EP1121297B1 - Paquet a cigarettes - Google Patents

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EP1121297B1
EP1121297B1 EP99940107A EP99940107A EP1121297B1 EP 1121297 B1 EP1121297 B1 EP 1121297B1 EP 99940107 A EP99940107 A EP 99940107A EP 99940107 A EP99940107 A EP 99940107A EP 1121297 B1 EP1121297 B1 EP 1121297B1
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Heinz Focke
Irmin Steinkamp
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid 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
    • B65D5/02—Rigid 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 by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body
    • B65D5/06—Rigid 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 by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body with end-closing or contents-supporting elements formed by folding inwardly a wall extending from, and continuously around, an end of the tubular body
    • B65D5/061—Rectangular containers having a body with gusset-flaps folded inwardly beneath the closure flaps
    • 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
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1018—Container formed by a flexible material, i.e. soft-packages

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  • the invention relates to a pack for tobacco products, in particular cigarettes at least one blank of foldable packaging material surrounding the package contents, such as paper, cardboard or the like, being adjacent to one upper end wall and / or a multilayer adjacent to a lower bottom wall trained, all-round material strip is arranged, in particular due to a Z-shaped fold of the blank in the area of a Z-fold strip.
  • a pack for tobacco products in particular cigarettes at least one blank of foldable packaging material surrounding the package contents, such as paper, cardboard or the like, being adjacent to one upper end wall and / or a multilayer adjacent to a lower bottom wall trained, all-round material strip is arranged, in particular due to a Z-shaped fold of the blank in the area of a Z-fold strip.
  • cigarette packs of the soft cup type a modified version, namely preferably from a single blank Paper or comparable packaging material.
  • a cigarette pack in Be provided in the area of a bottom wall with material reinforcements, namely a double-layer Strips of material, from which the corresponding double-layered floor-folding flap Bottom wall are formed (US 5 762 186).
  • the invention has for its object packs of the aforementioned or similar Design in such a way that an improvement of the external appearance and ensures improved quality assurance for the package contents are.
  • the pack according to the invention is characterized in that in the area of an overlap of the blank or the multi-layer material strip at least one of the layers of the material strip has a recess for Reduction in the number of layers arranged one above the other, the recess is covered on the outside by at least one layer.
  • the invention addresses the problem caused by the multi-layer reinforcement strip in the area of one of the side walls is due to the usual construction a soft cup pack becomes one of the (narrow) upright side walls formed by overlapping edge strips of the blank. These border strips will be connected by gluing in the area of the overlap.
  • One in particular reinforcement designed as a Z-fold strip leads in the area of the overlap Edge strips to an accumulation of material layers.
  • the problems created by this is eliminated by the recess made according to the invention.
  • the recess creates a local, marginal layer reduction. It is expedient in this a connection of the layers provided by glue, so that correct training the pack is guaranteed.
  • the (cigarette) pack shown in perspective in FIG. 1 of the type soft cup in a modified version consists of a single, one-piece blank (Fig. 7, Fig. 8).
  • the rectangular blank surrounds the contents of the pack (one group of cigarettes) such that front wall 10, rear wall 11 and side walls 12, 13 arise.
  • the side wall 13 is composed of two edges
  • Side tabs 14, 15 are formed, which partially overlap each other cover, with the wider side lobe lying on the outside and almost covers the width of the side wall 13.
  • the side lobes 14, 15 are connected to each other by gluing, in the present case Example with a plurality of glue points 16.
  • the blank forms an end wall 17. Opposite there is a bottom wall 18.
  • front wall 17 and bottom wall 18 are formed by several overlapping folding tabs educated.
  • the bottom wall 18 consists of bottom folding tabs, namely Longitudinal floor flaps 19 and 20 and floor corner flaps 21, 22 on the other hand.
  • the trapezoidal longitudinal floor tabs 19, 20 are with the front wall 10 on the one hand and the rear wall 11 on the other hand connected.
  • the narrower floor corner flaps 21, 22 are with the side wall 12 on the one hand and the side wall 13 on the other connected or continuations of the same.
