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
  • B65D55/00—Accessories for container closures not otherwise provided for
  • B65D55/02—Locking devices; Means for discouraging or indicating unauthorised opening or removal of closure
  • B65D55/06—Deformable or tearable wires, strings, or strips; Use of seals, e.g. destructible locking pins
  • B65D55/08—Annular elements encircling container necks
  • B65D55/0818—Destructible or permanently removable bands, e.g. adhesive
  • B65D55/0854—Shrink-film bands
• • 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
  • B65D23/00—Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for
  • B65D23/08—Coverings or external coatings
  • B65D23/0842—Sheets or tubes applied around the bottle with or without subsequent folding operations
  • B65D23/0878—Shrunk on the bottle
• • 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
  • B65D23/00—Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for
  • B65D23/12—Means for the attachment of smaller articles
  • B65D23/14—Means for the attachment of smaller articles of tags, labels, cards, coupons, decorations or the like
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
  • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
  • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
  • G09F3/0288—Labels or tickets consisting of more than one part, e.g. with address of sender or other reference on separate section to main label; Multi-copy labels
  • G09F3/0289—Pull- or fold-out labels

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the packaging of consumer products requiring consumer information.
• They can be, for example, food products whose preparation must be carried out according to a particular method or according to a recommended culinary recipe.
• They may also be chemicals, the implementation of which is carried out according to a specific user manual which requires taking the precautions for use laid down by the manufacturer.
• it can be pharmaceutical products, such as drugs, which must contain a certain number of regulatory information such as their composition, indications, contraindications, dosage, precautions for use, etc.
• a packaging the material of which is of the same nature as the container, for example made of plastic. It is then an envelope constituted by a heat-shrinkable sleeve capable of closely surrounding at least one part of the body of the container to form a support for elementary information and / or ensuring the relative immobilization of the opening and closing means. of said container.
• the envelopes known as a sleeve surrounding a container often turn out to be of limited use as regards the supply of necessary information and moreover not allowing it to be freely available by dissociating it from their support.
• the object of the invention is to remedy the various aforementioned drawbacks and to this end relates to an envelope, more particularly intended for the packaging of a container containing a consumer product, of the type consisting of a sleeve made of heat-shrinkable plastic material capable of surrounding closely at least a part of the body of the container to form a basic information carrier and / or ensure the relative immobilization of the means for opening and closing said container, characterized in that the sleeve comprises, in addition, a complementary flap removable, freely extending by superposition, between two external generators of the lateral reference surface of said sleeve, to which it is connected by its two lateral ends detachably, at least ' partially, to deliver additional specific information which it contains , relating to the product.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a container packed with an envelope according to the invention
• FIG. 1 is a plan view of the developed surface of the envelope according to Figure 1;
• - Figures 3, 4 and 5 are end views of the envelope, during three successive phases of production;
• - Figures 6 and 7 are plan views successively showing an envelope before and after insertion on the container;
• FIG. 8 is a plan view of a container on which the envelope has been thermoformed
• FIG. 9 is a perspective view of a container after partial detachment of a flap of the envelope.
• FIGS 10, 11 and 12 show end views of envelopes according to different modes of presentation of information.
• the envelope generally designated by the reference 1 in the figures, is intended, on the one hand, for the packaging of a container 2 and, on the other hand, for the delivery of additional information 8 concerning the product enclosed by said container 2.
• the casing 1 comprises a first part, known per se and constituted by a sleeve 3 of heat-shrink material suitable for closely surrounding the body u containing 2 to form a support 9 of elementary information and possibly ensure immobilization of the opening and closing means, in this case a stopper 4, of said container 2.
• the casing 1 constituted by the sleeve 3 further comprises a second part formed by a flap 5 extending freely by superposition between two external generatrices x and y of the lateral surface of * reference of said sleeve 3, to which it is connected by its two lateral ends 6 and 7 detachably, at least partially, to deliver additional specific information 8 that it contains.
• the envelope 1 is obtained from a sheet of heat-shrinkable plastic in one piece, the first part of which forms the sleeve 3 consists of zones I and II, and the second part III of which forms the flap 5 is obtained in one piece with said sleeve 3 as an extension of one of the lateral ends 6 of the developed surface (I + II) of said sleeve 3.
• FIG. 2 also shows zones A, B, C, D which are intended for heat sealing during the shaping of the envelope 1.
• zones A-B and C-D can be carried out successively or simultaneously.
• the lateral ends of the flap are connected to the sleeve by two parallel heat seals, one of them simultaneously forming the sleeve by closing its reference lateral surface on itself.
• zone II the elementary information 9 carried by the sleeve 3 is necessarily transcribed in zone II because zone I is covered by zone III forming the flap 5.
• This information 9 is of course necessarily readable from the outside once the sleeve 3 placed on the container 2, but on the other hand, the information 8 can be made readable from the outside or from the inside. This is so that, in the latter case, they remain discreet, for example with regard to certain drugs. It should be noted that the length "L" of the flap 5 constituted by the zone III is deliberately limited in proportions such as not to allow the overlapping of the zone II and this for two reasons.
• the first is obviously to prevent the flap 5 from masking the information carried by said zone II of the sleeve 3.
• the second resides in the fact that it is not desirable to heat the zone I of the sleeve 3 covered by zone III of the flap 5, during the heat-shrinking operation, as this could lead to a deformation of the latter, harmful to the information it contains. It is therefore preferred to heat only the only zone II, to ensure the shrinking of the sleeve 3.
• the flap is made removable by means of tearing means arranged near at least one of its lateral ends. More specifically, the means able to make the flap removable are arranged near each of the two heat seals, on the internal side of these.
• These tearing means Pi, P2 are in this case constituted by two lateral punctures. Of course, there could be only one.
• these tearing means are particularly well illustrated in Figure 9 showing a first cut through the PI sting, the P2 sting being torn.
• the flap 5 can also be made removable by means of adhesive means (not shown) arranged near at least one of its lateral ends. According to an exemplary embodiment shown in Figures 10 and 11, it differs essentially from the previous one in that the flap defines with the sleeve a pouch capable of containing an explanatory note concerning the product. In this case, the pocket defined by the flap is closed on all sides after introduction of the instructions to constitute an airtight protection to it. However, as mentioned above, the flap 5 can be printed to constitute an explanatory note per se.
• the inner surface of the flap is secured to an end fold of an explanatory note folded back on itself.
• leaflet 12 is folded back on itself in an accordion.
• the end fold 12a of the manual 12 "can be secured to the flap 5A by heat sealing simultaneously with the assembly of the CD zones or else by gluing in said zone C of the flap 5A.
• a variant could consist in bringing the manual back 12 on the inner face 5a of the flap 5A of an envelope 1A by peelable adhesive means (not shown)
• the envelope 1 or 1A is made of a material of the same kind as the container (2) so as to make their simultaneous recycling compatible.
• the envelope 1 or 1A is made of a material of the same kind as the container and the information leaflet so as to make their recycling simultaneous.
• the container 2 and its stopper 4 the sleeve 3 constituting its packaging, the flap 5 or 5A containing the notice il or 12, the notice 11 or 12 it -same, are of the same nature and consequently recyclable simultaneously.

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