EP1489018B1 - Bag with resealing device - Google Patents

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EP1489018B1
EP1489018B1 EP04014063A EP04014063A EP1489018B1 EP 1489018 B1 EP1489018 B1 EP 1489018B1 EP 04014063 A EP04014063 A EP 04014063A EP 04014063 A EP04014063 A EP 04014063A EP 1489018 B1 EP1489018 B1 EP 1489018B1
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Michele Amigoni
Paolo Zanni
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Barilla G e R Fratelli SpA
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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
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/24—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices using self-locking integral or attached closure elements, e.g. flaps

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  • the present invention in its most general aspect, refers to a bag-type package particularly but not exclusively intended for perishable food products, like baked products and the like.
  • this invention concerns a bag-type package according to the preamble of claim 1..
  • containers for example bag-type containers
  • devices or structural measures aimed at allowing the respective container to be resealed in a way that is comparable with, if not actually the same as, the original seal.
  • a well known resealing device is that based upon the use of a self-adhesive item, for example a self-adhesive label: such a label is used to fix an upper part of the side walls of the bag-type package, comprising its mouth, in a condition folded over many times upon itself.
  • Another known resealing device essentially consists of a sort of tie or string, of an appropriate plastically deformable material, associated with the bag-type package near to its sealed mouth, and extending parallel to it.
  • a tie has a greater length than the width of the mouth of the bag, so as to have end portions extending or extendable along the side of the bag itself.
  • sealing devices of bag-types packages foresee the use of removable locking systems of the plurality of folds that is given to the upper part of the package after the partial consumption of its contents: for example, small strips of Velcro® are used associated with the package, near to its mouth and on opposite sides thereof.
  • JP 06 127557 discloses a reclosable bag comprising all the technical features of the preamble of claim 1 wherein to reclose the opening 1 of the bag after the contents are taken out, a lock member al is held to fold the opening 1 backward, the lock member a1 is overlaid on a lock member a2, engaging protrusions 4, 4 at both ends are fitted into engaging holes 5, 5, and the opening 1 of the bag is reclosed.
  • FR 2697507 discloses a bag having two parallel carrier walls (10,11) which are connected by lateral gussets (12,13). In the upper free end of the walls are carrying windows (14,15).
  • the open upper part (1) is fixed by a reinforced part (2) having two parallel folding lines (20,21) which define a median part (22) stuck to the wall. The height of this median part is equal to the vertical distance between the upper edge of a window and the free edge of the walls.
  • a flap (27) is introduced into the carrying window and is held in this position by a flap (23) whose ends (24) passing through them are provided with a frame (25).
  • the problem underlying the present invention is that of providing a bag-type package with a resealing device of the type considered above, having structural and functional characteristics such as to overcome all of the quoted drawbacks with reference to the prior art in a simple and cost-effective way: in particular, a bag, the resealing device of which always guarantees, for an indeterminate number of times, the same quick and effective resealing.
  • a resealing device is shown, in accordance with the present invention and generally indicated with 10, of a bag-type package 12 for perishable food products, in particular for baked products like biscuits, shortbread and the like, which are loosely packaged.
  • the bag-type package 12 hereafter simply called bag, is substantially parallelepiped with identical front 14 and rear 14a walls, and substantially bellows-shaped side walls 16, 16a.
  • the bag 12 has a mouth 20 that can, for example, be hermetically closed through heat sealing along at least one sealing line 21, extending for the entire length of said mouth and parallel to it.
  • the bag 12 is equipped with a resealing device essentially consisting of a hinge 10, with long preferably rectangular wings 17 and 18 that are substantially rigid and hinged together at their opposite long sides, defining a hinging axis X-X.
  • said hinge 10 is obtained from a rectangular plate 110 of an appropriate plastic material, having a groove 10a, of predetermined width and depth, extending along the greater perpendicular bisector of said plate, i.e the perpendicular bisector that is parallel to the long side of the rectangle. Near to the two longer sides of the rectangular plate, there are also reinforcing inner ribs 36. Said groove 10a defines, in the plate 110, the respective rectangular wings 17 and 18, constituting their hinging axis X-X.
  • the hinge 10 is applied onto a wall of the bag 12, for example on the rear wall 14a thereof, near to the mouth 20.
  • the wings 17 and 18 of said hinge are fixed, for example glued or welded, to said wall with hinging axis X-X substantially parallel to said mouth 20 and at a predetermined distance from the sealing line 21.
