EP2276673B1 - Wärmeversiegelte verpackung und verpackungsrohling zu ihrer formung - Google Patents

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EP2276673B1
EP2276673B1 EP09731500.6A EP09731500A EP2276673B1 EP 2276673 B1 EP2276673 B1 EP 2276673B1 EP 09731500 A EP09731500 A EP 09731500A EP 2276673 B1 EP2276673 B1 EP 2276673B1
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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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/20—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form
    • B65D5/24—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form with adjacent sides interconnected by gusset folds
    • B65D5/241—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form with adjacent sides interconnected by gusset folds and the gussets folds connected to the inside of the container body
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/20—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/20—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form
    • B65D5/24—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding-up portions connected to a central panel from all sides to form a container body, e.g. of tray-like form with adjacent sides interconnected by gusset folds
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/36—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to allow collapsing and re-erecting without disengagement of side or bottom connections
    • 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
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/40—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper specially constructed to contain liquids
    • 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
    • B65D75/40—Packages formed by enclosing successive articles, or increments of material, in webs, e.g. folded or tubular webs, or by subdividing tubes filled with liquid, semi-liquid, or plastic materials
    • B65D75/44—Individual packages cut from webs or tubes
    • B65D75/48—Individual packages cut from webs or tubes containing liquids, semiliquids, or pastes, e.g. cushion-shaped packages
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  • the invention relates to a heat-sealed package made from a polymer-coated fiber-based material, such as paper or paperboard, which comprises a bottom, side and end walls, as well as a top, and which has been formed by folding from a packaging blank provided with corresponding segments.
  • a packaging blank intended for forming such a package.
  • Packaging blanks are supplied to a packaging machine in a continuous web, which the machine first bends and seals for a tube into which the packaged product is introduced, and then chops the filled-up tube for individual packages while closing the packages at same time by sealing the same at the bottom and top.
  • the edges of a blank become overlapped, and at the package ends, the segments of a blank corresponding thereto become folded for a flat bottom as well as for a flat top of the parallelogram-shaped package or for a ridge top of the gable top package, depending on the shapes, fold lines, and dimensioning of a blank.
  • the closed package develops three sealing lines, on a vertical side of the package and at each end of the package.
  • Such packages and the packaging technology required thereby lend themselves well to factory-scale packaging with a packaging machine. On the other hand, they are not suitable for small-scale packaging in which the packed product consists not of a running liquid but of a solid matter, possibly sizable solid pieces, and in which, as opposed to liquid containers, the package is not filled to the brim.
  • US Patent publication 5,314,112 discloses a parallelogram-shaped portfolio folded from a blank of paperboard, which is intended for storing sheets of paper or documents.
  • the portfolio is of such a construction that its permanent assembled condition does not require sealing or other such fasteners.
  • the blank sheet, from which the portfolio is foldable, is rectangular in shape and thereby considerably simpler in terms of its shape and fold lines than those required by sealed liquid containers as described above.
  • GB 504528 A upon which the preambles of the independent claims 1 and 7 are based, describes a packaging blank obtained by removing parts from the edges of a rectangular piece of uncoated paper, to have end flaps separated from each other by cut-out stretches.
  • the blank is folded to form a container, in which the end flaps form a top ridge for closing the container.
  • the container cannot be made fully gas-tight, as the cut-outs in the blank form leak-prone stretches to the root of the closing ridge.
  • the package in terms of its construction, is a bundle gathered up around its edges, the integrity of which is up to the heat sealing of a polymer coating present at the edges. If the packaging material is polymer-coated on both sides, all material layers of the sealing line shall bond to each other over the entire surface area thereof the same way as in a laminate. In addition, as the blank is rectangular in shape, its edges shall extend all the way to the package ridge constituted by a sealing line, whereby the package is closed in a liquid and gas tight manner by the sealing.
  • the package lends itself to a post-filling closing procedure by means of a simple heat sealer established by heatable jaws pressing against each other.
  • the closed package is openable by tearing the sealing line open, starting from either end of the package. If the sealing joint is opened only partially, the package forms a draining aperture the way of a pouring spout, whereby the package contents need not be drained out at one time.
  • the packaging material comprises thin polymer-coated paper, its opening is also implementable by tearing off partially or completely the package ridge formed by the joint. If the sealing joint is torn open all the way, the package spreads open and exposes its contents all at once. This is particularly handy in the case of lunch packages containing e.g. sandwiches or similar snacks.
  • Such pre-folded blanks resemble bags, making the filling and closing thereof particularly convenient at a sales or distribution outlet.
  • a further benefit is that, as its draining progresses, the package collapses to a more flattened condition to claim less space, and a half-empty package is easy to carry along, for example in a pocket.
  • a packaging blank of the invention according to independent claim 7, which is made of a polymer-coated fiber-based material, such as paper or paperboard, and which is provided with segments corresponding to a bottom, side and gable walls, as well as a top of the package and separated from each other by fold lines, as well as with flaps abutting each other in the process of folding the blank and being sealable to each other for closing the package, is characterized in that the blank is rectangular in shape, comprising a continuous edge flap, which extends around the blank and in an abutted condition makes up a ridge, which protrudes from the package top and which constitutes the only sealing line holding the package together.
