EP3105133A1 - Emballage collectif et procédé de réalisation d'emballages collectifs - Google Patents

Emballage collectif et procédé de réalisation d'emballages collectifs

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EP3105133A1
EP3105133A1 EP15700993.7A EP15700993A EP3105133A1 EP 3105133 A1 EP3105133 A1 EP 3105133A1 EP 15700993 A EP15700993 A EP 15700993A EP 3105133 A1 EP3105133 A1 EP 3105133A1
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container
containers
adhesive
information carrier
held
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Matthias Niemeyer
Ludwig Clüsserath
Wilfried Ehmer
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KHS GmbH
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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
    • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/0201—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side
    • B65D21/0205—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side joined together by bonding, adhesive or the like
    • 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
    • B65B17/00—Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
    • B65B17/02—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/02—Labels
    • 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
    • B65D2203/00—Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/06—Arrangements on packages concerning bar-codes

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  • the invention relates to containers according to the preamble of claim 1 and to a method according to the preamble of claim 11.
  • containers of several containers in the form of bottles in particular those made of plastic, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), metal, aluminum, etc.
  • the respective container forming and in at least two rows, each with at least two containers arranged containers are connected to each other via point or partial adhesive bonds or adhesive applications, for example via adhesive jobs of a pressure-sensitive adhesive.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to equip containers with a coding that allows in particular a machine reading not only of product-specific, but also of container-specific information problems.
  • containers are designed according to claim 1.
  • a method for producing the container is the subject of claim 1 1.
  • the machine-readable coding of the at least one information carrier of the container according to the invention is, for example, at least one bar or bar code and / or one 2D code, and / or the information carrier is equipped with at least one RFID or RFID transponder, the coding and the RFID transponder
  • product-specific information such as type of product, manufacturing and / or filling time, etc.
  • container-specific information such as number of containers per container, etc.
  • the information carrier is with at least one end between two adjacent containers held by gluing, and that at the container connecting these adhesive bond or to the corresponding adhesive application and is in the manner of a flag of the containers or the adhesive bond away so that the coding is easily readable.
  • the fact that the respective information carrier is held at least one end to the adhesive connection between two containers, also results in a certain warranty function, namely the fact that the information carrier is not removed without a visible destruction of the adhesive bond between the adjacent containers and / or replaced can be.
  • Figures 1 and 2 respectively in a schematic representation and in plan view a plurality of containers to one another via partial adhesive bonds or adhesive applications interconnected containers, together with different information carriers provided on the respective container.
  • Fig. 5 in an enlarged partial view and in plan view and partially cut the adhesive bond between two containers of the container of Fig. 1 or
  • Fig. 6 is a view like Figure 3 in a further embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig. 7 in a simplified functional representation of a device for molding the
  • FIG. 9 Bottom view (FIG. 9) of a plurality of adhesive applications to a container interconnected container with information carriers in another
  • Fig. 10 in a simplified representation and in side view two containers of the container of Fig. 8;
  • FIG. 1 1 - 13 respectively in a perspective view different information carrier for use in the containers of Fig. 8 -. 10
  • a filling material eg beer or soft drinks.
  • the adhesive jobs 2 and 3 preferably by a fast-setting or curing adhesive or by a pressure-sensitive adhesive are formed on the circumferential or lateral surface of the container
  • the containers 1 are further arranged in the respective container 4 with their container axes BA parallel to each other.
  • the peculiarity of the container 4 is that of the adhesive orders
  • the bar code 6 contains e.g. the usual product-specific information, such as the type of filled into the container 1 contents, manufacturing and / or filling date, etc., and preferably also container-specific information, such as. Number of containers 1 in the container 4 etc.
  • the information carriers 5a-5d are each formed by a length of a single-layer or multi-layer strip-shaped flat material 5, for example made of plastic and / or of metal foil and / or paper or cardboard.
