JP5240441B2 - Soft package - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a package, and more particularly to a soft package.

Various packaging containers have been developed in consideration of the properties of the objects to be stored. When the object to be contained is, for example, a tobacco product such as a filter cigarette or cigarette, a hinge lid type hard package is often used as the packaging container.
This hard package is usually discarded when all the tobacco commodities that are contained are consumed. However, since the manufacturing cost of this hard package is relatively high, it is considered to reuse the hard package, for example, like a cigarette container disclosed in Patent Document 1.

In the cigarette container shown in Patent Document 1, a box 3 containing tobacco products is accommodated in a reusable box 4 which is a conventionally known hinge lid type hard package. When the tobacco product is exhausted, the box 3 is refilled with the box 4.
The box 3 has an outer package 7, and the outer package 7 is further wrapped by an outer packaging material 9 that is impermeable to air.
JP 2005-522386 A

By the way, in a conventionally known cigarette container, the tobacco product for refilling is triple wrapped by the box 3, the outer package 7, and the outer packaging material 9, and is considered to be overwrapped. In view of the recent trend of resource saving, it is desirable to refrain from excessive packaging and to simplify packaging, and it is particularly preferable to omit film packaging.
However, since the film packaging is made to maintain the sealing property so that the influence of the atmosphere, for example, moisture and unpleasant odors in the environment, do not reach the contents contained in the package, If this film packaging is omitted, the quality of the contents to be contained in the package may be deteriorated.

  This invention is made | formed based on said situation, The place made into the objective is providing the soft package for refill which can abbreviate | omit film packaging.

In order to achieve the above object, a soft package according to the present invention includes an object to be stored and an outer cover formed by folding a rectangular wrapping material around the object to be stored, and enclosing the object to be stored, The outer jacket is a soft package including a seam line that forms a closed space inside by overlapping the outer peripheral edges of the packaging material , and the seam line winds the packaging material around the trunk of the container After that, both side edges of the packaging material are overlapped to form a vertical seam extending in the vertical direction of the soft package and the top edge of the packaging material are overlapped to be positioned on the upper surface of the soft package. And is formed by overlapping the upper horizontal seam extending along the width direction of the soft package and the lower edges of the packaging material, and is positioned on the lower surface of the soft package. It is and observed including a lower transverse seam extending along the width direction of the soft package, the longitudinal seam, an upper transverse seam and the lower transverse seams, which has a butt seaming forms, vertical seal obtained by heat sealing, An upper horizontal seal and a lower horizontal seal, wherein the soft package further includes an inner frame between the outer cover and the object to be stored, and the inner frame has a U-shaped cross section surrounding the object to be stored. The vertical seam is provided in a portion of the jacket covering the open surface of the inner frame and is positioned near one of the side walls. and said that you are.

Moreover, the mantle of the soft package, characterized in that it comprises a separation zone which is formed on the waist of the contained object at its top.

Moreover, the mantle of the soft package, includes a tear tape to the inner surface of the separation zone, one end of the tear tape is characterized in that protrudes the outer putamen.

According to the present invention, since the package wraps the object to be stored by the outer cover including the seam line that forms the inside in the closed space by overlapping the outer peripheral edges of the packaging material, the package has high sealing performance and is stored. Deterioration of product quality can be suppressed. Therefore, film packaging can be omitted, which can contribute to resource saving.
Further , according to the present invention, the package is sealed on three sides by the vertical seam, the upper horizontal seam, and the lower horizontal seam, and the hermeticity in the package is enhanced, so that the quality of the object to be stored can be maintained.

Further , according to the present invention, since the end portions of the packaging material are bonded to the palm, the sealing performance of the package can be improved.
Further , according to the present invention, the vertical seam, the upper horizontal seam, and the lower horizontal seam form the package as the vertical seal, the upper horizontal seal, and the lower horizontal seal obtained by heat sealing, so that the package can be easily manufactured. Can improve production efficiency.

Further , according to the present invention, since the inner frame is included in the package, the object to be accommodated can be protected when a compressive force is applied from the outside of the package. It also contributes to improving the moldability of the package.
Further , according to the present invention, since the inner frame can be formed relatively easily, it is possible to improve the production efficiency of the package that is excellent in the protection of the object to be accommodated.

