EP1732824A1

EP1732824A1 - Tubular bag comprising a tubular bag body and a sealed-in bottom

Info

Publication number: EP1732824A1
Application number: EP05707617A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Andreas Michalsky
Original assignee: Huhtamaki Ronsberg Zweigniederlassung der Huhtamaki Deutschland GmbH and Co KG
Current assignee: Huhtamaki Ronsberg Zweigniederlassung der Huhtamaki Deutschland GmbH and Co KG
Priority date: 2004-03-31
Filing date: 2005-02-24
Publication date: 2006-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 2025-02-24
Also published as: DE102004022374A1; DE502005006208D1; US20090041394A1; WO2005105600A1; JP2007530379A; JP4786640B2; EP1732824B1; DE102004022374B4; ATE416998T1

Abstract

The invention relates to a tubular pouch having a tubular pouch body and a sealed-in base, especially a sealed-in standing base, wherein the base a) is made from a tube portion of the same material as the tubular pouch body; b) is inserted into the tubular pouch body under stress; c) has a fin seal pointing in the direction of the tubular pouch body. The invention furthermore relates to a method of producing such a tubular pouch, which comprises the following steps: a) separating off a tube portion (40) from the tube forming the tubular pouch body (20); b) sealing an open end (90) of the tube portion (40) by means of a fin seal (50); c) introducing the sealed tube portion end (80) into the tubular pouch body (20), the sealed tube portion end (80) pointing in the direction of the tubular pouch body (20); and d) sealing the border (100) of the tube portion (40) to the border (101) of the tubular pouch body (20).

Description

"Tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed bottom"

Description

The invention relates to a tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed bottom according to the preamble of claim 1 and a method for producing such a tubular bag according to the preamble of claim 8.

Tubular bags of the type mentioned have been used for some time for filling and packaging solid, pasty and liquid ingredients. Due to their low weight, their generally inexpensive manufacture and relatively easy disposal, tubular bags of the type mentioned are popular and have prevailed over other packaging made of glass, metal or cardboard in many areas.

However, hitherto customary tubular bags have some disadvantages that impair or restrict their use in certain areas. This includes, among other things, a low level of stability, the disadvantage of which is particularly evident when the tubular bag is open, so that if the contents fall over or tip over, there is a risk of the contents leaking out.

This problem has been solved many times in the past by making a tubular bag bottom from a rigid material and then in the

Tubular bag was integrated. However, this leads to further disadvantages. So the separate stand had to be elaborately manufactured. Furthermore the volume of waste was increased considerably due to the rigid stand base, which itself could not be folded or rolled up.

Another disadvantage of using a separate stand base, which consists of a different material than the tubular bag itself, is due to a lower recycling rate due to the heterogeneity of the material.

This disadvantage was countered with a stand base made of the same material as the tubular bag. However, these shelves, which were usually V-shaped or W-shaped, were complex to manufacture and in turn only guaranteed insufficient stability.

The object of the present invention is to provide a tubular bag which is inexpensive and easy to manufacture, which avoids material heterogeneity with regard to the tubular bag body and the base and, moreover, has an increased recycling rate.

This object is achieved by a tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed bottom according to claim 1 or 2 and by a method for producing such a tubular bag according to claim 10 or 11.

In particular, the object is achieved by a tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed-in base, in particular a stand-up base, the base a) consisting of a tubular section made of the same material as the tubular bag body; b) is inserted under tension into the tubular bag body; and c) has a fin-seal seal pointing in the direction of the tubular bag body.

According to an alternative embodiment, the object is achieved by a tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed base, in particular a stand-up base, the base a) consisting of a tubular section made of the same material as the tubular bag body; b) under tension in the Tubular bag body is inserted; and c) has a fin-seal seal pointing outside the tubular bag body.

The essential essence of the invention is that in order to ensure that the tubular bag according to the invention is inexpensive and easy to manufacture and that it can be easily recycled or that the tubular bag according to the invention is recycled, the bottom of the tubular bag is made from a tubular section which is made of the same material as the tubular bag body itself In other words, this means that the bottom of the tubular bag and the tubular bag body are made from a tube, a tube section being separated from the tube to produce the bottom.

The tube section forming the bottom is closed on an open side by means of a fin-seal seal before the separation or alternatively after the separation and is then inserted under tension into the tubular bag body in such a way that the fin-seal seal points in the direction of the tubular bag body.

