EP1897815B1 - Bec verseur en plastique pour sachet en film - Google Patents

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EP1897815B1
EP1897815B1 EP07017304.2A EP07017304A EP1897815B1 EP 1897815 B1 EP1897815 B1 EP 1897815B1 EP 07017304 A EP07017304 A EP 07017304A EP 1897815 B1 EP1897815 B1 EP 1897815B1
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Werner Schick
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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
    • B65D75/5861—Spouts
    • B65D75/5872—Non-integral spouts
    • B65D75/5883—Non-integral spouts connected to the package at the sealed junction of two package walls

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  • the invention relates to a spout made of plastic for film bag according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Container in particular for liquid consumer goods are in the course of development to material-saving and cost-effective packaging increasingly designed as a foil bag open with a spout for easy and unproblematic and, preferably with a Screw thread and a screw cap provided, designed to reclosure.
  • a foil bag can be easily produced by conventional means as a flat bag, bottom fold bag or gusset bag in conventional technology. The introduction of a spout in such a bag, however, presents difficulties.
  • Pourers which are provided for sealing or shrink-wrapping in a foil bag with a (welding) nozzle, usually receive in the nozzle area a lanzettliche or ship-shaped basic shape, the side walls converge towards two end regions, so that two opposite film edges of the bag, the otherwise flat lying on one another, the nozzle can accommodate between them and with the side walls of the nozzle, which form sealing surfaces on the outside, are uniform and wrinkle-free to seal or to weld.
  • the side walls are in contact with the sealing jaws with different pressure, which in particular also results from the different compliance in the course of the side surfaces. This is often given by the fact that curved surface areas have a greater stiffening than flat surface areas that inner supports achieve localized stiffeners.
  • Such a spout with schiffchenartiger, lancet-like basic shape is in the FR 2 224 364 A1 described.
  • External seal surfaces converge to two opposite end portions.
  • the side walls forming the sealing surfaces are stiffened on the inside with cross braces.
  • the object of the invention is hereafter, to provide a spout that allows even with progressive development to low wall thicknesses and using uniform and uniform sealing jaws to achieve a uniform pressure between sealing tool, film edges and side walls of the nozzle and thus a more reliable and uniform seal or welding achieved the nozzle with the adjacent foil edges.
  • this object is achieved by a spout according to the preamble of claim 1, starting by the characterizing features of claim 1. It has been shown that the basic structure of the nozzle by itself brings different surface stiffness at the sealing surfaces with it, since the edges of the sealing surfaces are stiffened on the side towards the spout through the spout and through adjacent covering and connecting surfaces, while the opposite, open-ended edges are more yielding. Of course, this applies the more, the further the wall thicknesses of the side walls are reduced. This is counteracted by the fact that the walls are formed unevenly strong and have an increased wall thickness towards the open edges.
  • This change in wall thickness can in principle be uneven, for example in stages or with a bead.
  • a continuous increase in the wall thickness towards the edge is provided according to the invention.
  • the increased wall thickness towards the edges is also suitable for counteracting the deformation of the nozzle as a result of high material shrinkage of the plastic material after injection molding.
  • Spouts of this type can be provided with wall thicknesses between 0.3 and 2.0 mm, unless higher wall thicknesses for the tight screwing of screw caps and the like are to be provided in the spout area.
  • the increase in the wall thickness towards the open edges can be limited to a small amount of 0.02 to 0.5 mm, but nevertheless provides the desired stiffness compensation for the edge regions.
  • the opposite sealing surfaces of the side walls to the open edges of the walls slightly apart.
  • the thus spread apart walls then provide compared to conventional, largely parallel aligned sealing jaws stronger during sealing deformed lower edge areas, which are then seal despite greater flexibility of the edge areas with the same pressure as the edge lying towards the spout, resulting in a homogenization of the sealing process serves.
  • a in the drawing generally designated 1 spout is functionally divided into a spout 2 and a nozzle 3, wherein the spout 2 is reclosable as ffertülle for receiving a screw cap with a circular cylindrical passage opening 4, threads 5, a collar 6 with stops. 7 for the screw cap and a collar part 8 provided with open, prismatic chambers, in particular for machine handling during filling and closing and for hanging storage in sales stands.
  • These areas of the spout are basically known type and largely determined by sales-side specifications.
  • the nozzle 3 is an extremely important and critical component.
  • the nozzle 3 has a particular from Fig. 2 and Fig. 5 apparent lanzettliche basic shape or "boat" shape, in the two side walls 9, 10 in a central area between each other a free interior according to the spout interior 4 left free and two opposite end portions 11, 12 - in the present case approximately straight-line converge and there still continue with sequels in the form of thin end lugs 13,14.
  • the side walls 9, 10 are in a central region by a ring neck 15 of the spout and the two end regions 11, 12 towards the tulle side by cover walls 16, 17 at longitudinal edges 18, 19 connected and stiffened, while the spout 2 remote edges 20, 21st open the neck 3 open.
  • the side walls 9, 10 of the spout have received an uneven, towards the open edges 20, 21 increasing wall thickness, with respect to the rigidity in the sealing process, a compensation for the support of the side walls 9, 10 in the region of the upper edges 18, 19 is provided by the cover walls 16, 17.
  • Fig. 8 It can be seen that the side walls are slightly exposed to the open edges, ie spread apart from each other. This also causes the sealing surfaces when placing sealing jaws, which in the direction of a longitudinal central axis 24 (FIG. Fig. 8 ) run parallel to this central axis, a pre-spread and thus a bias obtained that equip the inherently weaker border areas with an adapted pressure.
  • the side walls 9, 10 thus receive on the outside a conicity, which also noticeably reflected in that the end lugs 13, 14 have attachment lines 25, 26, the diverge towards the open edges of the side walls 9, 10 - such as out Fig. 1, 2 and 3 is apparent.
  • the spout thus created is expediently made of an injection-moldable and sealable plastic material.
  • a PE material comes into consideration here in adaptation to common bags made of polyethylene.
  • other weldable or sealable plastic materials such as e.g. Polypropylene can be used both for the spouts and for the bags.

