US20070170233A1 - Gable-top package for pourable food products and method for dimensioning thereof - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a gable-top package for pourable food products.
- pourable food products such as fruit juice, UHT (ultra-high-temperature processed) milk, wine, tomato sauce, etc.
- UHT ultra-high-temperature processed milk
- wine tomato sauce
- etc. are sold in packages made of sterilized packaging material.
- the packaging material has a multilayer structure comprising a layer of fibrous material, e.g. paper, covered on both sides with layers of heat-seal plastic material, e.g. polyethylene; in the case of aseptic packages for long-storage products, such as UHT milk, the packaging material also comprises a layer of oxygen-barrier material defined, for example, by an aluminium film, which is superimposed on a layer of heat-seal plastic material and is in turn covered with another layer of heat-seal plastic material eventually defining the inner face of the package contacting the food product.
- a layer of fibrous material e.g. paper
- heat-seal plastic material e.g. polyethylene
- the packaging material also comprises a layer of oxygen-barrier material defined, for example, by an aluminium film, which is superimposed on a layer of heat-seal plastic material and is in turn covered with another layer of heat-seal plastic material eventually defining the inner face of the package contacting the food product.
- Typical examples of such packages are the parallelepiped-shaped package for liquid or pourable food products known as Tetra Brik Aseptic (registered trademark) and the so-called “gable-top” package commonly known by the trade name Tetra Rex (registered trademark), which has a gabled top portion defined by two inclined or sloping walls joined together at a top transversal seal.
- Tetra Brik Aseptic registered trademark
- Tetra Rex registered trademark
- the above packages may be formed from a continuous tube obtained by bending and longitudinally sealing a web packaging material; the web of packaging material is sterilized on the packaging machine itself e.g. by applying a chemical sterilizing agent, such as a hydrogen peroxide solution, which, after sterilization, is removed, e.g. vaporized by heating, from the surfaces of the packaging material.
- a chemical sterilizing agent such as a hydrogen peroxide solution
- the web of packaging material so sterilized is maintained in a closed sterile environment, and is folded and sealed longitudinally to form a vertical tube.
- the tube is filled with the sterilized or sterile-processed food product, and is sealed and cut at equally spaced cross sections to form pillow packs, which are then folded mechanically to form the finished packages.
- a first and more common type is a machine having two pairs of reciprocating jaws; this type of machines includes, e.g the TB/21, TBA/19 and TBA/21 series machines, and Tetra Pak A3 packaging machines, produced by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient AB at LUND (Sweden), Ruben Rausings gata and by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient S.p.A. at Modena (Italy), Via Delfini 1.
- the second type of web-fed packaging machine is the endless chain type, wherein forming and sealing units are carried by two facing endless chains rather then by reciprocating jaws.
- TBA/22 packaging machine also produced by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient S.p.A.
- crease lines defining a so-called “crease pattern” are formed on the packaging material at the production line.
- the packaging material may be cut into blanks, which are formed into packages on forming mandrel, and the resulting packages are filled with the food product and sealed.
- the unfinished packages have an upwardly opened parallelepiped shape; the gabled top portion is obtained by compressing opposite side walls of the upper portion of the unfinished packages towards each other in order to draw up the upper edges of the other walls, which are then sealed together to form the transversal seal.
- packages of the above type may undergo further processing steps, such as the application of a re-closable opening device.
- Gable-top packages are very conveniently used in combination with re-closable opening devices because the sloping top walls are wider than corresponding flat portions of parallelepiped and therefore allow the application of larger opening devices, e.g. provided with screw caps or the like.
- Another object of the present invention is to devise a method for dimensioning gable-top packages of different shapes while ensuring a properly folding of the packaging material.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a gable-top package according to the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a larger-scale perspective view of an upper portion of the package of FIG. 1 ;
- FIGS. 3 and 4 are different perspective views of a pillow-pack constituting an intermediate product for the production of the package of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 5 is a larger-scale perspective view of an upper portion of the pillow-pack of FIGS. 3 and 4 during folding;
- FIG. 6 is a sheet packaging material provided with a crease pattern for the production of the package of FIG. 1 ;
- FIG. 7 is a larger-scale view of a portion of the sheet packaging material of FIG. 6 ;
- FIG. 8 is a perspective view of another embodiment of a gable-top package in accordance with the present invention.
- number 1 references a gable-top package for food products according to the present invention.
- Package 1 is made from a sheet packaging material 2 ( FIG. 6 )—hereinafter “material 2 ”—and essentially comprises a parallelepiped-shaped main portion 3 and a gabled top portion 4 upwardly delimiting main portion 3 .
- material 2 defines the exact length of packaging material which is used to produce a single package 1 and has a multilayer structure of the type previously described
- Main portion 3 has a preferably square-shaped base wall 5 , a front wall 6 , a back wall 7 , and a pair of side walls 8 , 9 .
