EP2366638A1 - Paquet de cigarettes avec languette de traction, méthode et machine pour sa mise en oeuvre - Google Patents

Paquet de cigarettes avec languette de traction, méthode et machine pour sa mise en oeuvre Download PDF

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EP2366638A1
EP2366638A1 EP20110158574 EP11158574A EP2366638A1 EP 2366638 A1 EP2366638 A1 EP 2366638A1 EP 20110158574 EP20110158574 EP 20110158574 EP 11158574 A EP11158574 A EP 11158574A EP 2366638 A1 EP2366638 A1 EP 2366638A1
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1009—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes provided with proffering means

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  • the present invention relates to a package of cigarettes with a pull-up tape, and relative packing method and machine.
  • a rigid, hinged-lid packet of cigarettes normally comprises an inner package enclosing a group of cigarettes; and a rigid outer container housing the inner package.
  • the inner package is initially closed completely, and has a tear-off top portion, which is removed, when the packet of cigarettes is unsealed, to withdraw the cigarettes from the inner package.
  • the inner package and outer container often exert lateral pressure on the group of cigarettes inside the inner package. And, in the case of a new packet with a full group of cigarettes, this lateral pressure may make it difficult to extract the first cigarette from the group, due to friction between the first and surrounding cigarettes.
  • a pull-up tape having a grip end, which projects from the top wall of the group of cigarettes, and is pulled to slide the cigarette up.
  • a major drawback of known pull-up tapes lies in the inner end opposite the grip end having to be glued to a wall of the inner package.
  • the inner packages of packets of cigarettes have always been made without glue, on account of the potential of glue on or near the cigarettes to release volatile substances, which are absorbed by the cigarettes and spoil the aroma and/or taste of the tobacco.
  • Number 1 in Figures 1, 2 and 3 indicates as a whole a rigid packet of cigarettes comprising a cup-shaped outer container 2 of rigid cardboard; and an inner package 3 housed inside container 2.
  • Inner package 3 encloses a parallelepiped-shaped group of cigarettes ( Figures 4-7 ) and has, at the top and front, a cigarette extraction opening 5 closed by a tear-off closing portion 6, and which extends over part of a front wall and part of a top wall of inner package 3. Tear-off closing portion 6 is removed, when packet 1 of cigarettes is unsealed, to withdraw the cigarettes from inner package 3.
  • inner package 3 goes from the Figure 2 configuration (with tear-off closing portion 6) to the Figure 4 configuration (without tear-off closing portion 6).
  • inner package 3 is sealed, and tear-off closing portion 6 initially closing extraction opening 5 is replaced with a reclosable (i.e. open-close) sealing panel 6 movable between a closed position closing extraction opening 5, and an open position opening extraction opening 5.
  • a reclosable sealing panel 6 movable between a closed position closing extraction opening 5, and an open position opening extraction opening 5.
  • Outer container 2 has an open top end 7; and a cup-shaped lid 8 hinged to container 2 along a hinge 9 to rotate, with respect to container 2, between an open position ( Figure 2 ) and a closed position ( Figures 1 and 3 ) opening and closing open top end 7 respectively.
  • outer container 2 When lid 8 is in the closed position, outer container 2 is in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped comprising a top wall 10 and bottom wall 11 opposite and parallel to each other; two opposite parallel major lateral walls 12, 13; and two opposite parallel minor lateral walls 14. More specifically, one major lateral wall 12 defines a front wall 12 of outer container 2, and the other major lateral wall 13 defines a rear wall 13 of outer container 2.
  • Four longitudinal edges 15 are defined between lateral walls 14 and front and rear walls 12, 13; and eight transverse edges 16 are defined between top and bottom walls 10, 11 and front, rear, and lateral walls 12, 13, 14.
  • edges 15 and 16 are all square, but in alternative embodiments not shown, some of edges 15 and 16 may be bevelled or rounded.
  • Packet 1 also comprises a rigid (i.e. rigid-cardboard) collar 17, which is folded into a U and fixed (glued) to the inside of container 2, projects partly outwards of open top end 7, and engages a corresponding inner surface of lid 8 when lid 8 is closed.
  • collar 17 has two projections 18, which project laterally to interfere with the lateral walls of lid 8 and keep lid 8 in the closed position.
  • Collar 17 comprises a front wall 19 positioned contacting front wall 12 of container 2; and two lateral walls 20 located on opposite sides of front wall 19, and positioned contacting minor lateral walls 14 of container 2.
  • a pull-up tape 21 is fitted to a cigarette 22 in group 4, and has a grip end 23, which projects from the top wall of group 4, at extraction opening 5 of inner package 3, and is pulled to slide cigarette 22 up.
  • pull-up tape 21 is folded into a U about the bottom end 24, inside inner package 3, of cigarette 22, and is completely detached from and therefore movable freely with respect to inner package 3. In other words, being in no way connected mechanically to inner package 3, all parts of pull-up tape 21 can slide freely with respect to inner package 3.
  • pull-up tape 21 comprises a vertical wall 25 terminating with grip end 23 and positioned contacting a cylindrical lateral wall 26 of cigarette 22; a horizontal wall 27 perpendicular to vertical wall 25 and positioned contacting the bottom end 24 of cigarette 22; and a vertical wall 28, which terminates with an inner end 29 of pull-up tape 21 opposite grip end 23, is parallel to and faces vertical wall 25, and is positioned contacting cylindrical lateral wall 26 of cigarette 22, on the opposite side of cigarette 22 to vertical wall 25.
  • vertical wall 28 of pull-up tape 21 comprises a wider portion 30 wider (i.e. transversely) than the rest of pull-up tape 21 (and in particular horizontal wall 27). Wider portion 30 is wider than (preferably two to three times) the diameter of a cigarette, and the rest of pull-tap tape 21 is narrower than the diameter of a cigarette.
  • pull-up tape 21 comprises a narrow portion extending from grip end 23; and a wider portion 30 extending from inner end 29 opposite grip end 23, and wider than the narrow portion.
  • Wider portion 30 of pull-up tape 21 has a dual function.
  • wider portion 30 prevents pull-up tape 21 from slipping with respect to, as opposed to sliding upwards with, cigarette 22 (i.e. prevents pull-up tape 21 from being withdrawn from group 4 of cigarettes, while cigarette 22 remains in place).
  • wider portion 30 would have to deform to slide under group 4. Because of its size, however, deforming wider portion 30 takes more force than to slide tape 21 upwards together with cigarette 22, so any slippage of pull-up tape 21 with respect to cigarette 22 is stopped by failure of wider portion 30 to deform and slide under group 4.
  • wider portion 30 holds pull-up tape 21 in the correct position about cigarette 22, and prevents any undesired lateral (transverse) movement of pull-up tape 21 as cigarette 22 is raised.
  • At least horizontal wall 27 of pull-up tape 21 is narrower than the diameter of a cigarette, to ensure pull-up tape 21 only raises cigarette 22, i.e. if horizontal wall 27 of pull-up tape 21 were wider than the diameter of a cigarette, it would also contact the two cigarettes adjacent to cigarette 22; and wider portion 30 of pull-up tape 21 is wider than the diameter of a cigarette, to ensure it contacts cigarette 22 and the two cigarettes adjacent to cigarette 22, as shown in Figures 5-7 .
  • wider portion 30 of pull-up tape 21 is from two to three times as wide as the diameter of a cigarette, to ensure it contacts only three cigarettes : cigarette 22 and the two cigarettes adjacent to cigarette 22.
  • Figure 9 shows part of an X2 or X3 type cigarette packing machine, manufactured by G.D. Società per Azioni, for producing packet 1 of cigarettes as described above and shown in Figures 1-3 .
  • Packing machine 31 comprises a group-forming unit 32 for forming groups 4 of cigarettes; a packing unit 33 for forming inner packages 3 by folding sheets 34 of packing material about groups 4 of cigarettes; and a packing unit 35 for forming outer containers 2 by folding collars 17 and blanks 36 about inner packages 3.
  • unit 32 for forming groups 4 of cigarettes comprises a group-forming conveyor 37 fitted with a number of group-forming pockets 38 (only one shown in Figure 10 ), each of which supports a group 4 of cigarettes comprising three superimposed layers 39 of cigarettes.
  • Group-forming conveyor 37 feeds group-forming pockets 38 past three outlets of a hopper 40 (shown schematically in Figure 9 ), where three respective pushers 41 (one shown in Figure 11 ) insert the three layers 39 of cigarettes successively into a group-forming pocket 38 to form a group 4 of cigarettes.
  • group-forming unit 32 comprises a feed device 42, which feeds a pull-up tape 21 into position in front of a group-forming pocket 38, before a layer 39a of cigarettes is inserted inside pocket 38. Accordingly, when inserted by pusher 41 into group-forming pocket 38, layer 39a of cigarettes intercepts pull-up tape 21 and folds it into a U about cigarette 22 in layer 39a of cigarettes.
  • Feed device 42 comprises a suction conveyor belt 43 for successively conveying pull-up tapes 21 horizontally; and a diverter 44 located at the output end of conveyor belt 43 to direct pull-up tapes 21 vertically downwards into the path of layers 39a of cigarettes.
  • a vertical channel 45 defined by two fixed parallel vertical walls 46 facing each other a given distance apart, is located beneath diverter 44; and, in a preferred embodiment, vertical walls 46 have holes, from which compressed-air jets are directed downwards to assist and guide the downward movement of pull-up tapes 21 along vertical channel 45.
  • pull-up tape 21 being completely devoid of glue, can even be applied on a standard packing machine, and poses no risk of contaminating the cigarette tobacco.
  • packet 1 of cigarettes described can be produced easily on a standard packing machine (which only requires a few minor alterations) as opposed to a high-cost packing machine specially designed for packets of cigarettes of this type.

