JP2014084137A - Inner seal material - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inner seal material which is superior in productivity including printability, and easy to break through and open in any direction without problems such as paper powder.SOLUTION: The inner seal material is composed by detachably laminating a seal layer for encapsulating an aperture of a container having an external cover, and a reseal layer converted to an external cover after opening. The seal layer contains aluminium foil and a manually tearable film layer.

Description

  The present invention relates to an inner seal material used for sealing an opening of a container such as a glass bottle containing instant coffee or powdered cream.

  In order to protect the contents from moisture and oxygen, glass bottles and cans that store instant coffee powder or powdered cream are sealed directly in the opening, separately from the outer lid (cap). An inner seal material is used.

  As the inner seal material, after the cap is removed, the reseal layer remaining inside the cap and the seal layer that seals the opening of the container are integrated in advance, and this is installed inside the cap and plugged. In addition, there is known one that takes a form in which a sealing layer is sealed in an opening using high frequency. When the cap is first opened, the reseal layer and the seal layer are separated, the reseal layer remains inside the cap, and only the seal layer moves to the opening of the container.

  There are two methods for opening the seal layer: a method in which the entire seal layer is peeled off from the opening (peel open) and a method in which a part of the seal layer is broken with a finger or a spoon. desirable.

  As a material having a high barrier property and a breakthrough property, aluminum foil is cited as the leading material. However, since the aluminum foil alone has poor printability, it is often used by being bonded to other materials.

  Laminating thin paper on aluminum foil can give printability while maintaining breakthrough properties, but paper dust is generated when it breaks through, and paper dust may be generated depending on the sealant even when peeled, and mixed into the contents. There is a problem of doing.

  In order to avoid this problem, when a general synthetic resin film is used instead of thin paper as the backing material of the aluminum foil, there arises a problem that even if peel-opening is possible, breakthrough is not obtained. Moreover, when it was forcibly torn, there was a drawback that the opening became jagged and unsightly.

  The inner seal material for sealing the container mouth described in Patent Document 1 is intended to solve this problem, and by using a uniaxially stretched polyethylene film that is easy to tear in the stretching direction, the hand cutting property is good. And the inner seal material which can form the opening part of the state where the edge part was refreshed is proposed.

  Moreover, the inner-sealing material for container opening part sealing described in patent document 2 uses a biaxially stretched film layer as a backing material of aluminum foil.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 7-23421 JP 2004-35074 A

  Since the inner seal material described in Patent Document 1 uses a uniaxially stretched polyethylene film, the tearing direction is determined. For this reason, it is necessary to specify the direction to be torn by printing or the like. is there.

  Moreover, since the inner seal material described in Patent Document 2 uses a biaxially stretched film that is difficult to tear, it is necessary to form some sort of piercing means in order to exert the piercing property, which is further complicated. Yes.

  The problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an inner seal material that is excellent in productivity such as printability, is free from problems such as paper dust, and can be easily opened and opened in any direction.

As means for solving the above-mentioned problems, the invention according to claim 1 is capable of separating the sealing layer that seals the opening of the container with the outer lid and the resealing layer that moves to the outer lid after opening. A laminated inner seal material, wherein the seal layer includes an aluminum foil and a film layer having a hand cutting property.

  Since the inner seal material according to the present invention includes an aluminum foil and a film layer having a hand cutting property in the seal layer, the barrier property is high, it can be pierced and opened, and paper dust is not generated.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the inner seal material according to claim 1, wherein the film layer having the hand cutting property is a polyester film having the hand cutting property.

  Since the inner seal material according to the present invention includes an aluminum foil and a film layer having hand cutting properties in the seal layer, the effect of protecting the contents from moisture and oxygen is high, and it can be opened through. Can be opened by peel-opening. The directionality is not limited when opening. Also, paper dust is not generated at the time of opening, and the printability is good.

  In the invention of claim 2, when a polyester film having a hand cutting property is used as the film layer having a hand cutting property, it does not absorb moisture like cellophane, so various processes including printing. Good suitability and stable quality products can be obtained.

FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a layer structure in an embodiment of an inner seal material according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a layer structure in another embodiment of the inner seal material according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory cross-sectional view showing a state in which the inner seal material shown in FIG. 1 is mounted on a container.

Hereinafter, the inner seal material according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-sectional view showing a layer structure in an embodiment of an inner seal material according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory cross-sectional view showing a state where the inner seal material shown in FIG. 1 is mounted on a container. This will be described below with reference to these drawings.

