JP3515194B2 - Packaging material for bag-in-box - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention has excellent mechanical suitability as an inner container for bag-in-boggs suitable for packaging relatively heavy liquids, and has pinhole resistance and drop bag resistance (falling impact strength). It relates to excellent packaging materials.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The function of a flexible laminated packaging material is basically to protect the packaged article, that is, to prevent deterioration of the packaged article. It is required to have pinhole resistance to withstand friction and bending due to vibration, and drop bag resistance (such as drop impact strength) to withstand impacts such as drops and collisions during handling.

[0003] Generally, various plastic films are used as a packaging material by being laminated or by utilizing the characteristics of each material. For example, a base film for maintaining mechanical strength and a heat-sealable sealant. Based on the combination with the film, each material is selected and used according to the content of the package. When the gas barrier properties such as oxygen are unsatisfactory only with these combinations, a film having good gas barrier properties is used as an intermediate film between the base film and the heat-sealable sealant film by being laminated and laminated. To be

In recent years, a so-called bag-in-box in which a foldable flexible plastic bag is surrounded by a cardboard box as an outer container to form a packaging container for liquid foods, fluid foods, etc.
Because of the convenience of storage, transportation, disposal, etc., mainly conventional food packaging, which is relatively heavy, is being replaced by conventional metal containers and plastic hard containers. The plastic inner bag used as the inner container of the bag-in-box is a package with exceptionally high level of pinhole resistance that resists rubbing, rubbing, bending, etc. against corrugated cardboard, and drop bag resistance that can withstand the impact force during bag drop. It is required to be a material. Especially in winter, low temperature, cold storage, low temperature transportation such as chilled,
In a low-temperature distribution environment such as during storage, these properties are largely deteriorated, so that a plastic packaging material that is less likely to be embrittled at low temperatures and has excellent cold resistance is required.

As a packaging material used as an inner container of a bag-in-box, a single film which is not laminated is generally used, and the film has the above-mentioned strength, heat sealing property, gas barrier property and the like. It is preferable to use a laminated film having the above. As a specific structure of the laminate film, a biaxially stretched polyester film having high strength as a base material film for maintaining mechanical strength, a biaxially stretched nylon film excellent in low temperature characteristics such as low temperature fatigue and impact resistance, etc. As a sealant film, which is mainly used alone or in combination and which can be heat-sealed, a polyethylene film is generally used, and in particular, it is excellent in many properties such as heat-sealing strength, stress crack resistance, impact resistance and low temperature characteristics. A linear low density polyethylene film is preferably used.

As a means for obtaining a high level of pinhole resistance, drop bag resistance and the like required as an inner container of a bag-in-box, it is conceivable to increase the thickness of the laminated film. Although the pinhole resistance due to the friction of the film is improved, the bending stress applied to the film is increased, and the bending fatigue resistance and bag drop resistance are deteriorated. The film becomes hard and the workability during packaging is deteriorated. There is a problem such as doing.

[0007] As another solution, a multiple bag in which laminated films are doubled or stacked is used as an inner container, that is, an outer container (corrugated cardboard) and an outermost bag for directly packaging a liquid. The interposition of the bag prevents the innermost bag from directly rubbing against the corrugated cardboard due to vibration during transportation, and prevents the bending stress applied to the laminate film from increasing when the bag is bent, thus preventing pinhole resistance and drop resistance. It is possible to improve bagability.

As a method for producing this multiple bag, two or more kinds of laminated films are preliminarily aligned and overlapped, and once wound into a roll, a bag-making machine is used to make a bag-like bag.
A method is used in which two or more kinds of laminated films are aligned and stacked immediately before the bag-making machine to make bags with the bag-making machine. However, in these methods, not only is it time-consuming to align and stack the laminated films, but since the laminated films are simply laminated and no bonding force acts between them, the width of the laminated films is not the same. It is difficult to accurately match and superimpose on each other.
There is a problem that the laminated film layer is apt to be displaced in the bag-making step, and it is difficult to stably produce a high-quality multiple bag without wrinkles.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In view of the above problems, the present invention has a high pinhole resistance and drop bag resistance as an inner container of a bag-in-box, and a bag-making or covering bag as an inner container. An object of the present invention is to provide a packaging material for a bag-in-box, which has excellent handleability when filling a package and can stably produce a high-quality packaging bag.

