EP1810932A1 - Emballage ainsi que son procédé er l'appareil de fabrication - Google Patents

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EP1810932A1
EP1810932A1 EP06025281A EP06025281A EP1810932A1 EP 1810932 A1 EP1810932 A1 EP 1810932A1 EP 06025281 A EP06025281 A EP 06025281A EP 06025281 A EP06025281 A EP 06025281A EP 1810932 A1 EP1810932 A1 EP 1810932A1
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Michael Jörissen
Christoph Koster
Alexander Brüker
Josef Düpper
Reinhard Wilzeck
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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
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/70—Trays provided with projections or recesses in order to assemble multiple articles, e.g. intermediate elements for stacking
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B21/00—Packaging or unpacking of bottles
    • B65B21/24—Enclosing bottles in wrappers
    • B65B21/245—Enclosing bottles in wrappers in flexible wrappers, e.g. foils
    • 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
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
    • B65D71/063—Wrappers formed by one or more films or the like, e.g. nets
    • B65D71/066—Wrappers formed by one or more films or the like, e.g. nets and provided with inserts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/02—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for perforating, scoring, slitting, or applying code or date marks on material prior to packaging

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  • the invention relates to a container according to the preamble of claim 1 and also to a method and an apparatus for producing such a container according to the preamble of claim 13 and 21 respectively.
  • Bottle-like container having a recess or depression in the form of a container bottom opposite to a container mouth that the container bottom is concavely curved on its bottom or container outer surface.
  • Containers of this type are known in particular with a volume of 5 or 10 liters and serve, for example, as a water tank for mineral or table water and are recorded or attached in the case of use with their mouth in a water dispenser.
  • such and other containers for transport and / or storage and / or sale are bundled together, for example as so-called multipacks, in which a plurality of containers are shrunk into a shrink-wrapped package, known as trays, in which a plurality of containers are arranged even without a film on a cardboard with upstanding corners or wall areas, as so-called Shrinktrays, where a plurality of containers are arranged on a trough-like carrier made of cardboard and secured there by a shrunken shrink film, or as so-called shrinkpads in which a substantially flat paperboard carrier a plurality of containers are secured by a shrunk shrink film.
  • multipacks in which a plurality of containers are shrunk into a shrink-wrapped package, known as trays, in which a plurality of containers are arranged even without a film on a cardboard with upstanding corners or wall areas, as so-called Shrinktrays, where a plurality of containers are arranged on a trough-like carrier made of cardboard and secured
  • the invention has for its object to show a container which avoids the disadvantages mentioned.
  • a container according to the patent claim 1 is formed.
  • a method and an apparatus for producing the containers are the subject matter of patent claims 13 ,.21.
  • the container formation according to the invention makes it possible to arrange a plurality of containers to form a stack of packs, in such a way that the containers of a lower, each of two arranged in the stack of packs containers with their upper container sections through the support openings of the overlying container through into a free space of the extend over it lying container, the (free space) is formed by the convex container bottom of the container stack in the overlying container.
  • the stability of the bundle stack is substantially increased, in particular lateral slippage of the individual bundles in the bundle stack is prevented, at least made more difficult.
  • the height of a bundle stack is reduced by the inventive design of the container or by the intermeshing of the container, which also contributes to the stability of the bundle stack or creates the opportunity to increase at a predetermined maximum height of the bundle stack the number of recorded in this bundle stack container ,
  • the containers are protected at its neck and mouth area from damage.
  • the weight forces in the bundle stack do not act on the container mouths or the local closures, but for example on the adjoining the container mouth of each container, towards the container bottom widening shoulder area or on a provided on the container flange or collar, whereby the burden or the risk of damage to individual containers is reduced in the threaded stack.
  • 1 strongly bulbous bottle-like container made of a suitable plastic, such as PET, which are strongly concave on the underside of their bottom 2.
  • a suitable plastic such as PET
  • Such containers are known, for example, as water containers with a volume of five or ten liters.
  • FIG. 1 Several containers 1, i. in the illustrated embodiment, a total of nine containers 1 are summarized according to the figure 1 each to a container 4, with its container bottom 2 on a support 5 and on the bottom 6 of this support 5 upstanding in three rows parallel to the longitudinal sides of the top view ( Figure 3) rectangular support 5 and arranged with three containers 1 in each row.
  • the containers 1 are oriented with their container axis BA perpendicular to the plane of the carrier base 6.
  • the carrier 5, which consists for example of a single or multi-layer cardboard, is provided in the illustrated embodiment as a tray-like tray with a projecting over the support base 6 circumferential support edge 7, but over which the container 1, however, project upwards.
  • the container 4 further comprises a shrunk shrink film 8, which surrounds the carrier 5 at the bottom of its support base 6 and the outside of the support edge 7 and the container 1 at its above the carrier 5 projecting area, especially in the area of their container mouths 3 tight and holds the container together.
  • the container corresponds to 4 conventional container.
  • a special feature of the container 4 is that in the support base 6 for each container 1 and the container axis BA coaxially or approximately coaxially a circular support opening 9 is introduced in the illustrated embodiment.
  • the carrier base 6 has a total of nine such carrier openings 9, which in turn are provided in three rows parallel to the longer sides of the carrier 5 and with three carrier openings 9 in each row.
  • the carrier openings 9 are kept free of the shrink film 8, as is clearly shown in particular in Figures 4 and 5.
  • This keeping free is achieved in that the shrink film 8 or the web-shaped shrink film material 8a ( Figures 6-8) perforated before wrapping the respective carrier 5 and the container 1 used in this carrier with this material and shrink before fit and division, ie is provided with a plurality of film openings 10.
  • the introduction of the film openings 10 in the sheet-like shrink film material 8a can be done in various ways, for example by cutting or punching with a corresponding cutting or punching device by laser cutting, etc.
  • the introduction of the film openings 10 can also be made in a variety of forms, for example by complete cutting the respective film opening 10 or only by partial cutting, so that then in the region of the respective film opening 10 a lapping-like film residue 11 releasing this opening remains on the shrink film 8, as indicated in Figures 4 and 6, wherein the film residue 11 in the Figure 4 is shown only in abbreviated form.
  • This type of introduction of the film openings 10 has the advantage that in the apparatus used for the introduction of the film openings 10 no loose material or film residues incurred, in particular, there is no risk that such film residues in a plant or apparatus for producing the container 4th Cause interference.
  • the resulting film residues are removed in a suitable manner, for example by suction, using a suitable conveying element, such as conveyor belt, etc.
  • the described training of the container has 4 u.a. the advantage that a plurality of such containers 4 can be stacked to form a bundle stack 12, wherein, with the exception of the uppermost container 4 in this bundle stack 12, the container 1 of each container 4 with its upper, the container mouth 3 having container portion through the openings 9 and 10 in Extend free spaces 2.1 of the overlying container 4, which are formed by the concave container bottoms 2 of the respective container 1 disposed above, so that this results in a particular for the transport and / or storage and / or sale stable bundle 12 stacks, which is then usually arranged on a pallet, not shown.
  • the container 1 with its container mouth 3 are in each case against the container bottom 2 of a container 1 lying above in the container stack 12.
  • the container 1 is provided at an upper container area, for example in the region of its container mouth 3 with a radially projecting edge or flange 13, which then abut or support the carrier 5 respectively above the carrier 5 at the edge of the relevant one Carrier opening 9 is used.
  • a relief is the container mouths 3 but is also possible that the container 1 are supported on a substantially horizontally extending shoulder or head portion of the container, this support can be done, for example, close to full surface. In this case, only the mouth region is recessed from the burden of the supporting container 1.
  • Figures 6 and 7 show very schematically the functional elements of a machine or apparatus for producing the container 4.
  • the sheet-like film material 8a is withdrawn from a supply roll 14 in a transport direction A and perforated in a perforation 15 division justice or perforated, ie with the film openings 10th provided by partial cutting, so that in the manner described above, the lobe-like film residues 11 produced during the cutting remain on the sheet-like film material 8a.
  • the sheet-like film material is fed to a cutting station 16, in which the shrink-film packaging length 8b required for the shrink film 8 is separated from it, in each case in relation to the film openings 10, in the exact rapport.
  • This is then the actual packing station 17 for wrapping the respective carrier 5 with the containers 1 (wrapping process) and for shrinking onto the carrier 5 and the container 1 is supplied by heating.
  • each film opening 10 is at least approximately congruent with a support opening 9. Furthermore, in the packaging machine 17 by appropriate means, for example by mechanical transfer and / or an air flow ensured that when wrapped with the perforated shrink wrap length 8b carrier and containers 1, the film residues 11 reliably arranged laterally from the respective opening 9 and 10 respectively are.
  • FIG. 8 shows in greater detail a perforating and feeding unit 18 having the perforating station 15 and the cutting station 16, together with the sheet-like film material 8a and the shrink-film packaging length 8b respectively separated from this film material.
  • the perforating station 15 consists in this embodiment of two plate-shaped tool carriers 19, which are arranged parallel to each other and form between them a tool gap through which the web-shaped sheet material 8a is passed.
  • a drive consisting of a geared motor 20 and a plurality of driven by this eccentric 21, the two tool carriers 19 are driven for a swinging and circular motion, in such a way that the tool carrier 19 in the course of this movement toward each other, then in her adjacent state in a working stroke parallel to each other and in the transport direction A of the film material 8a, then again away from each other and then a return stroke spaced from each other against the transport direction A of the film material 8a move.
  • the tool carriers 19 are provided with corresponding tools 22 which effect the cutting of the film openings 10.
  • this cutting station 15 is followed by the cutting station 16, in which the respective shrink-wrapping package bar 8b is separated from the perforated foil material 8a.
  • a repeat adjustment 24 is provided in front of the cutting station 16, with which the respectively located between the perforation 15 and the cutting station 16 length of the sheet-like film material 8a sensor-controlled can be adjusted so that the separation of the shrink film packaging length 8b with high Raportgenautechnik in relation takes place on the film openings 10.
  • the shrink-wrapping package lengths 8b are fed to the packaging machine 17, from which the finished packages 4 are then removed in the direction of the arrow B of FIG.
  • the shrink film 8 with film openings 10 not only in the region of the carrier openings 9. Much more is also provided to provide the shrink film 8 in the area of the container mouths 3 with film openings 10, so that the container mouth 3 is not obstructed when immersed in the concave container bottom 2 by between adjacent containers 1 taut, shrunken shrink film 8.

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