EP2471724B1 - Utilisation d'un sac plastique mis à plat dans des installations de remplissage automatiques - Google Patents

Utilisation d'un sac plastique mis à plat dans des installations de remplissage automatiques Download PDF

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EP2471724B1
EP2471724B1 EP10197242.0A EP10197242A EP2471724B1 EP 2471724 B1 EP2471724 B1 EP 2471724B1 EP 10197242 A EP10197242 A EP 10197242A EP 2471724 B1 EP2471724 B1 EP 2471724B1
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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
    • B65D75/5816—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture for tearing a corner or other small portion next to the edge, e.g. a U-shaped portion
    • 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
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/25—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners
    • B65D33/2508—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor
    • 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
    • B65D2575/00—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
    • B65D2575/52—Details
    • B65D2575/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
    • B65D2575/586—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture with means for reclosing

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  • the invention relates to the use of a flattened foil bag in automatic filling plants in which the foil bag is opened.
  • the film bag is formed with a front wall, a rear wall, inserted between the front wall and the rear wall gussets and a reclosure strip existing reclosure on the inside of the bag.
  • the reclosing strip is comprised of one or more parts and is disposed on the inner surface of a gusset and subsequent thereto on the inner surfaces of the front wall and the rear wall and extends into a two-ply bag portion formed by the front wall and the rear wall.
  • Foil pouches with the described features are filled on the upper side in automatic filling systems and then closed by at least one top seal seam. This creates high-quality, mostly airtight packaging, especially for pourable products, eg. B. granular or pelleted animal feed.
  • an upper-side bag section must be separated. In doing so, the side fold provided with the reclosure is exposed, which can be used as a resealable chute.
  • a bag package with the features described is out WO 2004/092025 A2 known.
  • the features of the preamble of claim 1 are made DE-A-102007054690 known.
  • the reclosure is suitably closed with opposing portions of the reclosure strip engaged with each other.
  • the film layers of the film bag lie flat on each other, which is advantageous for handling, transporting and stacking the flattened film bag is.
  • the flattened foil bag is then opened by means of suction devices which are applied to the front wall and the rear wall of the foil bag. The process is to be carried out with short cycle times. The opening of the bag does not always succeed smoothly, so that it can lead to incorrect filling and machine downtime.
  • the reclosure strip has latching elements.
  • the opening force of the reclosure can be influenced. It should be noted, however, that the reclosure may not open independently in later use, for example, if you keep the filled packaging upside down. A reduction of the opening force by a geometric change of the reclosure is therefore only possible within limits.
  • the temperature has a strong effect on the opening force of a reclosure. At low temperatures, the force needed to open the reclosure increases. In winter, the flattened foil bags are therefore stored in heated halls to ensure that the reclosure elements open properly when the foil bags are opened in a filling line for filling.
  • the invention has the object of providing a flattened foil bag with the features specified in the preamble so on that it can always be properly opened and filled in automatic section systems.
  • the invention and solution to this problem is a use according to claim 1.
  • the front wall, the rear wall and provided with the reclosure gusset form a four-layered bag section in the delivery state, the layers of which are detachably connected by the reclosure strip.
  • arranged on the front wall and the rear wall portions of the reclosure strip in the region of the two-ply bag portion are unconnected.
  • the re-closure opens in the area of the two-ply bag section, ie where the opposite reclosing strips are not locked together. From there, the opening process continues over the length of the reclosure into the area of the four-ply bag section and the side gusset.
  • the flattened foil bag in the filling system can be properly opened and filled without having to make any modifications to the filling system.
  • a tempering of the flattened foil bag is not necessary. In winter, the storage of flattened foil bags can be done in unheated halls.
  • the measure according to the invention does not affect the opening force of the reclosure when it is later used.
  • the latching of the reclosable strip can be designed so that the filled packaging does not open automatically in the area of the reclosure, for example, if the packaging is held upside down.
  • the reclosure strip preferably consists over its entire length of one piece and expediently has a closure profile which can be locked with itself.
  • the reclosure strip is strongly curved. Due to elastic restoring forces of the closure strip tends to spread on the outer edges of the film bag.
  • the films of the reclosing strip arranged on the side fold are in each case latched to the reclosing strip arranged on the front wall or rear wall, the film bag also retains its flat position in the region of the four-ply bag section.
  • the locking of the reclosure sections in this area counteracts spreading of the bag.
