GB2485895B - A machine and system for applying container carriers to containers - Google Patents

A machine and system for applying container carriers to containers

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GB2485895B
GB2485895B GB1120245.4A GB201120245A GB2485895B GB 2485895 B GB2485895 B GB 2485895B GB 201120245 A GB201120245 A GB 201120245A GB 2485895 B GB2485895 B GB 2485895B
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containers
carrier stock
cans
side walls
chimes
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Stephen Paul Bates
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British Polythene Ltd
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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
    • 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
    • B65B17/025—Joining articles, e.g. cans, directly to each other for convenience of storage, transport, or handling the articles being joined by a top carrier element
    • 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
    • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
    • B65D71/50—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank
    • B65D71/504—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material comprising a plurality of articles held together only partially by packaging elements formed otherwise than by folding a blank the element being formed from a flexible sheet provided with slits or apertures intended to be stretched over the articles and adapt to the shape of the article

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Packages (AREA)
  • Blow-Moulding Or Thermoforming Of Plastics Or The Like (AREA)
  • Details Of Rigid Or Semi-Rigid Containers (AREA)
  • Basic Packing Technique (AREA)

Abstract

A container packaging system for containers applies an apertured plastics film carrier stock to substantially identical containers such as beverage cans having annular chimes, cylindrical side walls, and frusto-conical walls between the chimes and the side walls. The carrier stock has shaped apertures to securely retain drinks cans, food cans, bottles and similar containers, as a multi-pack unit. The carrier stock is rolled onto suitably juxtaposed containers engaging a tabbed aperture edge portion progressively from above to below the upper edge of the respective containers to be multi-packed and assumes a waveform 3D conformation to unitise the containers. The rolling method contrasts prior stretch application methods and enables cheaper and thinner carrier stock to be used.
GB1120245.4A 2010-11-23 2011-11-23 A machine and system for applying container carriers to containers Active GB2485895B (en)

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GBGB1019848.9A GB201019848D0 (en) 2010-11-23 2010-11-23 A machine and system for applying container carriers to containers

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GB201120245D0 GB201120245D0 (en) 2012-01-04
GB2485895A GB2485895A (en) 2012-05-30
GB2485895B true GB2485895B (en) 2013-03-13

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US (1) US20130263557A1 (en)
EP (1) EP2643221B1 (en)
CN (1) CN103221309B (en)
BR (1) BR112013012591B8 (en)
CA (1) CA2815744A1 (en)
DK (1) DK2643221T3 (en)
ES (1) ES2610361T3 (en)
GB (2) GB201019848D0 (en)
PL (1) PL2643221T3 (en)
PT (1) PT2643221T (en)
WO (1) WO2012069834A1 (en)

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BR112013012591A2 (en) 2016-09-06
PL2643221T3 (en) 2017-08-31
ES2610361T3 (en) 2017-04-27
BR112013012591B1 (en) 2019-11-19
BR112013012591B8 (en) 2021-06-01
CN103221309B (en) 2015-04-08
US20130263557A1 (en) 2013-10-10
GB2485895A (en) 2012-05-30
CA2815744A1 (en) 2012-05-31
EP2643221A1 (en) 2013-10-02
CN103221309A (en) 2013-07-24
GB201019848D0 (en) 2011-01-05
GB201120245D0 (en) 2012-01-04
EP2643221B1 (en) 2016-10-19
WO2012069834A1 (en) 2012-05-31
DK2643221T3 (en) 2017-01-30
PT2643221T (en) 2017-01-27

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