EP1828005A1 - Verpackung von mehreren verbrauchsgütern - Google Patents
Verpackung von mehreren verbrauchsgüternInfo
- Publication number
- EP1828005A1 EP1828005A1 EP05810826A EP05810826A EP1828005A1 EP 1828005 A1 EP1828005 A1 EP 1828005A1 EP 05810826 A EP05810826 A EP 05810826A EP 05810826 A EP05810826 A EP 05810826A EP 1828005 A1 EP1828005 A1 EP 1828005A1
- Authority
- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- array
- tear strip
- outer package
- tear
- zones
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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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
- B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
- B65D71/08—Wrappers shrunk by heat or under tension, e.g. stretch films or films tensioned by compressed articles
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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
- B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes, or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
- B65D75/52—Details
- B65D75/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
- B65D75/5827—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion
- B65D75/5833—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall
- B65D75/5844—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall the portion of the wall being a narrow strip, e.g. between lines of weakness
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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
- B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
- B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
- B65D2571/00555—Wrapper opening devices
- B65D2571/00561—Lines of weakness
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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
- B65D2571/00—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, pop bottles; Bales of material
- B65D2571/00123—Bundling wrappers or trays
- B65D2571/00648—Elements used to form the wrapper
- B65D2571/00672—Films
- B65D2571/00679—Shrink films
Definitions
- the present invention relates to packaging of multiple consumer articles .
- the invention provides an outer package containing a plurality of consumer articles arranged in an array according to claim 1.
- the invention advantageously allows convenient grouping of individual articles (which may be packages ) by packaging in an outer or a ⁇ secondary' package which can by opened simply by tearing a strip of film.
- a tear strip is advantageous in that it does not require the use of potentially dangerous sharp implements such as knives and minimises the risk of damage to the primary packaging by eliminating the use of potentially sharp or dangerous obj ects .
- the action of tearing is involved, which is potentially quite disruptive when used on flexible packaging, this does not destroy the array due to the location of the lines of weakness .
- the user is thereby allowed access to an orderly array of articles after opening and e . g . whilst stocking shelves, articles can be selected and then retrieved from an orderly array. The articles are less likely to be damaged since they remain in the orderly array even after the package is torn open. Even further the articles are more likely to remain in a orderly array even after one or more articles have been removed.
- visible and/or tactile indicia is preferably provided to instruct tearing in the required direction, i . e . in the direction of divergence .
- the pairs may be arranged to provide two parallel columns of tear zones, defining a generally rectangular tear strip .
- each successive pair may diverge so that the tear strip widens in the direction of tearing .
- the tear strip may comprise a combination of one or more .parallel columns of tear zones and one or more diverging columns .
- the opening mechanism is within a single face such that it does not extend to or beyond the perimeter of the single face . Therefore the opening mechanism does not interfere with any adj oining regions (e . g. edges) between adj acent faces of the package . This is advantageous in that all other faces are left intact after opening, which retains the integrity of the package .
- opening mechanism there may be more than one opening mechanism, e . g . there may be an opening mechanism within two or more respective faces of the outer packaging. This gives the user the choice of which opening to select, according to the type of article .
- the location of the opening may differ according to whether the articles are to removed from the outer package and placed on shelves for sale (in which case the face may be an upper or top face) , or whether the outer package is to be used as a display package (in which case the face may be a side face) .
- a further advantage is that,, even after opening because the package retains its integrity, the user can still handle e . g . carry the package without substantial disruption of the array of articles .
- the flexible sheet material is a shrink wrap film.
- the material is effectively shrunk to adapt to the shape of the array of articles .
- Suitable materials for this are PE and derivatives e . g . Low density polyethylene LDPE, medium density polyethylene MDPE, and high density polyethtylene HDPE, ethylene vinyl acetate EVA, polypropylene PP, polyamide PA and ionomers thereof .
- the material might also be folded and sealed so as to adapt to the shape of the array.
- the tear zones may comprise a line of perforations in the form of dashes and/or dots, and/or line of reduced thickness (of the material) .
- the package may include a label at the end of the perforation .
- the label is preferably attached e . g. by adhesive or heat sealing, to the tear strip material .
- _ part of the label remains free to act as a tab to facilitate grasping of the tear strip to use the easy open feature .
- the advantage of including a label is that is acts to direct the user to the beginning of the tear strip and may have visual indicia to indicate to the user how to use the opening mechanism, and importantly the correct direction of tearing .
- the tear zones are initially relatively close together negating the need for precise registration of the label with the beginning of the tear strip .
- the tear zones may diverge from such close proximity, if a wider tear strip is required.
- the seals are effected by heating the regions to be sealed.
- the tear zones may comprise a series e . g . line of perforations .
- Each of the individual perforations is less than approximately 10 mm in length, preferably less than approximately 5 mm in length and may be approximately 3 mm approximately.
- the gap between each perforation is less than approximately 10 mm in length, preferably less than approximately 5 mm in length and may be approximately 3 mm approximately.
- the perforations may be made by e . g . a blade or laser . This can be applied before the articles are wrapped in the outer package or during the application procedure .
- Each perforation may be a small hole or slot .
- the package is a non-peelable, flexible material such as polyethylene, polypropylene and may be an oriented materials , laminates , coextrusions etc .
- the package may be of thickness 25-100 ⁇ m.
- Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of an outer package containing a plurality of consumer articles arranged in an array according to the invention
- Figure 2 is an enlarged view of the tear zones on the package of figure 1.
- Figure 3 is a perspective view of package of figure 1 before and after opening. Referring to the drawing, one embodiment of the invention is shown, comprising an outer package 1 containing a plurality of consumer articles comprising cartons 13 of detergent powder, which are arranged in an array 17.
- the array 17 comprises a single row of cartons 13, each carton being (approximately) 11cm high x 14.5cm wide and 10cm deep, all cartons having identical dimensions and arranged to rest on their bases .
- the outer package 1 consists of a flexible sheet material 19 comprising shrink film which is tightly wrapped and sealed by shrink wrapping around the array 17 in a configuration which is adapted to the rectangular shape of the array so as to retain the arrangement of the array 17.
- shrink wrapping process can leave gaps 15 (only shown in fig 3) , these are within the boundaries of each end face 23 of the array , and are small enough not to comprise the array 17.
- An easy open mechanism 7 is contained within a single upper face 19 of the outer package such that it does not extend to or beyond the perimeter of the single face .
- "Upper” means with the cartons orientated with bases downwardly directed and upper faces , (which contain spouts , lids etc not shown) upwardly directed.
- the opening mechanism comprises five pairs 3 of tear zones , all arranged sequentially, the zones within each pair 3 being mutually divergent in the direction of tearing and separated by a gap corresponding to a tear strip 21.
- Each tear zone consists of a row of perforations ( in the form of dashes ) .
- the pairs 3 provide two parallel columns of tear zones defining a generally a rectangular tear strip .
- the pair is coj oined at one end by a ⁇ v" shaped cut 27 to define a starting position.
- Each of the perforations is 3 mm in length .
- the gap between each individual perforation 3 mm in length .
- Shrink wrap film is of thickness 60 ⁇ m.
- the gap 5 between each adj acent pair in the sequence is approximately 15mm in length .
- Each tear zone of each pair is approximately 25mm apart at the narrowest point 29, and approximately 35mm apart at the widest point 31.
- the arrangement of the array 17 is retained after opening of the package 1 via the tear strip 21. Once the tear strip 21 has been torn away (partially i . e . still attached to the pack at one end) , an aperture 11 is left, through which the cartons may be selected and retrieved.
- any narrowing 25 of the tear strip (seen more clearly in fig 2) is compensated for, so that the strip when removed is generally rectangular (although slightly fluted along the edges ) .
- the outer or 'secondary' package 1 is used to transport the array 17 to the retail establishment (e . g . supermarket) and can also be used to transport the array within the retail establishment .
- a further advantage of the invention is that, even after opening, because the package retains its integrity, the user can still carry the package without substantial disruption of the array of articles .
- the package may opened on the shop floor of a supermarket and one or more cartons can be selected from array in the opened package and placed directly on one shelf and the undisrupted array conveniently carried by the merchandiser to another part of the supermarket for stacking shelves there .
- the package comprises a flexible material which is very easily and expeditious ripped open, it still acts as an effective transport device for ordered arrays of articles after opening of the package .
- expeditious opening of secondary and tertiary packaging is highly desirable as this is a key factor in the speed of shelf stacking within supermarkets .
- the unopened array may be sold as a consumer unit, so that the individual cartons are selected for use as and when necessary by the consumer .
- the packaging arrangement advantageously allows convenient grouping of the individual cartons within a Secondary' package which can by opened simply and, very importantly, expeditiously by simply tearing the strip of film but without the use of potentially dangerous sharp implements such as knives thus minimising the risk of damage to the primary packaging (the cartons) by eliminating the use of such obj ects . Even though the action of tearing is involved, which is potentially quite disruptive when used on flexible packaging, this does not destroy the array due to the precise location of the perforations . The user is thereby allowed access to an orderly array of cartons after opening and e . g . whilst stocking shelves , cartons can be selected and then retrieved from an orderly array.
- the cartons can be made from thinner, cheaper (and therefore more vulnerable) materials as these less likely to be damaged since they remain in the orderly array 17 even after the package 1 is torn open . Even further the cartons 13 are more likely to remain in the orderly array 17 even after one or more have been removed.
- the shrink wrap film comprises low density polyethylene LDPE Shrink wrapping allows the material to be effectively shrunk to adapt to the shape of the array of articles .
- the tear strip 21 includes a ⁇ pull tab' 9 (with visual indicia to indicate to the user to being tearing by pulling the pull tab) 9 attached at the end of the tear strip 21. Only part of the pull tab is attached by adhesive to the end of the material of the tear strip 21 over the top of the "v" shaped cut 27 leaving the end free to facilitate grasping of the tab 9.
- the perforations may be made by any suitable technique e . g . laser or circular cutter . In this embodiment, they are made prior to the application process by a laser . Any suitable shrink wrapping process can be used and in this embodiment .
- the material is loosely wrapped around the articles and may be sealed e . g . heat sealed in this loosely wrapped configuration .
- the wrapped articles are then briefly (e . g . a few seconds ) heated e . g. within an oven to shrink the material around the array. The time, temperature of the oven are selected so that the material forms tightly around the array .
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB0428086A GB0428086D0 (en) | 2004-12-22 | 2004-12-22 | Packaging of multiple consumer articles |
GB0514772A GB0514772D0 (en) | 2005-07-19 | 2005-07-19 | Packaging of multiple consumer articles |
PCT/EP2005/012533 WO2006066683A1 (en) | 2004-12-22 | 2005-11-22 | Packaging of multiple consumer articles |
Publications (1)
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EP1828005A1 true EP1828005A1 (de) | 2007-09-05 |
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Family Applications (1)
Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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EP05810826A Withdrawn EP1828005A1 (de) | 2004-12-22 | 2005-11-22 | Verpackung von mehreren verbrauchsgütern |
Country Status (3)
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EP (1) | EP1828005A1 (de) |
BR (1) | BRPI0519394A2 (de) |
WO (1) | WO2006066683A1 (de) |
Families Citing this family (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB0717974D0 (en) * | 2007-09-14 | 2007-10-24 | Innovia Films Ltd | Film, packaging and method for making them |
DE102007021045A1 (de) * | 2007-05-04 | 2008-11-06 | Poly-Clip System Gmbh & Co. Kg | Perforationsverfahren für Schutzumhüllungen, Vorrichtung sowie Folienmaterial hierfür |
AU2015223492B2 (en) | 2014-02-28 | 2020-01-16 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Easy open bundled packaged goods |
CA3208817A1 (en) * | 2021-01-18 | 2022-07-21 | Niagara Bottling, Llc | Container case |
Family Cites Families (4)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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GB731847A (en) * | 1952-09-25 | 1955-06-15 | William Gibson Thomlinson | Improvements in or relating to paper wrappers |
AT384410B (de) * | 1984-03-27 | 1987-11-10 | Neusiedler Ag | Verpackung fuer einen stapel von papierblaettern sowie verfahren zu deren herstellung |
NL1005648C2 (nl) * | 1997-03-26 | 1998-09-29 | Sara Lee De Nv | Krimpverpakking. |
IT1313633B1 (it) * | 1999-09-27 | 2002-09-09 | Barilla Alimentare Spa | Confezione di una pila cilindrica di biscotti tondi. |
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- 2005-11-22 WO PCT/EP2005/012533 patent/WO2006066683A1/en active Application Filing
- 2005-11-22 BR BRPI0519394-0A patent/BRPI0519394A2/pt not_active IP Right Cessation
- 2005-11-22 EP EP05810826A patent/EP1828005A1/de not_active Withdrawn
Non-Patent Citations (1)
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WO2006066683A1 (en) | 2006-06-29 |
BRPI0519394A2 (pt) | 2009-01-20 |
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