  • the strip-shaped information carriers 5a-5d are held on the containers 1 in such a way that they each rest against the circumferential or circumferential surface of at least one container 1 with one surface side and project from this container like a flag or e.g. tangential or substantially tangential to the container perimeter area, i. extend in an axial direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the container axis BA.
  • the information carriers 5a - 5d are each connected at the end to which they are held on a container 1 via an additional adhesive application 7 with the relevant container 1.
  • each information carrier 5a-5d is provided with an opening 5.1, through which the adhesive application 2 or 3 two adjacent containers 1 connects directly with each other. This ensures that the connection of the container 1 to the respective container 4 takes place exclusively via the adhesive jobs 2 or 3 and not via the arranged between two adjacent containers 1 end of the information carrier 5a - 5d.
  • the additional adhesive jobs 7 can be designed differently, for example, square or rectangular in accordance with FIG. 3 or circular according to FIG. 4.
  • the information carrier 5a is bow-shaped, i. the strip of flat material 5 forming this information carrier 5a is fastened to a container 1 at both ends, specifically in the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 on a common container 1 and in particular on the central container 1 of a container row.
  • the information carrier 5a is laterally away from the container 4.
  • the information carriers 5b and 5c are each formed like a flag so wegigned from the containers 1 and this held in the simplest case only at one end to the adhesive connection between two containers, in the illustrated embodiment at the adhesive joint between an outer and a middle container 1 a row of containers , In the illustrated embodiment, the information carrier 5b and 5c extending from its fixed end with a partial length to a portion of the circumference of the outer container 1 a row of containers, for example, a quarter or about a quarter of the circumference of these containers 1 and stand with its remaining part length away from the relevant container 1.
  • the strip-shaped information carrier 5d extends like a banderole over a part of the container circumference, ie in the illustrated embodiment over three quarters or substantially three quarters of the container circumference and is held at both ends in the region of adhesive bond formed by the adhesive applications 2 and 3 between the containers 1, namely in the illustrated embodiment at one end to the adhesive joint between the two first containers 1 of the two rows of containers and at the other end to the adhesive connection between the first and the middle container 1 of a row of containers, so that the information carrier 5d extends beyond the middle of the container facing away from the outside of the first container 1 a row of containers.
  • FIG. 6 shows, in a representation similar to FIG.
  • FIG. 7 shows in a schematic functional representation of a plant 8 for producing the container 4.
  • the container 1 with its container axis BA oriented in the vertical direction via a conveyor 9 in a multi-lane container stream.
  • the number of tracks of this container flow corresponds, for example, to the number of rows of containers in the packages 4 to be produced, ie in the illustrated embodiment, the multi-track container stream on the conveyor 9 has two rows.
  • the attachment of the ends of the information carriers 5a-5d to the relevant containers 1 is first carried out via the additional adhesive jobs 7.
  • the strip-shaped flat material 5 provided with the openings 5.1 and the respective barcode 6 is fed, for example, from a supply 11 (supply reel). subtracted and separated with the respective information carrier 5a - 5d forming length.
  • the strip-shaped flat material 5 is, for example, already provided with the additional adhesive jobs 7 likewise formed by a pressure-sensitive adhesive or else these adhesive jobs 7, which serve essentially only to simplify the process or temporarily fix the information carriers 5a-5d, are immediately before Connecting the relevant end of an information carrier 5a - 5d applied.
  • the information carrier 5a - 5d are already held on the respective containers 1, so then also in the system component 10 via suitable adhesive application elements, for example in the form of nozzles and possibly by controlled rotation of the container 1 to its container axis BA Glue orders 2 and 3 can be applied.
  • suitable adhesive application elements for example in the form of nozzles and possibly by controlled rotation of the container 1 to its container axis BA
  • Glue orders 2 and 3 can be applied.
  • the container 4 are fed in the transport direction A for further use.
  • a container 4a which is formed of several, in turn via the adhesive jobs 2 and 3 interconnected containers 1 a in the form of bottles, for example in the form of PET bottles.
  • the container 4 a each consist of six containers 1 a formed, which are arranged in two rows of containers to three containers.
