JP3232199B2 - Packing body with mount for cylindrical product and method of manufacturing the same - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a package with a backing for a cylindrical product and a method for producing the same. For more information,
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a package with a mount suitable for exhibiting a product in which a plurality of cylindrical products are packaged in parallel by a shrink film and adhered to a mount, and a method of manufacturing the package.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Packaging refers to a technique and a state in which an appropriate material, container, or the like is applied to a product in order to protect its value and condition when the product is transported or stored. Packaging not only fulfills the technical requirements of protecting goods, but also has the visual purpose of a sophisticated design that is adorned with over-the-counter packaging of materials and containers, which inspires consumers to purchase. I also have it. It is important that the packaging design is not just a cosmetically decorative product, but a more dynamic and functional form. Conventionally, multiple cylindrical products have been arranged in parallel in wooden boxes, paper boxes, metal boxes, plastic boxes, etc., and filled and packed.However, advances in plastic packaging materials As a result, blister packaging and shrink packaging have come to be carried out. FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an example of a blister package. Blister packaging, transparent plastic shell 1
The product name, characteristics, usage, etc. are printed on the mount, the cylindrical product 3 is inserted between the plastic shell and the mount, and the edge of the plastic shell is attached to the mount. Gluing, heat sealing or metal fittings. For blister packaging, use a backing large enough to give the required printing, make a cut in the backing to take out cylindrical products from the back side, and choose a strong plastic shell On the other hand, the size of the mount cannot be reduced due to the edge of the plastic shell, and a mold and a process for molding the plastic shell from the plastic sheet by vacuum molding or the like are required. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an example of a conventional shrink wrap. Conventional shrink wrapping involves inserting a cylindrical product and a mount into a cylindrical shrink film that is longer than a cylindrical product, or wrapping a band-shaped shrink film that is wider than the length of the cylindrical product around the cylindrical product and the mount. After bonding, the cylindrical product and the mount are wrapped with the shrink film, and then the shrink film 4 is contracted by heating to fix the cylindrical product 3 to the mount 2. In conventional shrink wrapping, the width of the backing must be slightly smaller than the width of the cylindrical product to be wrapped, so the shape of the backing is limited, and
The shrinked shrink film is damaged by the corners of the backing sheet, and the accident that the packaging is broken easily occurs. Therefore, 2
A package with a mount for a cylindrical product, which can pack more than one cylindrical product in a simple process, the cylindrical product is securely fixed to the mount, and the shape of the mount can be arbitrarily selected. There was a need for a manufacturing method.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION According to the present invention, two or more cylindrical products can be shrink-wrapped in a simple process, and the shape of the mount can be arbitrarily selected.
An object of the present invention is to provide a package with a mount for a cylindrical product and a method for manufacturing the same.

[0004]

