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Definitions

• the invention relates to a coextruded, multilayer, biaxially stretched, weldable flat film, from which tubular films are produced in a known manner by welding, which are used for packaging and wrapping foodstuffs, in particular pasty foodstuffs.
• Multilayer biaxially stretched flat films which are produced either by coextrusion of a tubular film and cutting open the tube or by direct coextrusion of a flat film are known.
• Such multilayer flat films can be used to produce tubular films by welding for packaging purposes of all kinds, either by bending the flat film together in a known manner to form a tube and by connecting the abutting opposite edges to one another by a sealing strip running in the longitudinal direction.
• a second possibility is to bend the flat film together to form a tube by letting the opposite edges overlap and by welding the overlapping areas together.
• the third possibility of forming a tubular film from a flat film is to bend the flat film together to form a tubular film and to weld opposite edge regions to one another along the longitudinal axis, a longitudinal fold being formed in which the same sides of the flat film lie against one another.
• the object of the invention is therefore to provide a flat film which fulfills the above-mentioned requirements.
• a multilayer, biaxially stretched flat film in which the two weldable surface layers consist of at least one copolyamide and at least one amorphous polyamide and / or at least one homopolyamide and / or at least one modified polyolefin, and the at least one between the two weldable surface layers contains another layer.
• the surface layers are made up of at least one sealable copolyamide.
• Such known copolyamides are prepared from monomers selected from the group consisting of caprolactam, laurolactam, omegaaminoundecanoic acid, adipic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, decanedicarboxylic acid, dodecanedicarboxylic acid, terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, tetramethylenediamine, pentamethylenediamine and octamethylenediamine, hexamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, hexamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, hexamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, and hexamethylene diamine, hexamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, hexamethylene diamine, octamethylene diamine, and hexamethylene diamine, hexamethylene diamine, octam
• the addition of an amorphous polyamide and / or a homopolyamide and / or a modified polyolefin to a copolyamide in the surface layer significantly increases the seal seam strength compared to pure copolyamide, or high seal seam strengths are achieved even at lower sealing temperatures.
• the film according to the invention thus has considerable advantages in terms of application technology.
• the amorphous polyamides used for the surface layer are polyamides whose glass transition temperature in the dry state is between 50 and 200 ° C. Examples include polyamide 6I / 6T, polyamide 6-3 -T and polyamide 61.
• Polyamides which can be prepared from the same monomers as the copolyamides already described above are used as homopolyamides for the surface layer.
• the homopolyamides can have both aliphatic and partly aromatic character.
• the modified polyolefins are copolymers of ethylene or propylene and optionally further linear alpha olefins having 3 to 8 carbon atoms with alpha-beta unsaturated carboxylic acids, preferably acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and / or their metal salts and / or their alkyl esters or corresponding graft copolymers of the monomers mentioned with polyolefins or partially saponified ethylene / vinyl acetate copolymers which are optionally graft-polymerized with an alpha-beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid and have a low degree of saponification or mixtures thereof.
• alpha-beta unsaturated carboxylic acids preferably acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and / or their metal salts and / or their alkyl esters or corresponding graft copolymers of the monomers mentioned with polyolefins or partially saponified ethylene / vinyl acetate copolymers which are optionally
• modified polyolefins can be modified homo- or copolymers of ethylene and / or propylene and, if appropriate, further linear alpha-olefins having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, which are Contain monomers from the group of the alpha-beta-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, preferably maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid or their acid anhydrides, grafted esters, acid amides or acid imides.
• the alpha-beta-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids preferably maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid or their acid anhydrides, grafted esters, acid amides or acid imides.
• the main component of the respective surface layer is a sealable copolyamide or a mixture of sealable copolyamides, this main component being present in amounts between 50 and 95% by weight.
• the other components, amorphous polyamide, homopolyamide and modified polyolefin, can be mixed with the main constituent in amounts of 0 to 30% by weight, based on the entire surface layer.
