EP2462036B1 - Emballage composé d'une matière souple à ouverture déchirable - Google Patents

Emballage composé d'une matière souple à ouverture déchirable Download PDF

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EP2462036B1
EP2462036B1 EP10742464.0A EP10742464A EP2462036B1 EP 2462036 B1 EP2462036 B1 EP 2462036B1 EP 10742464 A EP10742464 A EP 10742464A EP 2462036 B1 EP2462036 B1 EP 2462036B1
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Franco Goglio
Giorgio Bottini
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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
    • B65D75/66—Inserted or applied tearing-strings or like flexible elements
    • 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
    • B65D75/5805—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture for tearing a side strip parallel and next to the edge, e.g. by means of a line of weakness

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  • the present invention refers to a package made of flexible material, for granular, pasty or liquid products, provided with a tear-off or tearing opening.
  • the package according to the invention can be of any known type, for example stand-up package, that is, which is self-supporting when filled with the product, having a reinforced base, from which extend two side walls heat-sealed along the side and top edges, or can be a parallelepiped package with upper and lower bellows closures.
  • Packages of the above type, or other similar ones, with tearing opening have a cut or notch near the upper edge of the package, at one side thereof, to promote tearing of the material, which should proceed parallel to the upper edge of the package, something which does not normally happen.
  • a cut should be made, normally by laser, in the outer layer, for example of polyester, of the normally multilayer material that forms the package.
  • GB2332900 discloses a package according to the preamble of appended claim 1, further comprising a sheet of easily tear-able flexible material having an outer layer and an inner layer, the inner layer being provided with a line of weakness.
  • US 5,552,202 discloses a tear guide arrangement for opening a package comprising a pair of opposing base strips and a pair of opposing tear guide strips.
  • the base strips are composed of resilient polymeric material
  • the tear guide strips are composed of a stiff or tough polymeric material having a substantially higher tensile strength than the resilient material of the base strips.
  • the stiff polymeric material of the tear guide strips ensures that the tear guide strips separate cleanly from the respective base strips and this stiff material provides the mass essential to a bond rupture.
  • Object of the invention is to overcome the drawbacks of the above-mentioned systems of the prior art, by providing a package that ensures perfectly straight tearing during the opening stage.
  • Another object of the invention is that of providing such a package with tearing opening that is simple and cheap to make.
  • a tear promoting notch aligned with the pre-cut line of the strip is advantageously provided at one side edge of the package.
  • a purely exemplifying package indicated by reference numeral 10, to which can be applied the tearing opening system of the present invention, which will be described in greater detail below, has a substantially parallelepiped shape, and has a bottom wall or base 11, a top wall 12, a front wall 13, a rear wall 14 and two side walls 15 and 16.
  • This package is formed starting from a strip of multilayer sheet material, with the inner layer heat-sealable, which is fed along a mandrel normally disposed vertically, around which it is closed by means of a longitudinal weld S so as to form a tube which is closed at the bottom by means of a transverse heat seal SI followed by a bellows fold F1 ( Figure 4 ), after having been cut to the right length to form the package 10.
  • the tube closed at the bottom in the form of a bag, is filled with a pre-set amount of granular, pasty or liquid product, and is subsequently closed at the top by means of a further transverse weld SP and subsequent bellows folding F2.
  • Figure 1 shows the development of the package 10 seen from the inside, with the fold lines to obtain the package indicated.
  • the material forming the package is normally a multilayer material, with an inner heat-sealable layer, for example polyethylene and possibly an intermediate barrier layer, such as aluminium.
  • the outer layer is advantageously polyester.
  • the strip or ribbon 3 is heat-sealable on both sides, so as to be able to be heat-sealed to the inside wall of the package 10 and allow the welds to be made to obtain a tight seal of the package, in the case in point the vertical weld S in the area where the strip is applied.
  • the strip 3 is advantageously also made of multilayer sheet material, the outer heat-sealable layers of which are polyethylene or derivatives thereof, for example.
  • the strip 3, or rather the two slices 4, 5 separated by the longitudinal cut 6, are disposed on the inside of the package 10 at least on the opposite front 13 and rear 14 walls as outlined in Figure 3 .
  • a notch 20, aligned with the cutting line 6 of the strip 3 ( Figure 5 ) is made at a side edge of the package, acting as a tear promoter.
  • the straightness of the tear of the package is ensured by the separation line 6 between the two slices 4, 5, which forms a sort of track along which the tear is obliged to run.
  • any deviation of the tear from this separation line 6 would imply triggering of a tear in one of the two slices 4, 5, which is extremely improbable, given that the resistance of the material of the slices would have to be overcome.
  • the invention achieves the intended object even with minimum thicknesses of the pre-cut strip 3, but it is obvious that the greater its thickness, the greater the guarantee that the tear will follow the separation line 6 of the strip.
  • the applicant has performed numerous tests on packages of various types and has been able to verify the perfect performance of the tearing opening system according to the invention.
  • pre-cut strip 3 has been provided along the entire horizontal extent of the package, but it is obvious that it can be provided in pre-set areas which come to be opposed in the formed package, preferably reaching a side edge thereof, especially if complete opening of the package is not required.
  • the tearing opening system according to the invention can be applied to other types of package, for example with "fin" seals along the four vertical edges of the package, as well as to stand-up packages, and so forth.

