US20100276328A1 - A method of packaging a product and corresponding package - Google Patents
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- the present invention refers to techniques for product packaging and has been developed with reference to the possible application to the packaging of food products.
- the solution described herein can be seen as a development of the solution described in the document EP-A-0 591 742.
- the solution described in such document (solutions somewhat similar are described in the documents EP-A-0 790 184 and EP-A-1 046 579) is destined to provide a hermetic wrapper (or airtight seal) for the packaging of a product such as a sweet food product.
- Such solution employs a first and second sheet of wrapping material.
- the first sheet is subjected to a shaping operation (“drawing”) directed at conferring a shell or basin-like shape substantially complementary to the shape of the product. Once shaped, the first sheet can house a great part of the product inside.
- the second sheet is then applied as a covering of the product inserted into the first shaped sheet and the two sheets are then connected to each other so to provide a substantially closed wrapper around the product.
- the two sheets are then subjected to a successive shaping operation destined to provide an airtight sealed wrapper adhering to the surface of the product.
- the product can be located in a receiving cup (for example, a cup with pleated walls of the type currently called “petit fours”).
- a receiving cup for example, a cup with pleated walls of the type currently called “petit fours”.
- plastic or permanent deformability it is currently intended the capacity of a body to be deformed and to stably keep the deformed shape, even when the deforming force is removed.
- An aluminium foil of the type traditionally used for packaging sweets such as candies or chocolates is a typical example of a plastically deformable material: if one takes a sheet of this material and crumples it into a ball, the material will keep, in a substantially stable way, the ball-like shape.
- Polypropylene or polythene based sheet wrapping materials represent typical examples of materials showing a springback: if one crumples a sheet of this material into a ball, the material tends, more or less rapidly, to lose the ball-like shape and to “reopen” more or less extensively.
- these new materials have advantages such as, for example, a higher capacity of performing a barrier function (therefore, of protection) against i) the penetration of external agents into the package and/or ii) the outward migration of agents contained in the package.
- a barrier function (therefore, of protection) against i) the penetration of external agents into the package and/or ii) the outward migration of agents contained in the package.
- organoleptic contamination that is, the phenomenon of products with different flavours located in adjacent parts of the same package undesirably transferring flavours and aromas to each other.
- these new materials are particularly suitable to being printed, that is, to being subjected to decorative treatments, such as metalisation treatments, so to make the packages particularly pleasant from an aesthetic point of view.
- the object of the present invention is that of providing a solution that, while keeping the efficiency and simplicity of the previously described solutions, is easily applicable to the r ⁇ alisation of packages including the use of a sheet material which, unlike a material such as aluminium foil, does not have plastic-like deformability, characteristics but, on the contrary, shows at least a certain degree of springback.
- FIGS. 1 to 5 represent successive steps in the implementation of a method as described herein, and
- FIGS. 6 and 7 on one hand, and FIGS. 8 and 9 on the other hand, represent two possible variants adoptable for completion of the steps of the method illustrated in FIGS. 1 to 5 .
- the exemplary embodiment illustrated herein refers to the packaging of a food product P.
- the product P can be represented by a praline of variable nature and composition, coated or non-coated, having for example, a spherical shape or, as is schematically represented in the attached drawings, a shape that can be seen as essentially corresponding to a spherical shape with a “flattened” bottom so to provide a flat seating surface for the product P.
- a praline of variable nature and composition coated or non-coated, having for example, a spherical shape or, as is schematically represented in the attached drawings, a shape that can be seen as essentially corresponding to a spherical shape with a “flattened” bottom so to provide a flat seating surface for the product P.
- the specific characteristics of the product P are not themselves determinant for the purpose of comprehending and implementation of the solution described herein.
- the method described herein aims to realise around the product P a package made of a wrapper of sheet material having airtight (hermetic) sealing characteristics.
- a sheet material wrapper susceptible of wrapping the product P avoiding the penetration of external agents inside the package itself and/or the escape of internal agents from the package itself, with possible risk of contamination of the product P.