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WO2013190568A1 (fr) * 2012-06-21 2013-12-27 Gowthaman Chitra Emballage pour articles de tabagisme avec mécanisme de fermeture et de soulèvement étanche à l'air
EP2746190A1 (fr) 2012-12-19 2014-06-25 Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH Dispositif pour offrir au moins une parmi plusieurs cigarettes contenues dans un paquet
WO2017072730A1 (fr) * 2015-10-28 2017-05-04 G.D Società per Azioni Emballage pour articles de tabac avec volet de scellement pouvant être recollé et bande de traction d'article de tabac
WO2017194704A1 (fr) * 2016-05-13 2017-11-16 Philip Morris Products S.A. Contenant doté d'un raidisseur interne mobile, raidisseur, et procédé
CN107709188A (zh) * 2015-06-26 2018-02-16 菲利普莫里斯生产公司 具有滑动部分的用于消费品的容器

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EP2008935A1 (fr) * 2007-06-26 2008-12-31 G.D Societa' per Azioni Procédé et machine d' emballage pour combiner un insert et un groupe de cigarettes

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US2801769A (en) * 1954-09-13 1957-08-06 Fund Del Inc Cigarette pull tab ejector and the like packages
WO2003008302A1 (fr) * 2001-07-17 2003-01-30 G.D Societa' Per Azioni Paquet rigide a ouverture laterale et a couvercle articule
EP2008935A1 (fr) * 2007-06-26 2008-12-31 G.D Societa' per Azioni Procédé et machine d' emballage pour combiner un insert et un groupe de cigarettes

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WO2013190568A1 (fr) * 2012-06-21 2013-12-27 Gowthaman Chitra Emballage pour articles de tabagisme avec mécanisme de fermeture et de soulèvement étanche à l'air
EP2746190A1 (fr) 2012-12-19 2014-06-25 Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH Dispositif pour offrir au moins une parmi plusieurs cigarettes contenues dans un paquet
WO2014096207A1 (fr) 2012-12-19 2014-06-26 Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken Gmbh Dispositif permettant la distribution d'au moins l'une d'une pluralité de cigarettes se trouvant dans un paquet
CN107709188A (zh) * 2015-06-26 2018-02-16 菲利普莫里斯生产公司 具有滑动部分的用于消费品的容器
US10421602B2 (en) 2015-06-26 2019-09-24 Philip Morris Products S.A. Container for consumer goods with sliding portion
CN107709188B (zh) * 2015-06-26 2019-10-11 菲利普莫里斯生产公司 具有滑动部分的用于消费品的容器
WO2017072730A1 (fr) * 2015-10-28 2017-05-04 G.D Società per Azioni Emballage pour articles de tabac avec volet de scellement pouvant être recollé et bande de traction d'article de tabac
WO2017194704A1 (fr) * 2016-05-13 2017-11-16 Philip Morris Products S.A. Contenant doté d'un raidisseur interne mobile, raidisseur, et procédé

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