EP2146910B1 - Twist-wrap packaging for food products, method and corresponding device - Google Patents

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EP2146910B1
EP2146910B1 EP08702337A EP08702337A EP2146910B1 EP 2146910 B1 EP2146910 B1 EP 2146910B1 EP 08702337 A EP08702337 A EP 08702337A EP 08702337 A EP08702337 A EP 08702337A EP 2146910 B1 EP2146910 B1 EP 2146910B1
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Sergio Mansuino
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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
    • B65D75/04—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks
    • B65D75/06—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks in sheets or blanks initially folded to form tubes
    • B65D75/10—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks in sheets or blanks initially folded to form tubes with the ends of the tube closed by twisting
    • 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
    • B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
    • B65B11/06—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths
    • B65B11/08—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a single straight path
    • B65B11/10—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a single straight path to fold the wrappers in tubular form about contents
    • B65B11/14—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a single straight path to fold the wrappers in tubular form about contents the ends of the tube being subsequently twisted
    • 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
    • B65B25/00—Packaging other articles presenting special problems
    • B65B25/005—Packaging other articles presenting special problems packaging of confectionery
    • 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
    • B65B61/04—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages
    • B65B61/12—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for severing webs, or for separating joined packages by tearing along perforations or lines of weakness
    • 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
    • B65D75/04—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks
    • B65D75/20—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in single sheets or wrapper blanks in sheets or blanks doubled around contents and having their opposed free margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding
    • 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
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/60—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for sweets or like confectionery products