- Gabled top portion 4 includes a front sloping top wall 10 provided with an opening device 24 ( FIG. 1 ), and a back sloping top wall 11 joining front sloping top wall 10 at a top transversal seal 12 of the package 1 .
- Gabled top portion 4 further includes a pair of top lateral flaps 13 , 14 adjacent to respective lateral end portions 12 a , 12 b of top transversal seal 12 and folded out of the package top volume available for the food product to define respective triangular side top walls 18 , 19 extending along the prolongation of respective side walls 8 , 9 .
- Each lateral flap 13 , 14 has one side defined by a relative lateral edge 15 of front sloping top wall 10 and another side formed by a relative lateral end portion 12 a , 12 b of top transversal seal 12 and folded onto a relative lateral edge 16 of back sloping top wall 11 .
- top portions 20 are flat, and substantially coplanar or gently inwardly sloped with respect to respective side walls 8 , 9 as better explained hereafter.
- FIGS. 3 to 7 For a better comprehension of the package shape, reference is now made to FIGS. 3 to 7 .
- Package 1 can be made from a continuous tube (not shown) of packaging material, which is obtained by bending and longitudinally sealing a web packaging material, defined by repeated lengths of material 2 ( FIG. 6 ). More precisely, an edge portion 21 of material 2 is superimposed and sealed onto an opposite edge portion 22 so as to obtain a longitudinal seal 23 which extends substantially along a vertical centreline of back wall 7 of the finished package 1 .
- the tube is then transversally sealed at regular intervals to form transversal seals and then cut along such transversal seals to form so-called pillow packs (not shown), which are adapted to be transformed into finished packages 1 by means of a plurality of final folding steps.
- a pillow pack has a parallelepiped basic portion and opposite tapered end portions tapering from basic portion to respective transversal seals.
- FIGS. 3, 4 and 5 show an intermediate pack, referenced 26 , which is obtained from a pillow pack by flattening one of the tapered end portions.
- intermediate pack 26 comprises a basic parallelepiped portion 28 delimited by a base wall and four side walls respectively corresponding to walls 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 of main portion 3 of finished package 1 , and an upper tapered end portion 29 designed to define gabled top portion 4 of finished package 1 and tapering from basic portion 28 to top transversal seal 12 .
- upper tapered end portion 29 defines front and back sloping top walls 10 , 11 of finished package 1 and is provided with lateral flaps 13 , 14 protruding from opposite sides of front and back sloping top walls 10 , 11 and, as above explained, adapted to be folded onto respective top portions 20 of side walls 8 , 9 .
- intermediate pack 26 can be made from blanks of packaging material, each corresponding to a length of material 2 ; the blanks are formed into packs on forming mandrels (not shown) and the resulting packs are filled with the food product and sealed.
- Material 2 ( FIG. 6 ) includes a crease pattern 30 , i.e. a plurality of weakened lines obtained by creasing rolls and forming folding lines along which the material is folded during the forming and final folding steps.
- a crease pattern 30 i.e. a plurality of weakened lines obtained by creasing rolls and forming folding lines along which the material is folded during the forming and final folding steps.
- Crease pattern 30 includes, in a known manner, four transversal crease lines 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 ; lines 31 , 32 are near the transversal ends of material 2 and delimit respective top and bottom transversal sealing areas 31 a , 32 a ; lines 33 , 34 form the horizontal corners of gabled top portion 4 and of base wall 5 , and are also indicated in FIGS. 1, 3 , 4 and 5 , for the sake of clarity.
- Crease pattern 30 also includes, in a known manner, four longitudinal crease lines 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 forming the side corners of package 1 and extending between transversal crease lines 33 and 34 , as well as a plurality of crease lines 40 in the area comprised between line 34 and the bottom transversal sealing area 32 a , which are designed so as to produce bottom lateral flaps (known and not shown) of intermediate pack 26 , adapted to be folded and flattened to obtain base wall 5 .
- Lines 40 have a known arrangement and are not described in detail.
- Longitudinal crease lines 35 , 36 are near respective lateral edge portions 21 , 22 , whilst longitudinal crease lines 37 , 38 are interposed between lines 35 and 36 .
- front wall 6 of package 1 is delimited by lines 37 and 38
- back wall 7 is delimited by lines 35 and 36
- side wall 8 is delimited by lines 35 and 37
- side wall 9 is delimited by lines 36 and 38 .
- Crease pattern 30 ( FIGS. 5 and 6 ) further includes a plurality of additional crease lines in the area comprised between transversal crease lines 31 and 33 .
- additional crease lines include four substantially longitudinal crease lines 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 defining the lateral corners of front sloping top wall 10 and back sloping top wall 11 and originating at intersection points 35 a , 36 a , 37 a , 38 a of line 33 with each of longitudinal lines 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 .
- lines 42 , 43 , 44 and 45 are slightly inclined so as to form walls 10 , 11 of trapezoidal shape tapering upwards, but could be perfectly longitudinal, i.e. constitute prolongations of longitudinal lines 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 .
