of the packaged products, without complicating the packaging of these products in any way.
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FR2763042A1 (fr) * 1997-05-07 1998-11-13 Saplest Productions Sa Contenant avec protection contre le vol
WO1998054066A1 (fr) * 1997-05-30 1998-12-03 Sleever International Company Enveloppe d'emballage d'objet en materiau thermoretractable a bande d'arrachage circonferentielle
EP0901970A3 (de) * 1997-09-12 1999-07-07 Giesecke & Devrient GmbH Aufreissfaden
WO1999059888A1 (fr) 1998-05-20 1999-11-25 Sleever International Company Enveloppe de securite constituee par un manchon en matiere thermoretractable equipe d'une bande metallisee d'identification
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FR2605747A1 (fr) 1986-10-28 1988-04-29 Checkpoint Sa Procede de protection d'objets contre le vol et objets proteges selon ce procede
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FR2754375A1 (fr) * 1996-10-07 1998-04-10 Sleever Int Enveloppe de securite pour objets, notamment pour des recipients a dispositif de fermeture, du type constitue par un manchon en matiere plastique thermoretractable equipe d'un element holographique
FR2763042A1 (fr) * 1997-05-07 1998-11-13 Saplest Productions Sa Contenant avec protection contre le vol
WO1998054066A1 (fr) * 1997-05-30 1998-12-03 Sleever International Company Enveloppe d'emballage d'objet en materiau thermoretractable a bande d'arrachage circonferentielle
FR2763921A1 (fr) * 1997-05-30 1998-12-04 Sleever Int Enveloppe d'emballage d'objet en materiau thermoretractable a bande d'arrachage circonferentielle
EP0901970A3 (de) * 1997-09-12 1999-07-07 Giesecke & Devrient GmbH Aufreissfaden
WO1999059888A1 (fr) 1998-05-20 1999-11-25 Sleever International Company Enveloppe de securite constituee par un manchon en matiere thermoretractable equipe d'une bande metallisee d'identification
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