JP2001114242A - Handling method of thin-walled bottle body - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the keeping and transport cost of a thin-walled bottle body by achieving the vol. reduction and space saving of the thin-walled bottle body in a process from molding to the filling with a content liquid and utilizing a temporarily attached label in the handling of the thin-walled bottle body and to make the handling of a large number of the thin-walled bottle bodies easy and efficient. SOLUTION: Thin-walled bottle bodies 2 each deformable to a flat vol. reduced bottle body capable of being easily returned to the original shape are forcibly inserted in and fitted to the fitting holes 10 of a label band 14 wherein labels 9 are bonded in series by the mouth cylindrical parts 7 of the bottle bodies to constitute an intermediate combined object 15 and the thin-walled bottle bodies 2 of the intermediate combined object 5 are flatly collaped and deformed in the same direction to be put together and the intermediate combined object 15 wherein a large number of the thin-walled bottle bodies 2 are put together is handled as a unit.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for handling thin-walled bottles, such as storing, transporting, and transporting to a processing apparatus, after molding and before filling with a content liquid. .

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As containers for various liquid contents, bottles made of synthetic resin molded by blow molding or biaxial stretch blow molding have been widely used. BACKGROUND ART Thin-walled bottles that achieve resource saving and facilitation of disposal by facilitating crushing deformation are used, for example, as refill containers.

[0003] Further, since the thin-walled bottle is very easy to bend and deform, it is not appropriate to use a shrink label as a display function body. By attaching the thin-walled bottle to the thin-walled bottle in a poncho-like manner, it is possible to obtain a stable and good display with almost no influence on the deformability of the thin-walled bottle.

[0004]

However, while this synthetic resin thin-walled bottle has the advantage of being lightweight, it is bulky and occupies a large amount of space, so it has to be molded by a container manufacturer. In the process of being delivered to a product maker and being filled with the content liquid, there has been a problem that the storage cost and transportation cost are high, and the handling is troublesome.

Further, the poncho-like assembling of the sheet-like label to the thin-walled bottle needs to be completed by the product maker. However, in order to reduce the unfamiliar container assembly work on the product maker side, the container Since the label is temporarily attached to the thin-walled bottle on the side, there is a problem that the label hinders the handling of the thin-walled bottle until the content liquid is filled.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, and is intended to reduce the volume of a thin-walled bottle during the process from molding to filling with a content liquid, thereby saving the volume. It is a technical task to increase the space and to use the temporarily assembled labels for handling thin-walled bottles, thereby reducing the cost of storage, transportation, etc., and increasing the number of thin-walled bottles. The purpose of the present invention is to make the handling of the materials easy and efficient.

[0007]

Means for Solving the Problems Among the present invention for solving the above technical problems, the means according to the first aspect of the present invention reduces the volume of the whole except for the barrel portion so that it can be easily restored to its original shape. In a thin wall bottle made of synthetic resin that has been deformed into a volume-reduced bottle and blow molded or biaxially stretch blow molded, a sheet-like label that can be elastically extended and deformed is attached to the assembling hole opened in this label. The thin-wall bottle is a method of handling a thin-wall bottle that is forcibly passed over a neck ring of a mouth portion of a thin-wall bottle and is assembled in a poncho shape while being locked to the neck ring to constitute a bottle container. The thin-walled bottles are inserted and assembled into the assembling holes of the label strips connected in series with the mouthpiece to form an intermediate combination, and the thin-walled bottles of the intermediate combination are flattened in the same direction. Crushed into a volume-reduced bottle,
It consists in handling a large number of thin-walled bottles in units of an intermediate combination.

[0008] The thin-walled bottle molded by the container maker is flattened and crushed in the same direction to form a volume-reduced bottle, which is handled collectively for each intermediate combination, so that the occupied space is greatly reduced. As a result, the thin-walled bottle can be efficiently stored and transported, thereby reducing costs for storage and transport.

[0009] Each volume-reduced bottle is easily and smoothly returned to the original thin-walled bottle shape by injecting and filling the content liquid or inflating with air at the product manufacturer. , Offered to goods.