  The inner seal material (1) according to the present invention is transferred to the seal layer (20) for sealing the opening of the container body (3) of the container with the outer lid (2) and the outer lid (2) after opening. An inner seal material in which the reseal layer (10) is detachably laminated, and the seal layer includes an aluminum foil and a film layer having hand cutting properties.

  In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, in order from the top as the reseal layer (10), a paperboard (11), an adhesive layer (12), a foamed polyethylene (PE) resin layer (13), a PE resin layer (14), A base film (15) and a PE resin layer (16) are laminated, and in order from the top as a seal layer (20), a release varnish layer (21), a printing layer (22), an aluminum foil (23), and an adhesive A layer (24), a hand-cut film layer (25), a PE resin layer (26), and a hot melt resin layer (27) are laminated.

  The inner seal material (1) according to the present invention is characterized in that the seal layer (20) includes an aluminum foil (23) and a film layer (25) having hand cutting properties. The aluminum foil (23) blocks moisture and oxygen to improve the storage stability of the contents and has a breakthrough opening property. In some cases, the aluminum foil (23) may be used alone.

  However, when printing is performed on the surface of the seal layer (20), the aluminum foil alone is likely to wrinkle or meander and is not suitable for printing. There is a method of pasting the already used film.

  When considering only the print processing suitability, the backing material is preferably a stretched film such as a biaxially stretched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin film or a biaxially stretched polypropylene (OPP) resin film. Lack of suitability.

  There is thin paper as a material that achieves both printing processing suitability and breakthrough suitability. However, when thin paper is used as a backing material, paper dust is generated at the time of opening as described above.

Therefore, in the present invention, it has been found that these problems can be solved by using a film having hand cutting properties as the backing material of the aluminum foil.
Examples of the film having hand-cutting properties include cellophane, hand-cut polyester film, a film having a scratched hole on the entire surface, and a film having a perforation according to the opening.

  Cellophane has good hand cutting properties and uses cellulose as a raw material. Therefore, cellophane can be reproduced and has been reviewed in terms of the environment. However, the development of alternative materials is also being studied because of its high price, easy moisture absorption, and troublesome handling.

  As the film having the hand cutting property used in the present invention, the hand cutting polyester film is most desirable among the above. The hand-cut polyester film has no hygroscopic problem and can be used with general PET film inks and adhesives.

As an example of a hand-cut polyester film, a resin prepared by mixing two kinds of polyester resins having different acid components and diol components described in JP-A-2003-155403 is known. The description of claim 1 is as follows.
(Claim 1) A polyester film comprising a mixture of a polyester resin (A) and a polyester resin (B), wherein the acid component of the polyester resin (A) is mainly terephthalic acid and the diol component is mainly ethylene glycol. The acid component of the resin (B) is mainly terephthalic acid, contains cyclohexanedimethanol as the diol component, and the mass ratio A / B of the polyester resin (A) to the polyester resin (B) is 95/5 to 30 / A polyester film excellent in hand cutting properties, characterized by being 70.

As another example, a polyester film in which two kinds of polyester resin layers having different melting points described in JP-A-2005-178310 is laminated is known. The description of claim 1 is as follows.
(Claim 1) At least two types of polyester resin layers having different melting points are laminated, and the difference in melting point between the highest melting point layer (A) and the lowest melting point layer (B) is 10 ° C. or more. The layer (B) showing the lowest melting point has substantially no molecular orientation, the layer (A) showing the highest melting point has molecular orientation, and the thickness fluctuation rate in the flow direction and width direction of the laminated film is 10%. A polyester-based resin laminated film excellent in hand cutting properties characterized by being:

  The end tear resistance value (JIS C 2318), which is a measure of the hand cutting property of the hand cutting film, is desirably 50 N or less in both the vertical direction and the horizontal direction. On the other hand, if the hand breakability is increased, the tensile fracture strength often decreases and causes film breakage during lamination with the aluminum foil. Therefore, the tensile fracture strength (JIS K 7127) is about 70 MPa in the longitudinal direction. I want.

  In the example of the layer configuration shown in FIG. 1, the hand-cut film layer (25) is bonded to the back surface of the aluminum foil (23) using the adhesive layer (24). As an adhesion method, a dry laminating method using an adhesive for dry laminating as in this example may be used, or an anchor coat may be used in combination and an extrusion laminating method using PE resin or the like may be used.

  Further, the hand-cut film layer (25) may be disposed on the surface side of the aluminum foil (23), and the hand-cut film layer (25) may be printed.

