EP2888170B1 - Procede et appareil de conditionnement d' emballages formés de groupes d'objets - Google Patents

Procede et appareil de conditionnement d' emballages formés de groupes d'objets Download PDF

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EP2888170B1
EP2888170B1 EP13749980.2A EP13749980A EP2888170B1 EP 2888170 B1 EP2888170 B1 EP 2888170B1 EP 13749980 A EP13749980 A EP 13749980A EP 2888170 B1 EP2888170 B1 EP 2888170B1
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • 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
    • B65B11/12—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 and then to form closing folds of similar form at opposite ends of the tube
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B43/00—Forming, feeding, opening or setting-up containers or receptacles in association with packaging
    • B65B43/08—Forming three-dimensional containers from sheet material
    • B65B43/10—Forming three-dimensional containers from sheet material by folding the material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B49/00—Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents
    • B65B49/08—Reciprocating or oscillating folders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B65B51/10—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
    • 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
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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    • B65B53/02—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging by heat
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B53/00—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging
    • B65B53/02—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging by heat
    • B65B53/06—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging by heat supplied by gases, e.g. hot-air jets
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    • 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
    • B65B11/004—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material in blanks, e.g. sheets precut and creased for folding
    • 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
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/02—Applying adhesives or sealing liquids

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  • the groups of objects grouped together to form the packaging units are usually bottles, in particular plastic bottles, cans, etc.
  • the film which is typically designed as a plastic film, is finally shrunk so that the articles form a stable packaging unit.
  • the objects are mutually fixed by means of the shrunken film.
  • pairs of folding tabs are realized, which are folded about horizontal or vertical axes. Following the folding process, a welding process takes place by the action of heat.
  • the folding tabs in the course of the action of heat and the associated shrinkage process can at least partially "rise” or the all-round film impact experienced unintentional opening in the folding tabs. In the extreme case, this can lead to the items combined with the aid of the foil wrapping no longer being able to be transported properly and / or falling out of the film wrapping.
  • Such phenomena are observed especially in articles with increased weight, for example, beverage cans or generally canned products.
  • the invention is based on the technical problem of further developing such a method and an associated device so that a perfect closed film wrapping of the packaging unit is made available and, in particular, unintentional openings of the folding straps during shrinkage are avoided.
  • the folding flaps experience a mutual connection with each other.
  • connection is designed so that the folding tabs can not unintentionally "open” during the subsequent final fixing and the associated shrinking process.
  • the prefixing is carried out in such a way that the base films of the folding tabs to be joined are at least partially covered by a corresponding surface finish or treatment, in particular a Corona treatment, are suitable to connect by lamination together without the need for another adhesive or adhesive.
  • the folding tabs according to the invention and at the same time a mutual positioning.
  • the invention ensures that the folding tabs maintain their relative position to one another during their prefixing or lamination and at the end of the prefixing ensure that the folding tabs ensure perfect lateral closure of the foil insert.
  • This closure remains consistent.
  • the packaging unit thus prepared with the film wrapping in, for example, a shrink tunnel for final fixing then the closure of the folding tabs can not be opened (more) with each other. Rather, this final fixation merely ensures that the film impact is shrunk overall, although the lateral closure by the folding tabs remains largely uninfluenced by this.
  • the increased and targeted introduction of energy in the area of the folding tabs by the prefixing that takes place here ensures that the folding tabs retain their lateral closure of the packaging unit achieved in this way and do not undergo any unintentional opening during the subsequent shrinking operation or final fixing.
  • the increased energy input in the area of the folding tabs takes into account the fact that the film impact in this area is multi-layered and the individual folding tabs have to be laminated together before the actual shrinkage can take place.
  • the film wrapped around the packaging unit or the film wrapping optimally maintains its position during the entire processing operation.
  • the vertical folding tabs are prefixed into a shrink tunnel following the folding unit and before the packaging unit has passed.
  • the prefixing can also be carried out in the folding unit together with the actual folding.
  • the folding unit on the one hand and a prefixing unit on the other hand and finally an end fixing unit are designed separately and independently of one another.
  • the folding tabs are prefixed by means of the longitudinal heat source. As already explained, in the course of prefixing, the folding tabs not only experience a mutual adhesive connection, but also a mutual positioning. That is, the positioning and lamination of the folding tabs take place at the same time.
  • the positioning is regularly ensured by a pressing element, with the help of which the folding tabs are pressed against the packaging unit.
  • the pressing element ensures that the folding tabs applied to the packaging unit by means of the folding unit remain in this position in contact with the packaging unit during the prefixing. At the same time, the pressing element in this context may have the required heat for the lamination.
  • the heat source and / or the already mentioned pressure element are regularly equipped with an anti-adhesive coating. This makes it possible to prevent any adhesion of the folding tabs to the heat source or the pressure element when passing through the associated prefixing unit.
  • the invention also relates to a device for packaging groups of articles combined into packaging units, as explained in more detail in claims 5 et seqq.
  • the device in question is particularly suitable for carrying out the method described.
  • the folding unit, the prefixing unit and finally the final fixing unit are usually designed separately from one another.
  • the design is largely such that the prefixing unit connects to the folding unit and finally follows the final fixing unit of the prefixing unit.
  • the procedure is also such that the folding unit, the prefixing unit and the final fixing unit directly adjoin one another in the running direction of the packaging unit.
  • the prefixing unit is equipped with its own heat source.
  • This heat source is the extended heat source. It is advantageous if the heat source is energized completely or partially by the Endfixierü. That is, the heat source of Vorfixierü gets all or part of their heat energy from the Endfixierü or at this point usually realized additional own heat source. For this purpose, the heat source of the prefixing unit may extend into the final fixing unit.
  • the pre-fixing unit ensures that the folding flaps are subjected to mechanical and heat simultaneously.
  • the mechanical loading of the folding tabs within the prefixing unit is generally carried out with the aid of the at least one pressing element.
  • the folding tabs can also be acted upon in a suitable fluid-mechanical manner for mutual positioning and alignment with respect to the packaging unit.
  • the pressure element and / or the heat source is provided with a coating on at least its side facing the folding tabs. This coating prevents or avoids such buildup.
  • the Endfixierica is regularly a shrink tunnel or a comparable element, which ensures the desired shrinkage of the wrapped around the packaging unit film.
  • a method and a device for packaging groups of objects combined into packaging units are described, with the aid of which a secure closure of the articles and a film closure that is closed on all sides are possible.
  • the method and the device are predestined for being able to produce packaging units of, for example, cans or other articles of significant weight, in which particular demands are placed on the film wrapping in terms of tear resistance, in particular during transport.
  • prefixing carried out in the context of the invention, including simultaneous positioning of the folding tabs in the prefixing, it is ensured that the film impact during the subsequent shrinking process is not unintentionally opened in the area of the folding tabs. Rather, the invention ensures that the film wrapping is designed to be closed overall and also retains this closed design.
  • the main benefits are the main benefits.
  • a device for packaging objects 1 is shown.
  • the articles 1 are grouped together and thus form packaging units 2.
  • the articles 1 are, in the exemplary embodiment and not limited to cans, which have been combined to form the relevant group.
  • the doses may have a matrix-like arrangement in the example case.
  • sorting and alignment devices are connected upstream, which are not shown in detail, however. In fact, at this point may be worked with stops and / or support rods.
  • a storage drum for a film 3 in the embodiment, a plastic film 3, which has been wrapped around the packaging unit 2, as the Fig. 1 represents.
  • the plastic film 3 may be made of PE, PET, PP, etc., wherein the plastic in question is shrinkable.
  • the wrapping of the respective packaging unit 2 takes place in the running direction L during the transport of the group of objects 1 over the transport path T.
  • a film roll may be cut off and passed through a slot on the transport path T.
  • the front end of the film roll is run over by the packaging unit 2.
  • a film driver rod travels under the film roll from below and describes a circular path or generally a circular path over the packaging unit 2 in the running direction L. Thereafter, the film driver rod together with the rear end of the film roll enters a further slot , When transporting the so wrapped packing unit T in the direction L, this moves over the slot in question and thus pulls the front end of the film roll under him.