- lines 43 , 45 , the portion of top transversal sealing area 31 a comprised between lines 43 and 45 , and the portion of line 33 comprised between intersection points 36 a and 38 a delimit a flap zone 47 defining lateral flap 14 and top portion of side wall 9 .
- transversal crease line 33 and top transversal sealing area 31 a delimit other two zones 48 , 49 each interposed between zones 46 , 47 and defining respectively front and back sloping top walls 10 , 11 .
- Crease pattern 37 further includes, in each flap zone 46 , 47 , a couple of inclined crease lines 50 , 51 and, respectively 52 , 53 , starting from points 35 a , 37 a , and respectively 36 a , 38 a , and joined at point 31 b , and respectively 31 c , along crease line 31 to define an isosceles triangle with the portion of line 33 comprised between points 35 a , 37 a , and respectively 36 a , 38 a.
- Three further crease lines indicated with 54 , 55 , 56 for flap zone 46 and respectively with 57 , 58 , 59 for flap zone 47 , extend from points 35 a , 37 a , 31 b , and respectively from points 36 a , 38 a , 31 c , to an intermediate point located inside the relative isosceles triangle and indicated with 60 for flap zone 46 , and respectively with 61 for flap zone 47 .
- Crease lines 54 , 55 , and respectively crease lines 57 , 58 extend symmetrically with respect to a relative prolongation of crease line 56 , and respectively of crease line 59 .
- Lines 54 , 55 of flap zone 46 extend between intermediate point 60 and respective points 35 a , 37 a and upwardly delimit top portion 20 of side wall 8 .
- lines 57 , 58 of flap zone 47 extend between intermediate point 61 and respective points 36 a , 38 a and upwardly delimit top portion 20 of side wall 9 .
- Crease pattern 37 further includes, in each flap zone 46 , 47 , a continuous broken crease line 65 , 66 , i.e. a broken line without interruption, intersecting relative crease line 50 , 52 and extending between relative intermediate point 60 , 61 and the relative intersecting point of transversal crease line 31 with longitudinal crease line 42 , 43 .
- each continuous broken crease line 65 , 66 is divided by relative crease line 50 , 52 into two portions 67 , 68 forming therebetween angles close to, but different from, 180°.
- Portions 67 , 68 extend from relative crease line 50 , 52 to transversal crease line 31 a and to relative intermediate point 60 , 61 , respectively.
- each flap zone 46 , 47 delimit a number of triangular-shaped panels A, B, C, D, E, F, G adapted to be folded according to a predefined sequence described hereafter.
- panel A is delimited by crease lines 31 , 44 and 51 ;
- panel B is delimited by crease lines 51 , 55 and 56 ;
- panel C is delimited by crease lines 33 , 54 and 55 and defines top portion 20 of side wall 8 ;
- panel D is delimited by crease line 56 , portion 68 of crease line 65 and the portion of crease line 50 comprised between crease lines 65 and 31 ;
- panel E is delimited by crease line 54 , portion 68 of crease line 65 and the portion of crease line 50 comprised between crease lines 65 and point 35 a ;
- panel F is delimited by crease line 31 , portion 67 of crease line 65 and the portion of crease line 50 comprised between crease lines 65 and crease line 31 ;
- panel G is delimited by crease line 42 , portion 67 of crease line 65 and the portion of crease line 50 comprised between crease lines 65 and point 35 a.
- flap zone 47 can be applied to flap zone 47 in a completely analogous manner and will not be repeated since flap zones 46 and 47 are symmetric with respect an axis extending between, and parallel to, longitudinal crease lines 37 , 38 .
- each flap zone 46 , 47 panels E and B are folded onto panel C so as panel F is superimposed onto panel G and panel A covers all the remaining portion of the flap zone 46 , 47 to define relative side top wall 18 , 19 .
- crease pattern 30 in each flap zone 46 , 47 of material 2 is designed so as the forming of the side top walls 18 , 19 is performed by means of rotations of relative panels A, B, C, D, E, F, G as rigid bodies about their respective crease lines ( 50 , 51 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 65 for flap zone 46 and 52 , 53 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 66 for flap zone 47 ).
- crease pattern 30 in each flap zone 46 , 47 of material 2 is obtained by:
- each side top wall 18 , 19 is defined by panel A of relative flap zone 46 , 47 , angle ⁇ is therefore also formed by each crease line 44 , 45 with the respective portion of crease line 31 located inside respective flap zone 46 , 47 .
- flap zone 47 only as well as to FIGS. 2 and 7 , the same considerations applying equally well to flap zone 46 and not being repeated.
- position and extension of crease lines 52 , 53 can be obtained by determining angle ⁇ , formed by such lines 52 , 53 with the portion of crease line 33 comprised between points 36 a and 38 a.
- c references the width of package 1 , which is a given data and corresponds to the distance between crease lines 36 and 38 or 35 and 37 .
- Angle ⁇ allows construction of crease lines 52 , 53 which start from respective points 36 a , 38 a and define the equal sides of an isosceles triangle, whose third side is represented by the portion of crease line 33 comprised between points 36 a and 38 a.
