EP1027211B1 - Plesiertes papier und verfahren zur herstellung - Google Patents

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EP1027211B1
EP1027211B1 EP98949609A EP98949609A EP1027211B1 EP 1027211 B1 EP1027211 B1 EP 1027211B1 EP 98949609 A EP98949609 A EP 98949609A EP 98949609 A EP98949609 A EP 98949609A EP 1027211 B1 EP1027211 B1 EP 1027211B1
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  • the instant invention encompasses a new packaging material and a new manufacturing method for producing the packaging material.
  • EP-A-0 66 170 discloses a padding material including at least one layer of hygiene paper to form a three-dimensional shape thicker than the paper. It further discloses a production method of such padding material, a rounded and undulating structure, i.e. a corrugated structure, the corrugated structure is laminated with a support material on one or both sides on the corrugated structure. Such a material is not suitable for since the corrugated structure is not rigid and therefore not useful as a cushioning material.
  • a novel packaging wrap material can be used in cushioning a product for shipment and is form from the combination of a layer of pleated sheet material, the pleated material being creased at the apices of each pleat, and a planar layer of sheet material which is adhered to and preferably, adhesively bonded, to the pleated material.
  • a method of packaging a product for shipping within a protective cushion wrap comprising the steps of unrolling sheet material from a continuous roll, said roll of sheet material having an axis and said direction of unrolling being transverse to said axis, forming a series of pleats in said sheet material, said pleats being formed by folding said sheet material to form a sheet having upper and lower apices and planar sides between the apices, said apices being creased and parallel to said axis, which method further comprises the steps of bringing at least one sheet of a planar material from a continuous roll into contact with at least one surface of said pleated sheet material for forming apices that are continuous and uninterrupted along the length of said pleated sheet material, adhering at least one of said continuous upper apices and lower apices of said pleated sheet material to said sheet from said continuous roll forming the combination of a sheet of pleated material and a cover sheet layer, and severing a length of said combination of pleated material
  • a packaging wrap material for use in cushioning a product for shipment comprising a layer of pleated sheet material having upper and lower apices, said pleated material being creased at the apices of each pleat, wherein said pleated sheet material is combined with at least one layer of planar sheet material adhesively bonded to at least one of said upper and lower apices, wherein said layer of pleated sheet material is arranged so that the pleated material is at the apices of each pleat to form pleats having upper and lower apices that are continuous and uninterrupted along the length of said pleated sheet material.
  • the pleated sheet material is a preferably a kraft paper having a weight in the range from about 13.608 to 22.680 kg (30 to 50 pounds) and the planar sheet material is preferably tissue paper having a weight of less than about 9.072 kg (20 pounds).
  • the pleated sheet material preferably, has a pleat angle in the range from above 45 degrees to below 85 degrees, and most preferably the pleats have an angle of about 50 to 65 degrees.
  • the method of packaging a product for shipping within the protective cushion wrap of the present invention includes the steps of unrolling sheet material from a continuous roll and forming a series of pleats in the sheet material, the roll of sheet material having an axis and the direction of unrolling being transverse to the axis, The pleats have their apices parallel to the central axis of the continuous roll. At least one planar sheet from a continuous roll of sheet material is brought into contact with the pleated sheet material, and the pleated sheet material adhered to the sheet of planar from the continuous roll, preferably of tissue paper, to form the combination of a sheeted of pleated material and a cover sheet layer. A length of the combination of pleated material and a cover sheet are severed to form a composite packaging wrap material.
  • a product is completely enclosed within the packaging wrap material, with at least two end regions overlapping each other to form a region having at least two layers of packaging wrap material.
  • the composite can then be conformed to the shape of the enclosed product.
  • the pleats have a height in the range from about 3 sixteenths of an inch to about one half inch, in terms of distance between top planar sheet and bottom planar sheet.
  • the preferred pleated sheet material is a kraft paper having a weight in the range from about 22.680 kg (50 pounds) to below about 45.360 kg (100 pounds) and the pleats have a height in the range from about one half inch to about one inch, use with applications requiring a high support rigid packaging material.