- the wrapper of sheet material is destined to be made of a first sheet 1 and a second sheet 2 .
- the two sheets under consideration can be generally seen as a “small” sheet 1 and a “large” sheet 2 .
- sheets 1 and 2 differ in their deformability characteristic.
- Sheet 1 is made of a lamina of plastically (or permanently) deformable material.
- Sheet 2 instead, is made of a lamina of a material exhibiting springback.
- sheet 1 can be a wrapping sheet of the type referred to in the prior art documents cited repeatedly in the introduction of the present description.
- a layer of material such as, for example, polythene, having thermal welding characteristics.
- it is a material of the type currently indicated in the field as “coupled” material.
- sheet 2 is made of a lamina also having a thickness on the order of 15-50 microns and including a layer of polypropylene (PP) or similar polymers, destined to face the outside of the package (intended as the part visible from the outside) and possibly presenting a finishing varnish on its outer surface.
- the above-said layer of polypropylene can have a thin metalisation made by vapour-phase deposition (in a vacuum chamber) so to realise a so-called metalisation or aluminisation, providing the film with characteristics of brilliance and shininess.
- Sheet 2 can also include an additional layer of material such as polythene so to provide a sandwich-like structure in which the metalised layer is interposed between the (outer) layer of polypropylene and the (inner) layer of polythene.
- polythene can be due to the wish to have a layer on the inner side of the sheet 2 that can form an intimate connection by thermal welding to the material of the first sheet 1 , that is, on the side destined to face the product P.
- sheet 2 is such not to have in its entirety characteristics of plastic deformability: if subjected to deformation, sheet 2 does not permanently keep (unlike a film or sheet with characteristics of plastic deformability) the shape that it was given, but instead it tends to elastically return to the initial un-deformed shape.
- sheet 1 is obtained by cutting a roll or web W of starting material.
- a work surface such as, for example, the surface of a conveyor means included in a machine for the automatic packaging of products.
- a hollow imprint 3 of reduced depth susceptible of providing a housing and retaining place for the product P, destined to be located on the sheet 1 through a tool 100 (for example grasper-like) as is schematically illustrated in FIG. 2 .
- the imprint 3 can have, for example, a lens-like concave shape, or a generally shell or basin-like configuration, therefore a shape approximately complementary to a lower marginal part of the product P destined to be housed in the cavity 3 . All of this, for example, to avoid that the product P moves in an undesirably way with respect to sheet 1 when (as normally happens during the packaging cycle) sheet 1 with product P is advanced, for example, along a conveyor line.
- the option of realising the imprint 3 in sheet 1 is not essential.
- the presence of such imprint can be advantageous in the case in which the product P has a perfectly spherical shape, therefore showing a certain tendency to roll on sheet 1 , usually less marked in the case of a product already having a flattened part on the bottom.
- a possible anchoring effect of the product P to sheet 1 can also be obtained through other means, for example, through deposition of food-grade adhesive material.
- the hollow imprint 3 is made in a plastically deformable material, once imprinted in sheet 1 , such imprint remains in a substantially stable way.
- FIG. 3 represents an additional step in which the second sheet 2 is applied on product P with a tool 120 arriving from above and having an overall ring-like configuration, so to be able to “embrace” the upper part of the product P on which sheet 2 is applied.
- Sheet 2 is retained by tool 120 —in a known way—through a holding vacuum action (see the “vacuum” lines represented by broken lines and indicated with 112 ) even allowing a limited sliding of sheet 2 with respect to the surface of tool 110 .
- Sheet 2 is then wrapped around the product P. Once the downward movement of the tool 110 is completed, leading to the fitting of sheet 2 above and around the product P, sheet 2 has an approximately dome shaped central portion wrapping the product P and a flat part 2 a which is coextensive with sheet 1 where sheet 1 is facing sheet 2 .
- a tacking operation so to connect, at least at points, sheets 1 and 2 approximately in correspondence with the region surrounding the product P in which the two sheets 1 and 2 are in contact with each other.