- Position and extension of crease lines 57 , 58 , 59 and position of intermediate point 61 can be obtained by determining angle ⁇ 2 formed by lines 57 , 58 with respective crease lines 52 , 53 .
- ⁇ references the angle formed between each crease line 43 , 45 and respective crease line 52 , 53
- ⁇ 1 references the angle formed by each crease line 43 , 45 with the portion of crease line 33 comprised between points 36 a and 38 a , after folding of gabled top portion 4 has been completed and panel A is superimposed onto panel C.
- ⁇ is also the angle formed by each crease line 43 , 45 with the respective portion of crease line 33 located outside flap zone 47 and starting from respective points 36 a , 38 a ;
- ⁇ 1 arc ⁇ ⁇ cos ⁇ ( c / 2 1 1 )
- crease line 45 defines the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, whose catheti are identified by a segment extending from the top vertex of side top wall 9 to a middle point of the portion of crease line 33 comprised between points 36 a and 38 a , and by the half of such portion of crease line 33 adjacent to the hypotenuse.
- Angle ⁇ 2 allows construction of crease lines 57 , 58 , 59 and definition of their intersection point 61 .
- Angles ⁇ and ⁇ make it possible to design crease lines 43 and 45 .
- Intersection point between crease lines 52 and 66 can be determined by calculating angle ⁇ formed by portion 67 of line 66 with the portion of crease line 31 comprised between crease lines 43 and 59 .
- angle ⁇ is a function of angle ⁇ 2 , which is formed by crease line 45 with crease line 43 after folding of gabled top portion 4 has been completed and panel A is superimposed onto all the other panels.
- portion 67 of crease line 66 it is possible to design portion 67 of crease line 66 and obtaining the position of the intersection point between crease lines 52 and 66 .
- Portion 68 of crease line 66 can be obtained by connecting the above intersection point with intermediate point 61 .
- FIG. 8 shows another example of a gable top package referenced as a whole with number 1 ′ and obtainable according to the above described method by varying the values of top angle ⁇ and length 1 of sloping top wall 10 .
- main portion 3 of packages 1 , 1 ′ comprised between edges 21 , 22 and crease lines 31 , 32 may have any design shape.
- the portion 68 of crease line 65 , 66 may be defined at least in part by a pair of parallel lines having respective ends converging in a single line towards the relative intermediate point 60 , 61 . In this way, in the zone of portion 68 of crease lines 65 , 66 , the deformation of the packaging material due to the thickness of the panels superimposed is reduced.
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Abstract
A gable top package for pourable food products produced by folding and sealing a sheet packaging material and provided with a gabled top portion including front and back sloping top walls joined together at a top transversal seal, and a pair of side top walls connecting respective lateral edges of the front and back sloping top walls and obtained by folding respective portions of the sheet packaging material along predetermined crease lines delimiting a number of panels. The crease lines are determined among a plurality of possible crease lines designed so as the forming of the side top walls is performed by rotations of the panels as rigid bodies about their respective crease lines.
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- The present invention relates to a gable-top package for pourable food products.
- As is known, many pourable food products, such as fruit juice, UHT (ultra-high-temperature processed) milk, wine, tomato sauce, etc., are sold in packages made of sterilized packaging material.
- The packaging material has a multilayer structure comprising a layer of fibrous material, e.g. paper, covered on both sides with layers of heat-seal plastic material, e.g. polyethylene; in the case of aseptic packages for long-storage products, such as UHT milk, the packaging material also comprises a layer of oxygen-barrier material defined, for example, by an aluminium film, which is superimposed on a layer of heat-seal plastic material and is in turn covered with another layer of heat-seal plastic material eventually defining the inner face of the package contacting the food product.
- Typical examples of such packages are the parallelepiped-shaped package for liquid or pourable food products known as Tetra Brik Aseptic (registered trademark) and the so-called “gable-top” package commonly known by the trade name Tetra Rex (registered trademark), which has a gabled top portion defined by two inclined or sloping walls joined together at a top transversal seal.
- The above packages may be formed from a continuous tube obtained by bending and longitudinally sealing a web packaging material; the web of packaging material is sterilized on the packaging machine itself e.g. by applying a chemical sterilizing agent, such as a hydrogen peroxide solution, which, after sterilization, is removed, e.g. vaporized by heating, from the surfaces of the packaging material. The web of packaging material so sterilized is maintained in a closed sterile environment, and is folded and sealed longitudinally to form a vertical tube.
- The tube is filled with the sterilized or sterile-processed food product, and is sealed and cut at equally spaced cross sections to form pillow packs, which are then folded mechanically to form the finished packages.
- Two basic types of web-fed filling and forming machines are known: a first and more common type is a machine having two pairs of reciprocating jaws; this type of machines includes, e.g the TB/21, TBA/19 and TBA/21 series machines, and Tetra Pak A3 packaging machines, produced by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient AB at LUND (Sweden), Ruben Rausings gata and by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient S.p.A. at Modena (Italy), Via Delfini 1. The second type of web-fed packaging machine is the endless chain type, wherein forming and sealing units are carried by two facing endless chains rather then by reciprocating jaws. One example of this kind of machine is the TBA/22 packaging machine, also produced by Tetra Pak Carton Ambient S.p.A.
- To allow folding of the web packaging material both during forming and final folding, crease lines defining a so-called “crease pattern” are formed on the packaging material at the production line.
- Alternatively, the packaging material may be cut into blanks, which are formed into packages on forming mandrel, and the resulting packages are filled with the food product and sealed.
- In particular, once formed on the forming mandrels, the unfinished packages have an upwardly opened parallelepiped shape; the gabled top portion is obtained by compressing opposite side walls of the upper portion of the unfinished packages towards each other in order to draw up the upper edges of the other walls, which are then sealed together to form the transversal seal.
- Once formed, packages of the above type may undergo further processing steps, such as the application of a re-closable opening device.
- Gable-top packages are very conveniently used in combination with re-closable opening devices because the sloping top walls are wider than corresponding flat portions of parallelepiped and therefore allow the application of larger opening devices, e.g. provided with screw caps or the like.
- Within the packaging industry, a need is felt for continuous improvements, particularly as to the possibility to differentiate shape and sizes of gable top packages while ensuring properly folding of the packaging material. This need derives from market requirements as to variations of the aesthetic appearance of the packages and from the necessity to ensure, for any type of food product, a pouring without the phenomenon commonly known as gulping, i.e. the discontinuous output flow of the product from the package characterized by alternate phases of obstructed flow and conspicuous gushing out with possible splashing of the product.
- As to the latter point, it should be noted that different food products may have different viscosities and therefore require different heights of the gabled top portion for ensuring proper pouring.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a gable-top type package, which allows to satisfy the above-mentioned need in a very simple and cheap way.
- This object is achieved by a gable-top package as claimed in
claim 1. - Another object of the present invention is to devise a method for dimensioning gable-top packages of different shapes while ensuring a properly folding of the packaging material.
- This object is achieved by a method as claimed in
claim 5. - Two preferred, non-limiting embodiments of the present invention will be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
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FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a gable-top package according to the present invention; -
FIG. 2 is a larger-scale perspective view of an upper portion of the package ofFIG. 1 ; -
FIGS. 3 and 4 are different perspective views of a pillow-pack constituting an intermediate product for the production of the package ofFIG. 1 ; -
FIG. 5 is a larger-scale perspective view of an upper portion of the pillow-pack ofFIGS. 3 and 4 during folding; -
FIG. 6 is a sheet packaging material provided with a crease pattern for the production of the package ofFIG. 1 ; -
FIG. 7 is a larger-scale view of a portion of the sheet packaging material ofFIG. 6 ; and -
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of another embodiment of a gable-top package in accordance with the present invention. - With reference to
FIG. 1 ,number 1 references a gable-top package for food products according to the present invention. -
Package 1 is made from a sheet packaging material 2 (FIG. 6 )—hereinafter “material 2”—and essentially comprises a parallelepiped-shapedmain portion 3 and a gabledtop portion 4 upwardly delimitingmain portion 3. - In particular,
material 2 defines the exact length of packaging material which is used to produce asingle package 1 and has a multilayer structure of the type previously described -
Main portion 3 has a preferably square-shaped base wall 5, afront wall 6, aback wall 7, and a pair ofside walls - Gabled
top portion 4 includes a front slopingtop wall 10 provided with an opening device 24 (FIG. 1 ), and a back slopingtop wall 11 joining front slopingtop wall 10 at a toptransversal seal 12 of thepackage 1. - Gabled
top portion 4 further includes a pair of toplateral flaps lateral end portions transversal seal 12 and folded out of the package top volume available for the food product to define respective triangularside top walls respective side walls - Each
lateral flap lateral edge 15 of front slopingtop wall 10 and another side formed by a relativelateral end portion transversal seal 12 and folded onto a relativelateral edge 16 of back slopingtop wall 11. -
Lateral flaps top portions 20 ofside walls top portions 20 are flat, and substantially coplanar or gently inwardly sloped with respect torespective side walls - For a better comprehension of the package shape, reference is now made to FIGS. 3 to 7.
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Package 1 can be made from a continuous tube (not shown) of packaging material, which is obtained by bending and longitudinally sealing a web packaging material, defined by repeated lengths of material 2 (FIG. 6 ). More precisely, anedge portion 21 ofmaterial 2 is superimposed and sealed onto anopposite edge portion 22 so as to obtain alongitudinal seal 23 which extends substantially along a vertical centreline ofback wall 7 of the finishedpackage 1. - The tube is then transversally sealed at regular intervals to form transversal seals and then cut along such transversal seals to form so-called pillow packs (not shown), which are adapted to be transformed into finished
packages 1 by means of a plurality of final folding steps. - As is known, a pillow pack has a parallelepiped basic portion and opposite tapered end portions tapering from basic portion to respective transversal seals.
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FIGS. 3, 4 and 5 show an intermediate pack, referenced 26, which is obtained from a pillow pack by flattening one of the tapered end portions. - In particular,
intermediate pack 26 comprises a basicparallelepiped portion 28 delimited by a base wall and four side walls respectively corresponding towalls main portion 3 of finishedpackage 1, and an uppertapered end portion 29 designed to define gabledtop portion 4 of finishedpackage 1 and tapering frombasic portion 28 to toptransversal seal 12. - More specifically, upper
tapered end portion 29 defines front and back slopingtop walls package 1 and is provided withlateral flaps top walls top portions 20 ofside walls - Alternatively,
intermediate pack 26 can be made from blanks of packaging material, each corresponding to a length ofmaterial 2; the blanks are formed into packs on forming mandrels (not shown) and the resulting packs are filled with the food product and sealed. - Material 2 (
FIG. 6 ) includes acrease pattern 30, i.e. a plurality of weakened lines obtained by creasing rolls and forming folding lines along which the material is folded during the forming and final folding steps. -
Crease pattern 30 includes, in a known manner, fourtransversal crease lines lines material 2 and delimit respective top and bottomtransversal sealing areas lines top portion 4 and ofbase wall 5, and are also indicated inFIGS. 1, 3 , 4 and 5, for the sake of clarity. -
Crease pattern 30 also includes, in a known manner, fourlongitudinal crease lines package 1 and extending betweentransversal crease lines crease lines 40 in the area comprised betweenline 34 and the bottomtransversal sealing area 32 a, which are designed so as to produce bottom lateral flaps (known and not shown) ofintermediate pack 26, adapted to be folded and flattened to obtainbase wall 5.Lines 40 have a known arrangement and are not described in detail. -
Longitudinal crease lines lateral edge portions longitudinal crease lines lines - For the sake of clarity,
front wall 6 ofpackage 1 is delimited bylines back wall 7 is delimited bylines side wall 8 is delimited bylines side wall 9 is delimited bylines - Crease pattern 30 (
FIGS. 5 and 6 ) further includes a plurality of additional crease lines in the area comprised betweentransversal crease lines longitudinal crease lines top wall 10 and back slopingtop wall 11 and originating atintersection points line 33 with each oflongitudinal lines lines walls longitudinal lines -
Lines transversal sealing area 31 a comprised betweenlines line 33 comprised betweenintersection points flap zone 46 defininglateral flap 13 andtop portion 20 ofside wall 8. Analogously,lines transversal sealing area 31 a comprised betweenlines line 33 comprised betweenintersection points flap zone 47 defininglateral flap 14 and top portion ofside wall 9. Furthermore,longitudinal crease lines transversal crease line 33 and toptransversal sealing area 31 a delimit other twozones 48, 49 each interposed betweenzones top walls -
Crease pattern 37 further includes, in eachflap zone inclined crease lines points point 31 b, and respectively 31 c, alongcrease line 31 to define an isosceles triangle with the portion ofline 33 comprised betweenpoints -
Lines lateral flaps - Three further crease lines, indicated with 54, 55, 56 for
flap zone 46 and respectively with 57, 58, 59 forflap zone 47, extend frompoints points flap zone 46, and respectively with 61 forflap zone 47. - Crease lines 54, 55, and respectively
crease lines crease line 56, and respectively ofcrease line 59. -
Lines flap zone 46 extend betweenintermediate point 60 andrespective points top portion 20 ofside wall 8. Analogously, lines 57, 58 offlap zone 47 extend betweenintermediate point 61 andrespective points top portion 20 ofside wall 9. -
Crease pattern 37 further includes, in eachflap zone broken crease line relative crease line intermediate point transversal crease line 31 withlongitudinal crease line broken crease line relative crease line portions Portions relative crease line transversal crease line 31 a and to relativeintermediate point - The above mentioned crease lines in each
flap zone - In particular, referring to
flap zone 46, panel A is delimited bycrease lines crease lines crease lines top portion 20 ofside wall 8; panel D is delimited bycrease line 56,portion 68 ofcrease line 65 and the portion ofcrease line 50 comprised betweencrease lines crease line 54,portion 68 ofcrease line 65 and the portion ofcrease line 50 comprised betweencrease lines 65 andpoint 35 a; panel F is delimited bycrease line 31,portion 67 ofcrease line 65 and the portion ofcrease line 50 comprised betweencrease lines 65 andcrease line 31; and panel G is delimited bycrease line 42,portion 67 ofcrease line 65 and the portion ofcrease line 50 comprised betweencrease lines 65 andpoint 35 a. - The same definition of panels A, B, C, D, E, F, G can be applied to
flap zone 47 in a completely analogous manner and will not be repeated sinceflap zones longitudinal crease lines - During the forming of each
flap zone flap zone top wall - According to an important aspect of the present invention,
crease pattern 30 in eachflap zone material 2 is designed so as the forming of the sidetop walls flap zone - It is specified that, in the present description and in the claims, the expression “rotation of panels as rigid bodies” does not exclude little deformations of the packaging material due to the thickness thereof, in particular occurring during the overlapping of the panels.