[0010]

The present invention has been made to achieve the above object, that is, the present invention is selected from the group consisting of at least a biaxially stretched nylon film and a biaxially stretched polyester film. A laminated film comprising at least one type of film and a linear low-density polyethylene film as constituent materials, wherein the linear low-density polyethylene film is composed of two or more layers that are blocking-adhered to each other. It is a packaging material for bag-in-box.

Examples of the biaxially stretched nylon film as the base film include nylon-6 (polymer of caprolactam), nylon-66 (polymer of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid), MXD-6 (meta-xylylenediamine). Polymers of adipic acid) and their copolymers are mainly used for simultaneous or sequential biaxially stretched films by homo- or co-extrusion by T-die method or inflation method. Among them, nylon-6 film is costly and film-forming. It is most preferably used in terms of ease of use.

The biaxially stretched polyester film as the base film is a homopolymer or copolymer of polyethylene terephthalate (polymer of terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol), polybutylene terephthalate (polymer of terephthalic acid and butylene glycol), and the like. The biaxially stretched film obtained by the T-die method is used, and of these, the polyethylene terephthalate homopolymer or copolymer is most preferably used in terms of cost.

At least one film selected from the group consisting of a biaxially stretched nylon film as a base film and a biaxially stretched polyester film (hereinafter referred to as "base layer").
Is laminated on two or more layers of linear low-density polyethylene film (hereinafter referred to as “polyethylene layer”) that are blocking-adhered to each other, and the linear low-density polyethylene is a copolymer of ethylene and α-olefin. Polymerized by a gas phase or liquid phase polymerization method under medium or low pressure and an ionic polymerization method under high pressure improvement as a combined product, and as a commercial product, it is about 0.87.
Some have a density in the range of 0 to 0.930 g / cm ³ .
Properties such as physical strength, heat seal strength and low temperature characteristics of linear low density polyethylene vary depending on the number of carbon atoms of the α-olefin to be copolymerized, generally 3 to 13 carbon atoms,
Preferably, it has 4 to 4 carbon atoms in view of physical strength and cost.
8 α-olefins such as butene-1, octene-
1, hexene-1, 4-methylpentene-1, heptene-1 and the like are used.

The term "blocking-bonded to each other" as used herein means that the linear low-density polyethylene films that are in contact with each other are not bonded to each other by an adhesive or heat fusion to be completely integrated and hardened. The linear low-density polyethylene film is sticking (pseudo-adhesive) and is in a flexible state. Adhesion may occur over the entire surface of the film or may occur partially over the film.

The adhesive strength of blocking is determined by the slits, bag-making steps and the slits required for the subsequent liquid-filling and packaging without causing peeling of the blocking in the laminating step for producing the bag-in-box packaging material. It is necessary to have a strength that does not impair the mechanical suitability in the filling and packaging work process. Further, in order to absorb and reduce the impact, bending, frictional force, etc. received in the distribution process of storage and transportation, it is necessary that the blocking be appropriately displaced or peeled. Specifically, the pulling speed is 50 at 180 ° peeling method.
The blocking adhesive strength measured in mm / min is 1 to 10
It should be 0 g / 15 cm, preferably 5 to 50 g / 15 cm.

The degree of easiness of blocking depends on the density of the linear low density polyethylene, and the higher the density, the more difficult the blocking is. Therefore, the laminating process,
It is necessary to select linear low-density polyethylene that has a density that can ensure a blocking state that does not impair the mechanical suitability during bag making and packaging operations. In order to adjust the degree of blocking adhesive strength, linear low density polyethylene having different densities or blending linear low density polyethylene or low density polyethylene having different kinds of copolymerized α-olefins may be used. It is also possible to add and use other additives capable of adjusting the blocking adhesive strength. Also, the ease of blocking varies depending on the pressure and temperature conditions when crimping the linear low-density polyethylene film, so taking these conditions into consideration, the type of linear low-density polyethylene and crimping in the crimping process It is necessary to determine the conditions.