  • the pleated material is a kraft paper having a weight in the range from about 22.680 kg (50 pounds) to below about 31.752 kg (70 pounds), and the pleats have a height in the range from about 4.762 mm (three sixteenths of an inch) to about 12.70 mm (one half inch) for use with the protective cushioning of fragile products.
  • the preferred planar sheet has a weight of up to about 9.072 kg (20 pounds) and is a tissue paper.
  • the tissue paper is in the weight range from about 4.536 (10) to about 9.072 kg (20 pounds).
  • the pleated sheet material is kraft paper, and is pleated by crushing fibers at the apices of the pleats.
  • the preferred method comprises crushing the paper fibers at the apices of the pleats, between a pair of mating gears, the mating gears having side wall angles in the range from about 60 degrees to about 85 degrees and most preferably in the range from about 65 to below 80 degrees.
  • the roots of the gears having a preferred root dimension in the range from about 0.381 (.015) to 0.889 mm (.035 inches) wide with a most preferred root dimension range of 0.381 (.015) to 0.635 mm (.025 inches).
  • the crest in order to sharply crease the paper, is in the range up to about 0.254 mm (0.01 of an inch), and most preferably in the range from about 0.102 (.004) to 0.294 (.01), depending upon the paper thickness being creased, with a most preferred range of about 0.102 to 0.152 mm (.004 to .006 inches).
  • the primary point is that the root must be wide enough to receive the crest without having the side walls of teeth forced against each other. Thus, the dimensions must provide for a space between mating teeth for the paper regions not being crushed and for crushing between the root and crest. That is, most preferably, there is no crushing between side walls and crushing between the crest and root to produce a well defined crease.
  • the new product design produces a unique product and a unique use of the product. Through the use of a combination of different types and weights of paper, the new product provides dramatic cushioning and structural products for the packaging industry.
  • the structure of the present invention utilizes a modified pleat design which can accomplish all of these tasks with 100% recyclable paper, virgin paper, or a combination thereof.
  • the design of the packaging product is in the form of a pleated paper product.
  • it is a composite of a light weight inner layer of pleated paper, preferably of light weight kraft paper, between an inner and outer layer of an extremely light weight material, such as tissue paper.
  • the performance characteristics of the composite structure can be selectively modified by varying (1) the pleat height or profile, (2) the pleat paper weight, (3) the top and bottom paper weight, and (4) the number of pleats per foot, which raises or rotates the pleat wall towards the vertical. As these walls become vertical the paper is less able to bend and the structure becomes more rigid.
  • chip board or corrugated pleats can be glued to either chip board or corrugated top and bottom layers can be used, while adding more pleats per foot to produce the highest amount of rigidity.
  • tissue paper such as about 4.536 to 6.804 kg (10 or 15 pound) tissue, for the top and bottom layers and about 13.608 kg (30 pound) paper for the 4.762 mm (3/16") pleating, provides a great deal of cushioning and flexibility as a wrapping material. It is also easy to fold up to be used as void-fill.
  • the unique combination is resiliently rigid when subjected to compression, but is extremely flexible. The composite is virtually moldable around an object and can conform to the shape of an article.
  • corrugated fluted is a product which is a paper product formed by steam treatment and chemical impregnation, to form a rigid sinusoid wave. Structural rigidity is produced through the processing of the paper. Pleated paper achieves its structural strength through the geometry of the product. Attention is invited to U.S. Patent No. 3,951,730 which is directed to a structure which is disclosed as being used as isolation or as packing material.
  • the structure includes a bearing wall, which is consistent with the use in the prior art of vertical structural members.
  • the instant invention relies on the non-vertical walls for structural strength and flexibility and is free of vertical retaining or bearing walls. Rather than using a vertical bearing wall, it has now been found that it is advantageous to not only having a system which is entirely or substantially entirely free of vertical walls, but also which goes to the other extreme by using an unusual combination of light weight papers.
  • the 4.762 mm (3/16") profile is preferred in combination with the about 4.536 kg (10 pound) tissue and about 13.608 kg (30 pound) kraft paper, and provides a low cost usage than is attainable with a comparable plastic air bubble package material. This is in part due to the greater amount of air trapped during the folding and manipulation of the product and manufacturing cost advantages. Air bubble or air cap cushioning, due to its extreme flexibility, tends to fill the voids completely.