According to the aforementioned alternative embodiment, the tube section forming the bottom is inserted into the tubular bag body in such a way that the fin-seal seal of the tubular section points outside the tubular bag body. In this variant, the tubular bag body is placed from above onto the quasi-cup-shaped tube section forming the bottom, the tube section forming the bottom preferably coming to lie within the tubular bag body. Alternatively, the tubular bag body can also be inserted into the cup-shaped tube section forming the base. At least partial areas of the mutually assigned edges of the tubular bag body and the tubular section are sealed to one another on the circumference of the tubular bag.

The variant of providing the tube section forming the bottom with a fin-seal seal pointing outside the tubular bag body has significant advantages over previously known tubular bag bottoms. One reason for this is that when the tubular bag is filled or when a pressure build-up inside the tubular bag, it is no longer possible to turn the bottom outwards, since the bottom in the variant according to the invention already allows maximum expansion of the inner bag volume. On the other hand, this alternative cup-shaped tube section bottom shape according to the invention maximizes the filling volume of the tubular bag with the same material consumption. On the one hand, this enables the tubular bag to be filled more easily and also allows greater variability with regard to the materials which are to be brought into the tubular bag. The additional space achieved by this optimized configuration of the filling volume can be used as a possible expansion space for filling the tubular bag with an expandable filling material. For example, it is possible to first minimize the expansion space for space-saving, inexpensive transportation, for example by folding, with expansion taking place only when required. Of course, the enlarged interior of the tubular bag can also be provided directly with a correspondingly larger amount of filling material.

By inserting the tube section forming the bottom into the tubular bag body under tension, it is ensured that the tubular bag bottom assumes a largely and ideally round shape, since the tubular section inserted into the tubular bag body uniformly urges the tubular bag body radially outward because a circular shape is one ensures the best possible distribution of forces.

At this point it should be noted that simultaneous sealing and separation of the tube section forming the base from the tube is also within the scope of this invention. Here, the tube is pressed together by means of a sealing tool and sealed on the inside and separated from the tube with a separate or integrated separating or cutting tool in such a way that an open part forming the tubular bag body and a closed, sealed tube section result.

Since the tube section forming the bottom is formed from the same tube as the tube bag body itself, the sealed tube must be sealed before the tube is inserted A radial expansion of the tubular bag body advantageous in the tubular section in the tubular bag body, which is carried out so that the expansion can be reset. After the hose section with a sealed hose section end has been introduced sufficiently far into the tubular bag body, the tubular bag body can be reset so that it fits snugly around the sealed hose section.

If it is intended to insert the tubular bag body in the aforementioned cup-shaped tube section forming the bottom, vice versa, the bottom tube section is radially somewhat expanded in a resettable manner so that the tubular bag body can be inserted into the cup-shaped bottom tube section. After the tubular bag body has been introduced, the cup-shaped base tube section is reset to such an extent that close contact between the tube section forming the base and the tubular bag body is ensured.

Another significant advantage that results from the use of a cup-shaped tube section forming the bottom is that in this case no full-surface sealing of the mutually associated edges of the tube section and the tubular bag body is necessary. Rather, it is sufficient if the edge of the tubular section is sealed to the edge of the tubular bag body in only one partial section. This is preferably located in an edge section of the hose section forming the base, which is distant from the base.

If the tubular bag body is arranged within the cup-shaped bottom tube section, the internal pressure of the filling material, which acts on the wall of the tubular bag, furthermore ensures that the tubular bag body is in close contact with the cup-shaped bottom tube section when the tubular bag is filled, which in turn ensures the stability of the tubular bag according to the invention elevated.

The base of the tubular bag according to the invention is thus formed by a two-layer tubular bag section formed near the bottom, the knurling of which which is composed of the edge of the tubular section and the edge of the tubular bag body. According to the invention, these two edges are sealed to one another in this way to seal the tubular bag downwards and, moreover, to provide a reinforced, particularly stable base section.

With regard to the hose from which the hose section forming the bottom and the tubular bag body are formed, the bottom is sealed according to the invention into the tubular bag body by means of an inside-outside seal.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the fin-seal seal is formed by an inside-inside seal of the tube section. In this embodiment, the tube section forming the bottom is pressed together on its open side and sealed with the aid of ultrasound or thermal energy and thus closed. The advantage of this embodiment lies in the simplicity of closing the hose section by simply compressing and then sealing an inner-inner sealable inner layer of the hose.

