EP1247749B2 - Verpackungsbeutel für ein keimfreies Abfüllen von fliess-oder schüttfähigen Produkten - Google Patents

Verpackungsbeutel für ein keimfreies Abfüllen von fliess-oder schüttfähigen Produkten Download PDF

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EP1247749B2
EP1247749B2 EP02014666A EP02014666A EP1247749B2 EP 1247749 B2 EP1247749 B2 EP 1247749B2 EP 02014666 A EP02014666 A EP 02014666A EP 02014666 A EP02014666 A EP 02014666A EP 1247749 B2 EP1247749 B2 EP 1247749B2
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closure cap
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Pierluigi Decio
Robert Elsaesser
Johannes Hins
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Elsaesser Verpackungen AG
Georg Menshen GmbH and Co KG
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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
    • B65D41/00—Caps, e.g. crown caps or crown seals, i.e. members having parts arranged for engagement with the external periphery of a neck or wall defining a pouring opening or discharge aperture; Protective cap-like covers for closure members, e.g. decorative covers of metal foil or paper
    • B65D41/32—Caps or cap-like covers with lines of weakness, tearing-strips, tags, or like opening or removal devices, e.g. to facilitate formation of pouring openings
    • B65D41/46—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers
    • B65D41/48—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics
    • B65D41/485—Snap-on caps or cap-like covers non-metallic, e.g. made of paper or plastics with integral internal sealing means
    • 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
    • B65D47/00—Closures with filling and discharging, or with discharging, devices
    • B65D47/04—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps
    • B65D47/06—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages
    • B65D47/08—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures
    • B65D47/0804—Closures with discharging devices other than pumps with pouring spouts or tubes; with discharge nozzles or passages having articulated or hinged closures integrally formed with the base element provided with the spout or discharge passage
    • B65D47/0833—Hinges without elastic bias
    • B65D47/0838—Hinges without elastic bias located at an edge of the base element
    • 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
    • B65D75/5861—Spouts
    • B65D75/5872—Non-integral spouts
    • B65D75/5883—Non-integral spouts connected to the package at the sealed junction of two package walls
    • 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
    • B65D2401/00—Tamper-indicating means
    • B65D2401/15—Tearable part of the closure
    • B65D2401/25—Non-metallic tear-off strips

