EP1832525A1 - Absorbierender Behälter - Google Patents

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EP1832525A1
EP1832525A1 EP07356032A EP07356032A EP1832525A1 EP 1832525 A1 EP1832525 A1 EP 1832525A1 EP 07356032 A EP07356032 A EP 07356032A EP 07356032 A EP07356032 A EP 07356032A EP 1832525 A1 EP1832525 A1 EP 1832525A1
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Hervé Spruytte
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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
    • B65D81/261—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 draining or collecting liquids without absorbing them

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  • the present invention relates to a container with liquid retention means for the packaging and sale of food.
  • Containers with liquid retention means are commonly used for the packaging of foods such as meat, and more generally for the packaging of any food likely to let out juice, blood or any other liquid.
  • a first type of liquid retention means container has been made by assembling an absorbent sheet and a container-type container.
  • the tray has at least one main compartment bounded by at least one main bottom wall on which the absorbent sheet is disposed.
  • the absorbent sheet is sometimes attached to the main bottom wall by means of a point of glue.
  • Other containers with liquid retention means comprise at least one main compartment limited by at least one main bottom wall having a plurality of small cavities each having a communication port with the interior of the main compartment and each limited by a wall cavity device and a cavity bottom. The liquids are retained in each cavity of the container by the capillary phenomenon.
  • the dimensions of the cavities disposed in the main bottom wall of the main compartment are small enough to make possible the action of the capillary phenomenon for the retention of liquids in these cavities.
  • the problem proposed by the present invention is to design a container for the packaging and sale of food, which comprises means for retaining liquids that can retain an even larger volume of liquids, and which is easy to manufacture and inexpensive.
  • the presence of the inner protrusion increases the length of the contact line sufficiently to allow a significant and satisfactory increase in the liquid retention effect, without requiring the presence of undercuts.
  • the presence of the remains allows the demolding of the container during its manufacture, without significant deformation of the cavity and especially the outgrowth.
  • the invention aims at optimizing the effect of retention of the liquid in the cavities, to ensure its effective retention in the case where an acceleration such as a flipping of the container, openings of the cavities downwards, or even a simultaneous impact on the container, tends to eject the liquid out of the cavities.
  • the volume of the cavity is such that the product of its depth by its external diameter is equal to or slightly less than about 20 mm 2 , preferably equal to or less than about 15 mm 2 , the external cavity diameter being greater than about 6 mm and less than about 9 mm.
  • the cavity may have a peripheral contour of circular shape. This form is preferable to ensure better liquid retention capacity during shocks in the inverted position of the container.
  • the cavity may have a peripheral contour of polygonal shape.
  • the cavity may advantageously have a peripheral contour of hexagonal shape, which increases the number of cavities per unit area and therefore the volume of liquid retained per unit area.
  • the protuberance may be disposed substantially in the center of the cavity. This distributes more uniformly the retention forces by capillarity, and provides better liquid retention capacity during shocks in the inverted position of the container.
  • the outline of the protrusion may have a shape of the same type as that of the peripheral contour of the cavity. This ensures even more uniform capillary retention throughout the annular volume of the cavity, to optimize the retention capacity of liquids during shocks in the inverted position of the container.
  • the contour of the protrusion can be circular.
  • the tooling of such a container is thus easier to manufacture and less expensive, and it facilitates the demolding of the container during its manufacture.
  • a satisfactory demoulding of the peripheral walls of the cavities of the container during manufacture is obtained by providing that the peripheral walls of the cavities have a clearance angle greater than about 1 °.
  • the main bottom wall of the container may comprise a plurality of cavities disposed closest to each other and staggered. This significantly increases the number of cavities per unit area and therefore the volume of liquids that can be retained per unit area.
  • a container with cavities according to these dimensions has shown a surprisingly high capacity to retain liquids, retaining about 950 milliliters of liquids per square meter of a surface provided with such cavities.
  • the effective retention of liquids thus produced makes it possible to return the surface provided with cavities in order to orient the communication orifices towards the ground, without appreciable flow of liquids out of the cavities.
  • the protrusion may develop beyond the communication orifice inwardly of the main compartment, in excess of at least equal to the maximum exceeding of the free surface of a volume of water filling the cavity.
  • the protrusion can then play a role of effective restraint of the maximum amount of liquid that can be contained in the cavity.
  • the protrusion has an anti-slip effect to prevent lateral sliding of the product contained in the container.
  • the container may comprise spacers developing from the main bottom wall towards the interior of the main compartment to support a product away from the communication orifices.
  • the container may be obtained by molding, thermoforming or injection.
  • the container may be of plastic, preferably polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene or polylactic acid.
  • plastics are actually inexpensive, easily recyclable, have good mechanical strength and are compatible with current food standards.
  • polypropylene makes it possible to use the container for freezing or for heat treatment in the microwave oven.
  • polylactic acid makes it possible to produce a container that is easily biodegradable and that respects the environment.
  • the container shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a main compartment 1 limited by at least one main bottom wall 2 having a plurality of cavities 3 having a communication port 4 with the interior of the main compartment 1. These cavities 3 are limited by a peripheral cavity wall 5 and a cavity bottom 6, as best seen in Figure 3 which is a partial sectional view of the axis II of the container of Figures 1 and 2.
  • Each of these cavities 3 comprises an outgrowth 7, with a cross-section smaller than the cross-section of the cavity 3, and developing from the cavity bottom 6 in the direction of the communication orifice 4.
  • Each cavity 3 thus defines an annular volume V intended to contain liquid which will be retained by capillarity.
  • the peripheral wall 5 of cavity is generally cylindrical with a draft A in the direction of the communication orifice 4, which makes it possible to produce the container with inexpensive and robust molding tools, and ensure proper demolding of the container.
  • the cavity 3 has a peripheral contour 5 of circular shape, the protuberance 7 having a contour also circular.
  • the protuberances 7 are disposed substantially in the center of the cavities 3.
  • each point of the peripheral wall 5 of the cavities 3 is at the same distance d (FIG. 5) from the contour of the protrusion 7. This ensures a restraint. liquids by capillarity totally uniform throughout the annular volume V cavities 3.
  • the value of the volume V equal to or slightly less than a maximum value V max such that, when the mass M that fills the cavity is subjected to at an acceleration G tending to extract it from the cavity, the length of connecting line between the free liquid surface and the cavity walls is sufficient for the capillarity force F to be greater than the force MG exerted by the acceleration G on the mass M of liquid. In this way, the liquid remains in the cavity. Beyond this volume, a liquid retention by capillarity is no longer possible. This of course depends on the properties of the liquid to be retained.
  • the cavity may have a shape such that the product of its depth P by its outside diameter D 2 is equal to or less than 20 about 2 mm.
  • the effect obtained is a correct retention of the liquid when the container is held in the inverted position, with the communication port facing downwards.
  • the protrusion 7 In order to optimize the volume V of liquids that can be retained by capillarity per unit area of the main bottom wall 2, it is desirable for the protrusion 7 to have a reduced dimension, that is to say a small diameter D1 in the embodiment of Figures 1 to 5. This diameter must however be large enough to allow proper release of the protrusion during manufacture.
  • the contour of the protrusion 7 is circular, which proves advantageous in more ways than one. Indeed, the mold used for thermoforming or molding the container is easier to manufacture. This is all the more important that the protrusion 7 must have a diameter D1 as small as possible.
  • the contour of the protrusion 7 will participate in a balanced manner, along its circumference, to the retention of the liquid by capillarity.
  • the cavities 3 are arranged as close to each other and staggered. This optimizes the number of cavities 3 per unit area, which optimizes the volume of liquids that can be retained per unit area of the bottom of the container.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a cavity 3 according to a second embodiment of the invention.
  • This cavity 3 has a peripheral wall 5 with a square contour, and the protrusion 7 disposed in the center of the cavity 3 also has a contour having a square shape.
  • This embodiment makes it possible to increase the number of cavities 3 per unit area for a container of rectangular shape.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a cavity 3 according to a third embodiment of the invention.
  • the cavity 3 has a peripheral wall 5 with hexagonal shaped contour.
  • the contours of the protuberances 7 have a shape of the same type as that of the peripheral contour of the cavities 3. This makes it possible to ensure the most uniform capillary retention possible throughout the entire volume. ring V cavities 3.
  • a depth P (FIGS. 3 and 4) of the cavities 3 of between approximately 2 mm and approximately 4 mm, a diameter at the top D 1 of between 1, About 5 mm and about 3 mm for the protuberances 7, and an outside diameter D2 (diameter at the orifice) of between about 5 mm and about 8 mm for the cavities 3.
  • the height H of the protuberances 7 is substantially equal to the depth P of the cavities 3.
  • the liquid contained in the volume V of the cavities 3 may have a curved surface S that may protrude beyond the communication orifice 4 towards the inside of the main compartment 1, a product resting on the main bottom wall 2 Such a container may then be in contact with the liquid contained in the cavities 3. At the same time, the vertex of the protrusion 7 is below the surface S of liquid, and no longer participates in the retaining effect. liquid by capillarity.
  • spacers 8a and 8b developing from the main bottom wall 2 towards the interior of the main compartment 1 may be provided to support the lower face 9a of the product 9 to the distance from the communication orifices 4 and the convex surface S of the liquid contained in the cavities 3.
  • the product 9 is thus effectively kept away from the liquids retained by capillarity in the cavities 3.
  • the product 9 will thus have less of a tendency to "dribble" when the user takes it out of the container where it was packed.
  • spacers 8a, 8b and 8c there are several types of spacer, namely the spacers 8a, 8b and 8c.
  • the spacers 8a are made on a portion of the main bottom wall 2 disposed between the cavities 3. This avoids, by the presence of the spacers 8a, to reduce the number of cavities 3 per unit area, unlike the spacers 8b and 8c .
  • the spacers 8b and 8c occupy indeed a large portion of the main bottom wall 2 on which it is not possible to provide cavities 3.
  • the protrusion 7 develops beyond the communication orifice 4 towards the inside of the main compartment 1, the protrusion 7 having a height H greater than the depth P of the cavity 3, with an overshoot at least equal to the maximum exceeding of the surface S of liquid above the contour of the communication orifice 4.
  • the protrusion 7 still retains its effective retaining action of the liquid by capillarity, even when the liquid fills the cavity occupying the maximum volume delimited by the convex surface S.
  • the use of such excrescences 7 also allows to exert an anti-slip action on the product placed on the main bottom wall 2. It It is thus possible to tilt and orient the container so as to make its contents more visible to consumers.
  • the container may thus be arranged with its main bottom wall 2 at an angle with a horizontal plane of installation, without the product slipping (which would substantially degrade its visual appearance) and without the liquid leaving volumes V of cavities 3.
  • a container with cavities 3 having a depth P of approximately 2 mm, with concentric protrusions 7 centered with a circular contour having a diameter at the apex D1 of approximately 2.5, has been easily formed by thermoforming.

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EP3002231A1 (de) * 2014-09-30 2016-04-06 Dampack International BV Geschlossene Lebensmittelverpackungsschale
EP3243763A1 (de) * 2016-05-12 2017-11-15 Palamidis Anonimi Etaireia Anokseidota Proionta Pal Behälter mit einem boden mit dreieckigen zellen
EP3643641A1 (de) * 2018-10-26 2020-04-29 Esperia S.r.L. Schale für lebensmittel
GB2592720A (en) * 2019-12-19 2021-09-08 Softform Ltd A method and tool for manufacturing a container from a thermoplastic material
IT202000009187A1 (it) * 2020-04-28 2021-10-28 Coopbox Group S P A Contenitore per alimenti essudanti

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WO1997002998A1 (en) * 1995-07-07 1997-01-30 Convenience Food Systems B.V. Packaging item and method for producing it

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WO2013092473A1 (en) * 2011-12-20 2013-06-27 Nestec S.A. Food packaging
US9346599B2 (en) 2011-12-20 2016-05-24 Nestec S.A. Food packaging
EP3002231A1 (de) * 2014-09-30 2016-04-06 Dampack International BV Geschlossene Lebensmittelverpackungsschale
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BE1026851B1 (nl) * 2014-09-30 2020-12-23 Dampack Int Bv Een gesloten verpakkingsschaal voor voeding
EP3243763A1 (de) * 2016-05-12 2017-11-15 Palamidis Anonimi Etaireia Anokseidota Proionta Pal Behälter mit einem boden mit dreieckigen zellen
EP3643641A1 (de) * 2018-10-26 2020-04-29 Esperia S.r.L. Schale für lebensmittel
GB2592720A (en) * 2019-12-19 2021-09-08 Softform Ltd A method and tool for manufacturing a container from a thermoplastic material
GB2608664A (en) * 2019-12-19 2023-01-11 Softform Ltd A container formed of a thermoplastic material
GB2590476B (en) * 2019-12-19 2023-02-01 Softform Ltd A method and tool for manufacturing a container from a thermoplastic material
GB2592720B (en) * 2019-12-19 2023-06-14 Softform Ltd A method and tool for manufacturing a container from a thermoplastic material
IT202000009187A1 (it) * 2020-04-28 2021-10-28 Coopbox Group S P A Contenitore per alimenti essudanti

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