  • the pleat material is very flexible in the transverse direction of the pleats, but more rigid along the pleat creases providing stacking support. The pleated cushioning product leaves greater amounts of void space than air bubble cushioning material, and thus is more effective as a void fill.
  • inefficiency is better than high efficiency.
  • the structural integrity of the pleated structure is produced by the geometry of the product, and thus, it has been found that light weight paper can be used to produce a unique cushioning product, having properties which are dissimilar to corrugated products.
  • the new cushion material indicated generally as 100 is a combination of two outer layers of paper 102 and 104, enclosing one layer of pleated material 106.
  • the pleated material is bonded to the top and bottom of each of the ridge lines or apices 108.
  • the side walls 106 must be non-vertical and are preferably less than 85 degrees, with a preferred angle as formed being about 60, since the angle increases when the product is relaxed prior to gluing.
  • This product is contrasted with the prior art corrugated product 200, illustrated in Figure 2 , and shown to have fluting 202.
  • the ability of the product 300, to conform to the shape of a product, such as a wine bottle, or glass vase, or the like, is illustrated in Figure 3 .
  • FIG. 4 A preferred pleating apparatus is illustrated in Figure 4 , and indicated generally as 400.
  • the process of manufacturing pleats has not been applied to create a packaging product either as just a pleat in sheet form, as shown in Figure 5 , or as a combination of pleating glued to top and bottom layers of paper as shown in Figure 1 and 7 .
  • the manufacturing process is unlike that which is employed for producing corrugated paper products.
  • the process for producing corrugated products as shown in Figure 3 . produces rounded inner fluting 202, providing almost vertical walls and a large gluing surface area for rigidity.
  • the fluting height, or profile is very small to provide the maximum amount of rigidity.
  • the strength of a corrugated box is its ability to remain in shape, without stretching or tearing and is structurally rigid, even in the absence of a planar layer, as in single or double faced corrugated. It is the opposite of cushioning.
  • Pleating can produce varying levels of structural rigidity, but has the ability to increase the profile well beyond corrugated's of 3.175 - 6.35 mm (1/8 - 1 ⁇ 4 inches) to a rigid pleat height of 50.8 mm (2 inches) or more, less expensively.
  • a cushioning factor can be built in, due to the ability to vary the pleat angle.
  • the flexibility that honeycomb and corrugated can not provide, is provided by the pleated sheet material. This is due in part to the tissue paper having virtual no structural strength other than tensile strength, and the pleat having significant structural strength only in compression at a right angle to the main plane of the pleated sheet.
  • the term "main plane”, as used herein, refers to the plane of the sheet in unpleated form, which is also the plane of the planar top or bottom layer 120 or 122.
  • the pleats are formed with their center line at a right angle with respect to the plane of the paper.
  • the walls of the pleat have a substantially less than 90 degree included angle at their apex.
  • the walls of a corrugated sheet can be essentially vertical, and honeycombs are vertical walled structures, the pleated material must be a substantially lesser angle.
  • the pleat sheet material 436 is on a continuous roll having a central axis 446.
  • the material passes between the matched gear teeth 438, of the gears 434.
  • the angle of the side walls 440 and 442 is not narrowly critical.
  • the gear teeth have a crest 432 and a root area 430, for receiving the crest of the mating gear.
  • FIG. 5 Another inventive aspect of the product is the use of the pleated paper in continuous sheets as in Figure 5 with the use of pleating 500 alone.
  • Pleating by itself adds rigidity to paper and provides an inexpensive and easy to use void fill product as an alternative to Styrofoam peanuts.
  • the pleat is quick to use, dust free, and inherently maintains its shape through the shipping process.
  • pleating exploits the paper to its highest volume with the best rigidity in a consistent pattern that can standardize the packaging integrity giving more stable results.
  • the creasing of the paper adds the rigidity and air volume to the paper to create a light weight void fill alternative.
  • Padpak a prior art product, forces air between three layers of paper by folding the layers together.
  • the resulting product is bulky to begin with, but soon crushes due to the roundness, in contrast, to creasing (pleating) process.
