EP0743264A1 - Zuschnitthülle aus Papier- oder Kunststofffolie für eine Weichpackung für Zellulosetücher - Google Patents

Zuschnitthülle aus Papier- oder Kunststofffolie für eine Weichpackung für Zellulosetücher Download PDF

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EP0743264A1
EP0743264A1 EP95107382A EP95107382A EP0743264A1 EP 0743264 A1 EP0743264 A1 EP 0743264A1 EP 95107382 A EP95107382 A EP 95107382A EP 95107382 A EP95107382 A EP 95107382A EP 0743264 A1 EP0743264 A1 EP 0743264A1
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Horst Dr. Reinheimer
Christof Stary
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Priority to MXPA/A/1997/008755A priority patent/MXPA97008755A/xx
Priority to PCT/US1996/005542 priority patent/WO1996036481A1/en
Priority to KR1019970708158A priority patent/KR100235696B1/ko
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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
    • B65D5/00Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/64Lids
    • B65D5/66Hinged lids
    • B65D5/6602Hinged lids formed by folding one or more extensions hinged to the upper edge of a tubular container body
    • B65D5/6611Hinged lids formed by folding one or more extensions hinged to the upper edge of a tubular container body the lid being held in closed position by application of separate elements, e.g. clips, hooks, elastics
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31BMAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/14Cutting, e.g. perforating, punching, slitting or trimming
    • B31B50/20Cutting sheets or blanks
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65D2301/00Details of blanks
    • B65D2301/10Blanks mutually positioned to minimise waste material upon cutting out the individual blank from a continuous or large sheet

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  • the invention relates to a wrapping blank of paper or plastic film for a cuboid soft pack for cellulose tissues or the like comprising the features specified in the preamble of patent claim 1 as well as a method for the production of such a wrapping blank.
  • Cellulose tissues for instance handkerchieves, but also other kinds of tissues, such as facial tissues, cleansing tissues and the like, mostly come in certain quantities, for instance in the number of ten, to form packs.
  • the corresponding soft pack consists of a wrapping blank of paper or plastic film, serving various purposes. At the manufacturer or the retailer, it is the object of the wrapping to protect the contents from soil. When the pack is used, the wrapping must be easy to open so that the contents can be removed in as simple a manner as possible. This is accompanied by the demand for the wrapping to be reclosable after the removal of a tissue so that the remaining tissues continue to be protected from soil.
  • DE 33 24 490 C1 discloses a wrapping blank of the species that can be produced without waste from an endless web of film.
  • the wrapping blank disclosed thereby is however accompanied by several disadvantages, resulting in the fact that this wrapping blank was not put into practice.
  • the course taken by the cut to form the free edge of the closing flap and the cutout is extremely complicated, having sections of perpendicular design.
  • the design of the wrapping blank results in that lateral flaps remain in the vicinity of the removal opening, which partially cover the removal opening located at the front of the pack. This is uncomfortable when you want to take out the contents of the pack.
  • the object of the invention to improve a wrapping blank of the generic type such that while keeping its characteristic of production free from waste, the blank can be cut without any difficulties in particular from an endless web with the aid of conventional cutting tools, while simultaneously being convertible into an optically pleasant soft pack offering the possibility of unimpeded removal.
  • This object is attained by the features specified in the characterizing part of claim 1. Accordingly, the free edge of the closing flap and of the cutout constituting the removal opening of the pack in the folded condition is formed by a common, substantially sinusoidal edge of cut of continuous run free from corners and misalignments, the convex section of which substantially defines the closing flap and the concave section of which substantially defines the aforesaid cutout for forming the removal opening.
  • the shape of the blank is of the most simple design in spite of the closing flap and the cutout realized thereby.
  • it has no sectional cuts of perpendicular arrangement, which strongly complies with the mechanical cutting of the wrapping blank.
  • the soft pack Owing to the smooth and harmonious sinusoidal shape of the free edge, which lies open over its entire length in the opened condition of the soft pack produced with the aid of the wrapping blank, the soft pack is of an esthetically especially attractive design.
  • the wrapping blank helps create an esthetically especially attractive soft pack.
  • two identical wrapping blanks can be produced by the point symmetric design of the edge of cut during the cutting free from waste of two blanks assigned to each other in pairs according to claim 7.
  • Claims 5 and 6 characterize further alternative configurations of the wrapping blank according to the invention, which are suitable in particular for a broadside pack or a so-called "flat case".
  • the measure specified in claim 5 serves to make the bottom of the soft pack more attractive optically.
  • Claim 6 refers to a wrapping blank which is created by geometrically congruent refashioning the wrapping blank according to claim 1. Further details of this can be taken from the description of the corresponding example of embodiment.
  • claim 7 refers to a method for the production of wrapping blanks, the design of which results from claims 1 to 6.
  • Claims 8 and 9, which refer to claim 7, relate to two alternatives of effecting the sinusoidal wavecut.
  • the wrapping blank comprises a rectangular zone 1, which is defined by three lateral edges 2, 3, 4 disposed at right angles. In the folded condition, this rectangular zone 1 constitutes the face 5, the back 6, the two intermediate narrow sides 7, 8 and the bottom 9 of the soft pack, which is in the form of a conventional block bottom.
  • the strip 12 extending in parallel to the lateral edge 3 forms the bottom 9.
  • a closing flap 13 is integrally formed on the rectangular zone 1, covering the removal opening 14 of the soft pack in the latter's closed condition.
  • the removal opening 14 is formed by a cutout 15 of the wrapping blank located beside the closing flap 13.
  • the free edge of the closing flap 13 and the cutout 15 is formed by a common, substantially sinusoidal edge of cut 16 of continuous run free from corners and misalignments.
  • the term "sinusoidal" is not to be understood in the strictly mathematical sense, but means that the edge of cut 16 comprises a convex section 17 followed by a concave section 19 - via a straight section 18 if required. From the starting point 20 to the final point 21 the edge of cut 16 must not have any corners or misalignments, i.e. it must be of continuous and substantially smooth run.
  • the convex section 17 of the edge of cut 16 defines the closing flap 13 and the concave section 19 defines the cutout 15 for the production of the removal opening 14.
  • the straight section 18 defines a substantially triangular side tab 22 prolonging the narrow side 7 upwards (cf. Fig. 5).
  • starting and final sections 23, 24 of the edge of cut 16 are provided, which are of reverse curvature. As seen in Fig. 5, these starting and final sections 23, 24 overlap in the folded condition constituting the soft pack, the misalignment of level of the starting point 20 relative to the final point 21 caused by the overlap 11 being reduced by the reverse curvature of the starting and final sections 23, 24. This improves the optical appearance of the soft pack in particular in the opened condition shown in Fig. 5.
  • starting and final sections 23, 24 of the edge of cut 16 define a second side tab 25 of the soft pack lying opposite the side tab 22.
  • the overall course of the edge of cut 16 is designed such that the latter is point symmetric referred to its point of intersection S intersecting a wrapping blank central line M placed between the two parallel lateral edges 2, 4 of the rectangular zone 1.
  • the production of these wrapping blanks from an endless web 26 is possible free from waste.
  • the endless web 26 is fed in the conveying direction T to a cutting device (not shown), where two wrapping blanks 27, 27' at a time assigned to each other in pairs are cut by a common, substantially sinusoidal wavecut 29 for the simultaneous production of the corresponding sinusoidal edge of cut 16 of the wrapping blanks 27, 27' as well as by straight cuts 30 in the broadwise direction B for the production of the corresponding lateral edges 2, 4.
  • the width of the endless web 26 is such that two copies can be produced side by side. If the width of the endless web 26 is correspondingly increased, the number of side-by-side copies produced may of course rise to four, six etc.
  • the lateral edge 3 of the wrapping blank 27, 27' is formed by the lateral edges 31, 32 of the endless web 26.
  • the sinusoidal wavecut is produced substantially parallel to the conveying direction T as is the case with the embodiment of Fig. 2.
  • the wavecut 29 is such that there are no starting and final sections 23, 24 of reverse curvature. Rather, a misalignment V of the respective starting and final points 20, 21 of the wavecut 29 is provided for compensation of the difference in level between the starting point 20 and the final point 21 of the edge of cut.
  • the endless web 26 is provided with sinusoidal wavecuts 29, which are placed substantially transversely to the conveying direction T for the production of wrapping blanks 27, 27' consecutive by twos and between which cuts 30 are provided.
  • each wavecut 29 forms the edge of cut 16 of the wrapping blanks 27, 27' assigned to each other by twos.
  • the two lateral edges 31, 32 of the endless web 26 constitute the lateral edges 2, 4.
  • Each straight cut 30 serves to produce the two lateral edges 3 of two subsequent wrapping blanks 27', 27. Again, there is a misalignment V between the starting 20 and final point 21 of the edge of cut 16.
  • the closing flap 13 may be provided for instance with a sticker 34 with which to fix the closing flap 13 to the face 5 below the concave section 19 of the removal opening 14. This position is roughly outlined by the dotted line in Fig. 5.
  • the two side tabs 22, 25, which project from the pile 35 of tissue handkerchieves 36 in prolongation of the narrow side 7, 8, are folded inwards in the way of a gusset along the oblique folding lines 37, 38 shown by dashes in Fig. 5.
  • an adhesive zone 39 roughly outlined by hatching in Fig. 5 may be used on the face 5 of the soft pack.
  • This adhesive zone 39 is disposed preferably centrally in front of the concave section 19 of the edge of cut 16. It may for instance consist of a reversibly adhesive, pressure sensitive glue applied by dot screen printing. A continuous layer of pressure sensitive glue may also be used.
  • the external geometry of the adhesive zone 39 is advantageously suited to the contour of the substantially sickle-shaped overlap portion between the closing flap 13 and the face 5 of the soft pack, as apparent from the arcuate course of the adhesive zone 39 according to Fig. 5.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates further configurations of wrapping blanks designed for broadside packs or so-called "flat cases".
  • a basic type of a wrapping blank again comprises a rectangular zone 1 defined by lateral edges 2, 3, 4 and a sinusoidal edge of cut 16 with a convex section 19 for the production of the removal opening 14.
  • the folding lines necessary for the production of the face 5, the back 6, the two lateral narrow sides 7, 8 and the bottom 9 are shown by short dashes.
  • an alternative configuration of the wrapping blank may be realized, in which the lateral edge 3 of the wrapping blank opposite to the edge of cut 16 takes a course that is stepped in the way of two trapezoids 40, 41 disposed in opposite directions.
  • the course of the lateral edge 3' thus produced is point symmetric relative to the point of intersection S' formed by the lateral edge 3' intersecting the central line M of the wrapping blank.
  • Fig. 6 illustrates another alternative of the shaping of the wrapping blank.
  • This is the area roughly outlined by wide hatching.
  • This shape is produced in that the area defined by solid lines and lines of long dashes is cut up along the central line M and in that the right part - referred to Fig. 6 - of the wrapping blank is attached, rotated by 180°.
  • the two parts amalgamate in the vicinity of the abutting sections of the lateral edge 3.
  • the convex section 17 of the edge of cut 16 defining the closing flap 13 on the one hand and the concave section 19 of the edge of cut 16 defining the removal opening on the other hand are disposed on two opposite sides of the wrapping blank, which are connected with each other by the straight lateral edges 2, 4.