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  • the invention concerns packages for food products.
  • a particularly felt need is that of insuring that the product is maintained unaltered for as long a time as possible after packaging.
  • flow-pack sealing wrappers that is, VFFS/HFFS (acronym for Vertical or Horizontal Form Fill and Seal) has long been known, also for small sized food products (such as chocolates, candies, pralines, etc.).
  • VFFS/HFFS acronym for Vertical or Horizontal Form Fill and Seal
  • the documents WO-A-99/58421 and EP-A-1 593 603 are representative of this technique.
  • the package is usually opened by tearing the wrapping material along a longitudinal or transverse trajectory with respect to the package itself.
  • the user tends to open the package starting by untwisting the bow or bows, rotating the central part of the wrapper itself, where the packaged product is located.
  • the product could easily escape from the wrapper, making it difficult for the user to avoid its undesired falling.
  • the risk of product dropping is even more evident in cases in which the product is of small size (for example, a small pastille or confectionery product) and/or when the package is opened while the attention of the consumer is occupied by other operations, for example, while the consumer is walking.
  • Solutions such as the flow pack solution described in WO-A-99/58421 , in which a transverse pre-incision is present, could virtually solve the product dropping problem, but they are critical both for the generally reduced visibility of the pre-incision itself, and because the latter is susceptible to compromising package sealing since it is provided on the welding.
  • the object of the present invention is providing a solution capable of overcoming such inconveniences.
  • the invention allows the realisation of airtight sealed packages of the "hermetic" type: this being a characteristic very much appreciated in the case of products commercialised in humid areas, since it allows isolation of the product from the surrounding environment. Furthermore, such technology provides also, using appropriate films, isolation from oxygen and the migration of aromas.
  • the numeric reference 1 indicates a package in laminar or sheet material in its entirety, used to package the food product P such as, for example, a confectionery product, a candy, a chocolate, a praline or like product.
  • the solution described herein can be used also for products P of very small sizes, such as, for example, confectionery products of a few millimetres in length.
  • the product P can be either single or multiple as is illustrated, for example, in EP-A-0 814 030 .
  • the package 1 is essentially made of a laminar or film wrapping material (on which more will be said in the following) initially wrapped according to a general U conformation around the product P as is schematically illustrated in figure 2 .
  • a closing line 2 extending in a general arch-like trajectory so as to surround the product P, is provided around the product P.
  • the above-said sealing line 2 (also susceptible to having a certain length) has its extremities located in correspondence with the loop part of the sheet material folded in a U around the product P.
  • the extremity portions in the packaging intermediate thus realised (refer again to figure 2 ) are then subjected to a general twisting movement in correspondence to one or both of the extremities (observe the arrows F in figure 2 ) so to confer the general "candy-like" appearance represented in figure 1 to the package 1, with a central part enclosing the product P (airtight sealed, thanks to the presence of the sealing line 2) and two extremity parts 3 twisted into a general bow-like conformation.
  • the package 1 may have only one bow at the extremity 3.
  • each distal edge 3a of the two bows 3 have a saw-like or zigzag trajectory creating a plurality of incisions in each distal edge 3a with V-shaped notches, instead of a general strait-line trajectory, is an important characteristic of the solution described herein.
  • Each of such parts having V-shaped notches can act as a triggering point for a wrapper-tearing phenomenon directed at freeing the product P from the package 1.
  • the sequence in figures 3 and 4 shows how, acting on one of the distal edges 3a, and in particular starting from one of the V-shaped notched points of the zigzag configuration, the user wanting to open the package 1 can trigger a gradual wrapper-tearing phenomenon.
  • the tearing action proceeds along a trajectory 40 (indicated with a dotted line in figure 3 and instead, represented as a solid line in figure 4 ) so to determine the gradual lengthwise tearing of the package 1.
  • oriented film meaning a film material (typically a plastic material in, for example, a cyclo olefin copolymer (COC) and polyethylene) that, during production (usually by extrusion) is subjected to stretching in the longitudinally advancing direction of the extruder.
  • a film material typically a plastic material in, for example, a cyclo olefin copolymer (COC) and polyethylene
  • COC cyclo olefin copolymer
  • polyethylene polyethylene
  • the oriented-film material is easier to tear in the direction of the orientation.
  • the film is less resistant to cutting attempts such to induce tearing in the oriented direction that the film was subjected to during its manufacturing phase.
  • the tearing of the bow proceeds along a substantially longitudinal line with respect to the package, without inducing a marked twisting movement of the bow. Furthermore, while the bow 3 through which the tearing line 40 propagates can somehow be subjected to a slight untwisting, the opposite bow 3, not involved in the propagation of the tearing line, remains essentially stably twisted.
  • distal edge or distal edges 3a with a zigzag or similar pattern suggests to and allows the consumer, even in the presence of the twisted bow or bows, to open the package 1 not by untwisting the bows (as the consumer would tend to do with a normal candy-like package, but through a longitudinally induced tearing. In turn, such tearing occurs gradually thanks to the bow through which the tearing is propagated.
  • Figure 5 highlights the possibility of realising the distal edge 3a, always having a general zigzag pattern, but with rounded incisions along the external perimeter and with V-shaped notches along the internal perimeter, so to form respective triggering points 4 for tearing of the package wrapper.
  • Figure 6 schematically illustrates the possible realisation criteria of a package of the type represented in the previous figures.
  • the numeric reference 12 indicates a filling and sealing station in its entirety (itself also of know type) in which the products P are inserted in the tubular blank 10 inserting them inside the part of the loop of the blank through the upper edges not yet connected together. Co-ordinately with the filling operation, operating according to a method of the type described in document EP-B-1 477 423 previously cited, the unit 12 makes the sealing line 2, which provides the hermetic seal around each product P inserted in the blank of sheet material.
  • the hermetic package thusly obtained is advanced (usually after a 90° rotation with respect to its advancing axis, indicated with X10, although such choice is obviously not compulsory) toward the cutting unit 14 (for example, with intermittent or rotating knives - itself also of known type) which provides the cutting of the individual packages forming the distal edges 3a with saw-like pattern (or analogous) visible in figures 1 to 4 .
  • a bow-realisation station indicated with reference 16 in which, operating in a way itself known (for example, according to the method described in the document EP-B-1 299 285 ), the extremities of each package are subjected to twisting so to provide the extremity bows 3.
  • the products P housed in the now completed packages 1 are then collected (usually by falling) in a container C.
  • the solution illustrated herein is designed so that the seal characteristic of the package around the product P, provided by the sealing line 2, tightly surround the product P, so that the opening pre-incisions provided on the distal edges 3a, as already cited, do not compromise the sealing.
  • the seal characteristic of the package around the product P provided by the sealing line 2
  • the opening pre-incisions provided on the distal edges 3a do not compromise the sealing.
  • terminal package sealing lines realised according to widely known criteria in flow-pack type packaging technology

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  • Supplying Of Containers To The Packaging Station (AREA)
  • General Preparation And Processing Of Foods (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
  • Container Filling Or Packaging Operations (AREA)
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PL08702337T PL2146910T3 (pl) 2007-05-23 2008-01-25 Opakowanie typu owinięcie skręcane na produkty spożywcze, sposób i odpowiednie urządzenie

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IT000362A ITTO20070362A1 (it) 2007-05-23 2007-05-23 "confezione per prodotti alimentari, procedimento ed apparecchiatura relativi"
PCT/IB2008/000202 WO2008142497A1 (en) 2007-05-23 2008-01-25 'packaging for food products, method and corresponding device'

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CN101678937A (zh) 2010-03-24
US20100086652A1 (en) 2010-04-08
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