• At least one further layer is located between the two surface layers of the flat film according to the invention.
• the additional layer or layers arranged between the two surface layers serve to give the flat film, in addition to the weldability, other desired properties such as a high barrier to oxygen and water vapor, high puncture resistance or good mechanical properties.
• Materials that can form the layers between the two surface layers are polyamides, polyolefins, modified polyolefins and ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers. Mixtures of these materials with one another can also be used. Additional layers of adhesion promoters may also be present if adjacent layers do not have sufficient adhesion to one another.
• Polyamides as the intermediate layer can be homo- and / or copolyamides which are produced from monomers which are selected from the group caprolactam, laurolactam, omegaaminoundecanoic acid, adipic acid, azelaic acid, sebacic acid, decanedicarboxylic acid, dodecanedicarboxylic acid, terephthalic acid, isophthalic acid, tetramethylene diamine, tetramethylene diamine Octamethylenediamine and xylylenediamine.
• Preferred homo- and copolyamides are polyamide 6, polyamide 12, polyamide 66, polyamide 610, polyamide 612, polyamide MXD6, polyamide 6/66, polyamide 6/12 and polyamide 6I / 6T.
• the wall thickness of the polyamide intermediate layer is between 5 and 30 ⁇ m.
• Polyolefins as an intermediate layer are homopolymers of ethylene or propylene and / or copolymers of linear alpha olefins with 2 to 8 carbon atoms.
• this Layer Preferably for this Layer of linear low density polyethylene, high density polyethylene, polypropylene homopolymer, polypropylene block and polypropylene random copolymer used.
• the wall thickness of the polyolefin intermediate layer is between 5 and 30 ⁇ m.
• the modified polyolefins as the intermediate layer are copolymers of ethylene or propylene and optionally further linear alpha olefins having 3 to 8 carbon atoms with alpha-beta-unsaturated carboxylic acids, preferably acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and / or their metal salts and / or their alkyl esters or Corresponding graft copolymers of the monomers mentioned onto polyolefins or partially saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, which are optionally graft-polymerized with an alpha-beta-unsaturated carboxylic acid and have a low degree of saponification or mixtures thereof.
• the modified polyolefins can be modified homo- or copolymers of ethylene and / or propylene and, if appropriate, further linear alpha-olefins having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, the monomers from the group of the alpha-beta-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, preferably maleic acid, fumaric acid, itaconic acid or their acid anhydrides , Acid esters, acid amides or acid imides grafted on.
• the wall thickness of the intermediate layer made of modified polyolefin is between 5 and 30 ⁇ m.
• the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers as an intermediate layer are produced by completely saponifying copolymers of ethylene with vinyl acetate.
• the ethylene content in the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers is between 27 and 48 mol%.
• ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers are preferred, the ethylene content of which is between 34 and 48 mol%.
• the wall thickness of the intermediate layer made of ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer is between 3 and 20 ⁇ m.
• adhesion promoters are homopolymers or copolymers of ethylene and / or propylene and, if appropriate, further linear alpha-olefins having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, the monomers from the group of the alpha-beta-unsaturated dicarboxylic acids, preferably maleic acid , Fumaric acid, itaconic acid or their acid anhydrides, acid esters, acid amides or acid imides grafted on.
• Preferred sequences of the individual layers in the multilayer flat films according to the invention are given below, the letters and numbers having the following meanings:
• the number indices 1,2 denote several layers from the same raw material class.
• AiEBFDAj A1F1EBF2A2; AjDiEBD ⁇ Aj; A ⁇ F ⁇ CF 2 EA 2 ; A ⁇ B ⁇ EDB A2; A ⁇ BD ⁇ CD 2 A 2 ;
• the flat film may also contain customary auxiliaries, for example antiblocking agents, stabilizers, antistatic agents or lubricants. These auxiliaries are usually added in amounts of 0.1 to 5% by weight. Furthermore, the film can be colored by adding pigments or pigment mixtures.
• the flat films according to the invention can be produced by two methods known per se.
