US20060000189A1 - Method and device for applying pouring elements to packaging and packaging produced according to said method - Google Patents

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US20060000189A1
US20060000189A1 US10/513,574 US51357405A US2006000189A1 US 20060000189 A1 US20060000189 A1 US 20060000189A1 US 51357405 A US51357405 A US 51357405A US 2006000189 A1 US2006000189 A1 US 2006000189A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D5/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/42—Details of containers or of foldable or erectable container blanks
    • B65D5/72—Contents-dispensing means
    • B65D5/74—Spouts
    • B65D5/746—Spouts formed separately from the container
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B—MAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B50/00—Making rigid or semi-rigid containers, e.g. boxes or cartons
    • B31B50/74—Auxiliary operations
    • B31B50/81—Forming or attaching accessories, e.g. opening devices, closures or tear strings
    • B31B50/84—Forming or attaching means for filling or dispensing contents, e.g. valves or spouts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C65/00—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C65/02—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor by heating, with or without pressure
    • B29C65/08—Joining or sealing of preformed parts, e.g. welding of plastics materials; Apparatus therefor by heating, with or without pressure using ultrasonic vibrations
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/50—General aspects of joining tubular articles; General aspects of joining long products, i.e. bars or profiled elements; General aspects of joining single elements to tubular articles, hollow articles or bars; General aspects of joining several hollow-preforms to form hollow or tubular articles
    • B29C66/51—Joining tubular articles, profiled elements or bars; Joining single elements to tubular articles, hollow articles or bars; Joining several hollow-preforms to form hollow or tubular articles
    • B29C66/53—Joining single elements to tubular articles, hollow articles or bars
    • B29C66/532—Joining single elements to the wall of tubular articles, hollow articles or bars
    • B29C66/5324—Joining single elements to the wall of tubular articles, hollow articles or bars said single elements being substantially annular, i.e. of finite length
    • B29C66/53245—Joining single elements to the wall of tubular articles, hollow articles or bars said single elements being substantially annular, i.e. of finite length said articles being hollow
    • B29C66/53246—Joining single elements to the wall of tubular articles, hollow articles or bars said single elements being substantially annular, i.e. of finite length said articles being hollow said single elements being spouts, e.g. joining spouts to containers
    • B29C66/53247—Joining single elements to the wall of tubular articles, hollow articles or bars said single elements being substantially annular, i.e. of finite length said articles being hollow said single elements being spouts, e.g. joining spouts to containers said spouts comprising flanges
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/80—General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof
    • B29C66/81—General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps
    • B29C66/814—General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the design of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps
    • B29C66/8145—General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the design of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the constructional aspects of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps
    • B29C66/81463—General aspects of the pressing elements, i.e. the elements applying pressure on the parts to be joined in the area to be joined, e.g. the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the design of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps characterised by the constructional aspects of the pressing elements, e.g. of the welding jaws or clamps comprising a plurality of single pressing elements, e.g. a plurality of sonotrodes, or comprising a plurality of single counter-pressing elements, e.g. a plurality of anvils, said plurality of said single elements being suitable for making a single joint
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C66/00—General aspects of processes or apparatus for joining preformed parts
    • B29C66/80—General aspects of machine operations or constructions and parts thereof
    • B29C66/84—Specific machine types or machines suitable for specific applications
    • B29C66/843—Machines for making separate joints at the same time in different planes; Machines for making separate joints at the same time mounted in parallel or in series
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29L—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES
    • B29L2031/00—Other particular articles
    • B29L2031/712—Containers; Packaging elements or accessories, Packages
    • B29L2031/7162—Boxes, cartons, cases
    • B29L2031/7166—Cartons of the fruit juice or milk type, i.e. containers of polygonal cross sections formed by folding blanks into a tubular body with end-closing or contents-supporting elements, e.g. gable type containers