  • the packaging unit 2 stands on the overlapping ends of the film roll and at the same time a film flashover 4 of the two ends of the film roll is defined.
  • a film flashover 4 of the two ends of the film roll is defined.
  • folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 When wrapping the respective packaging unit 2 in its direction of travel L on the transport path T with the aid of the film 3 to form the film overlap 4 are also transverse edge side of the packaging unit 2 protruding folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 defined.
  • the two folding tabs 5, 6 lie opposite one another and form an associated first folding tab pair 5, 6.
  • the relevant folding tabs 5, 6 are applied to the packaging unit 2 in question by a predominantly vertical folding process when the packaging unit 2 enters a folding unit 9.
  • two further folding tabs 7, 8 are realized, which are also opposite.
  • the two further folding tabs 7, 8 define a second folding tab pair 7, 8.
  • the two opposite folding tabs 7, 8 are applied to the packaging unit 2 by a predominantly horizontal folding operation.
  • the respective folding processes are characterized by corresponding folding lines in the Fig. 1 indicated.
  • the folding unit 9 is for applying the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 to the packaging unit 2 in detail from stationary folding elements 10, 1 and with the packaging unit 2 mitbewegten folding elements 12, 13 together.
  • the respective moving folding elements 12, 13 are moved predominantly synchronously together with the packaging unit 2 moved along the transport path T in the running direction L.
  • the stationary folding elements 10, 11 are, on the one hand, a pressure rail 10 and, on the other hand, a slanted guide 11.
  • the co-moving folding elements 12, 13 are designed, on the one hand, as a rotating folding disk 12 and, on the other hand, as a folding drum 13 moving along with the packaging unit 2.
  • the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 are applied to the packaging unit 2 after passing through the folding unit 9, as basically in the Figs. 4A to 4D is shown. Any details of the folding process are not relevant in this context. Also not on how the folding unit 9 is constructed in detail.
  • the folding unit 9 is preceded by a previously described and not further identified wrapping unit, by means of which the respective packaging unit 2 is enveloped with the film 3 on the transport path T in the running direction L.
  • the folding unit 9 adjoins the wrapping unit, which ensures that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 projecting beyond the packaging unit 2 are applied to the packaging unit 2.
  • the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 are applied by means of the folding unit 9 to the packaging unit 2 during the passage of the packaging unit 2 through the folding unit 9.
  • a fixing device 14, 15; 16 realized.
  • the fixing device 14, 15; 16 serves at least for mutual fixation of the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 with each other.
  • the fixing device 14, 15; 16 from a Vorfixiertician 14, 15 and an Endfixiertechnik 16 together.
  • the end fixing unit 16 is a shrink tunnel 16, which is equipped in its interior with its own heat source, for example a hot air blower with nozzles, an infrared radiator, etc., and ensures that the film looped around the packaging unit 2 3 shrinks.
  • the prefixing unit 14, 15 ensures that the film wrapping formed with the aid of the film 3 is or remains closed on all sides and retains this generally closed property even during the shrinking process in the final fixing unit 16. That is, with the help of Vorfixierussi 14, 15 it is ensured that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 at the same time mutually positioned and initially prefixed by the action of heat. The entire packaging unit 2 then undergoes an end fixation in the final fixing unit 16 again by the action of heat.
  • the pre-fixing unit 14, 15 adjoins the folding unit 9. This can be done directly, that is without the interposition of any further elements or units.
  • the design is regularly made such that the end fixing unit 16 follows the pre-fixing unit 14, 15. In this case, too, it has proven useful if the final fixing unit 16 directly adjoins the pre-fixing unit 14, 15, that is to say without intervening further units or elements.
  • the pre-fixing unit 14, 15 may be equipped with a longitudinally fixed heat source 15, as shown in FIGS Fig. 4A . 4B . 4C and 4D i is shown, which, however, do not belong to the invention.
  • the heat source 15 can be moved with the packaging unit 2 during its movement in the direction L on the transport path T, as shown in the Fig. 3 indicated by an arrow.
  • the prefixing unit 14, 15 has on the one hand the already mentioned heat source 15 and on the other hand a pressure element 14.
  • the heat source 15 and the pressure element 14 are designed separately from each other. But it is also possible that the pressure element 14 and the heat source 15 form a structural unit 14, 15, as shown in the Fig. 4D is shown.
  • the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 previously applied by resorting to the folding unit 9 to the packaging unit 2 are held in this position in contact with the packaging unit 2 as it passes through the prefixing unit 14, 15.
  • the pre-fixing unit 14,15 acts on the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 at the same time mechanically and with heat.
  • the heat source 15 is completely or partially powered by the Endfixierü or the shrink tunnel 16 energetically.
  • the design is such that the heat source 15 of the Vorfixiertechnik 14, 15 extends into the final fixing unit 16 or rich, as shown in Fig. 4D is shown.
  • the heat source 15 according to the embodiment is according to the Fig. 4D by a guide or two fixed guides 14, which extend into the shrink tunnel 16 and at the same time act as a pressing element 14.
  • the guides or the heat source 15 is energetically fed by the heat source located in the shrink tunnel 16.
  • nozzles as components of the already mentioned hot air blower for acting the packaging unit 2 be realized with hot air, at the same time the questionable guides 14 and the heat source 15 in the context of the variant of the Fig. 4D apply.
  • the prefixing unit 14, 15 ensures that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 are mechanically loaded by means of the pressing element 14. Additionally or alternatively, it is also possible that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 are mechanically mutually positioned and aligned by an air flow.
  • the pressing element 14 is designed as a circulating chain. The chain runs around the fixed heat source 15 around. In this way, the heat source 15 is able to act on the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 by correspondingly hot air flows in the manner described or to ensure that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 during the passage by the Vorfixiermaschine 14, 15 remain in contact with the packaging unit 2.
  • the pressure element 14 or the chain provided at this point provides for the desired system.
  • a stationary heat source 15 is provided, which in this case acts on a circulating belt 14 as a pressing member 14 with heat.
  • the band 14 as such is heated and releases the heat for laminating the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 thereto.
  • the band or the pressing element 14 in this context ensures that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 remain in contact with the packaging unit 2 when passing through the prefixing unit 14, 15.
  • it may be the tape or the pressing member 14 in this case to a Teflon tape. This becomes regular - like the chain under the variant after the Fig. 4B - Moved at the same speed as the packaging unit 2 in the direction L along the Tramsportstart T.
  • Various heating nozzles are realized, which are designed to be stationary in total and form the local heat source 15.
  • a guide 14 is provided below the heating nozzles or the heat source 15, by means of which the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 are held and positioned in contact with the packaging unit 2 as it passes through the prefixing unit 14, 15.
  • the heating nozzles or the heat source 15 in this context ensures that the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8 are directly laminated or subjected to heat.
  • heating nozzles An improvement in terms of the heating nozzles consists in the use of high-energy radiators, such as. Infrared radiators. These allow a very well-defined exposure zone, possibly by suitable shielding, which is technically difficult to solve in a heating gas.
  • the use of emitters, in particular IR emitters, is of course advantageous for the other variants.
  • the individual pressing elements 14 are generally equipped with a coating on at least their side facing the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8.
  • This coating may be a Teflon coating, which avoids buildup caused by lamination during the passage of the folding tabs 5, 6, 7, 8. As a result, the transport process of the packaging unit 2 in the running direction L along the transport path T is not hindered.
  • the heating by means of an infrared radiator or hot air of a circulating heating band can of course be provided in addition, if a part of the heating energy is obtained from the connected shrink tunnel.
  • the use of emitters, in particular IR emitters is generally advantageous for all of the aforementioned design variants, since this requires only a very small installation space and no drive unit is required as for a heating gas and unwanted gas movements are avoided.