- Such tacking represented here with dots 4 (see FIG. 4 )
- Such localised fusion can involve at least one layer of plastic material present on the facing of one or both sheets.
- the localised fusion involves the polythene layer present on the lower surface of sheet 2 .
- sheets 1 and 2 are airtight-seal welded together in correspondence with their mutually facing surfaces, through an additional welding tool 130 (for example, this could be a toroidal tool descending from above onto the set of parts illustrated in FIG. 4 ).
- the two sheets 1 and 2 are then connected with each other along the entire surface of sheet 1 that faces the surface of the flat part 2 a of sheet 2 .
- the fact that the two sheets are in contact along the entire mutually facing surface does not imply that the connection (here also realised by thermal welding, or possibly by ultrasonic welding or with other means) involves with absolute continuity the surfaces involved.
- connection between surfaces under consideration can actually be continuous.
- the possibility of realising the connection for example, as a line of closely spaced dots, or according to a web or line pattern, without the need to pursue an airtight sealed pairing also falls within the scope of the present invention.
- the possibility of realising the connection between sheets 1 and 2 not on the entire mutually facing area, but only on part of it, for example, omitting an external margin, or concerning the part immediately adjacent to the product P, by taking advantage of the effect of the connection provided by “tacking” 4 , falls as well within the scope of the present invention.
- any type of connection can be used which, in addition to being able to insure airtight sealing (hermetic sealing) of the wrapper thus formed around the product P, is such to provide an integrated or coupled laminar structure where sheets 1 and 2 are connected together, such that the plastic deformability characteristics of sheet 1 are transferred to the union of sheets 1 and 2 , therefore to the composite laminar material obtained by paring sheet 1 and sheet 2 .
- This in such a way that, where sheets 1 and 2 are joined, the springback characteristics of sheet 2 are “tamed”, so-to-say, by the plastic deformability characteristics of sheet 1 .
- sheet 2 which alone would tend to return to some extent to its original shape once the deforming force is removed—acquires plastic or permanent deformability characteristics: this because of being coupled to a laminar material (sheet 1 ) actually having plastic deformability characteristics.
- the tacking operation (for example, performed with the fingers tool 120 of FIG. 3 ) could be avoided by pairing sheet 1 and the part 2 a of sheet 2 acting with the welding tool 130 , instead of from above—as is represented in FIG. 4 , from below, raising the welding tool 130 while sheet 2 is still retained in the product P wrapping position by tool 110 .
- the solution providing for the tacking 4 is, at least at the moment, preferred for reasons of overall simplicity of the process and device.
- the method described herein can evolve in at least two different directions.
- FIGS. 6 and 7 refer to a solution substantially similar to that described in document EP-A-0 591 742 (in particular see FIGS. 5 to 7 therein).
- the complex formed by the product P covered above by sheet 2 and below by sheet 1 , with the two sheets connected together along their facing surfaces is turned over (see FIG. 5 ) and passed through a shaping tool 140 (for example of the deformable blade type according to a general “artichoke-like” conformation described in EP-A-0 082 952) pushing downward with a pushing tool 150 .
- a shaping tool 140 for example of the deformable blade type according to a general “artichoke-like” conformation described in EP-A-0 082 952
- the product P enclosed in the wrapper can be located in a receiving cup 5 (petit fours) as illustrated in FIG. 7 .
- the set of parts resulting from the phase represented in FIG. 4 can be subjected to shaping operations as schematically illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9 .
- These operations are substantially similar to those described in document EP-A-1 046 579 (in particular, see FIGS. 5 to 7 ) which lead to giving a basin-like conformation opened above and with pleated walls to sheets 1 and 2 in the region in which they are coupled together, reproducing the appearance of a cuplike element 15 .
- This is a cuplike structure similar to the cuplike structure 5 represented in FIG. 7 , but with the characteristic of being provided as an integral part of the package.
- the operation of formation of the cuplike integral part indicated with 15 in FIG. 9 provides first for the total welding (if not previous effected) and the pleating operation with the pleating directed radially with respect to the region in which sheets 1 and 2 are coupled together.