  • the flatness of the four-ply bag section contributes to the fact that the flat film bag is stackable and is easy to handle by means of automatic feeders.
  • the partial opening of the reclosure which is limited according to the invention to the two-ply bag section, has a disadvantageous effect on neither the flatness nor the handling of the flat bag and brings about the above-described improvement when the bag is opened in a bottling plant.
  • the foil bag can have reinforced outer edges by longitudinal sealing seams.
  • the longitudinal sealing seams connect the gussets to the respective adjacent front wall or rear wall. In the area of the reclosing strip, the longitudinal sealing seams are interrupted; they terminate below the reclosure strip and continue in the head area above the reclosure strip.
  • the length of the arranged on the front wall and the rear wall portions of the Wiederver gleichstMails is greater than the width of the inserted gusset and can be chosen otherwise free. It may be determined to provide an optimum pour opening for the product when the filled bag package is separated by separating a bag section above the reclosure for product removal first opened.
  • the length of the reclosure strip may be such that the portions of the reclosure strip attached to the front wall and the back wall span at least a quarter of the width of the two-ply bag portion.
  • the sections on the two-ply bag section expediently extend over a length of at least 1 cm.
  • the reclosing strip is arranged in the head region of the film bag at a distance from an upper edge of the bag.
  • the bag surface above the reclosure strip may be provided with a line of weakness for tearing the bag package.
  • the front wall, back wall and side gusset are made of a multilayer film having a sealable polyolefin layer on the inside of the bag and a printable outer layer of a stiffer polymer.
  • the stiffer polymer unlike the polyolefinic sealing layer, which preferably consists of a polyethylene, can be cut by means of a laser. Therefore, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the line of weakness is a laser-cut cut which penetrates the outer layer leaving the sealable polyolefin layer intact.
  • the film bag shown in the figures has a front wall 1, a rear wall 2, between the front wall 1 and the rear wall 2 inserted side folds 3, 3 'and a reclosure strip 4 existing reclosure 5 on the inside of the bag.
  • the reclosing strip 4 is arranged on the inner surface of a side gusset 3 and subsequently on the inner surfaces of the front wall 1 and the rear wall 2 and extends into a two-ply bag section A formed by the front wall 1 and the rear wall 2.
  • the film bag is prefabricated and flattened Foil bag fed to an automatic filling system in which it is opened, filled with product and then sealed by attaching at least one top seal.
  • the opening of the flat-lying foil bag is carried out using suction tools, which are applied to the front wall and the rear wall and pull apart by means of adjusting movements of the front wall and the rear wall.
  • suction tools which are applied to the front wall and the rear wall and pull apart by means of adjusting movements of the front wall and the rear wall.
  • the provided on the inner surface of the film bag reclosure 5 is fully opened.
  • FIG. 2 shows the flattened foil bag in its delivery state, wherein the front wall 1 and the rear wall 2 are slightly opened for illustrative purposes only.
  • the illustration shows that the front wall 1, the rear wall 2 and the side fold 3 provided with the reclosure 5 form a four-ply bag section B whose layers are detachably connected by the reclosure strip 4.
  • the arranged on the front wall 1 and the rear wall 2 portions of the WiederverschlußstMails 4 are not connected in the region of the two-ply bag portion A.
  • the foil bag is prefabricated as a flattened foil bag. In this case, the reclosure 5 is closed in the region of the four-ply bag section B and not latched in the two-ply bag section A.
  • the force required to open can be significantly reduced.
  • the opening process of the reclosure 5 begins in the area of the two-ply bag section A, that is, where the opposite sections of the reclosing strip are not locked together.
  • the opening process is then continued over the entire length of the reclosure strip 4 to the area of the side fold 3.
  • the reclosure 5 can thereby be properly opened for the purpose of filling the film bag. There are no modifications to the bottling plant required.
  • the reclosure strip 4 is over its entire length of one piece and expediently has a closure profile which is lockable with itself.
  • Fig. 1 shows that the foil bag has reinforced outer edges 7 by longitudinal sealing seams 6.
  • the longitudinal sealing seams 6 connect the gussets 3, 3 'with the respective adjacent front wall 1 or rear wall 2. In the region of the reclosure strip 4, the longitudinal sealing seams 6 are interrupted.
  • the length of the portions of the reclosure strip 4 arranged on the front wall 1 and the rear wall 2 is selected such that these portions bridge at least a quarter of the width of the two-ply bag portion A.
  • the reclosure strip 4 is arranged in the head region of the bag at a distance from an upper edge of the bag 8.
  • the bag surface above the reclosure strip 4 is provided with a Weakening line 9 provided for tearing the bag packaging.
  • the front wall 1, the back wall 2 and the side folds 3, 3 ' preferably consist of a multilayer film which has a sealable polyolefin layer on the inside of the bag and a printable outer layer made of a stiffer polymer.
  • the weakening line 9 may in particular consist of a cut produced by laser cutting, which penetrates into the outer layer and leaves the sealable polyolefin layer intact.