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  1. Procédé servant à emballer des groupes d'objets (1) assemblés en des unités d'emballage (2), avec des étapes suivantes :
    1.1) d'enveloppement de l'unité d'emballage (2) respective dans sa direction de défilement (L) sur un tronçon de transport (T) d'un film (3) en formant de manière simultanée un recouvrement en film (4) ainsi que des languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) faisant saillie respectivement côté bord transversal au-delà de l'unité d'emballage (2) ;
    1.2) de placement des languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) au niveau de l'unité d'emballage (2) lors du passage à travers une unité de pliage (9) ainsi que de fixation mutuelle consécutive et/ou simultanée des languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) en formant une enveloppe en film fermée de tous côtés ;
    caractérisé en ce que
    1.3) les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) orientées verticales sont positionnées mutuellement et sont préalablement fixées dans le même temps par un effet de chaleur à l'aide d'une source de chaleur (15) étirée en longueur et déplacée conjointement avec l'unité d'emballage (2) lors de son déplacement dans la direction de défilement (L) du tronçon de transport (T) et ensuite l'unité d'emballage (2) est fixée de manière finale globalement par un effet de chaleur, dans lequel les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) sont au moins en partie laminées dans le cadre de la fixation préalable.
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) sont préalablement fixées à la suite de l'unité de pliage (9) et avant le passage de l'unité d'emballage (2) dans une unité de fixation finale (16).
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) sont préalablement fixées, en particulier laminées, à l'aide d'un élément de compression (14).
  4. Procédé selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que la source de chaleur (15) et/ou l'élément de compression (14) sont disposés de part et d'autre et de manière parallèle par rapport à la direction de transport principale des unités d'emballage (2).
  5. Dispositif servant à emballer des groupes d'objets (1) assemblés en des unités d'emballage (2), en particulier servant à mettre en œuvre le procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, avec
    une unité d'enveloppement servant à envelopper l'unité d'emballage (2) respective sur un tronçon de transport (T) dans la direction de défilement (L) d'un film (3) ainsi que servant à former de manière simultanée un recouvrement en film (4) et des languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) faisant saillie respectivement côté bord transversal au-delà de l'unité d'emballage (2), avec en outre
    une unité de pliage (9) servant à placer les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) au niveau de l'unité d'emballage (2) lors du passage, et avec
    un dispositif de fixation (14, 15 ; 16) servant à fixer au moins mutuellement les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) les unes aux autres, dans lequel
    le dispositif de fixation (14, 15 ; 16) se compose d'une unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) servant à fixer au préalable mutuellement les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) par un effet de chaleur et
    d'une unité de fixation finale (16) servant à fixer de manière finale l'ensemble de l'unité d'emballage (2) par un effet de chaleur,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) se situe dans le prolongement de l'unité de pliage (9) et l'unité de fixation finale (16) suit l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15), et dans lequel l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) est équipée d'une source de chaleur (15) étirée en longueur et déplacée conjointement.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que la source de chaleur (15) est alimentée en énergie en totalité ou en partie par l'unité de fixation finale (16).
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 5 ou 6, caractérisé en ce que la source de chaleur (15) de l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) parvient jusque dans l'unité de fixation finale (16).
  8. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 7, caractérisé en ce que l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) soumet les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) dans le même temps à une contrainte mécanique et à l'action de la chaleur.
  9. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 8, caractérisé en ce que l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) soumet les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8) à une contrainte mécanique à l'aide d'au moins un élément de compression (14) et/ou par un flux d'air pour le positionnement et l'orientation mutuels par rapport à l'unité d'emballage (2).
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que l'élément de compression (14) et/ou la source de chaleur (15) sont équipés, au niveau d'au moins leur côté tourné vers les languettes de pliage (5, 6, 7, 8), d'un revêtement, lequel évite une adhérence.
  11. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 10, caractérisé en ce que l'unité de fixation finale (16) est réalisée sous la forme d'un tunnel de rétraction (16).
  12. Dispositif selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 à 11, caractérisé en ce que l'unité de pliage (9), l'unité de fixation préalable (14, 15) et l'unité de fixation finale (16) se situent directement dans le prolongement les unes des autres dans la direction de défilement (L).
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