  • This distance must be such as to avoid that the upper wing 17 of the hinge even partially overlaps said sealing line 21.
  • said distance is selected so that between the free long side of said hinge wing 17 and the sealing line 21 there is sufficient space to allow easy "cutting", for example by ripping, of the package, as normally foreseen for the first time it is opened.
  • the respective hinging axis X-X (or the groove 10a of the plate 110) is positioned so that, by closing the hinge, the walls 14, 14a of the bag are situated between its wings 17, 18.
  • said walls 14, 14a are folded around a folding line that coincides with said hinging axis X-X.
  • the folding line of the walls 14, 14a is forced.
  • the hinge 10 has a greater length than the width of the mouth 20 of said bag.
  • its wings 17, 18 have end portions 17a, 17b and 18a, 18b, respectively, projecting laterally from the opposite ends of said mouth.
  • the removable locking means 22 and countermeans 23 are preferably of the snap type.
  • appendixes 32 are foreseen, being shaped like a hook and outside of the walls 14 and 14a of the bag 12, which enter into engagement with the portions 17a and 17b of the upper wing 17, when the hinge is in closed position.
  • Figure 1 shows a bag 12 on which the hinge 10 is applied.
  • the hinge 10 is in open position, with an angle of 180° between the two wings 17 and 18.
  • FIG 2 it can be seen how the resealing of the bag 12 occurs.
  • the two walls 14, 14a of the bag 12 are brought together, so that the mouth 20 is substantially closed: at this point the hinge 10 is closed, i.e. the upper wing 17 is folded onto the lower wing 18, so that the angle between the two wings 17 and 18 substantially reduces to 0°.
  • the two appendixes 32 thus project from the front wall 14 opposite the rear wall 14a where the hinge 10 is applied and the two hooks of the appendixes 32 themselves engage the end portions 17 and 17b of the upper wing 17.
  • a reopening step of the resealed bag 12 is shown, which occurs by releasing the two hooks of the appendixes 32 from the side ends portions 17a and 17b.
  • the hinge 10 is preferably made from plastic material, it has a certain degree of flexibility for which reason one only has to pull a mouth portion 20 (which advantageously is free from the hinge 10 since, as stated, the latter is arranged slightly below the sealing line 21) upwards, for example centrally, to cause the automatic disconnection of the two hooks.
  • FIG 7 the bag 12 is shown totally open, with the upper 17 and lower 18 wings arranged substantially at 180°.
  • the resealing device 10 of the invention is produced through injection moulding of thermoplastic material.
  • a central reel of thermoformed plastics or paper/cardboard can be made with the appendixes made by injection moulding applied to the sides: in this case, it is obviously also necessary to foresee a cutting step of the single hinges from the thermoformed reel.
  • the hinge of the invention is preferably applied after the formation, filling and closing of the bag along the sealing line.
  • the sealing of the bag is obtained by heat sealing, welding together the upper inner flaps of the bag.
  • the bag is coated on the inside with a so-called peel-away film and this allows a reliable closing operation through welding.
  • the peel-away film is an oriented, co-extruded, white, expanded and metalized polypropylene (known in the field as "OPPcoex white expanded met"); there are, however, other materials that ensure this type of performance, based upon polyolefins (polypropylene PP or polyethylene PE) but also upon other materials (ionomeric resins, .
  • the main advantage achieved by the bag-type package with resealing device for perishable food products, according to the present invention, lies in that it allows a practical, quick and effective resealing of the bag itself, which can be repeated a substantially greater number of times with respect to that which is possible with the prior art.
  • the resealing device 10 can comprise, instead of a single hinge, a plurality of hinges, having the same hinging axis X-X.
  • a single hinge In the case of a single hinge, it has a length substantially equal to the width of the front and rear walls 14, 14a of the bag 12, whereas in the case of more than one hinge, the two outer hinges are arranged on two ends, for example of the rear wall 14a, so that one of their sides is substantially next to a side edge 28 of the rear wall 14a of the bag 12.
  • the single hinge is equipped with two appendixes 32, whereas in the case of many hinges, there is one appendix 32 for each of the two outer hinges, and therefore one for each side edge 28 of the wall 14a.
  • the removable locking means 22 and countermeans 23 of the snap type can alternatively comprise a button, or else they can be of the Velcro® type.

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SI200431494T SI1489018T1 (sl) 2003-06-17 2004-06-16 Vrečka s pripravo za ponovno zapiranje
PL04014063T PL1489018T3 (pl) 2003-06-17 2004-06-16 Torba z urządzeniem do ponownego szczelnego zamykania

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IT001222A ITMI20031222A1 (it) 2003-06-17 2003-06-17 Confezione a sacchetto con dispositivo di richiusura particolarmente per prodotti alimentari deperibili

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EP1489018A3 (en) 2005-01-19
DK1489018T3 (da) 2010-11-29
PT1489018E (pt) 2010-11-18
EP1489018A2 (en) 2004-12-22
SI1489018T1 (sl) 2010-11-30
ES2348639T3 (es) 2010-12-10
PL1489018T3 (pl) 2011-04-29

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