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Claims (8)

  1. Emploi d'un sachet-film posé à plat dans une installation de remplissage automatique dans laquelle le sachet-film est ouvert, dans lequel le sachet-film est conçu avec
    une paroi avant (1),
    une paroi arrière (2),
    des plis latéraux (3, 3') insérés entre la paroi avant (1) et la paroi arrière (2) et
    une fermeture réutilisable (5) sur le côté intérieur du sachet, composée d'une bande de fermeture réutilisable (4),
    dans lequel la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) est disposée sur la face intérieure d'un pli latéral (3) ainsi que, se raccordant dessus, les faces intérieures de la paroi avant (1) et de la paroi arrière (2), et s'étend jusque dans un tronçon de sachet (A) bi-couches formé par la paroi avant (1) et la paroi arrière (2), caractérisé en ce que la paroi avant (1), la paroi arrière (2) et le pli latéral (3) doté de la fermeture réutilisable (5) forment un tronçon de sachet (B) à quatre couches dans l'état de livraison, dont les couches sont reliées de façon séparable par la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) et que les tronçons de la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) disposés sur la paroi avant (1) et la paroi arrière (2) ne sont pas reliés au niveau du tronçon de sachet (A) bi-couches dans l'état de livraison.
  2. Emploi selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) est composée d'une seule pièce sur toute sa longueur.
  3. Emploi selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) présente un profilé de fermeture qui peut être verrouillé avec lui-même.
  4. Emploi selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le sachet-film présente des arêtes extérieures (7) renforcées par des coutures de scellement longitudinales (6), dans lequel les coutures de scellement longitudinales (6) relient les plis latéraux (3, 3') avec la paroi avant (1) ou la paroi arrière (2) adjacente respective, et sont interrompues au niveau de la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4).
  5. Emploi selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que la longueur des tronçons de la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) disposés sur la paroi avant (1) et la paroi arrière (2) est ainsi choisie que ces tronçons font la jonction sur au moins un quart de la largeur du tronçon de sachet (A) bi-couches.
  6. Emploi selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que la longueur du tronçon de la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) disposé sur la paroi avant (1) et la paroi arrière (2) est ainsi choisie que ces tronçons s'étendent sur une longueur d'au moins 1 cm sur le tronçon de sachet bi-couches.
  7. Emploi selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) est disposée à distance d'un bord supérieur (8) du sachet et que la face du sachet au-dessus de la bande de fermeture réutilisable (4) est dotée d'une ligne d'affaiblissement (9) pour déchirer l'emballage du sachet.
  8. Emploi selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la paroi avant (1), la paroi arrière (2) et les plis latéraux (3, 3') sont composés d'un film multicouches qui présente une couche polyoléfine pouvant être scellée sur le côté intérieur du sachet et une couche extérieure imprimable en polymère plus rigide, et que la ligne d'affaiblissement (9) est composée d'une découpe produite par une coupe au laser qui pénètre dans la couche extérieure et qui laisse la couche polyoléfine pouvant être scellée intouchée.
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ES10197242.0T ES2626153T3 (es) 2010-12-29 2010-12-29 Uso de una bolsa de película aplanada en instalaciones envasadoras automáticas
HUE10197242A HUE034011T2 (en) 2010-12-29 2010-12-29 Use a flat-laid foil pouch in automatic chargers
EP10197242.0A EP2471724B1 (fr) 2010-12-29 2010-12-29 Utilisation d'un sac plastique mis à plat dans des installations de remplissage automatiques
US13/336,339 US20120195534A1 (en) 2010-12-29 2011-12-23 Flat film bag for use in automated filling systems

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