  • the adjacent containers 1 a are each connected via two adhesive applications 2 and 3 staggered in the direction of the container axis BA.
  • the container 4a is further provided with at least one information carrier 14a - 14c, which is equipped with at least one bar or bar code 6 or with a 2D code 6a.
  • the information carriers 14a-14c are not formed by a strip-shaped flat material (foil), but the information carriers 14a-14c are punched and / or molded parts made of a material which is substantially more rigid than a foil, for example metal and / or or plastic, which is usually integrally formed as an extrusion body, monolithic.
  • the particular advantage consists in such as stamped and / or molded parts shaped information carrier that this is held against rotation and position.
  • the information carriers 14a-14c are in turn held glued between two adjacent containers 1a, namely at an adhesive application 2 or 3.
  • the information carriers 14a-15c are located at the 8 and 9 illustrated container 4a with its bar code 6 or the 2D code 6a end having the space formed between four containers 1 a arranged so that the bar code 6 or 2D code 6a from the top of the container 4a well is readable.
  • the information carrier 14a is formed by a strip of material which is twisted or twisted (approximately 90 °) in its middle region about the longitudinal axis of the information carrier 14a, so that the planes of the surface sides of this strip material are at the barcode 6 end or section 14a.2 perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the surface sides of the opening 15 having an end portion 14a.1 are oriented.
  • the information carrier 15b essentially consists of a tab-shaped portion 15b.1 having the opening 15 and a second tab-shaped portion 15b.2 connected to this portion, which has the 2D code 6a and the planes of its surface sides perpendicular to the surface sides of the first section 15b.1, but oriented parallel or substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the information carrier 14b.
  • the information carrier 14a and 14b are in turn held with its opening 15 having the end between two adjacent containers 1 by gluing, in such a way that the adhesive adjacent these container 1 a adhesive application 2 and 3 passes through the opening 15 and the container immediately connects, while the respective information carrier 14a and 14b of the adjacent containers 1 a and the adhesive connection is away.
  • the information carrier 14c which does not have the opening 15, consists of a thin web-like section 14c.1, which merges at one end into a broad section 14c.2 carrying the bar code 6.
  • the thin web-like portion 14c.1 For holding the information carrier 14c is the thin web-like portion 14c.1 at his the Barcode 6 remote end embedded in the respective adhesive application 2 or 3, in such a way that the side of the web-like portion 14c.1 continues on the adhesive application 2 and 3, an immediate adhesive connection between the adjacent containers 1 a is reached.
  • FIGS. 11 to 13 also show variants of the information carrier 14, wherein their elements or parts (14a.1 to 14c.2) can be suitably combined and / or exchanged as required, also with reference to the FIGS 10 variants of the rigid information carrier 14 shown with a horizontal section in the proper attachment.
  • the respective information carrier 5a-5d or 14a-14c can also be equipped with an RFID or RFID transponder.
  • this is supplied either with a free end as uncut material or in final execution and cutting.
  • the bonding of an information carrier is ideally carried out by the approach and compression of the container provided with the adhesive order, which virtually capture the information carrier and pinch between them.
  • the information carrier is brought to a container with one end on or in the region of the adhesive application to the plant and mechanically guided and held until contact with an opposite container by means of a holding and guiding device.
  • no or less adhesive can be applied to the containers in the region of the adhesion point for the information carrier, and the information carrier itself is provided with adhesive before or during delivery to the final attachment location between two containers.
  • This adhesive application via the information carrier is esp. For the punched and / or molded molded rigid information carrier useful and suitable.
  • the containers are ideally aligned prior to compaction to the final container so that the bar codes of the individual bottles in the middle of the container or between containers, so that these bar codes of the individual bottles are not erroneously detected by the usual laser scanners as "container information" can be.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne des emballages collectifs à plusieurs récipients qui sont regroupés en un emballage collectif par l'intermédiaire d'assemblages collés formés d'applications d'adhésif.
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