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  • the invention relates to a packaging bag made of film material for a substantially germ-free packaging of flowable or pourable products, in particular food or drinks, in bottling plants.
  • EP-A-731 037 a system for maintaining sterile conditions in the region of a Ausgiessöffung by on a conventionally by means of a plug lockable pouring opening in a neck region of an insertable in a container part insert a protective hood against irradiation with ⁇ -Radiated and can be removed immediately before filling again.
  • the connection of the insert part with the plug on the one hand and the protective cover on the other hand is carried out by means provided on the respective parts of the rear gripping means.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a flexible packaging bag of the type mentioned above, which meets the requirements of the food industry in automatic filling equipment, by making it possible to stockpile in particular foods and drinks in an economical, environmentally sound manner without significantly limiting the shelf life.
  • the inventive packaging bag which achieves this object, is characterized by the features of claim 1.
  • Starting material is a circumferentially sealed, e.g. heat-sealed flexible packaging bag with a permanently attached thereto by welding Ausgiessein felteil, hereinafter called Einschweissteil briefly on which a cap can be mounted by bouncing to close a defined by the Einschweissteil filling opening, which provides access to the bag interior, tightly close.
  • the packaging bag may for example have a receiving volume between 0.3 and 5.0 1, without being seen as a limitation of the invention.
  • the empty flat-laid packaging bag with the closure cap in a first of two closing positions, both of which seal the filling opening, is initially, i. subjected to a further treatment in a bottling plant, a germicidal treatment, preferably with germicidal ⁇ -radiation in an irradiation station, which may have a fundamentally known structure and therefore need not be described in detail.
  • the germicidal treatment can be carried out by the manufacturer of the packaging bag or, if desired, immediately before the introduction of the packaging bag into the filling plant.
  • the aim of the treatment is to put the interior of the packaging bag in a germ-free or at least largely germ-free state.
  • the closure cap hermetically seals the interior of the packaging bag in the first closing position, the germ-free state is maintained for the further treatment of the packaging bag even if a longer period of time of, for example, between the germicidal and further treatment. a few days to several months.
  • a number of, as described above pretreated packaging bag can be combined to form a transport package and is then used in a storage magazine a bottling plant, said an annular collar on Einschweissteil provides an abutment by means of which the packaging bag can be inserted into a rail-like receptacle of the magazine of the bottling plant with upwardly facing Einschweissteil by hand or in any other way.
  • the packaging bags are successively placed on a transport device, wherein the annular collar serves to support the packaging bag during transport, to move the packaging bag sequentially along a plurality of stations in which the further treatment is performed.
  • the transport device is preferably a turntable having a multiplicity of treatment stations arranged peripherally thereon.
  • a first treatment station the packaging bag, with the closure cap still in the first position, is subjected to a germicidal external treatment by spraying a liquid disinfectant by means of a spray nozzle at least on the region of the packaging bag which comprises the closure cap and the welding part.
  • the disinfectant may be any substance known in the food industry, so that a more detailed explanation thereof is unnecessary.
  • a drying step takes place in a drying station in which hot air or hot steam is allowed to act on the packaging bag.
  • the packaging bag pretreated in this way is then transported to a station at which grippers grasp the closure cap and remove it from the weld-in part.
  • the removed cap is guided to a bypass transport path and stored there, to be placed later again on the packaging bag.
  • the packaging bag enters a filling station, at which a product to be filled, e.g. a food or drink is introduced into the interior of the packaging bag via the filling opening exposed on the welding part.
  • a product to be filled e.g. a food or drink
  • an inert gas e.g. Nitrogen, or steam introduced in another station to expel residual air fractions in the packaging bag and thereby counteract undesirable oxidation or otherwise aging of the filling.
  • the cap is taken in a closing station from the bypass transport path by means of a gripping device and placed back on the filled packaging bag and fastened so that the cap comes to rest in the second sealing position, in which they from the Einschweissteil not or only below considerable effort, possibly with destruction of the weld-in part can be removed again.
  • the last treatment step is followed by a hot air or steam drying treatment in a drying station before the filled and hermetically sealed packaging bags leave the filling line for further use.
  • the removal of the closure cap from the packaging bag, its filling with a product and re-placement of the closure cap on the filled packaging bag be carried out in a substantially germ-free environment, by these treatment stations as far as possible against the Outdoor environment shielded.
  • the transport of the packaging bags along the individual treatment stations and the treatments carried out therein can be carried out automatically under the control of a process control device.
  • a bag base part of the packaging bag is designated by the reference numeral 1 and shown only in fragmentary form.
  • the bag base member 1 may have any suitable outline configuration and may be made of any suitable germ-proof sheet material, which may be a sheet of plastic or metal foil, e.g. Aluminum foil, or can act as a composite film of plastic and metal.
  • a germ-proof sheet material which may be a sheet of plastic or metal foil, e.g. Aluminum foil, or can act as a composite film of plastic and metal.
  • In the empty initial state of the packaging bag represents a basically flat structure that can be printed with advertising instructions.
  • a dimensionally stable insert or weld-in part 2 is inserted in a slot-shaped opening (not shown) of the bag base part 1 and hermetically sealed to the bag base part 1 by welding.
  • the weld-in part 2 is preferably on the bag base part 1 by ultrasonic welding attached.
  • At Einschweissteil 2 Anschweissrippen (not shown) may be provided, which may be formed according to WO96 / 38349, to which reference can therefore be made.
  • the weld-in part 2 comprises a tubular neck region 3 projecting outwardly from the bag base part 1, which defines a passage passage 4 which creates a connection between the interior of the bag base part 1 and the outside environment.
  • a closure cap 5 can be placed on the neck region 3 in order to hermetically seal the inlet opening of the neck region 3 from the outside environment.
  • a cover part 6 can be articulated via a film hinge 7.
  • a sealing cone 8 protrudes from the lid part 7 and can sealingly engage in a funnel-shaped passage 9 in a bottom wall of the closure cap 5 when the lid part 6 is in the closed position.
  • a tear-off tab 11 can be provided in order to fix the lid part 6 in the closed position shown in the drawing so that movement of the lid part from the closing position to the opening position (not shown) can be made only after the tear-off tab 11 has been torn off.
  • a further sealing cone 10 can be provided on the closure cap, which sealingly engages the inlet opening of the neck region 3 when the closure cap is in the position shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 relative to the neck region 3.
  • annular collar 13 is provided near the free end.
  • the closure cap 5 can be positioned in two positions relative to the neck region 3, wherein in both positions the passage passage 4 is sealed by the closure cap 5 against the outside environment.
  • the two positions are defined by the engagement of the cap-side annular collar 13 with the first and second engagement regions on the neck region 3 of the weld-in part 2.
  • a plurality of radially outwardly projecting Schugreifnocken 14 are provided (in the drawing only two diametrically opposed Schugreifnocken 14 can be seen), which are arranged at the same angular distance from each other.
  • Each Deutschengreifnocken 14 has a pointing in the direction of the bag base part 1 rear engagement surface.
  • the cap-side annular collar 13 is in the first position of the closure cap 5 in engagement with the engagement surfaces of the Deutschengreifnocken 14th
  • a rearward engagement collar 15 projecting radially outwards is also provided near the rear engagement cams 14, which is engaged by the cap-side annular collar 13 when the closure cap 5 is in the second position, as shown in FIG.
  • annular collar 16 is further provided on the neck region 3, which serves as a holding means for the transport of the packaging bag by means of a transport device in a bottling plant (not shown).
  • the annular collar 16 may be continuous or interrupted. Instead of an annular collar and a plurality of circumferentially distributed lugs could be provided as a holding means.

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  • Food Preservation Except Freezing, Refrigeration, And Drying (AREA)
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EP02014666A 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Verpackungsbeutel für ein keimfreies Abfüllen von fliess-oder schüttfähigen Produkten Expired - Lifetime EP1247749B2 (de)

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EP02014666A EP1247749B2 (de) 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Verpackungsbeutel für ein keimfreies Abfüllen von fliess-oder schüttfähigen Produkten
PT02014666T PT1247749E (pt) 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Saco de embalagem para um enchimento asseptico de produtos fluiveis ou derramaveis
DE59908980T DE59908980D1 (de) 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Verpackungsbeutel für ein keimfreies Abfüllen von fliess-oder schüttfähigen Produkten
ES02014666T ES2217228T5 (es) 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Bolsa de envasado para un envasado libre de germenes de productos fluidos o a granel.

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EP02014666A EP1247749B2 (de) 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Verpackungsbeutel für ein keimfreies Abfüllen von fliess-oder schüttfähigen Produkten
EP99924877A EP1094969B1 (de) 1999-05-04 1999-05-04 Verfahren zum keimfreien verpacken von produkten, insbesondere nahrungsmitteln oder getränken, in verpackungsbeuteln

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EP1247749A3 (de) 2002-10-23
ES2217228T3 (es) 2004-11-01
DK1247749T4 (da) 2007-09-03
EP1247749B1 (de) 2004-03-24
PT1247749E (pt) 2004-08-31
ES2217228T5 (es) 2007-12-01
DE59908980D1 (de) 2004-04-29

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