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Claims (10)

  1. Emballage, composé d'une matière flexible, fermé sur le haut au moyen d'une soudure (SP) au niveau du, ou près du bord supérieur (2) de celui-ci et doté d'une ouverture déchirable en-dessous de ladite soudure (SP), caractérisé en ce qu'au niveau de ladite ouverture déchirable, en-dessous de ladite soudure (SP) et à l'intérieur de l'emballage, une bande (3) composée d'une matière en feuilles est appliquée, laquelle est prédécoupée en deux moitiés ou tranches (4), (5) le long d'une ligne de séparation (6) s'étendant parallèlement audit bord supérieur (2) de l'emballage, de sorte que pendant l'opération d'ouverture par déchirure, la déchirure progresse le long de ladite ligne de séparation (6).
  2. Emballage selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ladite bande prédécoupée (3) est appliquée à l'intérieur de parois opposées de l'emballage (10).
  3. Emballage selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que ladite bande prédécoupée (3) se met en prise avec toute la longueur de l'emballage (10) ou une partie de celle-ci.
  4. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une entaille favorisant la déchirure (20) est fournie sur un bord latéral de l'emballage en alignement avec ladite ligne de séparation (6) entre les tranches (4), (5) de la bande prédécoupée (3).
  5. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que ladite bande prédécoupée (3) est thermocollable des deux côtés de celle-ci, en pouvant ainsi être thermocollée à l'intérieur de l'emballage (10) et en permettant à des soudures pour fermer l'emballage d'être réalisées dans la zone où elle est placée.
  6. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il est composé d'une matière multicouches, dans lequel la couche intérieure est composée d'une matière thermocollable, telle du polyéthylène.
  7. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel ladite bande prédécoupée (3) est composée d'une matière en feuilles multicouches, dans lequel l'extérieure est composée d'une matière thermocollable, telle du polyéthylène ou des dérivés de celui-ci.
  8. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, lequel est de forme parallélépipédique avec une fermeture à soufflet inférieure (F1) et une fermeture à soufflet supérieure (F2).
  9. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, dans lequel ledit emballage (10) est du type debout.
  10. Emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, convenant pour contenir des matières granulaires, pâteuses ou liquides, et similaires.
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ITMI2009A001446A IT1395150B1 (it) 2009-08-07 2009-08-07 Confezione in materiale flessibile con apertura a strappo
PCT/EP2010/061236 WO2011015564A1 (fr) 2009-08-07 2010-08-02 Emballage composé d'une matière souple à ouverture déchirable

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