EP1704102B1 - Improvements in or relating to food packaging - Google Patents

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EP1704102B1
EP1704102B1 EP04805935A EP04805935A EP1704102B1 EP 1704102 B1 EP1704102 B1 EP 1704102B1 EP 04805935 A EP04805935 A EP 04805935A EP 04805935 A EP04805935 A EP 04805935A EP 1704102 B1 EP1704102 B1 EP 1704102B1
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Keshavan Niranjan
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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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • B65D81/26—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators
    • B65D81/263—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators for ventilating the contents
    • 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
    • B65D65/00—Wrappers or flexible covers; Packaging materials of special type or form
    • B65D65/38—Packaging materials of special type or form
    • 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
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    • B65D2565/381—Details of packaging materials of special type or form
    • B65D2565/388—Materials used for their gas-permeability
    • 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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • B65D81/26—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators

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  • This invention concerns improvements in or relating to food packaging and more particularly, but not exclusively, to packaging for foodstuffs with a defined but relatively short shelf life, for example perishable foods such as vegetables and fruit.
  • US Patent No 4 996 071 to Bell is concerned with the ascertainment of the respiration rates of various vegetables and the matching of those rates with an appropriate packaging to achieve the desired effect for the preservation of quality, appearance and marketability of the produce.
  • US Patent No 6 013 293 to De Moor discloses a packaging member including a gas permeable membrane having a defined oxygen respirability and a container enclosing the member within which in practice fruit or other respiring biological materials are packed.
  • a multi-compartment unitary packaging for a variety of foodstuffs including two or more conjoined compartments, characterised in that each compartment is a bag formed from a film of gas and/or vapour permeable plastics material wherein each of the compartments has a gas permeability matching the individual respiration rate of the foodstuff(s) to be held within that compartment.
  • Each compartment when constituted by the containment may comprise a film in the form of a bag which conveniently is integral with the other compartments of the packaging.
  • Each compartment may in practice be formed separately from the other compartment or compartments and then conjoined therewith to provide the multi-compartment packaging of the invention.
  • the multi-compartment packaging may be produced unitarily with each compartment being separate but conjoined.
  • the compartments are communicable one with the other through the agency of a common barrier whereby the permeation of gases from one compartment to another assists in the preservation of the foodstuffs in the recipient compartment.
  • compartments may be separable one from the other and it is to be understood that the term 'multi-compartment' as used herein embraces packaging with two or more compartments.
  • the packaging may be manufactured from currently available conventional materials used for the packaging of perishable foodstuffs and these materials may be gas and/or vapour-permeable as required according to the specific foodstuffs in question.
  • the present invention also provides for the formation of the packaging into differing geometric shapes and accordingly the structure thereof is governed thereby.
  • the multi-compartment packaging may be made in such form as in the finished article to present a pyramidal shape with each triangular face and the base thereof providing a compartment for a foodstuff or a variety of foodstuffs.
  • Alternative geometric shapes could be adopted, for example a circular form providing a multiplicity of compartments in sectoral fashion.
  • Further alternative shapes may be rectilinear or curvilinear. In all cases the functional aspect of providing a plurality of compartments for differing foodstuffs is achieved together with the aestheticising of the packaging to make it more attractive to the consumer rather than just a plain bag.
  • compartments may be sealed one from the other or may be in communication through a common barrier therebetween under controlled conditions dependent upon the foodstuffs to be packaged. Accordingly the shape and therefore the appearance of the packaging will depend in some measure upon the desired functionality.
  • each compartment may comprise a base formed of such an element or elements and may of unitary construction or may be formed of two or more elements conjoined in suitable manner one to the other or others.
  • the containment may be in the form of at least one film covering or closure. In the case of a single containment the film would seal all the compartments one from the other or others along common boundaries. In the alternative a number of containments would be provided separately to cover the individual compartments sealing the same. This seal not only prevents mixing of the foodstuffs as between one compartment and another but also isolates the headspaces one from the other.
  • the base is formed of a material that allows permeation of gases or vapours from one compartment to an adjacent compartment.
  • foodstuffs is intended to embrace all edible produce such for example vegetables, including salad components, and fruit together with suitable dressings therefor. In this latter respect it is expected that for some applications of the present invention it will be necessary or desirable to provide in at least one of the compartments of the packaging a dressing or other condiment or sweetener or the like to embellish the flavour of the produce concerned. It is also to be understood that the term 'edible produce' will encompass foodstuffs other that of the green-grocery kind; for example it is envisaged that meat may be included as a foodstuff for which the packaging of the present invention may be suitable.