- This region is then cuplike shaped through hot drawing.
- the material of which sheet 1 is made though having the required plastic deformability characteristics also has some resistance to accidental deformation. This property being advantageous for avoiding that the integral cup 15 , once formed, is easily dented during the successive product treatment phases.
- this result can be achieved by combining a material such as aluminium with a fibrous, paper-like material.
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A method for wrapping a product in a sheet material wrapper employing a first sheet of plastically deformable sheet material (for example aluminium) and a second sheet of wrapping material (for example a plastic film) having springback. Once the product is placed on the first sheet, the second sheet is applied on the product providing in the second sheet a part wrapping the product and a part facing the first sheet. The first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it are airtight-seal coupled so to form, by effect of the coupling, a plastically deformable composite sheet material against the product or to form an integral housing cup.
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- The present invention refers to techniques for product packaging and has been developed with reference to the possible application to the packaging of food products.
- Although the reference to such possible field of application should not be interpreted as limiting the scope of the invention.
- The solution described herein can be seen as a development of the solution described in the document EP-A-0 591 742. The solution described in such document (solutions somewhat similar are described in the documents EP-A-0 790 184 and EP-A-1 046 579) is destined to provide a hermetic wrapper (or airtight seal) for the packaging of a product such as a sweet food product.
- Such solution employs a first and second sheet of wrapping material. The first sheet is subjected to a shaping operation (“drawing”) directed at conferring a shell or basin-like shape substantially complementary to the shape of the product. Once shaped, the first sheet can house a great part of the product inside. The second sheet is then applied as a covering of the product inserted into the first shaped sheet and the two sheets are then connected to each other so to provide a substantially closed wrapper around the product. The two sheets are then subjected to a successive shaping operation destined to provide an airtight sealed wrapper adhering to the surface of the product.
- Then the product can be located in a receiving cup (for example, a cup with pleated walls of the type currently called “petit fours”). According to the solution described in EP-A-1 046 579, the shaping operation of the two wrapping sheets leads instead to providing an integrated shaped portion reproducing the shape of the above said receiving cup.
- The solutions described in the cited documents were set up in view of the use of a plastically deformable (or permanently deformable) material as the manufacturing material of the first and second sheet.
- By plastic or permanent deformability it is currently intended the capacity of a body to be deformed and to stably keep the deformed shape, even when the deforming force is removed. An aluminium foil of the type traditionally used for packaging sweets such as candies or chocolates is a typical example of a plastically deformable material: if one takes a sheet of this material and crumples it into a ball, the material will keep, in a substantially stable way, the ball-like shape.
- Opposite to such behaviour is an elastic deformability, in which the deformed body returns, more or less rapidly, to the shape that it had before being deformed, once the deforming force is removed. As with plastic deformability, in absolute terms, also the elastic type of deformability is an ideal model: most materials deformable in an elastic way, in reality have a more or less pronounced springback. Thus, by springback it is intended the tendency of a folded or shaped elastic material to return to its original shape once the deforming force is removed.
- Polypropylene or polythene based sheet wrapping materials represent typical examples of materials showing a springback: if one crumples a sheet of this material into a ball, the material tends, more or less rapidly, to lose the ball-like shape and to “reopen” more or less extensively.
- Solutions such as the one described in EP-A-0 591 742 are ideal for the employment of sheet materials essentially made of aluminium foil, eventually coupled with one or more layers of coating material. Thus we speak of plastically or permanently deformable materials.
- In various branches of the packaging industry, and specifically in the branch of food product packaging, a trend to shifting from sheet wrapping materials in aluminium or the like (such as the type traditionally used for packaging sweets) to laminated materials of different nature based on polypropylene, polythene, etc. is increasingly evident.
- With respect to traditional materials such as aluminium, these new materials have advantages such as, for example, a higher capacity of performing a barrier function (therefore, of protection) against i) the penetration of external agents into the package and/or ii) the outward migration of agents contained in the package. This is particularly true regarding the possibility of realising an efficacious barrier action against so-called organoleptic contamination, that is, the phenomenon of products with different flavours located in adjacent parts of the same package undesirably transferring flavours and aromas to each other.
- Also, these new materials are particularly suitable to being printed, that is, to being subjected to decorative treatments, such as metalisation treatments, so to make the packages particularly pleasant from an aesthetic point of view.
- An additional factor (last in the list, but certainly not in importance), these materials have better possibilities for disposal, with a more reduced environmental impact with respect to the traditional packaging materials.
- With respect to traditional materials such as aluminium, however, the alternative wrapping materials previously described demonstrate more or less evident springback characteristics. Therefore, for such materials, it is quite difficult to prefigure the application of techniques such as those described in the documents cited in the preamble of the present description without the use of accessory elements (for example, shaping elements operating by heat deformation, etc.).
- Therefore, the object of the present invention is that of providing a solution that, while keeping the efficiency and simplicity of the previously described solutions, is easily applicable to the rëalisation of packages including the use of a sheet material which, unlike a material such as aluminium foil, does not have plastic-like deformability, characteristics but, on the contrary, shows at least a certain degree of springback.
- According to the present invention, such object is achieved thanks to a method having the characteristics recalled in the following claims. The invention also concerns a corresponding package. The claims are an integral part of the disclosure provided herein relative to the invention.
- The invention will now be described, as a non-limiting example, with reference to the attached drawings, in which:
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FIGS. 1 to 5 represent successive steps in the implementation of a method as described herein, and -
FIGS. 6 and 7 , on one hand, andFIGS. 8 and 9 on the other hand, represent two possible variants adoptable for completion of the steps of the method illustrated inFIGS. 1 to 5 . - The exemplary embodiment illustrated herein (which, recall, is an example and must be considered as such, therefore, non-limiting to the scope of the invention) refers to the packaging of a food product P.
- Also as an example, and therefore with no intention of limiting the scope of the invention, the product P can be represented by a praline of variable nature and composition, coated or non-coated, having for example, a spherical shape or, as is schematically represented in the attached drawings, a shape that can be seen as essentially corresponding to a spherical shape with a “flattened” bottom so to provide a flat seating surface for the product P. In any case, the specific characteristics of the product P are not themselves determinant for the purpose of comprehending and implementation of the solution described herein.
- The method described herein aims to realise around the product P a package made of a wrapper of sheet material having airtight (hermetic) sealing characteristics. One therefore speaks of a sheet material wrapper susceptible of wrapping the product P, avoiding the penetration of external agents inside the package itself and/or the escape of internal agents from the package itself, with possible risk of contamination of the product P. There can be various reasons for needing to realise an airtight sealed package of this type. Among these, the need to extend product shelf life can be cited. In this regard, one can also refer to the documents cited in the interlocutory portion of the present description.