  • Ecopack is a prior art invention which is used in 3.175 mm (1/8") creased strips to create a better process to permanently entangle thin strips of paper.
  • the new product in contrast to Ecopack adds stacking strength by deliberately using wide sheets, on or about 152.4 mm (6 inches) in ridge line width and preferably at least about 304.8 mm (12 inches) or more, that resist folding parallel to the pleat ridges lines. This stiffness creates a memory that produces a more durable void fill product.
  • the product of the present invention is also much easier to discard than Ecopack, as it is used to wrap a product with one sheet rather than in tiny strips of paper.
  • void fill is the use of the pleated paper only with glue beads bisecting the pleat direction so that a pleated paper obtains a stiffness every two or three intervals, or the intervals that the customer would desire.
  • the glue bead being a continuous stream of glue, provides stiffness by traveling up and down the hills and valleys of the pleating. This bead of glue has been used to maintain the shape of paper filters that, under extreme pressure, from the liquids passing through the paper and creating a pressure differential, maintains the filter shape.
  • Geoami is another paper product that is used as a cushioning material for fragile items.
  • Geoami is made of slit paper stretched to form hexagons from rotated 6.350 mm (1 ⁇ 4") portions of paper. These hexagons form rigid low profile roughly 58 degree angled cells. The pleated paper reaps the same benefit as these angled cells, but without the dust created from the die cutting of the Geoami product.
  • Geoami only becomes thicker with multiple wrapping since the distance between the slits is critical for Geoami to work. This inability to change the profile from 4.762 mm (3/16") when rotated to its fullest, becomes inefficient, labor intensive, and utilizes more paper as a result.
  • the new art can be fine tuned to provide the optimum usage of paper, at the required thickness, and with the required rigidity.
  • Pleating provides these different cushioning and structural qualities by varying the paper weight, pleat profile, and pleats per foot, to generate a family of products to provide one stop recyclable packaging design and application.
  • varying the pleated paper weight and pleats per foot produces varying stiffness.
  • the paper weight of the top and bottom layers change the cushioning or structural strength of the new art, that is, the technology of the present invention. Thickening the top and bottom layers spreads the load more evenly, between the pleat ridges, and inhibits flexing between the pleats, thereby producing an even stronger product.
  • An additional aspect concerning the pleat profile is the ability of the pleat legs to flex.
  • a thinner material will flex more easily than a thicker, heavier weight material.
  • a taller, but soft packaging material can be met by utilizing the same paper weight used in a smaller pleat profile designed for rigidity.
  • a very inexpensive cushioning design would use a light weight paper pleat with a short pleat profile. This serves to produce an excellent cushioning and inexpensive packaging product for the most light weight and fragile items.
  • the tissue provides great flexibility, enhancing ease of use, moldability into permanent shapes around the object, with the equivalent cushioning.
  • the 4.762 mm (3/16") pleat height also enhances the ability for the user to wrap with ease, in multiple windings, to accumulate protective layers.
  • This concept is typically used with a plastic air bubble type of wrap.
  • Plastic air Bubble packaging wrap provides its best protection using the smaller profile 4.762 ((3/16")) bubble providing more bubbles per inch.
  • the 4.762 (3/16") pleat provides optimum protection by providing optimum pleats per inch, and pleated peaks to make contact in the same amount of surface area.
  • the optimum heights for air bubble wrap and the pleated wrap are similar, for high cushioning applications.
  • tissue in essence, becomes merely the glue for the system to work. Without the tissue, it would be easy for the pleated paper to collapse, that is, to flatten under load. With the tissue glued to the pleated sheet, the composite structure maintains its shape, but uniquely remains flexible.
  • Tissue paper inherently is a very weak product, but in this instance it provides integrity to the material with the only strength it has, namely, tensile strength.
  • the tensile strength of 10# tissue, rated using a 15.875 mm (5/8") strip of paper is 1.134 to 1.361 kg (2 1 ⁇ 2 to 3 lbs) in strength. 15# tissue varies from 2.495 kg (5 1 ⁇ 2 lbs.) to 2.948 (6 1 ⁇ 2 lbs).