The inventor of the present invention has conducted intensive studies to solve the above-mentioned problems. As a result, after cylindrical products are shrink-wrapped in parallel with a shrink film, they are previously placed on one side of the shrink film. By gluing the shrink-wrapped cylindrical product to the backing with a heat-sealed plastic tape, it was found that the cylindrical product could be securely fixed to the mounting of any shape in a simple process. The present invention has been completed based on the findings. That is, the present invention provides: (1) a package with a backing sheet formed by wrapping two or more cylindrical products in parallel so that their cylindrical axes are parallel to each other with a shrink film, wherein the two shrink films are cylindrical. A plastic tape that is fused and cut at both ends parallel to the cylinder axis of the product, holds the cylindrical product by heat shrinkage, and is fixed to the backing paper by heat-sealing plastic tape fixed to the backing sheet shrink film. And (2) a method for producing a package with a mount, wherein two or more cylindrical products are arranged in parallel so that their cylindrical axes are parallel to each other and packaged with a shrink film. In (A), a cylindrical product is supplied to the fusion tip of two long shrink films, one of which is a heat-sealed plastic tape.
A moving arm is used to fit the cylindrical product together with the cylindrical product and the concave portion on the upper and lower surfaces of the rotary holding table having concave portions for fitting the cylindrical product together with the cylindrical product. (B) the cylindrical product is pressed from above by a presser bar, and fused with a hot blade at a position parallel to the cylindrical axis of the cylindrical product, and at the same time, the two shrink films and the plastic tape are cut; A fusing step of separating the cylindrical product into a state wrapped in a cylindrical shrink film and forming a fusion tip in the step (A),
(C) The cylindrical product held in the cylinder formed by the two shrink films by reversing the rotary holding table,
A reversing and dropping step of dropping accurately to a predetermined position on a mount placed on an intermittent drive conveyor, (D) a gluing step in which a gluing step on a plastic tape is performed before or after a fusing step, (E) a shrinking step of shrinking the shrink film by the intermittent drive conveyor passing through the hot air tunnel and packing the shrink film in tight contact at both ends and side surfaces of the cylindrical product; and (F) the packed cylinder The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a package with a mount for a cylindrical product, comprising: a step of pressing a shaped product onto a mount, and bonding the formed product to the mount with a glued plastic tape.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to examples, but the present invention is not limited to these examples. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a process of one embodiment of the present invention. In the present invention, the shrink film feeder 5 serving as the lower surface on the mount side and the shrink film 7 serving as the lower surface fed from the plastic tape feeder 6 and the plastic tape 8 are laminated and heat-sealed by the heat roller 9. The material of the shrink film used in the present invention is not particularly limited, and for example, stretched films such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride, and vinyl chloride-vinylidene chloride copolymer can be used. The width of the shrink film is selected to be wider than the length of the cylindrical product so that both ends of the cylindrical product to be packed are sufficiently held when the shrink film shrinks. The thickness of the shrink film may be sufficient if it has a sufficient strength according to the size and weight of the cylindrical product to be packed.
A shrink film of １００100 μm is selected. The plastic tape used in the present invention can be used without particular limitation as long as it can be heat-sealed with the film used as the shrink film serving as the lower surface.For example, synthetic paper, or synthetic paper and the same material as the shrink film can be used. A plastic tape or the like obtained by laminating the above film and slitting in a belt shape can be used. The width of the plastic tape is selected according to the size and weight of the cylindrical product so that the strength to hold the cylindrical product on the backing sheet can be obtained by drawing on the plastic tape. Can be set to one tenth to one half of the length in the cylindrical axis direction. The thickness of the plastic tape is not particularly limited, and is usually 60 to 2
00 μm can be selected. In the present invention,
The lower surface of the shrink film and the plastic tape are heat sealed by a heat roller. The method of heat sealing is not particularly limited as long as the heat seal portion can hold the weight of the cylindrical product to be packaged, and the entire surface of the plastic tape can be heat sealed, or the plastic tape can be partially Can be heat sealed. In the present invention, a shrink film 11 serving as an upper surface is fed from a shrink film feeder 10 serving as an upper surface on the product display side. There is no particular limitation on the material of the shrink film to be the upper surface, but since the shrink film to be the upper surface and the shrink film to be the lower surface are fused, it is particularly preferable to use the same material as the shrink film to be the lower surface. Can be. It is preferable that the width and thickness of the shrink film serving as the upper surface be the same as those of the shrink film serving as the lower surface.

In the present invention, the shrink film serving as the upper surface is overlapped with the shrink film serving as the lower surface obtained by heat sealing a plastic tape.
Guided above. On the rotary holding table, the shrink film serving as the upper surface is in contact with the rotary holding table, and the shrink film serving as the lower surface is laminated thereon with the heat-sealed plastic tape as the outermost layer. When the operation is started for the first time, the shrink film serving as the upper surface and the shrink film serving as the lower surface are fused and cut in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the film to form a ⊃ shape at the ends of both films. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of one embodiment of the supply conveyor used in the present invention. In the present invention, the cylindrical goods 13 to be packed are supplied on a supply conveyor 14. The cylindrical products packaged according to the present invention include, for example, pharmaceuticals,
Beverages, foods, spices, lipsticks, glue, dry batteries, writing instruments, etc., having a cylindrical shape, as well as hexagonal cylinders, octagonal cylinders, tubes, and other non-cylindrical cylinders are also packaged with a mount according to the present invention. be able to. On the supply conveyor, the cylindrical commodities are arranged adjacent to each other by means such as fitting into two or more packaging units into recesses on the supply conveyor. If necessary, identify cylindrical products with a positioning sensor or image processing device, etc.
A specific printing surface or the like of a cylindrical product can be directed to a certain direction, for example, a shrink film side serving as an upper surface, so that a specific printing surface or the like can be seen at the time of product display.
In the present invention, the number of packaging units arranged adjacent to each other on the supply conveyer, and if necessary, the cylindrical products oriented in a certain direction are melted by the moving arm 15 while maintaining the arrangement of the number of packaging units. It is moved to the ends of the shrink film which is the upper surface and the lower surface which is cut and cut. FIG. 5 is a side view of one embodiment of the moving arm. At both ends of the girder 16 of the moving arm, a pair of holding arms 1 that rotate around a connection with the girder are provided.
The moving arm that has moved to the position of the cylindrical commodities arranged on the supply conveyor rotates the holding arm and holds the cylindrical commodities. FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an operation mechanism of the cylindrical product moving arm. In this figure, a moving arm 15 holds two cylindrical products, and rotates the cylindrical products together with a shrink film serving as an upper surface and a fusion tip 18 of a shrink film serving as a lower surface heat-sealed with a plastic tape. Has moved up. The cylindrical product is released from the moving arm when it is moved by the moving arm to a position where it fits into the concave portion of the rotary holding table. The cylindrical product released from the moving arm fits into the recess on the rotary holding table. If necessary, an electromagnet or a reduced-pressure suction port may be provided in the concave portion of the rotary holding table so that the cylindrical product can be firmly fitted and held in the concave portion.