According to an alternative embodiment, the fin-seal seal is formed by an outer-outer seal of the tube section. According to the invention, a part of the tube section that is subsequently to be sealed is first folded inwards and then closed in the manner of a fin-seal seal. The advantage of the invention is that after the sealed end of the tubular bag has been inserted, the contents of the tubular bag do not come into contact with the cut edges generated. This is particularly important if the filling material is not inert towards other layers of a laminate forming the tube. Due to the previous turning of the cut edges, after inserting the sealed hose section into the tubular bag body, they come to lie on the outside of the tubular bag and are not accessible to a, possibly aggressive, filler material and cannot be attacked by one, or conversely, do not contaminate a filler material. This is extremely advantageous, for example, when using a barrier layer made of aluminum and an acidic filling material, which would be attacked by the acid in conventional tubular bags.

Such a barrier layer can be formed from ethyl vinyl alcohol (EVOH), silicon dioxide (Si0 ₂ ) or an aluminum foil. This barrier layer is advantageously provided both in the tubular bag body and in the bottom of the tubular bag.

According to the invention, the tubular bag body and the tubular section are formed from a tube which is either designed as a lap-seal or is extruded in the form of a tube.

The advantage based on this consists in a completely round, stable shape, which is possible in this way for the tubular bag body or the finished tubular bag.

As already mentioned, the cut edges of the tubular bag body and the tubular section are arranged such that they do not coincide with an interior of the

Are in contact with the tubular bag so that the cut edges cannot be attacked by the filling material and in this way, for example, a barrier layer permanently maintains its barrier effect. This is a significant advantage, in particular when EVOH is used, since EVOH is sensitive to moisture and its barrier effect diminishes or is completely lost when moisture enters.

According to the invention, the sealed end of the tube section is compressed and / or angularly sealed. This measure is advantageous in order to introduce a tube section end, which is widened in relation to the tubular bag body due to the formation of the aforementioned fin-seal seal, into the tubular bag body first and foremost with the fin-seal seal. For this purpose, the fin-seal seal is compressed along its longitudinal extent so that the seal is seam-folded and / or curled. An alternative embodiment consists in first fixing the tube section to be sealed in the shape of the desired later diameter and then sealing it. Another alternative is to seal the corners of the fin-seal seal at an angle.

As mentioned above, the object according to the invention is also achieved by a method for producing a tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed base, the following steps being provided: a) separating a tubular section from the tubular tube forming the tubular bag body; b) sealing an open end of the tube section by means of a fin-seal seal; c) inserting the sealed tube section end into the tubular bag body, the sealed tube section end pointing in the direction of the tubular bag body; d) sealing the edge of the tubular section to the edge of the tubular bag body.

Furthermore, the object of the invention is achieved by an alternative to this

Method solved, wherein in step c) the sealed tube section end is introduced into the tubular bag body so that the sealed tube section end points outside the tubular bag body.

It should be emphasized at this point that, according to the invention, step b) can be carried out before step a) or simultaneously with step a).

Further embodiments of the invention result from the subclaims.

The invention is described below using an exemplary embodiment which is explained in more detail with reference to the figures. Here show: Fig. 1 shows a schematically illustrated procedure for producing a tubular bag with a base;

Figure 2 is a schematic representation of the manufacture of a tubular bag according to the invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of a stand base sealed in accordance with the invention.

In the following description, the same reference numbers are used for the same and equivalent parts.

1 shows a schematically illustrated procedure for producing a tubular bag 10 according to the invention, which is manufactured from a tube. The hose is closed at a hose section end 80 by means of a fin-seal seal, the ends of the hose being turned inside out before sealing, so that cut edges 60 point in the direction of the hose section 40. The tube section 40, which is shown separated from the tubular bag body 20 by a schematically illustrated cutting line 90, serves to produce the base 30.

FIG. 2 shows the tube section 40 forming the base 30, which is now separated as a separate part. The bottom 30 is inserted with the fin-seal seal 50 first into the tubular bag body 20 so that the end 80 of the tube section comes to rest in the interior 70 of the tubular bag 10. This is symbolized by the thick arrow in the middle of the figure.

3 finally shows a schematic illustration of a sealed-in floor 30 according to the invention. The seals are indicated schematically by slashes. As can be seen, the edge of the tubular section 100 is sealed to the edge of the tubular bag body 101. In order to make it easier to present, the edge 100 of the tubular section did not lie directly against the edge 101 of the tubular bag body. It is clearly too recognize that cut edges 60 of both the tubular section 40 and the tubular bag body 20 are not in contact with the interior 70 of the tubular bag 10.

At this point, it should be pointed out that all the parts described above are seen on their own and in any combination, in particular the details shown in the drawings, are claimed as essential to the invention. Modifications are familiar to the person skilled in the art. Reference numeral l iste

10 tubular bags

20 tubular bag body

30 bottom 40 hose section

50 fin-seal sealing

60 cut edges

70 interior

80 hose section end 90 cutting line

100 edge of the hose section

101 edge of the tubular body

Claims

"Tubular bag with a tubular bag body and a sealed bottom" claims

1. tubular bag (10) with a tubular bag body (20) and a sealed bottom (30), in particular stand-up base, the bottom (30) a) consisting of a tubular section (40) made of the same material as the tubular bag body (20); b) is inserted under tension into the tubular bag body (20); and c) has a fin-seal seal (50) pointing in the direction of the tubular bag body (20).

2. tubular bag (10) with a tubular bag body (20) and a sealed-in base (30), in particular stand-up base, the base (30) a) consisting of a tubular section (40) made of the same material as the tubular bag body (20); b) is inserted under tension into the tubular bag body (20); and c) has a fin-seal seal (50) pointing outside the tubular bag body (20).

3. tubular bag according to claim 1 or 2, dad u rch marked net, that ß the fin-seal seal (50) is formed by an inside-inside seal of the tube section (40).

4. A tubular bag according to one of the preceding claims, since the fin-seal seal (50) is formed by an outer-outer seal of the tubular section (40).

5. A tubular bag according to one of the preceding claims, since the base (30) has a barrier layer.

6. A tubular bag according to one of the preceding claims, that the tubular bag body (20) and the tubular section (40) are formed from a tubular tube that is designed as a lap seal or is extruded in the form of a tube.

7. tubular bag according to one of the preceding claims, d ad u rch ge ke nn zei ch n et, that ß cut edges (60) of the tubular bag body (20) and the tubular section (40) are arranged so that they do not have an interior (70 ) of the tubular bag (10) are in contact.

8. Tubular bag according to one of the preceding claims, so that the sealed tube section end (80) is compressed and / or sealed at an angle.

9. A tubular bag according to one of the preceding claims, so that the edge (100) of the tubular section (40) is sealed to the edge (101) of the tubular bag body (20) in only a partial section.

10. A method for producing a tubular bag (10) with a tubular bag body (20) and a sealed bottom (30), characterized by the following steps: a) separating a tubular section (40) from the tubular bag body (20) forming the tubular ; b) sealing an open end (90) of the tube section (40) by means of a fin-seal seal (50); c) introducing the sealed tube section end (80) into the tubular bag body (20), the sealed tube section end (80) pointing in the direction of the tubular bag body (20); and d) sealing the edge (100) of the tubular section (40) to the edge (101) of the tubular bag body (20).

11. A method for producing a tubular bag (10) with a tubular bag body (20) and a sealed bottom (30), characterized by the following steps: a) separating a tubular section (40) from the tubular bag body (20) forming the tubular ; b) sealing an open end (90) of the tube section (40) by means of a fin-seal seal (50); c) introducing the sealed tube section end (80) into the tubular bag body (20), the sealed tube section end (80) pointing outside the tubular bag body (20); and d) sealing the edge (100) of the tubular section (40) to the edge (101) of the tubular bag body (20).

12. The method of claim 10 or 11, d ad u rch ge ke n nzeich n et that ß step b) is carried out before step a) or simultaneously with step a).

13. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 10 to 12, characterized in that the fin-seal seal (50) is formed by an inside-inside seal of the tube section (40).

14. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 10 to 12, characterized in that the fin-seal seal (50) is formed by an outer-outer seal of the hose section (40).

15. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 10 to 12 or 14, dad u rch marked net, that ß the open end (90) of the hose section (40) is turned inside out before sealing.

16. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 10 to 15, characterized in that the tubular bag body (20) is radially stretched before the sealed tube section end (80) is introduced.

17. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 10 to 16, characterized in that the sealed tube section end (80) is compressed and / or sealed at an angle.

18. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 10 to 17, characterized in that the edge (100) of the tubular section (40) is sealed to the edge (101) of the tubular bag body (20) in only one partial section.