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for attaching pouring elements to packages, especially square packages made of multi-layer composite material for liquids, as well as packages produced in this way.
  • Beverage containers that are developed as multi-layer composite packages are known in a number of forms, such as flat gable composite packages. They are used primarily as containers for liquids in connection with cold-, sterile-, hot- and aseptic contents.
  • EP 0 580 593 B1 discloses a multi-layer composite package with a pouring element that is used for opening the package for the first time and has for the reclosability an appropriate closing element.
  • a notch provided in the area of the carton layer and the outer PE layer of the composite material of the package is supposed to gable the ridge material, and an opening element that is integrally connected to the pouring element is then pressed into the notch in the package material to open the package.
  • packages are known having pouring elements with screwed closures.
  • it is also known to apply the screwed closures to the (still closed) package, or to introduce said screwed closures through an opening in the head area of the multi-layer composite package and attach it there, usually with a flange to be connected to the interior wall.
  • it is problematic to apply the screwed-cap pouring element after the package was filled because of potential hygienic problems with the product and/or the container and/or the pourer to be attached.
  • a device in accordance with the invention solves the problem with a stamping station, where an opening to receive a pouring element is stamped into a delivered and unfolded tube, a station to apply the pouring elements in the openings produced in the stamping station, as well as, if applicable, other stations for preparing the package bottom and filling as well as closing the finished package, with a rotatable transport means being provided for the transport of at least one tube which, depending on the number of stations, is respectively rotated around an angle.
  • the rotatable transport means allows the simultaneous processing of a plurality of package jackets, which pass through several stations.
  • the pouring elements are screwed closures, with the screwed closures usefully being applied with already attached threaded lids.
  • the stamped opening in the package has a diameter that essentially corresponds to the outer diameter of the threaded lid.
  • said elements have a flange that is connected to the interior side of the package, preferably glued or welded all-over.
  • a further station is provided to transfer the tubes provided with the pouring element to downstream units.
  • a transfer means may be provided for this purpose, which supplies the tubes pivoted around an axis by 180° to a mandrel wheel, where the bottom of the package is prepared.
  • another station serves to extract tubes where the pouring element was not attached or not attached properly.
  • the tubes that were not properly processed may remain on the transport means until they arrive at the extraction station, where they are removed from the transport means with mechanical or pneumatic means.
  • the transport means has four stations, with each station having a plurality of receiving means for the respective processing. It is advantageous if the receiving means are arranged along the outer sides of a square on the transport means.
  • the transport means has an upstream means to unfold the package jackets into tubes.
  • the invention relates to a package, especially a rectangular package of composite carton, having a pouring element with a fastening flange, especially a reclosable screwed closure with a threaded cap, produced in accordance with the aforementioned method. It is useful to apply the pouring element at the inner side of the tube such that the flange of the pouring element ends essentially flush with the inner wall of the tube. In this way, the package tube, which is already equipped with the pouring element, can be processed further on a mandrel by drawing the open package tube with the attached pouring element over a mandrel to seal the bottom of the package.
  • FIG. 1 schematically a device in accordance with the invention in perspective view in the direction of the flow of the material
  • FIG. 2 schematically, the device in accordance with the invention in FIG. 1 in another perspective view against the flow of the material.
  • FIG. 1 shows that in a stamping station S, a plurality of flat folded package jackets 1 are fed to an unfolding station (not shown), from where the package jackets, which are formed into respective rectangular tubes 2 , are transferred to a stamping unit 4 to prepare a stamp opening 3 , with a stamp plunger 5 precisely positioning and making the stamp opening 3 .
  • the slugs 6 of the multi-layer composite are also removed from the stamping units 4 in said stamping station S.
  • the package tubes 2 having a stamp opening 3 are fed to a station A to apply the pouring elements 7 .
  • the feed of the pouring elements 7 is effected in station A by feed rails (not shown), with a plunger 8 transferring the pouring element 7 located at the end of the fed pouring elements 7 to a tool 9 , which introduces the respective pouring element 7 into the package tube 2 and inserts the pouring element 7 from the inside through the punch opening 3 toward the outside.
  • the tool 9 serves as an anvil for the welding process.
  • the flange of the pouring element 7 is welded to the multi-layer composite material that borders the stamp opening 3 by axially delivering a sonotrode 10 that has an opening to receive the treaded cap.
  • the transfer of the package tubes 2 from station A and/or S to the stations F and/or D occurs by means of a transport means 11 , which is developed as a square rotary table.
  • a transport means 11 which is developed as a square rotary table.
  • receiving means which are not described in detail, are provided to receive the three tubes 2 in the shown embodiment on one side.
  • the package tubes 2 are then fed from the station A, where the pouring elements 7 were applied, to the transport means 11 of station F with another 90° rotation, with said station F delivering the package tubes 2 to downstream means for the preparation of the package bottom and the filling as well as the closing of the finished package.
  • the package tubes 2 shown in the embodiment in FIG. 2 are pivoted around a horizontal axis 12 by 180° by means of a transfer means and drawn on the mandrel of a mandrel wheel 13 , with only two parallel mandrels of the mandrel wheel 13 being shown for clarity.
  • the package tubes 2 which are still taken up by the transport means 11 are inspected by an appropriately developed sensor 14 before being transferred to check if the pouring elements were applied properly. If the sensor 14 detects tubes 2 where the pouring element was not applied at all or not applied properly, said tubes remain in the transport means 11 and are fed with another 90° rotation to a station D to extract the rejects. This is shown schematically with the package tube 2 ′ in FIG. 2 . Piston/cylinder units 15 (shown only schematically) can be used for the extraction.
  • the device in accordance with the invention is constructed so as to save space and can work at a relatively fast cycle rate due to the respective 90° rotations.
  • the processing tools arranged on the periphery remain stationary, so that only relatively small masses have to be moved for the transfer of the tubes 2 .

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  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Making Paper Articles (AREA)
  • Auxiliary Devices For And Details Of Packaging Control (AREA)
  • Closing Of Containers (AREA)
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DE10220058.0 2002-05-04
DE10220058A DE10220058A1 (de) 2002-05-04 2002-05-04 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Applizieren von Ausgießelementen an Packungen und danach hergestellte Packungen
PCT/EP2003/004590 WO2003093120A2 (de) 2002-05-04 2003-05-02 Verfahren und vorrichtung zum applizieren von ausgiesselementen an packungen

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