  • the packaging of the invention comprising a multiplicity of compartments may be used for the presentation of complete meals of differing courses, each one requiring different preservation conditions and thus differing containments.
  • cooked meats or boiled eggs are non-respiring and accordingly may be suitably gas-flushed within their respective compartments.
  • Figure 1 shows a first embodiment
  • Figure 2 shows a second embodiment
  • Figure 3 shows a third embodiment
  • Figure 4 shows a fourth embodiment
  • Figure 5 shows a fifth embodiment
  • Figure 6 shows a sixth embodiments
  • Figure 7 shows a seventh embodiment.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown the first embodiment of multi-compartment packaging 1 comprising two or more compartments 2, with possibly two further compartments shown in dotted outline.
  • Each compartment 2 is a film in the form of a bag conjoined to the next in a suitable manner, for example heat or pressure welding.
  • Each compartment is unique in terms of having its own permeability characteristics to cater for and match the respiration rate of the produce it is in practice intended to contain.
  • the bag is the containment which constitutes the compartment.
  • This form of packaging may be used to encapsulate differing leaf salads which in practice deteriorate at differing respiration rates. The packaging is thus able to preserve the freshness of all the salad components because the compartments are respiration specific. Conventional packaging is defective since it does not address the poor cohabitation of different foodstuffs.
  • the multi-compartment packaging I is of parallelogram form composed of four equilateral triangular compartments 2 connected to one or more adjacent compartments, each compartment 2 again being so formed of appropriately gas and/or vapour permeable material to accommodate foodstuffs of varying respiration rates.
  • Figures 3 and 4 illustrate multi-compartment packaging of pyramidal shape with either four or five compartments respectively. Again each compartment complies with the principal feature of the invention in being made of a material giving the required preservative features for the produce contained within it.
  • the packaging is so formed geometrically that it can be configured as a pyramid to provide the aesthetic appearance for customer appeal, but with the functionality as indicated.
  • Figure 5 provides a multi-compartment packaging 1 so formed as to provide a multitude of compartments 2 but with the facility of a carrying feature, namely a handle or loop 4.
  • Figure 6 shows a tetrahedrally-shaped multi-compartment packaging 1 in the form of a bag which may be conjoined to an adjacent element as shown in the lower representation.
  • Figure 7 depicts multi-compartment packaging 1 of generally circular form with four sectoral compartments 2 arranged symmetrically about a core 5, the compartments being connected one to the other to provide a unitary package.
  • the present invention provides individual atmospheric conditions to cater for the individual foodstuffs thereby affording enhanced cohabitation when compared with contemporary approaches to this kind of packaging.
  • the customisation of the packaging of the present invention allows a miscellany of foodstuffs to be accommodated in but one pack with each different product enjoying an optimised climate in which to survive satisfactorily for its expected shelf life. This advantageous attribute is in sharp contrast to the conventional packaging which essentially forces one product to endure what may well be a relatively hostile environment in terms of deterioration of freshness and quality.
  • the added virtue of the present invention is that it uses conventional materials which, as indicated above, have been investigated thoroughly in terms of content and performance.

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A multi-compartment unitary packaging is used for a variety of foodstuffs. The packaging includes two or more conjoined compartments. Each of the compartments is provided with or constituted by a containment having a gas permeability matching the individual respiration rate of the foodstuff(s) to be held within that compartment.

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  • This invention concerns improvements in or relating to food packaging and more particularly, but not exclusively, to packaging for foodstuffs with a defined but relatively short shelf life, for example perishable foods such as vegetables and fruit.
  • It is common practice in the modern retailing of these types of foodstuffs to use packaging in order to preserve the freshness and quality of the produce and to impose a measure of hygiene in an environment in which handling of the produce is customary.
  • It is well known that differing vegetables and fruits possess different respiration rates and accordingly their rate of deterioration or preservability differs to the extent that their enclosure in a unitary pack fails to accommodate their inherent attributes. The consequence is that one type of packaging is not universally acceptable for the maintenance of quality and the enhancement of shelf life.
  • Much attention has been paid to the creation of packaging materials that address the need for providing films or other enclosures which afford flexibility in terms of catering for the different respiration rates mentioned above. For example US Patent No 4 996 071 to Bell is concerned with the ascertainment of the respiration rates of various vegetables and the matching of those rates with an appropriate packaging to achieve the desired effect for the preservation of quality, appearance and marketability of the produce. US Patent No 6 013 293 to De Moor discloses a packaging member including a gas permeable membrane having a defined oxygen respirability and a container enclosing the member within which in practice fruit or other respiring biological materials are packed.