- More specifically,
crease pattern 30 in eachflap zone material 2 is obtained by: -
- choosing the value of a top angle α formed, along each side
top wall package 1, between opposite edges thereof converging to toptransversal seal 12; - choosing the length l of front sloping
top wall 10, measured in a direction crosswise to toptransversal seal 12; and - determining position and extension of each
crease line flap zone top wall
- choosing the value of a top angle α formed, along each side
- Due to the fact that each side
top wall relative flap zone crease line crease line 31 located insiderespective flap zone - The applicant has found that the above mentioned steps allow to define different crease patterns in
flap zones top portion 4, by using simple geometrical formulas, as explained hereafter. - For the sake of simplicity, the part of description which follows will refer to
flap zone 47 only as well as toFIGS. 2 and 7 , the same considerations applying equally well toflap zone 46 and not being repeated. - In particular, position and extension of
crease lines such lines crease line 33 comprised betweenpoints - Angle β, can be calculated as a function of length l by means of the following formula:
- wherein c references the width of
package 1, which is a given data and corresponds to the distance betweencrease lines - Angle β allows construction of
crease lines respective points crease line 33 comprised betweenpoints - Position and extension of
crease lines intermediate point 61 can be obtained by determining angle β2 formed bylines respective crease lines - Angle β2 can be calculated by means of the following formula:
- wherein θ references the angle formed between each
crease line respective crease line crease line crease line 33 comprised betweenpoints top portion 4 has been completed and panel A is superimposed onto panel C. - More specifically, angles θ and θ1 can be calculated as follows:
θ=180°−α−β, - taking into account that α is also the angle formed by each
crease line crease line 33 located outsideflap zone 47 and starting fromrespective points - wherein l1 references the length of
crease lines - The formula for calculating θ1 derives from the consideration that, after folding of gabled
top portion 4,crease line 45 defines the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, whose catheti are identified by a segment extending from the top vertex of sidetop wall 9 to a middle point of the portion ofcrease line 33 comprised betweenpoints crease line 33 adjacent to the hypotenuse. - Angle β2 allows construction of
crease lines intersection point 61. - Knowledge of angles β2, θ, θ1 allows to calculate angle β1 formed by
crease lines crease line 33 comprised betweenpoints
β1=β2+(θ1−θ). - Angles α and θ make it possible to design
crease lines - Intersection point between
crease lines portion 67 ofline 66 with the portion ofcrease line 31 comprised betweencrease lines - In particular, angle γ is a function of angle θ2, which is formed by
crease line 45 withcrease line 43 after folding of gabledtop portion 4 has been completed and panel A is superimposed onto all the other panels. - Angle γ can be calculated as follows:
- wherein angle θ2 can be obtained through the
formula - Therefore, the following formula can be determined for calculating angle γ:
- Knowing angle γ, it is possible to design
portion 67 ofcrease line 66 and obtaining the position of the intersection point betweencrease lines Portion 68 ofcrease line 66 can be obtained by connecting the above intersection point withintermediate point 61. -
FIG. 8 shows another example of a gable top package referenced as a whole withnumber 1′ and obtainable according to the above described method by varying the values of top angle α andlength 1 of slopingtop wall 10. - The advantages of
package - In particular, by simply putting the condition that the forming of the side
top walls package sheet packaging material 2 as rigid bodies about their respective crease lines, it is possible to differentiate size and shape of gabledtop portion 4 while ensuring a properly folding of the packaging material and a correct closure of the package. - Moreover, thanks to the fact that the folding of the different parts (panels A, B, C, D, E, F, G of packaging material 2) of
packaging material 2 is obtained by means of rotations and therefore without relevant deformations and consequent stresses, the integrity of the aluminium layer, which is strongly less flexible than the other layers of the packaging material, is not compromised during the forming steps. - Clearly, changes may be made to
packages - In particular, it will be understood that
main portion 3 ofpackages edges crease lines - Moreover, in each
flap zone portion 68 ofcrease line intermediate point portion 68 ofcrease lines
Claims (16)
1. A gable top package for pourable food products produced by folding and sealing a sheet packaging material and comprising a gabled top portion including front and back sloping top walls joined together at a top transversal seal, and a pair of side top walls connecting respective lateral edges of said front and back sloping top walls, each of said side top walls being obtained by folding a respective portion of the sheet packaging material along predetermined crease lines delimiting a number of panels, wherein said crease lines are determined among a plurality of possible crease lines designed so as the forming of the side top walls is performed by rotations of said panels as rigid bodies about their respective crease lines.