  • the floor corner flaps 21, 22 form the inside of the bottom wall 18 while the bottom longitudinal tabs 19, 20 are on the outside.
  • the floor longitudinal lobes 19, 20 are connected to one another by adhesive, for example by glue dots or the like.
  • a bottom area of the blank or the pack, namely a folding strip 24 is formed in two layers.
  • the Folded strip 24 consists of two partial strips 25, 26.
  • the outer partial strip 26 formed at the free edge is along a fold line 27 to form the double-layered folding strip 24 folded over. From the double-layered folding strip 24, the described bottom rag formed.
  • a cover flap is formed on the inside of the bottom wall 18, between the bottom wall 18 and the package contents.
  • the cover flap protects the contents of the package against transmission of Glue particles when gluing floor folding flaps.
  • the cover flap is in the embodiment shown formed by a bottom tab, namely by the with the Sidewall 12 connected floor corner flaps 21.
  • the floor corner flap 21 is not double-layered for this purpose. Much more the bottom corner flap 21 remains in the width of the Folded strip 24 predetermined length, is therefore essentially twice as long as the bottom corner flap 22.
  • the cut is prepared for this by punching lines 28, 29. These extend on the lateral boundaries of the bottom corner flap 21, in the area of the folding strip 24, that is to the fold line 27. This allows the areas of the partial strip 26 to Formation of the bottom longitudinal tabs 19, 20 and the bottom corner tabs 22 be folded over while the bottom corner flap 21 is unfolded remains and therefore has a correspondingly greater length.
  • Bottom corner flap 21 extends along the inside of the bottom wall 18 to the opposite floor corner flap 22 or over this (Fig. 2, Fig. 3).
  • the package contents are accordingly covered over the entire area by the bottom corner flaps 21, 22 opposite the longitudinal floor tabs 19, 20 on the outside are folded in a manner analogous to the end wall 17 and connected with each other.
  • the gluing of the bottom folding flaps, namely the bottom longitudinal tab 19, 20 is advantageously carried out in a position corresponding to Fig. 2 and Fig. 3.
  • the package contents, namely the facing ends of the cigarettes are included covered throughout, namely by the single-layer floor corner flap 21 on the one hand and through the adjoining floor corner flap 22 on the other hand.
  • Another peculiarity of the invention also relates on the design of the pack in the area of multilayer training of the cut. In the present embodiment it is about an adjacent to the end wall 17 or immediately below the same all-round multi-layer material strips 31. This is designed as a Z-fold.
  • the blank (FIG. 7) is in an end face Area provided with a folding strip 32 to form of forehead folding flaps, analogous to the design of the bottom wall 18. It is therefore a question of the formation of longitudinal forehead lobes 33, 34 and the narrower forehead corner flaps 35 and 36.
  • the front corner flap 36 is partially double-layered, namely analogous to the side wall 13.
  • an additional material strip is formed, namely a Z-fold strip 37.
  • This consists of two Partial stripes, namely for legs 38, 39 of the Z-fold.
  • the strip-shaped legs 38, 39 are separated from each other by a Z-folded edge 40 and from the folding strip 32 through a folding edge 41 and of front wall 10, rear wall 11 etc. by another Folded edge 42 delimited. These each form deflection edges of the Material in the finished Z-fold (Fig. 5).
  • Recess 43 arranged. This is V-shaped and extends almost centrally in the area of the Z-folding strip 37, i.e. on both sides of the Z-fold edge 40.
  • a particularly correct and durable connection in the field of The ends of the multilayered material strip 31 overlap is then given if 43 Material layers are bonded together by gluing.
  • the present example is a glue point 44 in the area of the recess 43 positioned. This will make the (outside) side tab 15 directly with the inner side tab 14 connected, through the recess 43.
  • Fig. 8 is the arrangement of the glue point 44 selected so that it is centered on a delimiting the recess 43 (Double) edge 45 is positioned. Through the glue point 44 thereby also the outer side tab 15 connected to the facing leg 39 of the Z-fold strip 37.
  • the blanks described are expediently from a Continuous web of material through cross-cutting cuts divided, the Z-folding strip 37 expediently extends in the longitudinal direction of the web.
  • the recess 43 is through or with a transverse cut for the Blanks attached by appropriate design of a Diamond blade. With the subsequent cutting occurs thereby a projection or a tongue 46 in the form of the recess 43 and in continuation of the Z-fold strip 37. This tongue 46 disappears inside the finished pack.