• a primary tube with the desired number of layers can be produced by coextrusion, which is then biaxially stretched and heat-set.
• the tubular film obtained is then cut open on the long side and results in the desired flat film.
• a flat film with the desired number of layers and with a higher wall thickness is produced directly by coextrusion, which is then biaxially stretched and heat-set and directly yields the desired flat film.
• Both methods make it possible to produce wide flat films that are too wide for use in packaging and wrapping food. In this case, it is possible to cut the wide flat films in the longitudinal direction into narrower panels, which can then be welded to tubular films of the desired dimension.
• the tubular films according to the invention have total wall thicknesses of 30 to 100 ⁇ m, preferably 40 to 80 ⁇ m.
• weld strength 50 mm wide strips were taken from the respective flat foils transversely to the running direction. In each case two strips were welded to one another, welding on the one hand overlapping surface layer 1 with surface layer 2 (welding method 1) and welding on the other hand with surface layer 1 lying on top of one another (welding method 2).
• a SGPE 20 laboratory welding machine from W. Koppmaschinen served as the welding machine.
• 25 mm wide strip samples were taken from the welded samples in such a way that the weld seam was transverse to the longitudinal direction of the strip. The strip samples were on a tensile testing machine from Instron with a Pull-off speed of 500 mm / min pulled apart until the weld seam breaks. The maximum force achieved is referred to below as weld strength.
• the flat films according to the invention show significantly higher weld seam strengths than the comparative example.
• significantly better weld seam strengths are achieved both at 180 and 200 ° C sealing temperature than in the comparative example.
• the individual polymers for the different layers were plasticized and homogenized in five extruders on a tubular film coextrusion system.
• the five melt streams were fed to a five-layer extrusion head in accordance with the desired individual wall thickness ratios and formed into a primary tube, biaxially stretched and heat-set.
• the primary pipe had a diameter of 67.5 mm and an average total wall thickness of 0.68 mm. It was heated to 122 ° C. with infrared radiation and stretched with an area stretch ratio of 10.4.
• the biaxially stretched tube was heat set, laid flat and wound up.
• the mean total wall thickness of the hose was 65 ⁇ m.
• the lying width was 356 mm.
• the layers of the finished hose consisted of the following polymers with the specified individual wall thicknesses:
• 3rd layer polyamide 6, Durethan B 40 F from Bayer AG, 14 ⁇ m
• adhesion promoter (like 2nd layer), 15 ⁇ m
• 5th layer (inner layer): mixture 90% polyamide 6/12, Grilon CF6S from EMS-
• the coextruded tubular film was cut open and wound up as a flat film.
• Welding method 1 The following values for the weld seam strength were determined:
• the individual polymers for the different layers were plasticized and homogenized in five extruders on a tubular film coextrusion system.
• the five melt streams were fed to a five-layer extrusion head in accordance with the desired individual wall thickness ratios and formed into a primary tube, biaxially stretched and heat-set.
• the primary pipe had a diameter of 67.5 mm and an average total wall thickness of 0.66 mm. It was heated to 126 ° C. with infrared radiation and stretched with an area stretch ratio of 10.1.
• the biaxially stretched The tube was heat set, laid flat and wound up.
• the mean total wall thickness of the hose was 65 ⁇ m.
• the lying width was 355 mm.
• the layers of the finished hose consisted of the following polymers with the specified individual wall thicknesses:
• 2nd layer ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer, Soarnol AT4406 from
• 3rd layer polyamide 6, Durethan B 40 F from Bayer AG, 19 ⁇ m
• adhesion promoter modified polyethylene
• Bynel 4140 from
• the coextruded tubular film was cut open and wound up as a flat film.
• Welding method 1 The following values for the weld seam strength were determined:
• a five-layer flat film was produced as in Example 1, with the difference that the first and fifth layers consisted of pure polyamide 6/12, Grilon CF6S from EMS-Chemie.
• Welding method 1 The following values for the weld seam strength were determined:

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