The polyethylene layer is produced by folding a tubular film extruded when an inflation film is produced by a single-layer extrusion inflation method and stacking it, and using a take-up nip roll or a crimp roll newly provided after the take-up nip roll. A method in which the inner surfaces of the film are blocked by pressure-bonding online and wound into a roll, or the linear low-density polyethylene side which is unwound and blocked offline once the films are wound separately without being substantially blocked There is a method of blocking by superimposing and aligning, and thermocompression bonding between heated pressure rolls, but from the viewpoint of simplicity and cost, the former method of compression bonding and blocking at the same time is preferable.

When the object to be packaged reacts (oxidizes) with oxygen to cause deterioration such as discoloration, browning, change in taste and aroma, decrease in nutritional components, generation of harmful components, and the presence of oxygen in the object to be packaged. When bacteria, molds, yeasts and other microorganisms easily grow, it is preferable to provide a gas barrier layer between the base material layer and the linear low-density polyethylene film to block oxygen in order to prevent this. . As the gas barrier layer, polyvinylidene chloride-based resin film, ethylene-vinyl alcohol-based resin film, polyvinylidene chloride-based resin thin film, metal deposition thin film such as aluminum, metal oxide deposition thin film such as silicon oxide or aluminum oxide or aluminum. One or more types of num foil can be laminated as an intermediate layer.

As the lamination method with the polyethylene layer, the base material layer and the gas barrier layer provided as necessary, for example, a dry lamination method of adhering via an adhesive, a solventless lamination method, a hot melt lamination method, an extrusion lamination method. Although the method etc. are used, the dry lamination method is preferable from the performance of the obtained packaging material. In the dry lamination method, the type of adhesive is selected in consideration of the type and packaging form of the article to be packaged, but it is common to use a one-component or two-component polyurethane adhesive. Corona discharge treatment, ozone treatment, application of anchor coating agent on either or both of the layers to be laminated before and / or at the same time as the lamination in order to improve the bonding strength between the films to be laminated. It is preferable to carry out the surface treatment by a method such as.

In laminating the base material layer directly on the polyethylene layer or, if necessary, via a gas barrier layer as an intermediate layer, the raw material film of the base material layer or the gas barrier layer is unwound and the polyethylene layer is applied. It is manufactured by a method in which an adhesive is applied to the surfaces to be laminated, the other unrolled polyethylene layer original film is aligned and overlapped, pressure-bonded with a nip roll and wound into a roll. On this occasion,
The polyethylene layer of the present invention is subjected to shear stress and bending stress due to friction with a guide roll during traveling, bending when changing the traveling direction, pressure contact with a nip roll, etc. There is no trouble such as deterioration in the quality of the laminated film due to the occurrence of misalignment, wrinkles or slack, machine stoppage, etc., and the film can be wound into a roll without any problem.

Prior to bag making as an inner container of the back-in-box, the film is slit into a film having a predetermined width while being rolled up according to the size of the bag required, and the film is wound in small portions. Even in the process, there is no trouble such as deterioration of the quality of the laminated film due to peeling off of the polyethylene layer and machine stoppage, and the film can be wound into small rolls without problems.

The form of the packaging bag as the container in the bag-in-box produced from the packaging material for bag-in-box of the present invention is, for example, a four-sided seal bag, a three-sided seal bag, a pillow bag (sealed together), an envelope-sealed bag, Examples include gusseted bags. This packaging bag is generally provided with an openable / closable stopper that penetrates the cardboard wall of the outer container to facilitate filling and removal of the liquid to be packaged.

Examples of the articles to be packed and wrapped with the bag-in-box packaging material of the present invention include, for example, liquid soup, sauce, sauce, soy sauce, ketchup, curry, miso,
Liquid and fluid foods such as stew, jam, mayonnaise, dressing, bean paste, fish paste are not limited to these, and filling and packaging of liquids and fluid substances other than these foods are also possible. .

As a method for filling and packaging the object to be packaged in the inner container of the bag-in-box, there is generally used a method in which a wound laminated film is formed into a bag, which is once formed into a bag and then filled with a liquid. However, since the linear low-density polyethylene films block each other, the packaging material for bag-in-box of the present invention can be handled as one integrated film, and in addition to the general filling method described above, , It has mechanical aptitude that is suitable for automatic filling machine that fills and wraps liquid by attaching bag at the same time as bag making, for example, vertical pillow type back-in-box automatic filling machine. It is also possible to automatically fill a liquid or fluid.

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

1 and 2 are sectional views showing a typical laminated structure of the packaging material for bag-in-box of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a polyethylene layer, which is a linear low-density polyethylene film 1a or 2b.
Two films are formed by blocking adhesion to each other. Reference numeral 2 denotes a base material layer, which is adhered to the polyethylene layer 1 via the adhesive layer 3.

FIG. 2 shows a linear low-density polyethylene film 1a which is blocking-bonded to each other at the contact interface of the film.
The gas barrier layer 4 is laminated between the polyethylene layer 1 and the base material layer 2 which are composed of the two film layers 1 and 1b with the adhesive layer 3 interposed therebetween.

FIG. 3 shows a pillow bag manufactured from the packaging material for bag-in-box according to the present invention. The pillow bag 5 is heat-sealed by a horizontal sealing portion 6a and a back-lining vertical sealing portion 6b.

FIG. 4 shows a liquid bag 9 formed by folding the bag-in-box packaging material having the laminated structure shown in FIG.
Sealing part of a double bag when filled and packed (for example, 7 in FIG. 3)
FIG. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of a portion (). Reference numeral 8 denotes a sealing portion, which is sealed by stacking the linear low-density polyethylene film 1a of the polyethylene layer 1 with the sides thereof on the inside and heat-sealing by a method such as heat sealing, impulse sealing, ultrasonic sealing, or high-frequency sealing. ing. Seal part 8
In, the linear low density polyethylene film 1a, 1
The blocking adhesive portion between b is also melt-pressed and adhered, and a total of four layers of linear low-density polyethylene film are integrated. That is, in the seal portion 8, all the laminated laminate layers constituting the packaging material are bonded and integrated to prevent liquid leakage of the packaged object.

On the other hand, except for the seal portion 8, the liquid 9
The linear low-density polyethylene film 1a which is the innermost layer for directly packaging the linear low-density polyethylene film 1a and the linear low-density polyethylene film 1b in a blocking adhesive state with the base material between the outer container and the cardboard. Layer 2,
And, the gas barrier layer 4 is interposed if necessary. Therefore, the linear low-density polyethylene film 1a of the innermost layer does not rub directly against the corrugated cardboard of the outer container due to vibration during transportation, and the bending stress applied to the linear low-density polyethylene film 1a of the innermost layer when the bag is bent. Can be alleviated, and the pinhole resistance and drop bag resistance of the packaging bag of the inner container can be improved.

[0032]

EXAMPLES Next, the present invention will be explained by examples.

Example 1 Introducing 4-methylpentene-1 having 6 carbon atoms as a side chain of α-olefin copolymer into polyethylene, the density was 0.915 g / cm ³ , and the MI was 3.7 g / 10 min. Using linear low density polyethylene of
A film with a thickness of 60μ is formed by the inflation molding method, the film is drawn by a take-up nip roll, and at the same time the tubular film is folded and pressed, and then the folded parts at both ends of the film are cut off with a slitter to give an inner surface. Total thickness 120 with blocking adhesion to each other
A polyethylene layer of μ was obtained. The blocking adhesion strength of the obtained polyethylene layer by the 180 ° peeling method was 10 g /
It was 15 cm. Then, one side of this polyethylene layer was surface-treated by a corona discharge treatment method. Next, by a dry lamination method, a bicomponent stretched nylon-6 film having a thickness of 25 μm was coated with 3.5 g / m ^{2 of} a two-component polyurethane resin diluted with a solvent as an adhesive, and the solvent was volatilized in a drying oven. The polyethylene layer is laminated with a biaxially stretched nylon-6 film on the surface of the polyethylene layer on which the corona discharge treatment has been performed, pressure-bonded with a heating roll, then cooled with a cooling roll and wound up to give a total thickness of 145 μm. A laminated film was obtained. In this dry laminating process, there was no trouble that the blocking of the polyethylene layer was peeled off and the film was displaced or wrinkled, and the laminated film could be continuously wound into a roll without any problem.