Further , according to the present invention, the vertical seam is positioned at a portion of the jacket corresponding to the open surface of the inner frame. Thereby, the protective property of the to-be-contained object located in the open surface of an inner flame | frame can be aimed at by the part of the vertical seam where the jacket is double.
Further , according to the present invention, since the separation band is present at the upper part of the package, the package can be easily opened, and the package opening property is improved.

Further , according to the present invention, since the opening tape is present on the inner surface of the separation band, the separation band can be easily separated by peeling off the opening tape, and the unsealing property of the package is further improved.

Embodiments of a soft package according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
1 to 3 show a refill software package according to an embodiment.
The package 2 has a substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape, and is composed of an assembly of tobacco products 4 that are objects to be accommodated, and a jacket 16 that wraps the assembly. In this case, the tobacco product 4 in the package 2 is specifically a king-size filter cigarette having a length of 85 mm, and the number thereof is 20.

An assembly of tobacco products 4 is bundled together by an inner frame 6 to form a product bundle unit 14.
The inner frame 6 has a height that is the same as the length of the tobacco product 4 and has a substantially U shape. The inner frame 6 has a rectangular rear wall 10 and both side edges orthogonal to the rear wall 10. It has a rectangular side wall 12, 12 connected. The inner frame 6 encloses the aggregate of the tobacco products 4 on three sides of the back and both sides thereof to form a product bundle unit 14 of the tobacco products 4. The inner frame 6 functions to protect the tobacco product 4 and improve the moldability of the package 2.

  The jacket 16 is formed by folding the packaging material 8 around the product bundle unit 14. More specifically, the rectangular packaging material 8 is first wound around the trunk of the product bundle unit 14 and then, as shown in FIG. A vertical seal 18 superimposed in the form is formed. Such a vertical seal 18 extends over the entire region of the packaging material 8 in the up-down direction, and thereafter, the vertical seal 18 is folded toward one side surface of the product bundle unit 14 (in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 4). Is overlapped with the front surface 20 of the outer cover 16 formed by winding the wire.

  When the vertical seal 18 described above is formed, the packaging material 8 forms projecting portions 36 that project in the vertical direction of the product bundle unit 14. These projecting portions 36 are folded to cover the upper and lower surfaces of the corresponding product bundle unit 14 through gusset folding on both sides thereof, thereby forming the upper surface 22 and the lower surface 24 of the outer cover 16, respectively. As shown in FIG. 5, the folding here forms an upper horizontal seal 26 overlapped in the form of a palm at the center of the upper surface 22 of the outer cover 16, and the upper horizontal seal 26 covers the entire upper surface of the outer cover 16. It extends in the width direction. Thereafter, the upper horizontal seal 26 is folded toward the back surface 28 (in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 5), and thus overlaps the upper surface 22 of the jacket 16. On the other hand, a similar fold is made on the lower surface 24 of the jacket 16 to form the lower horizontal seal 30. Then, the lower horizontal seal 30 is also folded toward the back surface 28 (in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 5) so as to overlap the lower surface 24 of the outer cover 16. In this way, the molding of the package 2 is completed.

  More specifically, the vertical seal 18 described above is disposed on the package 2 so as to be positioned near the one side surface 40 on the front surface 20 of the outer cover 16, and extends from the upper lateral seal 26 to the entire vertical direction of the package 2. And extends to the lower horizontal seal 30. Note that the upper and lower end portions of the vertical seal 18 are overlapped with the upper horizontal seal 26 and the lower horizontal seal 30.

As is clear from FIG. 1, the package 2 includes a separation band 32 around the trunk, and an opening tape 34 is attached to the inner surface of the separation band 32.
The separation band 32 is positioned at a position slightly lowering downward from the upper surface 22 of the jacket 16, and is formed by a region sandwiched between a pair of separation lines 38 and 38. The separation line 38 is formed by providing a fragile layer on the packaging material 8. If the separation line 38 is formed by a perforated row, the sealing performance of the package 2 may be impaired. Therefore, the perforated row is not adopted for the separation line of the package 2.

The opening tape 34 has a width shorter than that of the separation band 32, and its tip 34 a is exposed from a cutout portion 18 a formed at the tip edge of the vertical seal 18.
FIG. 6 is a development view showing the inner surface side of the packaging material 8. The packaging material 8 has a substantially rectangular shape, and a two-dot chain line in FIG. 6 indicates a folding line formed in the packaging material 8 when the product bundle unit 14 is wrapped by the inner packaging material 8. As is clear from this development view, each region of the packaging material 8 defined by the folding line forms each part of the jacket 16 described above. Further, the inner surface of the wrapping material 8 is formed of a heat-weldable film, and this heat-weldable film enables the formation of the vertical seal 18, the upper horizontal seal 26 and the lower horizontal seal 30 described above.

More specifically, in each region of the packaging material 8, a lower front region 44 that is a part of the front surface 20 of the outer cover 16, and the lower front region 44 are sequentially positioned on the right side in FIG. A lower side region 46 serving as the back surface 28 of the outer cover 16, a lower side region 50 serving as the side surface 40 of the outer cover 16, and a lower front region 52 serving as the front surface 20 of the outer cover 16. .
Further, under the regions 44, 46, 48, 50, and 52, lower surface regions 54, 56, 58, 60, and 62 that are the lower surface 24 of the jacket 16 are respectively positioned.

On the other hand, the regions 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 have a separation band region 64 that becomes the separation band 32 on the upper side thereof, and the opening tape 34 is bonded to the separation band region 64.
Further, upper surface regions 76, 78, 80, 82, and 84 that are the upper surface 22 of the outer cover 16 are located above the separation band region 64, that is, above the 44, 46, 48, 50, and 52, respectively. .
As is clear from the above description, the left end portion 18a located on the left side in FIG. 6 of the regions 54, 44, and 76 and the right end portion 18b located on the right side in FIG. 6 of the regions 62, 52, and 84 are overlapped with each other. The vertical seal 18 is formed by heat sealing.

Further, as is apparent from FIG. 6, the upper end portions 26a of the regions 76, 78, 80, 82, 84 are overlapped with each other at the upper end edge of the packaging material 8, and the upper horizontal seal 26 is formed by heat sealing. Further, the lower end portions 30a of the regions 54, 56, 58, 60, and 62 are overlapped with each other also at the lower end edge of the packaging material 8, and the lower horizontal seal 30 is formed by heat sealing.
The upper and lower horizontal seals 26 and 30 include the upper end portion and the lower end portion of the vertical seal 18, respectively. In addition, two-dot chain lines in the lower surface regions 56 and 60 and the upper surface regions 78 and 82 indicate that the above-described gusset folding is performed in these regions 56, 60, 78, and 82.

  A consumer who has purchased this package 2 first picks up the tip 34a of the opening tape 34 and peels it off. As a result, the separation band 34 is cut off, the portion of the outer jacket 16 above the separation band 34 is removed, and the package 2 is opened as shown in FIG. The opened package 2 is refilled with a conventionally known hinge-lid type hard package 86 used as a rectangular parallelepiped hard case. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, the package 2 is inserted into the hard package 86 from the upper opening end 88 of the hard package 86. In this way, refilling of the tobacco products 4 is performed on the hard package 86.

In the hard package 86 in which the tobacco products 4 are refilled, the tobacco products 4 can be stored by closing the lid 90. Further, when taking out the tobacco product 4, the consumer opens the lid 90 and takes out the tobacco product 4 from the upper opening end 88.
When all the tobacco products 4 are consumed, the empty package 2 is discarded, and the new package 2 is refilled into the hard package 86 in the same procedure as described above. Thus, the package 2 according to the present embodiment can reuse the hard package 86. Further, according to the package 2 of the present embodiment, the packaging material 8 has a heat-welding film on the inner surface thereof, and the seam line of the jacket 16 made of the packaging material 8 includes the vertical seal 18, the upper horizontal seal 26, and Since it is formed by the lower horizontal seal 30, the sealing performance of the package 2 is high, the exterior film can be omitted, and the demand for resource saving can be met.

In addition, the vertical seal 18, the upper horizontal seal 26, and the lower horizontal seal 30 in the form of a palm are able to reduce the heat effect on the tobacco product 4 during the heat sealing, and the inner surface and the outer surface of the end portion of the packaging material 8 are overlapped. It is superior to other types of stickers that are combined.
The vertical seal 18, the upper horizontal seal 26, and the lower horizontal seal 30 may be formed by bonding with an adhesive.

  Furthermore, in the present embodiment, a paper hinge lid type hard package is adopted as the hard package 86, but the hard case for refilling the refill soft package 2 is not particularly limited, and card paper, A hard case made of a plastic material, a metal material, or the like may be adopted in addition to a conventionally known hinge lid type hard package made of Manila cardboard or the like.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications can be made. For example, in the present embodiment, a type that accommodates one 20-unit bundle 14 of king-size tobacco products has been described, but a bundle of products that accommodates 20 super-king-sized tobacco products about 95 mm in length. You may apply to the type which accommodates one unit. Moreover, although the soft package for refill was demonstrated in the present Example, the soft package which concerns on this invention is not limited to this aspect, It does not accommodate in a hard case and it uses it as a soft package. You can also. Further, the products that can be accommodated are not limited to tobacco products, but may be other products such as foods such as sweets, and the soft package of the present invention may be applied as a package of these products. it can.

It is a perspective view which shows the state before opening of the soft package for refilling concerning an Example. It is the perspective view which looked at the state before opening of the refilling soft package which concerns on an Example from the back lower side. It is a perspective view which shows the state after opening of the refilling soft package which concerns on an Example. It is a perspective view which shows the state in which the vertical seal | sticker is formed in the packaging material of the soft package for refilling which concerns on an Example. It is a perspective view which shows the state in which the upper side seal | sticker and the lower side seal | sticker are formed in the packaging material of the refill soft package which concerns on an Example. It is an expanded view of a packaging material. It is a perspective view which shows the state which refills the soft package for a refill which concerns on an Example into a hard package.

Explanation of symbols

2 Package 4 Tobacco product 6 Inner frame 8 Packaging material 10 Back wall 12 Side wall 14 Product bundle unit 16 Outer casing 18 Vertical seal 20 Front surface 22 Upper surface 24 Lower surface 26 Upper horizontal seal 28 Rear surface 30 Lower horizontal seal 32 Separating band 34 Opening tape 36 Projection part 38 Separation line 40 Side surface 42 Side surface 86 Hard package 88 Upper open end 90 Lid

Claims (3)

Containment,
Formed by folding a rectangular wrapping material around the object to be contained, and comprising an outer envelope for wrapping the object to be contained,
The envelope is the superposition of the outer peripheral edge of the packaging material, a seam line to form its internal closed space A including soft package,
The seam line is
A vertical seam that is formed by overlapping both side edges of the packaging material after the packaging material is wound around the trunk of the container, and extends in the vertical direction of the soft package;
An upper lateral seam formed by overlapping upper edges of the packaging material, positioned on the upper surface of the soft package and extending along the width direction of the soft package;
A lower lateral seam formed by overlapping lower end edges of the packaging material, positioned on the lower surface of the soft package and extending along the width direction of the soft package;
Including
The vertical seam, the upper horizontal seam, and the lower horizontal seam have a shape of a palm joint, and are a vertical seal obtained by heat sealing, an upper horizontal seal, and a lower horizontal seal,
The soft package further includes an inner frame between the outer jacket and the container.
The inner frame has a U-shaped cross section surrounding the object to be stored, and has a back wall, both side walls, and an open surface.
The vertical seam is provided in a portion of the jacket covering the open surface of the inner frame, and is positioned in the vicinity of one of the side walls . The soft package according to claim 1, wherein the outer cover of the soft package includes a separation band formed at an upper portion thereof around the trunk of the object to be stored. 3. The soft package according to claim 2 , wherein the outer cover of the soft package includes an opening tape on an inner surface of the separation band, and one end of the opening tape protrudes from the outer cover.

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