  • tissue tensile strength that provides this "glue”.
  • the optimum design, for wrapping, would then be an infinitely thin material providing enough tensile strength to maintain its shape. As the paper gets lighter it also becomes progressively less expensive and more flexible.
  • the graph of Figure 9 depicts the crushing strength of 4.762 mm (3/16") paper utilizing 30# pleated paper and 10# tissue paper.
  • the tissue paper can be analogized to the cables on a bridge. Bridge cables have great tensile strength, and add rigidity through interaction with the other bridge components, though, on their own, cables have little structural rigidity.
  • the Geoami brand of expanded sheet material and air bubble packaging wrap have no analogous component.
  • the corrugated fluting is essentially rigid and self-supporting as a result of the manufacturing process which produces the fluting.
  • the top and bottom sheet prevent nesting of layers, but do not have the significant or corollary function of tissue in the present invention.
  • the combination of paper weights which is preferably used, is surprisingly low.
  • the structural pleated layer is about 13.608 kg (thirty pound) kraft paper with the outer layer or layers, being about 4.536 (ten) or 6.804 kg (fifteen pound) tissue paper. This is due to the use of a pair of equally angles side walls. In corrugated sheeting, the fluting is much heavier and thicker, representing the other end of the weight spectrum
  • the slit pattern of the Geoami brand material determines the maximum expansion of the product.
  • the pleated material employs a glued, light weight layer, to maintain the product in the desire, maximum expansion configuration.
  • the width of pleated paper and the top and/or bottom sheets is preferably, at least about 304.8 mm (12 inches) wide.
  • the instant invention uses an uninterrupted pleat for optimum performance. Widths of uninterrupted pleated sheets can be of any desired lengths, and widths of up to about 1.219 m (four feet) can be employed. Width of under 304.8 mm (12 inches) of continuous, that is, uninterrupted pleats, are preferred.
  • the preferred range for the weight of Kraft paper is from about 13.608 to 22.680 kg (30 to 50 pounds).
  • the range for Geoami brand of cushion materials Kraft paper would be in the 22.680 to 36.288 kg (50 to 80 pound) range, and for corrugate sheeting, the range is 31.752 kg (70 pounds) and up.
  • the ability of the finished product to mold to the shape of a wrapped product decreased.
  • a chip board material can be used to produce a pleated product, it would have totally different performance characteristics from the 13.608 to 22.680 kg (30 to 50 pound) range pleated product and would not be moldable, that is would not contour to the shape of the contained product.
  • the structural pleated layer is about thirty pound Kraft paper with the outer layer or layers, being ten pound tissue paper.
  • the fluting is much heavier and thicker, representing the other end of the weight spectrum.
  • Curve 1 represents the base line for the test with the test apparatus run without test material.
  • Tests 1 to 8 correspond to curves 2 through 9.
  • the first test is a pleat utilizing 100# paper.
  • the second is a pleat utilizing about a 70# paper. Both products utilize the same top and bottom layer weights of about 60# paper. Both tests used, 15.875 mm or 15.875 mm (5/8" or 625") pleat profiles. Adding the top and bottom layers creates a total thickness of 16.231 mm (639"). Pleating, on average for both products, had 19.05 mm (3 ⁇ 4") pleat spacing (16 pleats per 0.093 m 2 (foot)).
  • Tests 3 through 8 (curves 4 through 9) utilized 30# pleat paper, at the 1.5875 mm (1/16") (4.762 mm) (1875") profile, with varying weights of top and bottom layers. Additionally, curves 5, 7, and 9 represent the use of three plies of material to reveal differences in multiple layers usage. Test represented by curves 8 and 9 were just the pleating itself.
  • Figures 5, 6 and 7 show the different pleated designs us ed.
  • the test applies a downward crushing force, or deflection, on the products being tested, in 0.787 mm (031") increments, and records the resulting weight needed to produce the deflection.
  • Figure 7 displays the test results on a graph to compare the data.
  • the first curve represent the Machine Empty, and "zeroes", the testing apparatus, that is, it establishes the base line or zero line, for the test.
  • the control arm of the apparatus flexes under tension and this flexing is recognized as a phantom deflection.