The physical properties of this laminated film are shown in Table 1.

Comparative Example 1 For comparison, the same linear low-density polyethylene as in Example 1 was used to form a single-layer film having a thickness of 120 μm by an inflation molding method.
Biaxially oriented nylon-6 was laminated on this film by the dry lamination method in the same manner as in Example 1 to obtain a laminated film having a total thickness of 145 μm. This laminated film had large bending rigidity and poor flexibility as compared with the film obtained in Example 1. The physical properties of the laminated film are shown in Table 1 for comparison.

[0036]

[Table 1]

From Table 1, the laminated film of the present invention is
It can be seen that the film is a flexible film having excellent bending fatigue.

The laminated films obtained in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 were slit to a width of 60 cm and heat-sealed in a pillow bag-making machine at a temperature of 180 ° C. for 1.5 seconds and a pressure of 3 kg / cm ^{2 for} sealing. A pillow bag having a size of 54 cm in length and 54 cm in width was obtained. Next, a mouth plug was attached to this pillow bag, and 15 kg of water was charged from the mouth cap with a filling machine to obtain a water-filled pillow bag to be an inner container of 100 back-in-boxes each. Fifty water-filled pillow bags of each of these were made to freely fall from a height of 1.3 m so that the plug portions were on the top, and collided against concrete ground to compare drop-bag resistance.
At this time, a bag that did not break even if dropped once or twice was dropped up to three times. Table 2 shows the number of drops and the number of bags that broke at that time and leaked water.

[0039]

[Table 2]

The remaining 50 water-filled pillow bags were packed one by one in a cubic double-sided cardboard box to obtain a bag-in-box package of 50 bags each. The cardboard box of this back-in-box package was vibrated in a horizontal direction for 30 minutes by a vibration tester under a vibration width of 50 mm and a vibration frequency of 168 times / minute to compare the pinhole resistance. Thirty
Table 3 shows the number of water-filled pillow bags in which the bag was broken after shaking for a minute and water leaked.

[0041]

[Table 3]

(Comparative Example 2) A film having a thickness of 60μ was formed by the same method as in Example 1, and the blocking adhesive strength was changed to 0 by changing the pressure applied when the folded film was pressed by the take-up nip roll. 0.5 g / 15 mm
And two types of polyethylene film of 120 g / 15 mm were obtained. These blocked polyethylene films were laminated with a biaxially stretched nylon-6 film by a dry lamination method in the same manner as in Example 1, but a polyethylene film having a blocking adhesive strength of 0.5 g / 15 mm had a polyethylene layer while the film was running. The blocking was peeled off, and the polyethylene films were easily misaligned between the layers, resulting in wrinkles in the obtained laminated film. On the other hand, with a polyethylene film having a blocking adhesive strength of 120 g / 15 mm, the blocking did not peel off, and a laminated film having a good shape without wrinkles was obtained.

Then, these laminated films are made into 60
The width was 54 cm and the width was 54 cm under the same heat-sealing conditions as in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 using a pillow bag-making machine.
I got a pillow bag, but the blocking adhesive strength is 0.5g
The laminate film using a / 15 mm polyethylene film was inferior in machine suitability because the film was frequently misaligned in the bag making process and the machine had to be stopped frequently.

The blocking adhesive strength obtained is 120 g.
A pillow bag made of a laminated film of polyethylene film having a thickness of 15 mm was fitted with a stopper, and 15 kg of water was filled from the stopper with a filling machine to obtain 100 water-filled pillow bags. The pillow bag was divided into 50 pieces each, and a drop test and a vibration test were performed under the same conditions as in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1 to measure drop bag resistance and pinhole resistance. The results are shown in Tables 4 and 5.

