US3531908A - Method of sterilizing and in aseptic conditions filling a flexible container with a sterile liquid - Google Patents

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US3531908A
US3531908A US706547A US3531908DA US3531908A US 3531908 A US3531908 A US 3531908A US 706547 A US706547 A US 706547A US 3531908D A US3531908D A US 3531908DA US 3531908 A US3531908 A US 3531908A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65B55/02—Sterilising, e.g. of complete packages
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    • B65B55/10—Sterilising wrappers or receptacles prior to, or during, packaging by liquids or gases
    • 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
    • B65D5/02—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 by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body
    • B65D5/06—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 by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body with end-closing or contents-supporting elements formed by folding inwardly a wall extending from, and continuously around, an end of the tubular body
    • B65D5/067—Gable-top containers

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  • the present invention is concerned with packaging technology and deals with a method of sterilizing and m aseptic conditions filling a flexible container with a sterile liquid.
  • the invention also covers packaging material to be used in connection with the method.
  • the starting point in the operation is a flexible Web-shaped material which is fed into a chamber and is there sterilized, e.g., by the application of heat and/ or by being drawn through a sterilizing bath.
  • the web-shaped material is folded in the sterile chamber to form a tube which is then sealed along its length and is filled with a sterile liquid up to a certain level.
  • the individual packages are produced by clamping the tube along strips at right angles to the axis of the tube and by supplying heat to the said strips, as a result of which the inside surfaces of the tube which have been provided with a plastic coating are caused to adhere to one another, and finally by cutting the tube in the transverse sealing strips.
  • the method has many advantages, but since one of the conditions for its use is that the packaging material should be web-shaped, it cannot be used, Without substantial modification, when the containers used are, e.g., preproduced cartons or bottles. In such cases it may be best to make use instead of one of the methods developed for the aseptic filling of sterile liquids into glass bottles.
  • the sterilization of glass bottles can on the whole be carried out using conventional cleaning techniques. As an example of this may be mentioned treatment with sterilizing liquids. Treatment with sterilizing gases has also been suggested, but the use of these methods is in many countries restricted by prohibitions, and are also inconvenient since metal parts of the installation are heavily oxidized. Treatment of bottles with hot air or steam is also possible. There are thus a number of acceptable methods available for the sterilization of bottles which can even be carried out in comparatively simple installations. The conclusive difiiculties only arise in connection with the filling of the sterilized bottles and the closure of the filled bottles. Since the space required for Patented Oct.
  • a double-barrelled pipe is made to engage with the opening of the container and a sterilizing agent is introduced into the container through one of the pipes so that the inside of the container is sterilized, and the internally sterile container is also filled with the sterile liquid through one of the said pipes.
  • the invention is in this connection characterized by the container being closed through the Walls of the container in an area beyond the lower ends of the pipes by pressing the container walls together and sealing them, while the pipes are still in engagement with the opening of the container.
  • the two pipes are preferably coaxial, the outer pipe being inserted into the opening of the container and brought into contact with the inside of the wall of the container in such a way as to form a leakproof seal.
  • this pipe will all the time remain in the position effecting the seal, the filling and the closure of the internally sterile container can be carried out without the inside of the container being recontaminated by the surroundings.
  • an outer clamping device may also be provided, which between itself and the outsides of the two pipes will compress the wall of the neck of the container.
  • the procedure can also be modified by the outer pipe being only lowered to the general level of the upper edge of the container, or being made to surround the outside of the container in the edge zone area of the container opening.
  • FIG. 1 diagrammatically shows a plastic bottle during the diiferent stages (FIGS. 1a to if) of the sterilizing, filling and closure operations
  • FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of the filled and closed ottle
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the filling stage in accordance with a modification of the procedure covered by the invention
  • FIG. 4 shows the sequential production steps (FIGS. 4a to 4f) of a strip-top package
  • FIG. 5 shows a flat blank which is to be used for the production of this package.
  • a plastic bottle in FIG. 1 is generally denoted 1.
  • the material is the kind that is capable of being sealed by conventional sealing methods, for instance by the direct supply of heat or by treatment with high-frequency electricity or high-frequency sound.
  • the bottle should preferably be made of polyethylene but other thermoplastic materials may also be considered.
  • Bottle 1 has an opening 11 and a neck '12. The neck may be divided into two sections, namely an upper edge zone area 13 next to opening 11 and an area 14 below edge zone area 13.
  • a pipe system for the supply of the contents and the sterilizing agent to bottle 1 is further denoted generally 2 in FIG. 1.