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Claims (10)

  1. Bec verseur (1) en plastique pour sachet filmé, comprenant un bec (2) et un raccord (3) de forme de base lancéolée avec deux parois latérales (9, 10), se raccordant au bec et se scellant ou se soudant entre deux bords filmés opposés l'un à l'autre, avec des faces de scellement extérieures (22, 23) qui convergent vers deux zones d'extrémité (11, 12) opposées l'une à l'autre, sur lesquelles des bords (18, 19) s'étendant vers le bec (2) sont reliés l'un à l'autre et sont ouverts sur les bords opposés (20, 21), les parois latérales (9, 10) étant arc-boutées sur la face intérieure par des parois transversales (27, 28, 29, 30), caractérisé en ce que les parois latérales (9, 10) présentent une épaisseur de paroi irrégulière, ,qui augmente constamment, et est agrandie vers les bords ouverts (20, 21).
  2. Bec verseur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les épaisseurs de paroi des parois latérales (9, 10) sont situées entre 0,3 et 2,0 mm.
  3. Bec verseur selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les épaisseurs de paroi des parois latérales (9, 10) sont au niveau des bords ouverts (20, 21) plus grande de 0,02 à 0,5 mm qu'au niveau des bords (18, 19) situés vers le bec (2).
  4. Bec verseur (1) selon une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les faces de scellement (22, 23) opposées l'une à l'autre se dispersent facilement vers les bords ouverts (20, 21) des parois latérales (9, 10).
  5. Bec verseur selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que les faces de scellement (22, 23) se dispersent à un angle compris entre 1° et 6°.
  6. Bec verseur selon une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les parois latérales (9, 10) convergent vers les deux zones d'extrémité (11, 12) par l'intermédiaire de deux parois transversales (27, 28, 29, 30) distantes l'une de l'autre.
  7. Bec verseur selon une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que les parois latérales (9, 10) débouchent au niveau des deux extrémités (11, 12) dans de minces drapeaux d'extrémité (13, 14).
  8. Bec verseur selon une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que les faces de scellement (22, 23) sont configurées sous la forme de faces non profilées.
  9. Bec verseur selon une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce qu'il est composé d'une pièce moulée par injection en polyéthylène.
  10. Bec verseur selon une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce qu'il est composé d'une pièce moulée par injection en polypropylène.
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