EP1905698A1 - Récipient doté d'un couvercle à ouverture facile, couvercle à ouverture facile ainsi qu'anneau de couvercle à ouverture facile - Google Patents

Récipient doté d'un couvercle à ouverture facile, couvercle à ouverture facile ainsi qu'anneau de couvercle à ouverture facile Download PDF

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EP1905698A1
EP1905698A1 EP07018875A EP07018875A EP1905698A1 EP 1905698 A1 EP1905698 A1 EP 1905698A1 EP 07018875 A EP07018875 A EP 07018875A EP 07018875 A EP07018875 A EP 07018875A EP 1905698 A1 EP1905698 A1 EP 1905698A1
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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
    • B65D17/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions
    • B65D17/06—Integral, or permanently secured, end or side closures
    • B65D17/08—Closures secured by folding or rolling and pressing
    • 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
    • B65D17/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers specially constructed to be opened by cutting or piercing, or by tearing of frangible members or portions
    • B65D17/50—Non-integral frangible members applied to, or inserted in, preformed openings, e.g. tearable strips or plastic plugs
    • B65D17/501—Flexible tape or foil-like material
    • B65D17/502—Flexible tape or foil-like material applied to the external part of the container wall only
    • 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
    • B65D7/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of metal
    • B65D7/12—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of metal characterised by wall construction or by connections between walls
    • B65D7/34—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of metal characterised by wall construction or by connections between walls with permanent connections between walls
    • B65D7/36—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of metal characterised by wall construction or by connections between walls with permanent connections between walls formed by rolling, or by rolling and pressing