In the present invention, the moving arm that has moved the cylindrical product to the rotary holding table moves again to the supply conveyor. The moving arm is a girder 16 having two traveling rails 1.
9 by sliding over it. Since the girder and the running rail are located above the shrink film, which is the lower surface heat-sealed with plastic tape, the cylindrical conveyor can be moved from the supply conveyor between the shrink film, which is the upper surface, and the shrink film, which is the lower surface. it can. In the present invention, the cylindrical product fitted in the concave portion of the rotary holding table is pressed by the holding rod 20 so as not to cause a displacement, and the shrink film serving as the upper surface and the shrink film serving as the lower surface are formed by the hot blade 21.
As a result, the product is fused at a position parallel to the cylindrical axis of the cylindrical product and cut at the same time. By the fusion cutting of the upper and lower shrink films, the arranged cylindrical products are wrapped in a cylindrical shrink film. Then, the rotary holding table is inverted so that the empty concave portion into which the arranged cylindrical goods are to be fitted is located at the upper part. In FIG. 3, only two sets of recesses to which the arranged cylindrical products are to be fitted are shown in the rotary holding table, but a larger number of sets of cylindrical products are fitted to the rotating holding table. A concave portion to be formed can be provided. In the present invention, when the rotary holder is rotated so that the cylindrical product wrapped in the cylindrical shrink film is positioned below the rotary holder, the sealing roller is heat-sealed to the shrink film serving as the lower surface. Gluing is performed on the plastic tape. Gluing to the plastic tape can also be performed by a gluing roller provided between the shrink film and the plastic tape, which are the lower surfaces, after the plastic tape is heat-sealed and transferred to the rotary holding table. The glue used in the present invention is not particularly limited, and the cylindrical product can be held on the mount in consideration of the properties of the plastic tape and the mount, the area of the plastic tape bonded to the mount, the weight of the cylindrical product, and the like. You can choose the glue you can. Examples of such a paste include, for example, Polysol L manufactured by Showa Polymer Co., Ltd.
-315, etc., as long as it can firmly join the mount and the plastic tape.
It can be used without particular limitation.

In the present invention, an array of cylindrical products wrapped in a cylindrical shrink film that has been moved to the lower part of the rotary holder by reversing the rotary holder is mounted on a backing paper placed on the intermittent drive conveyor 23. It falls exactly on the predetermined position on 24. The fall of the cylindrical product can be caused by natural fall.However, if an electromagnet or a decompression suction port is provided in the recess of the rotary holder and the cylindrical product is forcibly held in the recess of the rotary holder, the predetermined By releasing the electromagnetic force or the reduced pressure at the timing of (1), the falling of the cylindrical product can be controlled, and the positioning of the cylindrical product on the mount can be made accurate. FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of one embodiment of the mount supply device. In this drawing, the mount is loaded on a mount magazine 25 provided on the side of the intermittent drive conveyor, pushed out one by one in the direction of the intermittent drive conveyor by a pusher 26 interlocking with the intermittent drive conveyor, and intermittently driven by a delivery roller 27. It is sent to the conveyor. A stopper 28 is provided at the end of the intermittent drive conveyor, and the mount is stopped in contact with the stopper, so that the mount can be accurately positioned.
In the present invention, the mount is not particularly limited to paper, but paper, a plastic sheet, a plastic foam,
There is no particular limitation on the material such as wood and metal plate, and a material having good adhesion to a plastic tape and having a strength capable of holding a cylindrical product can be selected. In addition, the shape and design of the mount can be freely selected according to the properties of the cylindrical product to be packaged, as long as the mount has an area that adheres to the plastic tape on the shrink film serving as the lower surface. It is possible to make a hole for hanging or to have an area necessary for printing such as advertisements and explanations of products. In the present invention, the arranged cylindrical products wrapped in a cylindrical shrink film in which the glued and drawn plastic tape has fallen on the mount so as to contact the mount are conveyed to the hot air tunnel 29 by an intermittent drive conveyor. In the hot air tunnel, the shrink film is heated and shrunk by the hot air, and holds the arranged cylindrical products. The hot air temperature and passage time of the hot air tunnel are
Although it can be appropriately selected depending on the properties of the shrink film, usually, a suitable shrinkage can be obtained by heating at 65 to 165 ° C for 3 to 6 seconds. The cylindrical products packaged in a state of being arranged by the shrink film shrunk after passing through the hot air tunnel are sent to the crimping process together with the backing paper, are pressed and adhered to the backing by the glued plastic tape paste. There is no particular limitation on the method of pressing the cylindrical product packaged with the shrink film and the backing paper by gluing, and the pressing can be performed using, for example, a pressing roller 30 or a pressing press.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an example of a package with a backing for a cylindrical product manufactured by the method of the present invention. In this figure, 2
A plurality of cylindrical products 13 are wrapped in a cylindrical shrink film formed by a shrink film 11 serving as an upper surface and a shrink film 7 serving as a lower surface, and are held by shrinkage of the shrink film. A plastic tape 8 is heat-sealed to the shrink film serving as the lower surface, and is adhered to the mount 2 by a glue on the plastic tape. In the present invention, unlike a blister package, there is no need for a step of preparing a plastic molded article having irregularities in advance, and the manufacturing equipment and the manufacturing process are simple. In both cases, the shape of the mount can be arbitrarily selected because the cylindrical product is bonded with the mount after packaging with the shrink film instead of packaging with the shrink film.