- As in the case of the solution described in these previous documents, the wrapper of sheet material is destined to be made of a
first sheet 1 and asecond sheet 2. - With reference to their relative dimensions, the two sheets under consideration (henceforth, for simplicity referred to as square shaped sheets, but these sheets can have any shape, in particular, in function of the shape and dimensions of the product P) can be generally seen as a “small”
sheet 1 and a “large”sheet 2. - This difference in dimension can be justified above all in the case of the evolution of the method according to the steps illustrated in
FIGS. 6 and 7 , while it could be less significant in the case of the evolution according toFIGS. 8 and 9 . Generally, the choice of makingsheet 2 of larger dimension can be justified, even if not completely essential, whensheet 2 is destined to “cover” at least in part,sheet 1. - Instead,
sheets -
Sheet 1 is made of a lamina of plastically (or permanently) deformable material. -
Sheet 2, instead, is made of a lamina of a material exhibiting springback. - For example,
sheet 1 can be a wrapping sheet of the type referred to in the prior art documents cited repeatedly in the introduction of the present description. This could for example be a sheet of aluminium foil (for example with a thickness of 15-50 microns) possibly coated on its upper surface (that is the surface destined to face the product P) with a layer of material such as, for example, polythene, having thermal welding characteristics. In other words, it is a material of the type currently indicated in the field as “coupled” material. - Instead,
sheet 2 is made of a lamina also having a thickness on the order of 15-50 microns and including a layer of polypropylene (PP) or similar polymers, destined to face the outside of the package (intended as the part visible from the outside) and possibly presenting a finishing varnish on its outer surface. On its inner surface, the above-said layer of polypropylene can have a thin metalisation made by vapour-phase deposition (in a vacuum chamber) so to realise a so-called metalisation or aluminisation, providing the film with characteristics of brilliance and shininess.Sheet 2 can also include an additional layer of material such as polythene so to provide a sandwich-like structure in which the metalised layer is interposed between the (outer) layer of polypropylene and the (inner) layer of polythene. - Naturally the choice of these materials is not essential. The choice of polythene can be due to the wish to have a layer on the inner side of the
sheet 2 that can form an intimate connection by thermal welding to the material of thefirst sheet 1, that is, on the side destined to face the product P. - Whatever its structure and its composition,
sheet 2 is such not to have in its entirety characteristics of plastic deformability: if subjected to deformation,sheet 2 does not permanently keep (unlike a film or sheet with characteristics of plastic deformability) the shape that it was given, but instead it tends to elastically return to the initial un-deformed shape. - In the first step of the method presented herein, as an example, in
FIG. 1 it is shown thatsheet 1 is obtained by cutting a roll or web W of starting material. One can assume thatsheet 1 is located on a work surface (not specifically illustrated) such as, for example, the surface of a conveyor means included in a machine for the automatic packaging of products. This, for example, for the purpose of possibly being subjected (through a known tool), to the formation of ahollow imprint 3 of reduced depth susceptible of providing a housing and retaining place for the product P, destined to be located on thesheet 1 through a tool 100 (for example grasper-like) as is schematically illustrated inFIG. 2 . - The
imprint 3 can have, for example, a lens-like concave shape, or a generally shell or basin-like configuration, therefore a shape approximately complementary to a lower marginal part of the product P destined to be housed in thecavity 3. All of this, for example, to avoid that the product P moves in an undesirably way with respect tosheet 1 when (as normally happens during the packaging cycle)sheet 1 with product P is advanced, for example, along a conveyor line. - It will also be appreciated that the option of realising the
imprint 3 insheet 1 is not essential. The presence of such imprint can be advantageous in the case in which the product P has a perfectly spherical shape, therefore showing a certain tendency to roll onsheet 1, usually less marked in the case of a product already having a flattened part on the bottom. In any case, a possible anchoring effect of the product P tosheet 1 can also be obtained through other means, for example, through deposition of food-grade adhesive material. - It will also be appreciated that, if provided, the
hollow imprint 3 is made in a plastically deformable material, once imprinted insheet 1, such imprint remains in a substantially stable way. -
FIG. 3 represents an additional step in which thesecond sheet 2 is applied on product P with atool 120 arriving from above and having an overall ring-like configuration, so to be able to “embrace” the upper part of the product P on whichsheet 2 is applied.Sheet 2 is retained bytool 120—in a known way—through a holding vacuum action (see the “vacuum” lines represented by broken lines and indicated with 112) even allowing a limited sliding ofsheet 2 with respect to the surface oftool 110. -
Sheet 2 is then wrapped around the product P. Once the downward movement of thetool 110 is completed, leading to the fitting ofsheet 2 above and around the product P,sheet 2 has an approximately dome shaped central portion wrapping the product P and aflat part 2 a which is coextensive withsheet 1 wheresheet 1 is facingsheet 2. - Once such condition is reached, one proceeds with the realisation of a tacking operation so to connect, at least at points,
sheets sheets FIG. 4 ), can be realised, for example, through a crown of finger-likethermal welding elements 120 arising from below against the lower surface ofsheet 1 and determining localised fusion, with consequent welding ofsheets sheet 2. - Naturally, the above-said tacking can also be realised with different technologies: for example, through ultrasonic welding.