[0010] Since the thin-walled bottles of the intermediate combination are handled in a state of being connected together by a label band, the label does not hinder the handling of each thin-walled bottle, but rather a large number of thin-walled bottles. Since the handling of the bottles is collectively performed by connecting the thin-walled bottles by the label band and is performed in the unit of the intermediate combination, the quantity control of a large number of thin-walled bottles becomes simple and accurate.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the invention as set forth in the first aspect, wherein a plurality of thin-walled bottles are crushed flatly in the same lateral direction for each intermediate combination. In addition to storing and transporting in parallel and adjacent arrangement along the crushing direction.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, since the volume-reducing bottles of the intermediate combination, which are crushed flat in the same lateral direction, are arranged side by side in parallel in the crushing direction.
Adjacent postures of adjacent volume reduction bottles are most stable,
Since the label band can be positioned regularly between adjacent volume-reducing bottles, there is no danger that the label band will interfere with handling.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in addition to the first aspect of the present invention, a plurality of thin-walled bottles can be transmitted to a succeeding thin-walled bottle via a label band to transmit a plurality of tensile forces. In addition, the thin-walled bottles are successively carried into the processing apparatus at regular intervals.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the thin-walled bottle is loaded (supplied) into a processing device such as a filling device for the content liquid.
Is carried out by means of a pulling force from a previously introduced thin-walled bottle, which acts via a label strip, so that the loading of a large number of thin-walled bottles into the processing device is necessarily sequential and at regular intervals. This eliminates the need for a dedicated device for feeding the thin-walled bottles to the processing device sequentially and at regular intervals.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As the thin-walled bottle 2 suitable for carrying out the present invention, for example, a synthetic resin material such as polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, polyethylene naphthalate, and cyclic polyolefin having a resin weight of 0.004 to 0.0
Molded by biaxial stretch blow molding means so as to have a wall thickness of 25 g / ml, that is, the entire wall except for the mouthpiece portion 7 is thin enough to be able to easily return to its original shape and be reduced in volume flatly. Is good.

The thin-walled bottle 2 has a shoulder portion 6 whose diameter is gradually reduced upward at the upper end of a cylindrical body 4 having a bottom portion 5.
A cylindrical mouthpiece 7 having a thread formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof is provided upright, and an outer collar-shaped neck ring 8 is provided around the lower end of the outer peripheral surface of the mouthpiece 7. Have been.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the bottle container 1 is constructed by assembling a deformable sheet-like label 9 into a thin-walled bottle 2 in a poncho-like manner. At the center, an assembling hole 10 is opened with a diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the neck ring 8, and the neck ring 8 is forcibly passed over the assembling hole 10, and the mouthpiece 7 is inserted and assembled.
The thin wall bottle 2 is formed by bonding the side edges of the front half portion 11 and the rear half portion 12, which hang down before and after the body portion 4, or the side edge portion and the body portion 4 as the bonding portion 13. To achieve a poncho-like assembly for

By assembling the label 9 to the thin-walled bottle 2 in a poncho-like manner, the label 9 is attached to the thin-walled bottle 2 with a substantially constant assembling posture without being greatly affected by the bending deformation. , So that a stable and good display function is exhibited.

Further, when the side edges of the label 9 are adhered to each other, the label 9 can be easily peeled off when the label 9 is adhered to the thin-walled bottle 2 with the adhesive portion 13. In this case, the label 9 is lifted upward, and the mouthpiece 7 of the thin-walled bottle 2 is forcibly pulled out of the assembling hole 10 so that the thin-walled bottle 2 at the time of disposal of the bottle container 1 is removed. The separation process from the label 9 can be easily achieved.

As shown in FIG. 3, the thin-walled bottle 2 is inserted into the mounting holes 10 of the label strip 14 in which a desired number of labels 9 are connected in series by the mouthpiece portion 7 and assembled. A plurality of thin-walled bottles 2 are constituted by an intermediate combination 15 in which a plurality of thin-walled bottles 2 are connected by one label band 14, and a large number of thin-walled bottles 2 manufactured by a container maker are handled by using the intermediate combination 15 as a unit. Will be transported to the product manufacturer.

The handling of the intermediate combination 15 such as transportation and storage is performed by flattening each thin-walled bottle 2 in the same direction to form a volume-reduced bottle 3. The crushing form is
Although it may be crushed in the horizontal direction shown in FIG. 4 or crushed in the vertical direction shown in FIG. 5, a large number of volume-reduced bottles 3 connected by one label band 14 cannot be forced. In order to collect the data in an easy-to-handle state, it is preferable to squash flatly in the same lateral direction in FIG. 4 and to arrange them adjacently in parallel along the crushing direction.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, not only can a large number of volume-reducing bottles 3 be grouped in an easy-to-handle state, but also the label band 14 between adjacent volume-reducing bottles 3 can be reduced. Since the label band 14 can be regularly positioned between the container bottles 3 in a hanging manner, the label band 14 does not hinder handling.