[0009]

According to the package of the present invention, a package with a mount for a cylindrical product is provided. After two or more cylindrical products are packaged in parallel by a shrink film and then adhered to the mount via a plastic tape, the cylindrical product is bonded to the mount. Shape products are securely held,
In addition, a mount having an arbitrary shape can be selected.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an example of a blister package.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an example of a conventional shrink wrap.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a process of one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of one embodiment of a supply conveyor used in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side view of one embodiment of a moving arm.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing an operation mechanism of a cylindrical product moving arm.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of one embodiment of a mount sheet supply device.

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of an example of a package with a backing of a cylindrical product manufactured by the method of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Plastic shell 2 Mount 3 Cylindrical goods 4 Shrink film 5 Shrink film unwinding machine 6 Plastic tape unwinding machine 7 Lower shrink film 8 Plastic tape 9 Heat roller 10 Shrink film unwinding machine 11 Upper surface Shrink film 12 to be rotated 12 Rotary holding table 13 Cylindrical product 14 Supply conveyor 15 Moving arm 16 Girder 17 Holding arm 18 Shrink film fusion tip 19 Running rail 20 Holding rod 21 Hot blade 22 Glue roller 23 Intermittent drive conveyor 24 Mount 25 Mount Magazine 26 Pusher 27 Delivery Roller 28 Stopper 29 Hot Air Tunnel 30 Pressure Roller

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (56) References JP-A-62-260632 (JP, A) JP-A-6-247426 (JP, A) JP-A-52-45476 (JP, A) JP-A-4- 311433 (JP, A) JP-A-63-281970 (JP, A) JP-A-62-76165 (JP, U) (58) Fields investigated (Int. Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B65B 53/02 B65B 53 / 00 B65D 75/08 B65D 75/30

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A package with a backing formed by packaging two or more cylindrical products in parallel so that their cylindrical axes are parallel to each other with a shrink film, wherein the two shrink films are cylindrical shafts of the cylindrical product. The plastic tape fixed to the shrink film on the backing paper side by heat sealing is fixed to the backing paper by heat-shrinking and holding the cylindrical product at both ends parallel to A package with a mount for cylindrical products. 2. A method for manufacturing a package with a backing sheet, comprising packaging two or more cylindrical products in parallel so that their cylindrical axes are parallel to each other with a shrink film, wherein (A) one sheet is heat-sealed with a plastic tape. The cylindrical product is supplied to the fusion end of two long shrink films, and the fusion end of the two shrink films together with the cylindrical product is provided with a concave portion for fitting the cylindrical product. A moving step in which the cylindrical product is moved by a moving arm so that the cylindrical product fits into a concave portion on the upper and lower surfaces of the rotary holding table; (B) the cylindrical product is pressed from above by a pressing rod, and the cylindrical product is formed by a hot blade; At the same time as the product is fused at a position parallel to the cylindrical axis of the product, the two shrink films and the plastic tape are cut, and the cylindrical product is separated into a state wrapped in a cylindrical shrink film, (A) a fusing step for forming a fusion tip, and (C) the cylindrical product held in a cylinder formed by two shrink films by reversing a rotary holding table, on an intermittent drive conveyor. (D) a reversing and dropping step of accurately dropping a sheet onto a predetermined position on a backing, (D) a gluing and pulling step in which a gluing step on a plastic tape is performed before or after a fusing step, and (E) an intermittent step. A shrinking step of shrinking the shrink film by the drive conveyor passing through the hot air tunnel and packing the shrink film in tight contact at both ends and side surfaces of the cylindrical product, and (F) mounting the packed cylindrical product on a backing paper. Adhesion process of bonding to the backing paper by gluing plastic tape glued to
A method for producing a package with a mount for a cylindrical product, comprising: