EP3105133B1 - Emballage collectif et procédé de réalisation d'emballages collectifs - Google Patents

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EP3105133B1
EP3105133B1 EP15700993.7A EP15700993A EP3105133B1 EP 3105133 B1 EP3105133 B1 EP 3105133B1 EP 15700993 A EP15700993 A EP 15700993A EP 3105133 B1 EP3105133 B1 EP 3105133B1
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Matthias Niemeyer
Ludwig Clüsserath
Wilfried Ehmer
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D21/00Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/0201Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side
    • B65D21/0205Containers 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
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65BMACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B17/00Other machines, apparatus, or methods for packaging articles or materials
    • B65B17/02Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D2203/00Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/02Labels
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D2203/00Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
    • B65D2203/06Arrangements on packages concerning bar-codes

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  • the invention relates to containers according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • containers of several containers in the form of bottles especially those made of plastic, PET (polyethylene terephthalate), metal, aluminum, etc.
  • DE 10 2011 107 265 A1 DE 10 2011 107 265 A1 .
  • 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 package-specific information problems.
  • containers are designed according to claim 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 a 2D code, and / or the information carrier is equipped with at least one RFID or RFID transponder, wherein the coding and the RFID transponder, for example, not only with product-specific information, eg regarding the nature of the product, manufacturing and / or Filling time, etc., but also with container-specific information, such as number of containers per container, etc.
  • the information carrier is held by at least one end between two adjacent containers by gluing, namely at the adhesive connection connecting these containers together 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 easy to read.
  • FIGS. 1-7 are 1 container in the form of cans, for example, consist of metal, with a filling (eg beer or soft drinks) filled and sealed.
  • a plurality of containers 1, ie in the illustrated embodiment, a total of six containers 1 are connected to each other via glue joints, which are formed by adhesive applications 2 and 3 to form a container 4, in which the containers 1 are arranged in two rows of three containers 1.
  • the adhesive orders 2 and 3, the preferably from a fast setting or curing adhesive or from a pressure-sensitive adhesive are formed, are applied to the peripheral or lateral surface of the container 1 such that the adhesive jobs 2, the container 1 in the two rows of containers and the adhesive jobs 3 each connect a container 1 one row with a container 1 of the adjacent row.
  • 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 at least one information carrier 5a - 5d with at least one end is attached to the adhesive bonds formed by the adhesive applications 2 and 3 between the containers 1 to each container 4 by bonding at least one end in the illustrated embodiment with at least a bar or bar code 6 is provided.
  • 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 according to the Fig. 3 or circular according to the Fig. 4 ,
  • the information carrier 5a is bow-shaped, ie the information carrier 5a forming strip of the sheet 5 is attached at both ends to a container 1, namely in the in the Fig. 1 illustrated embodiment of a common container 1 and in particular to the middle container 1 a row of containers.
  • 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 Fig. 3 two containers 1 of a container 4, in which the containers are connected to each other via two, in the direction of the container axis BA staggered adhesive jobs 2 and 3 with each other.
  • the respective information carrier 5a-5d is then adhesively attached to one of these adhesive applications 2 or 3 with at least one end between two adjacent containers 1, in the same way as described above.
  • the Fig. 7 shows in a schematic functional representation of a system 8 for producing the container 4.
  • the container 1 At a container inlet of the system 8, the container 1 with its container axis BA oriented in the vertical direction via a conveyor 9 fed 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 drawn off, for example, from a supply 11 (supply reel) and with the respective information carrier 5a - 5d forming length separated.
  • 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.
  • the 8 and 9 show a container 4a, which is formed of several, in turn via the adhesive applications 2 and 3 interconnected containers 1a in the form of bottles, for example in the form of PET bottles.
  • the container 4a is formed in each case of six containers 1a, which are arranged in two rows of containers to three containers. How the particular Fig. 10 It can also be seen that the adjacent containers 1 a are each connected via two adhesive jobs 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. Furthermore, the information carriers 14a-15c at the in the 8 and 9 shown container 4a with its bar code 6 or the 2D code 6a end having arranged between four containers 1a free space arranged so that the bar code 6 or 2D code 6a from the top of the container 4a is well 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 carriers 14a and 14b are in turn held with their opening 15 having the end between two adjacent containers 1a by gluing, in such a way that the bonding of these adjacent container 1a adhesive application 2 and 3 passes through the opening 15 and connects the container directly, while the respective information carrier 14a or 14b is away from the adjacent containers 1a or from the adhesive connection.
  • 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 bond between the adjacent containers 1a is reached.
  • the information carriers 14a-14c can also be used as levers to break open the container 4a which has been formed by adhesive applications 2 or 3 between two adjacent containers 1a, namely by pivoting the respective information carrier 14a. 14c to the adhesive application 2 or 3, as with the double arrow C in the Fig. 10 is indicated.
  • the opening 15 of the information carrier 14a is provided with a web 16, which facilitates a breaking of the adhesive application 2 or 3 by pivoting when swiveling.
  • FIGS. 11 to 13 further variants of the information carrier 14 are shown, wherein the elements or parts (14a.1 to 14c.2) can be suitably combined and / or exchanged in a suitable manner, also with respect to the in FIGS. 8 to 10 shown variants of the rigid information carrier 14 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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  1. Unité d'emballage comprenant plusieurs contenants (1a), qui sont reliés les uns aux autres par l'intermédiaire de liaisons par collage formées par des couches de colle (2, 3) à l'unité d'emballage respective, caractérisée par au moins un support d'informations (14a - 14c), qui est maintenu par au moins une extrémité entre deux contenants (1a) adjacents l'un l'autre de l'unité d'emballage (4a) par collage au niveau d'une couche de colle (2, 3) reliant les contenants (1a),
    dans laquelle
    l'au moins un support d'informations (14a - 14c) est formé par une pièce moulée ou estampée, par exemple par une pièce moule ou estampée composée d'une matière plastique et/ou de métal, dans laquelle le support d'informations (14a - 14c) est pourvu d'un codage, de préférence d'un codage lisible par machine, et dans laquelle le support d'informations (14a - 14c) se tient à distance des contenants (1, 1a) ou de la liaison par collage de telle manière que le codage peut être lu sans problème et que le support d'informations (14a - 14c) ne peut pas être retiré et/ou remplacé sans une destruction visible de la liaison par collage entre les contenants (1a) adjacents les uns les autres.
  2. Unité d'emballage selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le support d'informations (14a - 14c) présente une première section (14a.1, 14b.1, 14c.1) de type bride ou entretoise, à l'aide de laquelle il est maintenu au niveau de la liaison par collage entre deux contenants (1a), ainsi qu'une deuxième section (14a.2, 14b.2, 14c.2) située dans le prolongement de la première section, laquelle est équipée du code (6, 6a) lisible par machine et/ou de la RFID, et que les plans des côtés de surface de la première section (14a.1, 14b.1) forment avec les plans des côtés de surface de la deuxième section (14a.2, 14b.2) par exemple un angle, par exemple un angle de 90° ou sensiblement de 90°.
  3. Unité d'emballage selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le support d'informations (14a - 14c) est pourvu d'un codage pouvant être lu par une machine se présentant sous la forme d'au moins un code à barres (6) ou d'un code 2D (6a), et/ou est pourvu d'une RFID.
  4. Unité d'emballage selon la revendication 1, 2 ou 3, caractérisée en ce que l'au moins un support d'informations (14a - 14c) est réalisé de manière à présenter une forme de bande ou de bride au moins dans une section partielle et se tient à distance des contenants (1a), maintenu par ladite longueur partielle au niveau des contenants (1a).
  5. Unité d'emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que l'au moins un support d'informations (14a - 14c) est maintenu seulement par une extrémité au niveau de la liaison par collage entre les deux contenants (1a) et se tient à distance de ladite liaison à la manière d'un drapeau.
  6. Unité d'emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que le support d'informations (14a - 14c) repose par un côté de surface contre la surface périphérique d'au moins un contenant (1a).
  7. Unité d'emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que l'au moins un support d'informations (14a - 14c) présente, au niveau de son extrémité maintenue au niveau de la liaison par collage entre deux contenants (1a), une ouverture (15), que la couche de colle (2, 3) formant la liaison entre les contenants (1, 1a) traverse.
  8. Unité d'emballage selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisée en ce que l'au moins un support d'informations (14a - 14c) est maintenu par une couche de colle (7) supplémentaire au niveau d'au moins un contenant (1a).
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