  • the pipe system may within the framework of the invention be given a number of different forms. There are, however, two pipes as the basis of the arrangement which are preferably fitted coaxially.
  • the inner pipe in FIG. 1 has been denoted 3 and the outer pipe 4.
  • the lower portions of the pipes may also be shaped so as to form a valve, or may be fitted with a separate valve stem, e.g., in accordance with the principles demonstrated in French Pat. No. 1,214,060 or German Pat. No. 616,368.
  • the pipe system 2 can be lowered and raised and pipes 3 and 4 are also capable of displacement relative to one another.
  • the outer pipe 4 has at its lower end a cone 15 which tapers inwards, its least diameter being smaller than that of the opening of the bottle.
  • FIG. 1a shows an empty plastic bottle 1 placed in position below pipe system 2.
  • the sterilizing agent should be steam, but other sterilizing fluids may also be considered, e.g., sterilizing gases such as ethylene oxide and chlorine dioxide.
  • sterilizing gases such as ethylene oxide and chlorine dioxide.
  • the inside of the bottle should be flushed through after sterilization by a neutral gas, for instance sterile air.
  • a liquid sterilizing agent in which case it is best to turn the bottle upside down and to insert the pipe from below. Hydrogen peroxide may be mentioned as a liquid sterilizing agent. If the subsequent filling operation is also carried out with the bottle turned upside down, complete filling of this will further be facilitated. Closure will in this case be carried out through the liquid in the neck of the bottle, and the quantity of liquid inside the bottle will be regulated by means of calibrating flaps which limit the expansion of the plastic bottle.
  • the package may be provided with an indication as to how it is to be opened, e.g., in the form of a cut 16 or some similar arrangement, FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 3 The filling stage in accordance with a modification of the process covered by the invention is shown in FIG. 3.
  • the difference between this operation and the previous one lies in the fact that the cone 15 of the outer pipe 4' now tapers outwards and is brought into contact with the outside of the neck of the battle to form a leakproof seal.
  • FIG. 4 The different stages in the production of a strip-top package, in accordance with the principles of the invention, are shown in FIG. 4. The various stages have been denoted in the same way as in FIG. 1.
  • Cartons 17 in FIG. 4a may be said to consist of two parts, namely a lower part 18 designed to form the finished packaging container, and an upper part 19 to be used in connection with the sterilization and filling operations and to be removed afterwards.
  • the lower part 18 consists in the usual way of four walls and a bottom and a concertina-fold system 20 which, as will be shown with reference to FIG. 5, is best prepared in a certain way.
  • the upper part 19 may be said to correspond to part 10 in FIG. 1e and has a concertina-fold system 21 which is a true mirrorimage of the concertina-fold system 20, as well as an upper rib-shaped area 22 which corresponds to edge zone area 13 in FIG. 1a.
  • a pipe system 23 which comprises an inner (filling) pipe 24 and an outer (return and sealing) pipe 25.
  • Outer pipe 25 has as before a cone 26 and has a square cross section in order that it should be capable of being inserted into carton 17 to form a leakproof seal.
  • Stages a, b and c in FIG. 4 should not require any further commentary, it is only necessary to refer to what has been said in connection with the corresponding stages in FIG. 1.
  • the principal diiference between the processes in FIGS. 1 and 4 respectively lies in the fact that in the latter case the operation is begun with a rectangular upright casing the bottom of which is closed, which has been processed in such a way that its top can be closed up as shown in FIG. 4d.
  • a supply of heat to area 27 (the sealing blocks used for this are not shown in the figure) will cause the compressed plastic-coated walls to adhere to one another and to form a durable closure.
  • the finished sterile package is shown in FIG. 4
  • the excess material, in the shape of the upper part 19, has been removed in the figure.
  • part 19 need not be coated with plastic, and can thus be allowed to be returned as usable paper waste or can be used in some other way.
  • the packaging blank as shown in FIG. 5, which is to be used for the production of the strip-top container depicted in FIG. 4, has its parts that correspond to parts in FIG. 4 denoted by the same numbers. That part of the blank which is to form the finished container has thus been denoted 18 while the upper part, which is only provided as an aid to the sterilization, filling and closure of the container, has in the same way as before been denoted 19. A large number of fold lines, which serve to facilitate the folding-up of the Concertina-fold pattern, have been denoted 30 in the figure.
  • the method of sterilizing and thereafter filling under aseptic conditions a preproduced flexible container with a sterile liquid which comprises the steps of contacting the initially open mouth of the container with the outer pipe of a dual pipe assembly consisting of inner and outer laterally spaced pipes so as to establish a tight seal between the container mouth and said outer pipe, lowering said inner pipe into the container while maintaining said outer pipe in sealing engagement with the container mouth, sterilizing the interior of said container by introducing a gaseous sterilizing agent through one of said pipes, introducing the sterile liquid into said container through said inner pipe and thereby simultaneously forci-bly discharging the gaseous sterilizing agent outwardly from said container through the gap between said inner and outer pipes, withdrawing said inner pipe, and closing and sealing off the top of said container below the end of said pipe assembly by pressing together and joining the walls of the container and while said outer pipe is maintained in engagement with the mouth of said container.

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