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EP95107382A 1995-05-16 1995-05-16 Zuschnitthülle aus Papier- oder Kunststofffolie für eine Weichpackung für Zellulosetücher Expired - Lifetime EP0743264B1 (de)

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DE69503471T DE69503471T2 (de) 1995-05-16 1995-05-16 Zuschnitthülle aus Papier- oder Kunststofffolie für eine Weichpackung für Zellulosetücher
EP95107382A EP0743264B1 (de) 1995-05-16 1995-05-16 Zuschnitthülle aus Papier- oder Kunststofffolie für eine Weichpackung für Zellulosetücher
AT95107382T ATE168348T1 (de) 1995-05-16 1995-05-16 Zuschnitthülle aus papier- oder kunststofffolie für eine weichpackung für zellulosetücher
ES95107382T ES2118474T3 (es) 1995-05-16 1995-05-16 Plantilla de envuelta de papel o pelicula de plastico para un envase blando cuboide para tisus de celulosa.
MXPA/A/1997/008755A MXPA97008755A (en) 1995-05-16 1996-01-23 Easy opening hanky pack/wave cut
KR1019970708158A KR100235696B1 (ko) 1995-05-16 1996-04-23 포장 블랭크 및 그의 제조방법
PCT/US1996/005542 WO1996036481A1 (en) 1995-05-16 1996-04-23 Easy opening hanky pack/wave cut
JP8534842A JPH11505201A (ja) 1995-05-16 1996-04-23 開放容易なハンカチパック/波形カット
AU55627/96A AU697740B2 (en) 1995-05-16 1996-04-23 Easy opening hanky pack/wave cut
CA002220942A CA2220942C (en) 1995-05-16 1996-04-23 Easy opening hanky pack/wave cut

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EP1318081A1 (de) 2001-12-10 2003-06-11 The Procter & Gamble Company Flexible Verpackung für aufsaugende Papiertücher mit einer asymmetrischen Öffnung
FR2861694A1 (fr) * 2003-11-03 2005-05-06 Gervais Danone Sa Banderole decorative, emballage alimentaire comprenant une telle banderole et procede de fabrication

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DE3324490C1 (de) 1983-07-07 1984-11-22 Vereinigte Papierwerke Schickedanz & Co, 8500 Nürnberg Wiederverschliessbare Verpackung für Zellstofftücher sowie Folienbahn zur Herstellung dieser Verpackung
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DE3324490C1 (de) 1983-07-07 1984-11-22 Vereinigte Papierwerke Schickedanz & Co, 8500 Nürnberg Wiederverschliessbare Verpackung für Zellstofftücher sowie Folienbahn zur Herstellung dieser Verpackung
EP0507112A2 (de) * 1991-03-23 1992-10-07 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Klappschachtel, insbesondere für Zigaretten
DE9109814U1 (de) * 1991-08-08 1991-09-26 VP-Schickedanz AG, 8500 Nürnberg Wiederverschließbare Verpackung für Zellstoff-Tücher
EP0615919A1 (de) * 1993-03-16 1994-09-21 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Wiederverschliessbare Verpackung aus Kunststoffolie

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EP1318081A1 (de) 2001-12-10 2003-06-11 The Procter & Gamble Company Flexible Verpackung für aufsaugende Papiertücher mit einer asymmetrischen Öffnung
WO2003050006A2 (en) 2001-12-10 2003-06-19 The Procter & Gamble Company A soft pocket package for absorbent tissue sheets having a sail shaped opening
FR2861694A1 (fr) * 2003-11-03 2005-05-06 Gervais Danone Sa Banderole decorative, emballage alimentaire comprenant une telle banderole et procede de fabrication
WO2005047130A1 (fr) * 2003-11-03 2005-05-26 Compagnie Gervais Danone Banderole decorative, emballage alimentaire comprenant une telle banderole et procede de fabrication

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EP0743264B1 (de) 1998-07-15
ATE168348T1 (de) 1998-08-15
KR19990014814A (ko) 1999-02-25
WO1996036481A1 (en) 1996-11-21
ES2118474T3 (es) 1998-09-16
AU5562796A (en) 1996-11-29
AU697740B2 (en) 1998-10-15
CA2220942C (en) 2001-02-06
CA2220942A1 (en) 1996-11-21
KR100235696B1 (ko) 1999-12-15
MX9708755A (es) 1998-08-30

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