  • The globalisation of supply sources demands a new approach to packaging for the transportation and distribution of perishable foodstuffs in a way that preserves quality and freshness with a reasonable shelf life span.
  • There is a veritable plethora of patents directed to all manner of controlled atmosphere packaging and the materials used therefor but none of them relates to the solution of the problem of accommodating the varying respiration rates of perishable foodstuffs whilst offering to the customer the versatility of produce normally on sale and to be used together when consumed.
  • It is also known to provide multi-compartment packaging in the presentation of ready to cat meals, for example in aircraft catering, but such packaging usually has common headspace. Furthermore there is also known the 'eat-me/keep me' multipacks but they are focused on providing the same produce but in separate compartments so that they can be used sequentially.
  • It is an object of the present invention to provide a packaging for foodstuffs that provides a solution to the problem outlined above.
  • According to the invention there is provided a multi-compartment unitary packaging for a variety of foodstuffs, including two or more conjoined compartments, characterised in that each compartment is a bag formed from a film of gas and/or vapour permeable plastics material wherein each of the compartments has a gas permeability matching the individual respiration rate of the foodstuff(s) to be held within that compartment.
  • Each compartment when constituted by the containment may comprise a film in the form of a bag which conveniently is integral with the other compartments of the packaging. Each compartment may in practice be formed separately from the other compartment or compartments and then conjoined therewith to provide the multi-compartment packaging of the invention. In the alternative, the multi-compartment packaging may be produced unitarily with each compartment being separate but conjoined. In some embodiments of the invention the compartments are communicable one with the other through the agency of a common barrier whereby the permeation of gases from one compartment to another assists in the preservation of the foodstuffs in the recipient compartment.
  • The compartments may be separable one from the other and it is to be understood that the term 'multi-compartment' as used herein embraces packaging with two or more compartments.
  • The packaging may be manufactured from currently available conventional materials used for the packaging of perishable foodstuffs and these materials may be gas and/or vapour-permeable as required according to the specific foodstuffs in question.
  • The present invention also provides for the formation of the packaging into differing geometric shapes and accordingly the structure thereof is governed thereby. For example, the multi-compartment packaging may be made in such form as in the finished article to present a pyramidal shape with each triangular face and the base thereof providing a compartment for a foodstuff or a variety of foodstuffs. Alternative geometric shapes could be adopted, for example a circular form providing a multiplicity of compartments in sectoral fashion. Further alternative shapes may be rectilinear or curvilinear. In all cases the functional aspect of providing a plurality of compartments for differing foodstuffs is achieved together with the aestheticising of the packaging to make it more attractive to the consumer rather than just a plain bag.
  • As indicated supra the compartments may be sealed one from the other or may be in communication through a common barrier therebetween under controlled conditions dependent upon the foodstuffs to be packaged. Accordingly the shape and therefore the appearance of the packaging will depend in some measure upon the desired functionality.
  • The packaging of the present invention may include rigid or semi-rigid elements and thus for example each compartment may comprise a base formed of such an element or elements and may of unitary construction or may be formed of two or more elements conjoined in suitable manner one to the other or others. The containment may be in the form of at least one film covering or closure. In the case of a single containment the film would seal all the compartments one from the other or others along common boundaries. In the alternative a number of containments would be provided separately to cover the individual compartments sealing the same. This seal not only prevents mixing of the foodstuffs as between one compartment and another but also isolates the headspaces one from the other. The base is formed of a material that allows permeation of gases or vapours from one compartment to an adjacent compartment.
  • The term foodstuffs is intended to embrace all edible produce such for example vegetables, including salad components, and fruit together with suitable dressings therefor. In this latter respect it is expected that for some applications of the present invention it will be necessary or desirable to provide in at least one of the compartments of the packaging a dressing or other condiment or sweetener or the like to embellish the flavour of the produce concerned. It is also to be understood that the term 'edible produce' will encompass foodstuffs other that of the green-grocery kind; for example it is envisaged that meat may be included as a foodstuff for which the packaging of the present invention may be suitable. In this instance, the packaging of the invention comprising a multiplicity of compartments may be used for the presentation of complete meals of differing courses, each one requiring different preservation conditions and thus differing containments. For example, cooked meats or boiled eggs are non-respiring and accordingly may be suitably gas-flushed within their respective compartments.