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Claims (3)

  1. Paquet pour tabacs, en particulier pour cigarettes, constitué d'au moins une découpe en matériau d'emballage pliable, tel que papier, carton ou matériau semblable, qui entoure le contenu du paquet, à proximité d'une paroi frontale supérieure (17) et/ou à proximité d'une paroi de fond inférieure (18) se trouvant une bande de matériau (31) formée de plusieurs couches et faisant tout le tour, en particulier en raison d'un pliage en Z de la découpe dans la zone d'une bande pliée en Z, caractérisé par le fait que dans la zone d'un chevauchement de la découpe ou de la bande de matériau à plusieurs couches (31), au moins une des couches de la bande de matériau (31) présente un évidement (43) destiné à réduire le nombre de couches superposées, cet évidement (43) étant recouvert extérieurement par au moins une couche.
  2. Paquet selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que l'évidement (43) est ouvert vers le bord libre de la découpe, en particulier sous forme de découpage en U ou en V, et que l'évidement (43) s'étend dans la zone d'au moins deux couches de la bande de matériau (31), à savoir dans la zone de deux panneaux (38, 39) de la bande pliée en Z (37).
  3. Paquet selon l'une des revendications 2 et 3, caractérisé par le fait que dans la zone de l'évidement (43) est prévu un collage des couches placées les unes contre les autres, de préférence par un point de colle (44) dans la zone d'une arête (45) formée par l'évidement (43).
EP99940107A 1998-08-19 1999-07-31 Paquet a cigarettes Expired - Lifetime EP1121297B1 (fr)

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EP02002519A EP1213232B1 (fr) 1998-08-19 1999-07-31 Emballage pour cigarettes

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DE19837469A DE19837469A1 (de) 1998-08-19 1998-08-19 Packung für Zigaretten
DE19837469 1998-08-19
PCT/EP1999/005552 WO2000010877A2 (fr) 1998-08-19 1999-07-31 Paquet a cigarettes

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JP (1) JP4350900B2 (fr)
KR (1) KR20010072716A (fr)
CN (2) CN1117016C (fr)
AT (2) ATE229452T1 (fr)
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BR (1) BR9913114B1 (fr)
DE (3) DE19837469A1 (fr)
ES (2) ES2243604T3 (fr)
PL (1) PL346707A1 (fr)
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WO (1) WO2000010877A2 (fr)

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DE59903784D1 (de) 2003-01-23
JP2002523303A (ja) 2002-07-30
WO2000010877A3 (fr) 2000-07-27
PL346707A1 (en) 2002-02-25
TR200100626T2 (tr) 2001-07-23
EP1213232A1 (fr) 2002-06-12
EP1121297A2 (fr) 2001-08-08
US6494318B1 (en) 2002-12-17
ATE229452T1 (de) 2002-12-15
BR9913114A (pt) 2001-05-08
ES2187183T3 (es) 2003-05-16
BR9913114B1 (pt) 2009-01-13
WO2000010877A2 (fr) 2000-03-02
KR20010072716A (ko) 2001-07-31
ES2243604T3 (es) 2005-12-01
JP4350900B2 (ja) 2009-10-21
ATE299118T1 (de) 2005-07-15
CN1117016C (zh) 2003-08-06
TR200103837T2 (tr) 2002-06-21
AU5417599A (en) 2000-03-14
DE59912250D1 (de) 2005-08-11
EP1213232B1 (fr) 2005-07-06
CN1439583A (zh) 2003-09-03
DE19837469A1 (de) 2000-02-24
CN1288046C (zh) 2006-12-06

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