  • the angle of the machine ONLY deflection, curve 1 should be taken into account only for the purposes of revealing that all tested material would actually be slightly steeper in curve and when the curve is as steep at the machine itself that the material is fully crushed.
  • the first column of Chart I shows the weight pleated material numerical data, and the second column shows the weight recorded for each 1/4 turn 0.787 mm ((031")) movement) of downward travel.
  • the third column "zeroes” the weight to "0" kg (pounds) for actual force applied.
  • the fourth column shoes the position in 1 ⁇ 4 turn increasing increments.
  • the fifth column converts the position into actual total deflection by multiplying the position by 0.787 mm (0.31"). As one can see the two materials are flattened at 16.256 mm (64 inches) deflection since they are 16.231 mm (639") in thickness.
  • the graph, of Figure 8 dramatically shows the ability to create varying cushioning protection utilizing different paper weights.
  • the structure of the present invention supported more weight through the crushing process, thus proving that a family of products can be created utilizing the technology of the present invention..
  • a greater force is needed to deflect the product. This is due to the greater number of pleats per 0.093 m 2 (foot).
  • the increase in pleats per 0.093 m 2 (foot) make the product much stronger. This combination provides the optimum usage for paper since the yield per ton of material used goes way down with the use of lighter weights.
  • the slit pattern of the Geoami brand material determines the maximum expansion of the product.
  • the pleated material employs a glued, light weight layer, to maintain the product in the desire, maximum expansion configuration
  • the preferred combination is a range of about 4.536 to 9.072 kg (10 to 20 pound ) tissue and a range of about 13.608 to 22.680 kg (30 to 50 pound) kraft glued to at one sheet, and most preferably both a top and bottom sheet.
  • This combination is preferably used with uninterrupted pleats of at least 304.8 mm (12 inches) in width and most preferably, with about 16 to 30 pleats per 0.093 m 2 (foot).
  • the pleat height, that is distance between the top and bottom sheets, is preferably at least about 9.525 mm (3/8ths of an inch).
  • a preferred upper limit is about 12.7 mm (one half an inch) for a soft cushioning product.
  • a pleat height in the range from about 12.7 to 25.4 mm (one half to one inch), and most preferably about 19.05 (3 ⁇ 4) to about 25.4 mm (one inch) provides a low cost void fill material and would be used with a heavier weight pleated paper, in the range from about 22.680 to 31.752 kg (50 to 70 pound) kraft paper.
  • the outer layer can be a high strength material such as the product sold under the trademark Tyvek.
  • the characteristics and performance of the pleated product is related to the fold angle of the product.
  • the range can be 45 to 80 degrees, with about 55 to 65 being preferred and providing optimum cushioning performance characteristics and volume to material ratio.
  • a rounded, corrugated type apex produces a product which lacks the geometrical requirements of the present invention.
  • a rounded apex will cause the product to collapse under load due to the curving of the paper.
  • a true pleat that is, one with a sharp crease, transmits forces from the apex, along the paper, to the base.
  • a curved apex that is, a non-creased product curves or rolls under load and cannot transmits the load from the apex to the base.
  • pleat refers to a sheet material produced by creasing the fibers at the apex of the fold, as distinguished from a product which merely folds the sheet material and is not creased at the apex.
  • the first method involves a paddle wheel that works against a smooth metal anvil (a steel roller making contact with the paddle wheel).
  • the paddles are spaced according to the pleat designed required.
  • the paddle works not only as a creasing mechanism, but, also pushes the creases together to create pleating since it revolves somewhat faster than the anvil - skidding the paper together into pleats.
  • the second manufacturing process involves two overlapping plates which move up and down. As the upward plate slides downward just in front of the upward plate it draws paper into a position to be pleated. The bottom plate then pushes against the upward plate and forms a crease. The plates then separate and overlap in reverse allowing the bottom plate to draw the paper inward - and the procedure is continued.
  • the third method which is used for this product is also a rotary Pleater utilizing two matched gears.
  • the rotary pleat tool resemblance to gears has vitally important differences to manufacture pleated paper correctly.
  • the pleat tool is made up of teeth which fit in-between the teeth of the opposing pleat tool.
  • the top of the tooth is called the crest.
  • the very bottom of the valley created between two teeth is called the root.
  • the root is manufactured smaller in width than the root. Since both tools have the same inclined angle there will naturally be a space between the teeth even though there is contact with the crest and the root. This side space that inhibits the inclined angles from touching each other allows for the crest and the root guaranteed contact without interference from the sides of the teeth.
  • the tooth In order to accommodate the relaxation that occurs the tooth is manufactured typically 5 to 10 degrees steeper than the actual manufactured product desired. As an example, a desired 60 degree angle would be initially manufactured at 70 degrees to allow for the paper to relax to 60 degrees.
  • the amount of relaxation varies as different papers are used, i.e., recycled, virgin, or a combination of both. It is not critical though, to vary the pleat tool angle for each type of paper. The worst case of relaxation need to be taken into account and if the paper does not relax to the desired angle all that is needed is to slow the pleating manufacturing process as compared to the gluing process (found just downstream from the pleater). This slowing will force the pleats to open, thereby decreasing the angle of the pleat to the desired angle.
  • the pleat tools is manufactured with matched pleat angles of 60 to 85 degress, with a preferred range of about 65 to 79 degrees for a desired 60 degree angle.
  • the root is in the range from about 0.381 to 0.889 mm (.015 to .035 inches) wide with a preferred root range of about 0.381 to 0.635 mm (015 to .025 inches). The greater the dimension differential between the root and crest, the easirer it is to mate the two gears.
  • the crest in order to sharply crease the paper, is in the most preferred range from about 0.012 to 0.254 (.004 to .01), depending upon the paper thickness being creased, with an optimum range of about 0.102 to 0.152 mm (.004 to .006 inches).
  • the lower limit of the crest dimension is guided by the ability to sharp the tool.
  • the upper limit is determined by the desire to avoid a substantial truncation of the apices.
  • the truncation, or flat upper surface provides a good surface for the application of adhesive and bond of the pleated sheet to the planar sheet, but also serves to decrease the number of pleats per inch.
  • the crest of one tooth must be dimensioned to nest against the root of the other gear to the extent that paper is crushed between the mating root and crest.
  • the space between each of the two sidewalls of the pair of teeth which form a root area and the enclosed tooth which provides the compression crest mating is most advantageously, at least equal to about the thickness of the paper being crushed. It is noted that the positon between the two mating gears varies with time, and the aforenoted spacing is at the point in time of crushing the paper. By this mechanism, the force is applied at the point of crushing and is not distributed along the walls of the pleat. This dramatically minimizes the amount of force which is necessary to achieve the desired result.
  • the pleated paper travels to the combining process where the tissue layers are spray glued with pressure sensative adhesive and then rolled against the pleating to adhere the tissue layers to the pleating. Belts are placed around the rollers so that a continous pressure can be placed on the tiisue and pleating to assure adhesion.

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  1. Verfahren zur Verpackung eines Produktes für den Versand in einer schützenden, gepolsterten Hülle (100), mit folgenden Schritten, Abwickeln von bahnförmigem Material (106, 436) von einer fortlaufenden Rolle, wobei die besagte Rolle bahnförmigen Materials (106, 436) eine Achse hat und die besagte Richtung zur Abwicklung quer zur besagten Achse verläuft, wodurch eine Reihe von Falten in dem besagten bahnförmigen Material (106, 436) entstehen, wobei die besagten Falten durch das Knicken des besagten bahnförmigen Materials gebildet werden, so daß eine Bahn geformt wird, die obere und untere Spitzen (108) aufweist sowie ebene Seiten zwischen den Spitzen (108), wobei die besagten Spitzen (108) geknickt werden und parallel zu der besagten Achse verlaufen,
    gekennzeichnet durch folgende Schritte:
    - Inkontaktbringen mindestens einer Bahn eines ebenen Materials (102, 104) von einer fortlaufenden Rolle mit mindestens einer Oberfläche des besagten gefalteten bahnförmigen Materials (106, 436), so daß sich fortlaufende und ununterbrochene Spitzen (108) entlang des besagten gefalteten bahnförmigen Materials bilden,
    - Verbindung der besagten fortlaufenden oberen Spitzen (108) und/oder unteren Spitzen (108) des besagten gefalteten bahnförmigen Materials (106, 436) mit der besagten Bahn der besagten fortlaufenden Rolle, so daß sich eine Kombination aus einer Bahn des gefalteten Materials (106, 436) und einer darüber liegenden äußeren Schicht (102, 104) bildet, und
    - Abtrennen der besagten Kombination aus gefaltetem Material (106, 436) und der darüber liegenden Schicht (102, 104), so daß ein Verpackungsmaterial (100) entsteht, das ein Produkt vollständig in das besagte Verpackungsmaterial (100) einhüllt, mit mindestens zwei Endbereichen, die einander überlappen, so daß ein Bereich entsteht, der mindestens zwei Schichten des Verpackungsmaterials (100) aufweist und Anpassen des besagten Verpackungsmaterials (100) an die Form des besagten Produktes.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    sowohl die besagten fortlaufenden oberen Spitzen (108) und die besagten unteren Spitzen (108) an einer ebenen Bahn (102, 104) haften und somit eine Kombination aus einer Schicht gefalteten Materials (106, 436) gebildet wird, die oben und unten von einer darüber liegenden äußeren Schicht (102, 104) bedeckt ist.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    die besagte Bahn (102, 104) der besagten fortlaufenden Rolle aus Seidenpapier besteht, so daß eine schützende polsternde Hülle entsteht, die eine schützende äußere Seidenpapierschicht (102, 104) aufweist.
  4. Verpackungsmaterial (100), zur Einbettung eines Produktes für den Transport, das eine Schicht aus gefaltetem bahnförmigen Material (106, 436) umfaßt, das obere und untere Spitzen (108) aufweist, wobei das besagte gefaltete Material an den Spitzen jeder Falte geknickt ist,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    das gefaltete bahnförmige Material mit mindestens einer Schicht eines ebenen bahnförmigen Materials (102, 104) kombiniert ist, das haftend verbunden ist mit mindestens den oberen und/oder unteren Spitzen (108), wobei die besagte Schicht des gefalteten bahnförmigen Materials (106, 436) so angebracht ist, daß das gefaltete Material an den Spitzen Falten bildet, die obere und untere Spitzen (108) aufweisen, die fortlaufend und ununterbrochen entlang des besagten gefalteten bahnförmigen Materials verlaufen.
  5. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    eine erste Schicht des ebenen bahnförmigen Materials (102) haftend mit den besagten oberen Spitzen (108) verbunden ist, und eine zweite Schicht des ebenen bahnförmigen Materials (104) haftend mit den besagten unteren Spitzen (108) verbunden ist.
  6. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    mindestens eine Schicht des besagten gefalteten bahnförmigen Materials (106, 436) aus Seidenpapier besteht.
  7. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    das besagte gefaltete bahnförmige Material (106, 436) Packpapier ist, dessen Gewicht ungefähr zwischen 14 kg und 23 kg (50 Pfund zu 100 Pfund) liegt.
  8. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 6,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    jede erste und zweite Schicht des besagten ebenen bahnförmigen Materials (102, 104) aus Seidenpapier besteht.
  9. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    die Höhe der besagten Falten zwischen ungefähr 4,762 mm und ungefähr 12,7 mm (3 Sechzehntelzoll zu ungefähr Halb Zoll) liegt.
  10. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 4,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    das besagte gefaltete bahnförmige Material (106, 436) aus Packpapier besteht, dessen Gewicht zwischen ungefähr 22,68 kg (50 Pfund) und unter ungefähr 45,36 kg liegt (100 Pfund), und die Höhe der besagten Falten zwischen ungefähr 4,762 mm und ungefähr 12,7 mm (3 Sechzehntelzoll zu ungefähr Halb Zoll) liegt.
  11. Verpackungsmaterial (100) nach Anspruch 5,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
    das Gewicht der besagten ebenen Bahn (102, 104) zwischen ungefähr 4,536 kg und ungefähr 9,072 kg (10 zu ungefähr 20 Pfund) liegt und diese aus Seidenpapier besteht.
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