FIG. 6 shows that each of the reduced volume bottles 3 of the intermediate combination 15 is subjected to continuous processing of the thin-walled bottles 2 sequentially by an appropriate processing device such as a content liquid filling device on the merchandise manufacturer side. Attaching a neck ring 8 to the guide rail 16 of the processing apparatus with a neck ring 8, and transmitting the pulling force from the preceding volume reducing bottle 3 to the succeeding volume reducing bottle 3 via the label band 14 to perform the pulling movement. As a result, the thin-walled bottles 2 are continuously carried into the processing apparatus at a constant interval.

If the continuous transfer of the thin-walled bottle 2 to the processing apparatus is achieved, the label band 14 is sequentially moved along a preformed break line such as a perforation at a desired appropriate time. Break to form a combination of the independent thin-walled bottle 2 and the label 9, after which the poncho-like assembly of the label 9 to the thin-walled bottle 2 is completed.

[0025]

Since the present invention has the above-described structure, the following effects can be obtained. The thin wall bottle made of synthetic resin molded by the container maker is deformed into a flat shape in a certain direction, and a large number of the flat deformed volume reducing bottles are handled adjacent to each other in a certain direction. The occupied space can be greatly reduced, thereby reducing the cost of storage, transportation, etc. in the process until the content liquid is filled, and can be handled easily, and the handling work can be performed easily. Efficiency can be increased without difficulty.

A large number of thin-walled bottles assembled on one label band are handled in a state in which they are combined into a volume-reduced bottle crushed flat in the same direction, so that the labels are interconnected. This makes it easier to keep the label from interfering with the handling of the intermediate combination, i.e. the thin-walled bottle, when the thin-walled bottle is bundled.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the direction in which the thin-walled bottle is squashed flat on the volume-reducing bottle and the direction in which the volume-reducing bottle is arranged adjacently coincide with each other. Objects are packed together in a sufficiently small volume and in a stable form.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the thin-walled bottles can be continuously loaded into the processing apparatus of the product maker in a sequence and at a constant interval by using labels without using any special equipment. Thus, the efficiency of handling the thin-walled bottle on the merchandise maker side can be enhanced, and the equipment for handling the thin-walled bottle can be simplified.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing an example of a bottle container as a final product of a thin-walled bottle handled by the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an overall perspective view showing another embodiment of a bottle container as a final product of a thin-walled bottle handled by the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an assembling relationship between a thin-walled bottle and a label band in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an arrangement state diagram showing an example of a combined form of an intermediate combination according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an arrangement state diagram showing another example of the combined form of the intermediate combination according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of Keita carried into an apparatus for processing an intermediate combination according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1; Bottle container 2; Thin-wall bottle 3; Volume-reducing bottle 4; Body 5; Bottom 6; Shoulder 7; The rear part 13; the adhesive part 14; the label strip 15; the intermediate combination 16;

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. The entire body except for the barrel portion (7) is flattened and reduced in volume so that it can be easily returned to its original shape to form a reduced volume bottle (3).
Elastically stretchable and deformable sheet-shaped labels on synthetic resin thin-walled bottles (2) blow-molded or biaxially stretch blow-molded
(9) is forcibly passed over the neck ring (8) of the mouthpiece (7) of the thin-walled bottle (2) in the mounting hole (10) opened in the label (9). A method of handling the thin-walled bottle (2) constituting a bottle container (1) assembled in a poncho shape while being locked to a neck ring (8), wherein the label (9) is connected in series. In each of the holes (10) of the band (14), insert the thin-walled bottle
(2) is inserted and assembled in the mouthpiece (7) to form an intermediate combination (15), and each thin-walled bottle (2) of the intermediate combination (15) is crushed flat in the same direction. A method for handling thin-walled bottles in which a large number of said thin-walled bottles (2) are handled in units of said intermediate combination (15). 2. A method according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of thin-walled bottles (2) are mixed with the intermediate combination (1).
5) In each case, volume-reduced bottles crushed flat in the same horizontal direction (3)
2. The method for handling a thin-walled bottle according to claim 1, wherein the thin-walled bottles are stored adjacent to each other in parallel in a crushing direction and stored and transported. 3. A number of said thin-wall bottles are transmitted by transmitting the pulling force from a preceding thin-wall bottle (2) to a following thin-wall bottle (2) via a label band (14). 2. The method for handling thin-walled bottles according to claim 1, wherein (2) is sequentially carried into the processing device at a constant interval.