[0045]

[Table 4]

[0046]

[Table 5]

From the results of Tables 2 to 5, it can be seen that the packaging material for bag-in-boxes of the present invention used as a bag for the inner container of the bag-in-box has excellent drop-bag resistance and pin-hole resistance. .

Example 2 An ethylene-vinyl alcohol resin film having a thickness of 15 μm was used as an intermediate layer film having a gas barrier property, a polyethylene layer having a total thickness of 120 μm of Example 1 and a biaxially stretched nylon-6 film having a thickness of 25 μm. A two-component polyurethane resin was dry-laminated between the layers to obtain a laminated film having a total thickness of 160 μm. In this dry laminating process, there were no process troubles due to the blocking and peeling of the polyethylene layer, and there was no problem, and the laminate film could be wound into a roll.

Comparative Example 3 A film having a thickness of 15 μm was obtained in the same manner as in Example 2 except that the same monolayer film as in Comparative Example 1 with a thickness of 120 μm was used as the linear low-density polyethylene film.
A laminated film having a total thickness of 160 μm and having the ethylene-vinyl alcohol-based resin film of 1. as an intermediate layer was obtained.

The laminated films obtained in Example 2 and Comparative Example 3 were slit in the same manner as in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1.
Bag-making was carried out to obtain water-filled pillow bags each of which was an inner container of 100 back-in-boxes, each filled with 15 kg of water.
Of these, 50 water-filled pillow bags were measured and compared for drop bag resistance and pinhole resistance under the same conditions as in Example 1 and Comparative Example 1.

Table 6 shows the measurement results of the bag dropping property, and Table 7 shows the measurement results of the pinhole resistance.

[0052]

[Table 6]

[0053]

[Table 7]

From the results of Tables 6 and 7, the packaging material for bag-in-boxes of the present invention, which is laminated and laminated with the gas barrier film of the intermediate layer as a bag for the inner container of the bag-in-box, has excellent drop-bag resistance and pin-hole resistance. It turns out that it has sex.

[0055]

As described above, according to the present invention, a bag-in bag having excellent mechanical suitability as an inner container for bag-in-boggs and excellent pinhole resistance and drop-bag resistance (falling impact strength). A packaging material for Boggs can be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view showing a laminated structure of a packaging material for bag-in-box according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a laminated structure of the packaging material for bag-in-box of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a view showing a pillow bag manufactured from the packaging material for bag-in-box of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a seal portion of a double bag manufactured using the bag-in-box packaging material of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 polyethylene layer 2 Base material layer 3 Adhesive layer 4 gas barrier layer 8 Seal part

Continuation of front page (58) Fields surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) B32B 1/00-35/00 B65D 77/06

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A laminate film comprising at least one film selected from the group consisting of a biaxially stretched nylon film and a biaxially stretched polyester film and a linear low density polyethylene film as a constituent material. -Like low-density polyethylene film is a packaging material for bag-in-box, characterized by comprising two or more layers of films which are blocking-bonded to each other. 2. The blocking adhesive strength of a linear low density polyethylene film is 1 as a value measured by a 180 ° peeling method.
It is ~ 100g / 15cm, It is characterized by the above-mentioned.
The packaging material for the bag-in-box described. 3. The bag-in-box package according to claim 1, wherein the linear low-density polyethylene film is formed by press-bonding the inner surfaces of a tubular film formed by an inflation method to each other. material. 4. A gas barrier layer is laminated between at least one film selected from the group consisting of biaxially stretched nylon film and biaxially stretched polyester film and a linear low density polyethylene film. Item 1. A packaging material for a bag-in-box according to 2 or 3. 5. The gas barrier layer is selected from the group consisting of a polyvinylidene chloride resin film, an ethylene-vinyl alcohol resin film, a polyvinylidene chloride resin thin film, a metal deposition thin film, a metal oxide deposition thin film, and an aluminum foil. The packaging material for bag-in-box according to claim 4, wherein the packaging material is at least one of the following: