Classifications

• • 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
  • B65D71/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D71/06—Packaging elements holding or encircling completely or almost completely the bundle of articles, e.g. wrappers
  • B65D71/08—Wrappers shrunk by heat or under tension, e.g. stretch films or films tensioned by compressed articles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B53/00—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging
  • B65B53/02—Shrinking wrappers, containers, or container covers during or after packaging by heat
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
  • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
  • G07D9/06—Devices for stacking or otherwise arranging coins on a support, e.g. apertured plate for use in counting coins
  • G07D9/065—Devices for wrapping coins
• • 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
  • B65D2571/00—Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans, pop bottles; Bales of material
  • B65D2571/00006—Palletisable loads, i.e. loads intended to be transported by means of a fork-lift truck
  • B65D2571/00012—Bundles surrounded by a film
  • B65D2571/00018—Bundles surrounded by a film under tension
  • B65D2571/00024—Mechanical characteristics of the shrink film
• • 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
  • B65D75/00—Packages comprising articles or materials partially or wholly enclosed in strips, sheets, blanks, tubes or webs of flexible sheet material, e.g. in folded wrappers
  • B65D75/52—Details
  • B65D75/58—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture
  • B65D75/5827—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method in packaging coins and a film of plastic material for practising the method.
• US-A-3,491 ,507 describes the use of heat- -shrinkable material for packing coins, said material being wrapped about a solid cylindrical body of coins which are arranged in axial alignment and face-to-face contact.
• the heat-shrinkable material is heated over the entire length of the body of coins so as to shrink into firm engagement with the cylindrical surface of the body of coins.
• the heat-shrinkable material tends to break at the edges of the ends of the coin body and, moreover, it is difficult to apply a satisfactory print on the package e.g. in order to identify the denomi nation. of the coins in the package or the bank or other monetary institution that has produced the package, because the print is distorted by the shrinking of the heat- -shrinkable material.
• the package obtained is hard and rigid and is difficult to open.
• the object of the invention is to provide a method in packaging coins, which substantially facilitates the packaging and at the same time overcomes the disadvan ⁇ tages mentioned above.
• the invention provides a method in packaging a solid cylindrical body of coins which are arranged in
• the invention also provides a film of plastic material forming an elongated strip, for practising the method of the invention, which is characterized in that the marginal edge portions of the strip are more heat-absorb ng than the intermediate portion of the strip to absorb heat when the film is being heated, more rapidly than the intermediate portion to contract locally in said marginal portions.
• FIG. 1 is a side view of a solid cylindrical body of coins in an initial step of the method of the invention
• FIG. 2 is a side view of a following step wherein the film is heated to contract locally at the edge of the coin body
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the completed package
• FIG. 4 is a plan view of a portion of an elongated strip of plastic film material of the invention.
• FIG. 5 is an enlarged diagrammatic cross-sectional view of a laminated film which is printed
• FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic view illustrating the
• FIGS. 1 to 3 a solid cylindrical body 10 of coins arranged in axial alignment and face-to-face contact is enclosed to form a package by an elongated strip 11 of a film of plastic material being wrapped about the coin body.
• the film can consist of any of the conventional materials used for packaging films such as polyethylene or polypropylene.
• the wrapping is effected by the coin body being held between supports 12 and being rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow 13 while an elongated strip of said material and having a proper length is being wrapped about the coin body.
• the coin body should have such a width that marginal edge portions 14 thereof project from the edge of the coin body 10.
• regions of the elongated strip at the ends of the coin body, including the projecting marginal edge portions 15, are heated to a proper temperature in order to effect contraction of the film at said end portions.
• heating means 15 limiting the heating to the end portions, and such heating means can comprise electrical radiation heaters or nozzles for expelling hot air towards the end portions of the coin body.
• the coin body enclosed by the elongated strip wrapped about said body is being rotated during said heating.
• FIG. 3 according to which the marginal edge portions 15 by. heating of the film have contracted over the end surfaces of the body of coins.
• a print on the film, if any, will not be distorted when practising the method of the invention as described above, because that part of the package which is located
• the coin package thus obtained can be opened easily, the package at the same time being .sufficiently safe so as to withstand the rough handling to which the package may be exposed during transport in a bag or a box.
• the package can be more easily opened by providing in the elongated strip of plastic film a central longitudinal perforation 16. Due to this per ⁇ foration it will be easy to break the package centrally thereof, the enclosure being split at the perforation. Since the plastic film has not contracted onto the major part of the length of the coin body, the coins can be easily discharged from the two halves of the endosure.
• the invention provides a film of plastic material in the form of an elongated strip constructed in a special way as shown in FIG. 4.
• the elongated strip .shown in FIG. 4 can consist of any of the conventional plastic materials used for packaging purposes such as polyethylene or poly ⁇ propylene.
• the marginal edge portions 17 thereof which in a typical embodiment can have a width of 5 to 7 mm are made more heat-absorbing than the intermediate portion 18, a heat-absorbing material being entrained into or applied to the marginal edge portions 17.
• Such heat-absorbing material can comprise e.g. a metal or metal-oxide•pigment.
• the marginal edge portions 17 can be made opaque e.g. by applying a dark (black) colour to said portions.
• the pigment can be applied e.g. by printing such pigment on the elongated strip.
• the inter ⁇ mediate portion 13 can be provided with the proper print supplying desired information.
• the width of the marginal edge portions 17 is adjusted to the length of the body of coins such that these portions, when the elongated strip is arranged centrally on the coin body and is wrapped about said body, cover the utter ⁇ most end portions of the coin body and project from the ends thereof. Due to the fact that the marginal edge portions 17 are more heat-absorbing than the inter ⁇ mediate portion 18, said marginal edge portions will be heated more rapidly when the end portions of the film are heated locally, such that the film will contract locally more rapidly at the end portions while the intermediate portion 18 will be substantially unaffected by the heating. The marginal edge portions 17 will contract about the ends of the body of coins and will bend over the end surfaces of the coin body e.g. 3 to 5 mm as shown in FIG. 3. As soon as this has taken place the heat radiation can be discontinued with the inter ⁇ mediate portion 18 intact.
• the film of the elongated strip is transparent in order to eliminate the possibility of cheating by including in the package iron washers or an iron rod as a substitute for coins.
• the transparent package makes possible to check the contents of the package by ocular inspection of the contents of the package from the outside thereof without the necessity of breaking the package.
• the film can be laminated in the manner shown in FIG. 5 ⁇ n inner layer 19 being provided with a print indicated diagrammatical ly by lines 20, at one side thereof, and this side of the inner layer is covered by an outer layer 21 which accordingly must be trans ⁇ parent so as to allow reading of the printed informa ⁇ tion through said layer.
• the inner layer 19 preferably is transparent for the reasons mentioned above, but is not necessarily of this character.
• the laminated film will be wrapped about the coin body with the layer 21 facing outwards, said layer protect ⁇ ing the print such that the print will not be damaged or erased.
• FIG. 6 has been developed from that shown in FIG. 5.
• the two films forming the inner and outer layers 19 and 21 are put together while prestretching the film 19 such that the laminated film tends to curve as shown in FIG. 6.
• the elongated strip comprising such laminated film will curve about the body of coins when it is to be wrapped about said body such that the wrapping operation will be facilitated.

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