- The presence of the above-said tacking (which can be continuous or discontinuous) enables the
shaping tool 110 to rise up, preventingsheet 2 from losing the dome-like conformation with which it had been provided in its central part; which the material ofsheet 2 would tend to do, not itself having—as was repeatedly stated—plastic deformability characteristics, but instead exhibiting springback properties. - At this point, in the step represented in
FIG. 4 ,sheets FIG. 4 ). - In the step represented in
FIG. 4 , the twosheets sheet 1 that faces the surface of theflat part 2 a ofsheet 2. The fact that the two sheets are in contact along the entire mutually facing surface does not imply that the connection (here also realised by thermal welding, or possibly by ultrasonic welding or with other means) involves with absolute continuity the surfaces involved. - In an embodiment, the connection between surfaces under consideration can actually be continuous. The possibility of realising the connection, for example, as a line of closely spaced dots, or according to a web or line pattern, without the need to pursue an airtight sealed pairing also falls within the scope of the present invention. The possibility of realising the connection between
sheets - For the purpose of realising such connection between surfaces, any type of connection can be used which, in addition to being able to insure airtight sealing (hermetic sealing) of the wrapper thus formed around the product P, is such to provide an integrated or coupled laminar structure where
sheets sheet 1 are transferred to the union ofsheets sheet 1 andsheet 2. This, in such a way that, wheresheets sheet 2 are “tamed”, so-to-say, by the plastic deformability characteristics ofsheet 1. - In other words, where paired to
sheet 1,sheet 2—which alone would tend to return to some extent to its original shape once the deforming force is removed—acquires plastic or permanent deformability characteristics: this because of being coupled to a laminar material (sheet 1) actually having plastic deformability characteristics. - For the sake of completeness, it can also be noted that the tacking operation (for example, performed with the
fingers tool 120 ofFIG. 3 ) could be avoided by pairingsheet 1 and thepart 2 a ofsheet 2 acting with thewelding tool 130, instead of from above—as is represented inFIG. 4 , from below, raising thewelding tool 130 whilesheet 2 is still retained in the product P wrapping position bytool 110. The solution providing for the tacking 4 is, at least at the moment, preferred for reasons of overall simplicity of the process and device. - Starting from the phase represented in
FIG. 4 , the method described herein can evolve in at least two different directions. -
FIGS. 6 and 7 refer to a solution substantially similar to that described in document EP-A-0 591 742 (in particular seeFIGS. 5 to 7 therein). - In particular, the complex formed by the product P covered above by
sheet 2 and below bysheet 1, with the two sheets connected together along their facing surfaces is turned over (seeFIG. 5 ) and passed through a shaping tool 140 (for example of the deformable blade type according to a general “artichoke-like” conformation described in EP-A-0 082 952) pushing downward with a pushingtool 150. All of this to obtain the result that the external margin of sheet 2 (that is, essentially what was theflat part 2 a) is folded against product P, covering also the lower part of product P actually enclosingsheet 1, covering it, if not completely, at least in part. With its plastic deformability characteristics,sheet 1 retains in the closed condition the bow-like part formed by thewrapper 2 in correspondence with the bottom part of the product P. - Regarding this, it will be appreciated that the same result can be achieved also in the case in which the coupling of
sheets - At this point, the product P enclosed in the wrapper (sealed airtight, given that
sheets FIG. 7 . - Alternatively, the set of parts resulting from the phase represented in
FIG. 4 can be subjected to shaping operations as schematically illustrated inFIGS. 8 and 9 . These operations are substantially similar to those described in document EP-A-1 046 579 (in particular, seeFIGS. 5 to 7 ) which lead to giving a basin-like conformation opened above and with pleated walls tosheets cuplike element 15. This is a cuplike structure similar to thecuplike structure 5 represented inFIG. 7 , but with the characteristic of being provided as an integral part of the package. - Preferably, the operation of formation of the cuplike integral part indicated with 15 in
FIG. 9 provides first for the total welding (if not previous effected) and the pleating operation with the pleating directed radially with respect to the region in whichsheets - This region is then cuplike shaped through hot drawing. To improve the result of this operation, it can be useful that the material of which
sheet 1 is made, though having the required plastic deformability characteristics also has some resistance to accidental deformation. This property being advantageous for avoiding that theintegral cup 15, once formed, is easily dented during the successive product treatment phases. - For example, this result can be achieved by combining a material such as aluminium with a fibrous, paper-like material.