  • the packaging blank 9 visualized in fig. 1 from which the package 1 of figs. 2 and 3 is foldable and heat-sealable, consists of a rectangular-shaped sheet of packaging paper.
  • the blank 9 comprises segments 2a-7a, corresponding to the package parts 2-7 and defined by the fold lines 8.
  • the edge flap 7a extending around the blank 9, has its segments pleating on top of each other in the folding process and bonding to each other in the heat-sealing process the same way as in a laminate, resulting in the protruding ridge 7 holding the package together.
  • Segments 10a present in the blank's 9 corners, are pleated inside the package in the process of folding the package 1.
  • the package's 1 dimensions i.e. its width, height, the steepness of its top 6, and the protrusion of its ridge 7, can be varied by modifying the measurements of the blank's 9 various segments 2a-7a.
  • the package turns out in the shape of a parallelogram as depicted in fig. 4 .
  • Figs. 5-7 illustrate, as in figs. 1-3 respectively, a second embodiment of the invention, which only differs from that shown in figs. 1-3 in the sense that the package has its bottom 2 provided with a longitudinal fold line 8' co-directional with the side walls 3, and the package has its end walls 4 provided with inclined fold lines 8" and upright fold lines 8"'.
  • the empty package is compressible to complete flatness and enables stacking in this condition.

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  1. Heißversiegelte Verpackung (1), hergestellt aus einem polymerbeschichteten Material auf Faserbasis wie Papier oder Pappe, welches einen Boden (2), Seiten- und Stirnwände (3, 4, 5) und einen Deckel (6) umfasst und welche durch Falten aus einem Verpackungsrohling (9) geformt wurde, der mit den entsprechenden Segmenten (2a bis 6a) versehen ist, dadurch charakterisiert, dass die Verpackung (1) durch Falten aus einem rechteckigen Verpackungsrohling (9) geformt wurde, der Kantenlaschen (7a) umfasst, welche sich kontinuierlich um den Rohling herum erstrecken, und dass die Verpackung verschlossen wurde, indem die Kantenlaschen (7a) des Rohlings (9) miteinander wärmeversiegelt wurden, die so gegeneinander anstoßen, dass die Laschen einen Grat (7) bilden, der in gleicher Richtung verläuft wie die Seitenwände (3) der Verpackung und aus dem Deckel (6) der Verpackung herausragt, wobei der Grat die einzige Versiegelungslinie darstellt, die die Verpackung zusammenhält.
  2. Verpackung wie in Anspruch 1 angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass es eine Verpackung von Giebeltyp (1) ist, bei der der Deckel aus abfallenden Seitenflächen (6) besteht, die durch den versiegelte Deckelgrat verbunden sind (7),
  3. Verpackung wie in Anspruch 2 angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass der Verpackungsboden (2) eine Längsfalzlinie (8') aufweist, die in gleicher Richtung verläuft wie die Verpackungsseitenwände (3), und dass die Verpackungsgiebel (4) vertikale und geknickte Falzlinien (8", 8"') aufweisen, so dass die Verpackung an den Giebeln zusammenklappbar ist.
  4. Verpackung wie in Anspruch 1 angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass die Verpackung eine Parallelogramm-Form aufweist.
  5. Verpackung wie in einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass sie eine Verpackung für Kaffee, Tee, Gewürze, Süßigkeiten, Snacks oder Lunch ist.
  6. Verpackung wie in einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4 angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass sie eine flüssigkeits- und aromadichte Lebensmittelverpackung ist.
  7. Verpackungsrohling (9), der zur Herstellung einer Verpackung (1) wie in einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche angegeben vorgesehen ist und der aus einem polymerbeschichteten Material auf Faserbasis wie Papier oder Pappe hergestellt ist, und welcher mit Segmenten (2a bis 6a) versehen ist, die dem Boden (2), den Seiten- und Stirnwänden (3, 4, 5) entsprechen, genauso wie mit einem Deckel (6) der Verpackung, und die voneinander durch Falzlinien (8) getrennt ist, und mit Kanten (7a), die beim Faltprozess des Rohlings aneinander angrenzen und zum Verschließen der Verpackung miteinander heißversiegelt werden können, dadurch charakterisiert, dass der Rohling eine rechteckige Form aufweist, eine kontinuierliche Kantenlasche (7a) aufweist, die sich um den Rohling (9) herum erstreckt und in aneinander anstoßendem Zustand einen Grat (7) bildet, der aus dem Verpackungsdeckel (6) herausragt und der die einzige Versiegelungslinie darstellt, die die Verpackung zusammenhält.
  8. Rohling wie in Anspruch 7 angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass Segmente (2a, 4a), die den Boden der Verpackung (2) und Stirnseiten (4) bilden, mit Falzlinien (8', 8", 8"') versehen sind, um die Zusammenfaltbarkeit einer Verpackung vom Giebeltyp zu ermöglichen.
  9. Rohling wie in einem der Ansprüche 7 bis 8 angegeben, dadurch charakterisiert, dass der Rohling (9) aus einem Verpackungsmaterial auf Faserbasis hergestellt ist, das auf beiden Seiten mit einer Polymerbeschichtung versehen ist.
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