2. A package as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the crease lines for forming the side top walls are obtained by choosing at least a value of a top angle formed, along each side top wall, between opposite edges thereof converging to said top transversal seal, and a value of the length of one of said front and back sloping top walls along a direction crosswise to said top transversal seal.
3. A package as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the package is obtained from an intermediate pack having a prismatic main portion and at least a tapered end portion delimited by said top transversal seal, defining said front and back sloping top walls and provided with opposite protruding lateral flaps designed to be folded out of a package top volume available for the food product for obtaining said side top walls.
4. A package as claimed in claim 3 , wherein each of said lateral flaps has one side adjacent to one of said front and back sloping top walls and another side formed by a relative end portion of said top transversal seal and positioned adjacent to another of said front and back sloping top walls.
5. A method for dimensioning a gable-top package for pourable food products obtained by folding and sealing a sheet packaging material, said package comprising a gabled top portion including front and back sloping top walls joined together at a top transversal seal, and a pair of side top walls connecting respective lateral edges of said front and back sloping top walls and obtained by folding respective portions of the sheet packaging material along predetermined crease lines delimiting a number of panels, said method comprising determining a position and extension of said crease lines so that forming of the side top walls is performed by rotations of said panels as rigid bodies about their respective crease lines.
6. A method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein said determining of the position and extension of said crease lines is performed by choosing desired values of at least a top angle formed, along each side top wall, between opposite edges thereof converging to said top transversal seal, and a length of one of said front and back sloping top walls along a direction crosswise to said top transversal seal.
7. A method as claimed in claim 6 , wherein said determining of the position and extension of said crease lines comprises designing, in a portion of said sheet packaging material destined to form the gabled top portion of the package:
a first transversal crease line (31) delimiting said top transversal seal;
a second transversal crease line forming horizontal corners of said gabled top portion and positioned at a distance from said first transversal crease line equal to said chosen length;
a number of longitudinal crease lines delimiting, together with said first and second transversal crease lines, a couple of first zones defining said side top walls and a couple of second zones defining said front and back sloping top walls, said longitudinal crease lines forming with respective portions of said second transversal crease line external to said first zones, respective angles equal to said chosen top angle; and
a number of internal crease lines, which are located within each said first zone and whose orientation is determined by geometric relations obtained by considering that the panels have to be rotated as rigid bodies during the forming of the gabled top portion.
8. A method as claimed in claim 7 , wherein said internal crease lines comprise, for each said first zone, a couple of first inclined crease lines joined at said first transversal crease line and delimiting an isosceles triangle with said second transversal crease line, wherein the designing of said internal crease lines in each first zone comprises calculating an angle formed by each first inclined crease line with a portion of said second transversal crease line defining a side of said isosceles triangle, through the formula:
wherein c references a width of the package to be formed.
9. A method as claimed in claim 8 , wherein said internal crease lines comprise, for each said first zone, three second inclined crease lines extending from an intermediate point located within said isosceles triangle to respective vertex thereof, wherein the designing of said internal crease lines comprises calculating an angle formed by said second inclined crease lines with respective said first inclined crease lines through the formula:
wherein θ references an angle formed between each longitudinal crease line and an adjacent first inclined crease line, whilst θi references an angle formed by each longitudinal crease line with a portion of said second transversal crease line defining a side of said isosceles triangle, after folding of the gabled top portion has been completed.
10. A method as claimed in claim 9 , wherein said internal crease lines comprise, for each said first zone, a third inclined crease line (65; 66) extending from said intermediate point to said first transversal crease line, intersecting one of said first inclined crease lines and divided by said one of said first inclined crease lines into a first and a second portion forming therebetween angles different from 180° and located outside and inside said isosceles triangle, respectively, wherein said designing of said internal crease lines comprises calculating an angle formed by said first portion of said third inclined crease line with the portion of said first transversal crease line located inside each said first zone, through the formula:
wherein l1 references a length of longitudinal crease lines.
11. A sheet packaging material adapted to be folded along predetermined crease lines and sealed for producing a gable-top package for pourable food products, wherein said crease lines are dimensioned according to the method as claimed in claim 5 .
12. A sheet packaging material adapted to be folded along predetermined crease lines and sealed for producing a gable-top package for pourable food products, wherein said crease lines are dimensioned according to the method as claimed in claim 6 .
13. A sheet packaging material adapted to be folded along predetermined crease lines and sealed for producing a gable-top package for pourable food products, wherein said crease lines are dimensioned according to the method as claimed in claim 7 .
14. A sheet packaging material adapted to be folded along predetermined crease lines and sealed for producing a gable-top package for pourable food products, wherein said crease lines are dimensioned according to the method as claimed in claim 8 .
15. A sheet packaging material adapted to be folded along predetermined crease lines and sealed for producing a gable-top package for pourable food products, wherein said crease lines are dimensioned according to the method as claimed in claim 9 .
16. A sheet packaging material adapted to be folded along predetermined crease lines and sealed for producing a gable-top package for pourable food products, wherein said crease lines are dimensioned according to the method as claimed in claim 10.
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