- Naturally, maintaining the principle of the invention, the details of construction and the forms of embodiment can be varied, even markedly, with respect to what was described and illustrated herein as a non-limiting example, without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the following claims.
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26. A method of wrapping a product in a wrapper of sheet material, including the operations of:
providing a first sheet of plastically deformable material and a second sheet of wrapping material exhibiting springback,
applying said first sheet and said second sheet onto said product forming in said second sheet a part wrapping said product and a part facing said first sheet,
coupling said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it, so to form, through the coupling, a plastically deformable composite sheet material, and
shaping said plastically deformable composite sheet material forming a wrapper for said product.
27. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of coupling said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it with an airtight sealing connection so to provide the wrapper formed by said first and second sheet with hermetic characteristics.
28. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of realising along the perimeter of the product a tacking connection between said first sheet and said second sheet applied on said product maintaining them facing each other, in view of coupling said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it.
29. A method according to claim 28 , including the operations of:
applying said second sheet on said product with a shaping tool,
realising said tacking connection,
removing said shaping tool after having realised said tacking connection and
coupling said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it.
30. A method according to claim 28 , including the operation of realising said tacking connection as a discontinuous connection.
31. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of forming in said sheet a concave imprint to partially house said product.
32. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of choosing said second sheet with dimensions larger than those of said first sheet, so that said second sheet wraps the greater part of said product.
33. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of folding said plastically deformable composite sheet material against the product, so that said second sheet covers, at least in part, said first sheet.
34. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of inserting said product, wrapped in said first and said second sheets in a housing container preferably having a cuplike shape.
35. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of subjecting said composite sheet material to a shaping operation according to a general cuplike conformation.
36. A method according to claim 26 , including the operation of providing, in at least one between said first and said second sheet, a layer of weldable material to realise the coupling between said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it.
37. A package with a product wrapped in a sheet material wrapper, in which the wrapper includes a first sheet of plastically deformable wrapping material and a second sheet of wrapping material exhibiting springback; said second sheet having one part wrapping said product and one part facing said first sheet with said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it coupled together so to form, by effect of the coupling, a plastically deformable composite sheet material shaped to provide said wrapper for said product.
38. A package according to claim 37 , in which said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it are airtight-seal coupled together, providing the wrapper with hermetic characteristics.
39. A package according to claim 37 , including, a tacking connection along the perimeter of the product, between said first sheet and said second sheet.
40. A package according to claim 37 , in which said first sheet (1) has a concave imprint (3) partially housing said product (P).
41. A package according to claim 37 , in which said second sheet has dimensions larger with respect to said first sheet.
42. A package according to claim 37 , in which said composite sheet material is folded against product, with said second sheet covering, at least in part, said first sheet.
43. A package according to claim 37 , in which said product wrapped in said first and said second sheet is inserted in a housing container preferably having a cuplike shape.
44. A package according to claim 37 , in which said composite sheet material is shaped according to a general cuplike conformation.
45. A package according to claim 37 , in which at least one between said first and said second sheet has a layer of weldable material providing the coupling between said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it.
46. A package according to claim 37 , in which said first sheet includes a plastically deformable metallic layer, such as, for example aluminium.
47. A package according to claim 37 , in which said first sheet has characteristics of resistance to denting.
48. A package according to claim 37 , in which said second sheet has a metalised surface.
49. A package according to claim 37 , in which said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it are coupled through thermal welding.
50. A package according to claim 37 , in which said first sheet and the part of said second sheet facing it are coupled through ultrasonic welding.
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