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  • the invention relates to a container with a tear-open lid. Furthermore, the invention relates to a tear-open lid for a container and a tear-open lid ring, as used to form a tear-open lid. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for producing a container with a tear-open lid and a method for producing a tear-open lid or a tear-open lid ring.
  • lid for can or can-like packaging or container as on the container top permanently attached metal lid, which form a removal opening, the up to the first use of the packaging content by a heat-sealed, breakable film, in particular metal foil or Composite foil, is closed.
  • An additional, arranged over the metal lid lid made of plastic makes the container during the period of use for the contents again closed.
  • Figures 1 to 8 show such a container and serve to explain manufacturing steps in the production of such lid according to the prior art.
  • FIG 2 shows (only cut-to-length) stacked metal lid blanks 20 as an example of lid parts.
  • These blanks 20 are for example round metal discs of eg 11 cm diameter. Of course, other basic shapes, such as square, oval or rectangular discs and other diameters are readily possible.
  • the blanks 20 have already been preformed in a processing machine, not shown, at its edge, as will be explained later with reference to FIG 2. This edge forming is suitable for a rabbet joint of lid and container sump.
  • the required film blank 25 is usually punched out of a wide film web and placed over the central recess or cover opening of the annular disc and the film is pressed by heat sealing at the edge of the round recess of the part 20 under heat, so that the film 25th is sealed to the lid 20 by melting and subsequent cooling of the plastic layer.
  • a cooling processing station can be provided for cooling.
  • the film 25 with an embossment 24th ( Figure 7) provided, and it is further the edge 22 crimped to the finished edge 23.
  • Different crimping forms can be provided.
  • the requirements that are placed on such container lid correspond to those who are placed on conventional covers for sheet metal containers or other containers or packaging body.
  • the sheet metal from which the sheet metal covers or the cover rings made of sheet metal are coated coated.
  • the coating of the sheet is known to the person skilled in the art; It usually consists of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) on the inner side of the container or a high-strength thermo-lacquer that is capable of crimping and also withstands aggressive products over the required storage period of sometimes several years.
  • PET polyethylene terephthalate
  • PP polypropylene
  • a paint with PP particles although such a coating is only reduced flanging (ie mechanically durable), since preferably PP is used as the adhesive or sealing medium of the tear-open, which in turn in sufficient quality only adheres to a PP coated surface.
  • PP polypropylene
  • Both the PET and PP coatings have been tried and tested on an industrial scale.
  • a raw cut edge on the inside of the cover ring is at best not problematic with dry contents and short storage time; As a rule, however, corrosion is the result, which undesirably affects the contents and, for example, can affect the taste of food.
  • This sequence is known to be encountered, in that the lid ring is provided on its inside with a curled edge area at the cutting edge, a so-called "retort-curl". As a result, the raw cut edge is covered by a surface region of the cover ring and is usually no longer accessible to the contents. Disadvantages of this solution are the comparatively high production costs, which occur in particular on the side of the tool.
  • the retort curl can not be produced today with the required high and uniform quality in a large series, in mass production. Only slight deviations in the production lead to the irregular formation of the retort curl in such a way that the cut edge is not reliably covered. Even a slight change in the cross section of the rolled-up wall section results in that the cutting edge does not rest continuously against the corresponding surface region of the cover ring, so that the filling material can reach the uncoated cut edge.
  • EP-A-0 090 957 suggests the edge area to bend the lid opening to the outside of the lid, whereby the cutting edge comes to rest outside the Rudgutraumes of the container. But this complicates the application of the tear-off.
  • the cut edge of the lid opening lies in the attachment region of the lid on the container sump and thus lies adjacent to the upper lid edge, it is not exposed to contact with the contents of the container.
  • the cut edge is thereby trapped between the coated hull and the coated lid. This results in easily manufacturable way to protect the cutting edge against corrosion.
  • the lid is connected to the container sump by means of a fold. It is preferred that the cut edge lies with the unfolded fuselage inside, so that the cut edge does not come to lie in the actual folded area. This allows the production of the fold on conventional devices for forming the fold. In a further embodiment, the cut edge can be laid so far in the fold area that it lies in the hinge connection itself; In this case too, production with conventional or at most slightly modified folding tools may be possible.
  • the cut edge is covered by a mass, which is preferably the sealant of the rabbet joint.
  • the bending radius at the lid opening is greater than or equal to 1 mm. This chipping or chipping the coating of the cover ring can be safely avoided.
  • the invention is further based on the object to provide a Cosmeticreissdeckel or a Materials Reissdeckelring for the inventive container.
  • the invention relates to a method for producing a container with a tear-open lid or a tear-open lid. These methods are defined by the features of claims 12 and 14, respectively.
  • FIG. 1 shows a container 1 with a hull 4 and with a tear-open lid 2, whose lid opening is closed by the tear-open foil 25. This is provided with a tab 28 for tearing the film from the lid ring.
  • Figures 2 to 8 show the procedure of the prior art, which has already been explained above and which can also be provided as a preferred example of the formation of a tear-open or tear-open lid ring according to the invention, with the exception of the inventive aspect of the protection of the free cutting edge, the is designated by the reference numeral 3 in the inventive embodiments. In this sense, reference is made to the formation of the tear-open on the above description of the prior art and this is taken over here.
  • the container further comprises a bottom cover 5, which may be designed in particular as a metal floor attached by means of a fold on the hull.
  • FIG. 9 shows the formation of the container-side lid edge for the rabbet joint
  • Figure 10 shows a corresponding hinge connection of the lid and body, as is known in the art.
  • the lid 2 has a seaming edge 30 (seaming panel), which is provided on the outside with a curl 31 (curl).
  • a sealing compound 8 is provided at the seam edge.
  • the lid 2 has a seam radius 32 (seaming panel radius), with which the seam edge in the lid core wall 34 (chuck wall) merges, which core wall of the core depth radius 33 follows (chuck wall radius). The radii mentioned with the lid core wall give the lid core depth d (countersink depth).
  • FIG 11 shows a preferred embodiment of the inventive container 1 or tearing lid 2 or Aufreissdeckelringes. Again, a part of the container and the lid is shown. It is apparent that unlike the lid 20 of the figures 2-8 according to the prior art, the cutting edge 3 of the lid is guided in the mounting region of the lid 2 on the fuselage 4. This is shown for the preferred embodiment as a rabbet joint.
  • the connection between the cover 2 and the fuselage 4 could, however, also be carried out in a purely mechanical manner by positive locking and / or frictional engagement or gluing or hot-sealing or a combination of such fastening types in other ways.
  • FIG. 11 shows a greatly enlarged illustration.
  • the length of the bent-back part from the lid opening or removal opening 26 into the fastening or folding area 6 is eg 7.8 mm.
  • the cutting edge 3 rests with its one corner on the inside of the fuselage 7 and is acted upon by the core wall 34 on the other side of the cutting edge 3, so that a complete protection of the cutting edge 3 results. This is guided by the return in the mounting portion 6 up to the seaming edge 30, but not involved in this example in the actual Falztagen with fuselage hook and lid hook.
  • the cutting edge 3 could be guided over the trunk hook radius 30, so that the cutting edge 3 is retracted into the fold 6.
  • the sealing compound 8, not shown in Figure 11 is provided such that it reaches the cutting edge 3 and this also covers.
  • a flange 40 directly adjacent to the bending edge 13, which is formed from the double sheet material 41 and 42 of the lid 2.
  • This embodiment which results from returning the cut edge into the fastening region 6, is advantageous for the sealing of the tear-open film 25, since more heat energy can be introduced into the double flange, particularly in the case of heating by induction. Since there is usually a polypropylene coating due to the return on the underside of the flange, attention must be paid to the design of the lower heat sealing head, in which this e.g. with a non-stick coating to prevent sticking to the sealable polypropylene coating.
  • FIG. 12 shows a further embodiment in which the bend 43 at the edge of the lid opening 26 is designed with a radius R, which is preferably greater than approximately 1 mm. In this way, splintering of the PP coating during bending is reliably avoided.

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