  • By way of example only, seven embodiments of multi-compartment packaging according to the invention are described below with reference to the accompanying schematic drawings in which:
  • Figure 1 shows a first embodiment;
  • Figure 2 shows a second embodiment;
  • Figure 3 shows a third embodiment;
  • Figure 4 shows a fourth embodiment;
  • Figure 5 shows a fifth embodiment;
  • Figure 6 shows a sixth embodiments; and
  • Figure 7 shows a seventh embodiment.
  • In the drawings like parts have been accorded like numerals of reference throughout the description of the embodiments.
  • Referring to Figure 1 there is shown the first embodiment of multi-compartment packaging 1 comprising two or more compartments 2, with possibly two further compartments shown in dotted outline. Each compartment 2 is a film in the form of a bag conjoined to the next in a suitable manner, for example heat or pressure welding. Each compartment is unique in terms of having its own permeability characteristics to cater for and match the respiration rate of the produce it is in practice intended to contain. In this and indeed all examples of the invention the bag is the containment which constitutes the compartment. This form of packaging may be used to encapsulate differing leaf salads which in practice deteriorate at differing respiration rates. The packaging is thus able to preserve the freshness of all the salad components because the compartments are respiration specific. Conventional packaging is defective since it does not address the poor cohabitation of different foodstuffs.
  • In Figure 2 the multi-compartment packaging I is of parallelogram form composed of four equilateral triangular compartments 2 connected to one or more adjacent compartments, each compartment 2 again being so formed of appropriately gas and/or vapour permeable material to accommodate foodstuffs of varying respiration rates.
  • Figures 3 and 4 illustrate multi-compartment packaging of pyramidal shape with either four or five compartments respectively. Again each compartment complies with the principal feature of the invention in being made of a material giving the required preservative features for the produce contained within it. The packaging is so formed geometrically that it can be configured as a pyramid to provide the aesthetic appearance for customer appeal, but with the functionality as indicated.
  • Figure 5 provides a multi-compartment packaging 1 so formed as to provide a multitude of compartments 2 but with the facility of a carrying feature, namely a handle or loop 4.
  • Figure 6 shows a tetrahedrally-shaped multi-compartment packaging 1 in the form of a bag which may be conjoined to an adjacent element as shown in the lower representation.
  • Figure 7 depicts multi-compartment packaging 1 of generally circular form with four sectoral compartments 2 arranged symmetrically about a core 5, the compartments being connected one to the other to provide a unitary package.
  • The present invention provides individual atmospheric conditions to cater for the individual foodstuffs thereby affording enhanced cohabitation when compared with contemporary approaches to this kind of packaging. The customisation of the packaging of the present invention allows a miscellany of foodstuffs to be accommodated in but one pack with each different product enjoying an optimised climate in which to survive satisfactorily for its expected shelf life. This advantageous attribute is in sharp contrast to the conventional packaging which essentially forces one product to endure what may well be a relatively hostile environment in terms of deterioration of freshness and quality.
  • The added virtue of the present invention is that it uses conventional materials which, as indicated above, have been investigated thoroughly in terms of content and performance.
  • It is to be understood that the present invention allows, as foreshadowed supra, the adoption of diverse presentational packaging which not only provides improved protection for the produce concerned, but also makes it more visually attractive. The merit of the invention is thus twofold in these respects.

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  1. Multi-compartment unitary packaging (1) for a variety of foodstuffs, including two or more conjoined compartments (2), characterised in that each compartment is a bag formed from a film of gas and/or vapour permeable plastics material wherein each of the compartments has a gas permeability matching the individual respiration rate of the foodstuff(s) to be held within that compartment.
  2. Packaging according to Claim 1 in which each compartment is integral with one or more adjacent compartments.
  3. Packaging according to Claim 1 in which the compartments are formed separately and conjoined to provide the multiplicity of compartments.
  4. Packaging according to any one of the preceding claims in which some or all of the adjacent compartments are provided with a common barrier.
  5. Packaging according to Claim 4 in which the common barrier is gas and/or vapour permeable.
  6. Packaging according to any one of the preceding claims in which the compartments are separable one from the other or others of them.
  7. Packaging according to any one of the preceding Claims in which the compartments are formed into a rectilinear geometric shape.
  8. Packaging according to any one of claims 1 to 6 in which the compartments are formed into a curvilinear geometric shape.
  9. Packaging according to any one of claims 1 to 6 in which the compartments are formed into a circular geometric shape, each compartment being of sectoral form.
  10. Packaging according to any one of claims 1 to 6 in which the compartments are formed into a pyramidal geometric shape and each face of the pyramid is formed as a compartment.
  11. Packaging according to any one of the preceding claims in which a carrying handle (4) is provided.
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