  The hot melt resin layer (27) is an adhesive layer for thermally sealing the seal layer (20) to the opening of the container body (3). The hot melt resin layer (27) is a material that can be sealed (easy peel) with the container body (3), and is selected according to the material of the container body (3).

  The hot melt resin layer (27) may be bonded to the back surface of the hand-cut film layer (25) formed in a film shape, or via the PE resin layer (26) as shown in FIG. The hot melt resin may be extruded and laminated, or directly melt coated.

  A release varnish layer (21) is provided on the surface of the printing layer (22). A peeling varnish layer (21) is a layer for laminating | stacking a reseal layer (10) so that peeling is possible. The peeling varnish layer (21) is appropriately selected according to the material of the lowermost surface of the reseal layer (10) which is a layer in direct contact.

  The structure of the reseal layer (10) includes a paperboard (11) for producing a resilience of the entire reseal layer, a foamed PE resin layer (13) for providing a packing effect, and the bottom layer on which the product is in direct contact after opening. The PE resin layer (16) and the base film (15) necessary for performing the bonding process can be used in appropriate combination.

  When a high barrier property is also required for the reseal layer (10), a barrier layer such as an aluminum foil can be added. Hereinafter, the inner seal material according to the present invention will be described more specifically based on examples.

  A 20 μm thick aluminum foil is dry laminated with a 14 μm thick hand-cut polyester film (Tearfine TF110 manufactured by Toyobo Co., Ltd.), and a polyethylene resin is extruded onto the hand-cut polyester film. Hot melt coating was applied.

  The pattern was printed on the side of the aluminum foil opposite to the hand-cut film. A release varnish layer is applied, and further laminated with a uniaxially stretched PE film (base film) and foamed PE by extrusion lamination with PE resin, and further laminated with paperboard, and then punched into a predetermined shape and size, and the inner of Example 1 A sealing material was obtained.

  A 20 μm thick aluminum foil is dry laminated with a 14 μm thick hand-cut polyester film (Tearfine TF110 manufactured by Toyobo Co., Ltd.), and a polyethylene resin is extruded onto the hand-cut polyester film. Hot melt coating was applied.

  The pattern was printed on the side of the aluminum foil opposite to the hand-cut film. Example 2 After applying a release varnish layer, laminating it with a PP multilayer film (base film) by extrusion lamination with PE resin, laminating it with paperboard by extrusion lamination with PE resin, and then punching it into a predetermined shape and size The inner seal material was obtained.

<Comparative Example 1>
An inner seal material of Comparative Example 1 was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that general stretched PET (thickness: 12 μm) was used instead of the hand-cut polyester film.

<Comparative example 2>
An inner seal material of Comparative Example 2 was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that a polyethylene resin was directly extruded on the aluminum foil surface and hot melt coating was performed on the polyethylene surface without using a hand-cut polyester film. In Comparative Example 2, the aluminum foil was wrinkled in the production process (PE extrusion lamination to the aluminum foil surface), and the yield rate was low.

<Comparative Example 3>
An inner seal material of Comparative Example 3 was obtained in the same manner as in Example 1 except that glassine paper having a basis weight of 30.5 g / m ² was used instead of the hand-cut polyester film.

The inner seal materials of Examples 1 and 2 and Comparative Examples 1 to 3 were attached to caps and sealed with a high frequency seal at the mouth of a glass bottle container containing instant coffee powder.
Sensory evaluation was performed about the openability of the seal layer after opening a cap. The results are shown in Table 1.

  From the above evaluation results, it can be seen that the inner seal materials of Examples 1 and 2 are inner seal materials excellent in unsealing property and productivity.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Inner seal material 2 ... Outer lid 3 ... Container main body 10 ... Reseal layer 11 ... Paperboard 12 ... Adhesive layer 13 ... Foam PE resin layer 14 ... PE Resin layer 15 ... Base film 16 ... PE resin layer 20 ... Seal layer 21 ... Peeling varnish layer 22 ... Print layer 23 ... Aluminum foil 24 ... Adhesive layer 25. ..Hand-cut film layer 26 ... PE resin layer 27 ... hot melt resin layer

Claims (2)

  An inner seal material in which a seal layer that seals an opening of a container with an outer lid and a reseal layer that moves to the outer lid after opening is laminated in a peelable manner, and the seal layer is hand-cut with aluminum foil An inner seal material comprising a film layer having   The inner seal material according to claim 1, wherein the film layer having a hand cutting property is a polyester film having a hand cutting property.

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