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
  • 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
  • B65D75/5833—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall
  • B65D75/5838—Tear-lines provided in a wall portion for tearing out a portion of the wall combined with separate fixed tearing means, e.g. tabs
• • 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

Definitions

• the invention lies in the field of packaging technology and relates to packaging according to the preamble of the independent claim.
• the packaging contains a plurality of wet wipes or a plurality of similar consumables.
• a number of requirements are placed on a packaging which contains a plurality of wet wipes, that is to say on a packaging from which at least one wet wipe should be able to be removed on several occasions separated from one another.
• the most important of these requirements are the following:
• the packaging should be easy to open and close with one hand, advantageously.
• the packaging should not only be so tight in the new state but also in the reclosed state that the wet wipes remain moist during a normal usage period.
• the packaging should be so stable that the wet wipes can be removed from the first to the last in the same simple manner and advantageously using only one hand.
• the packaging should be easy to manufacture, easy to dispose of and inexpensive.
• Such flat bags usually have a notch on one edge, which facilitates tearing open to remove the wet wipe. Since such a package can no longer be closed after being torn open, it is not suitable as packaging for a plurality of wet wipes. Two hands are required to open the package and to remove the wet wipe from it.
• cans which have a reclosable opening and which, if appropriate, can be fastened to a wall with the aid of corresponding wall brackets. With such cans, it is possible to meet the above-mentioned conditions, apart from the requirement that they be easy to produce and inexpensive.
• the object of the invention is now to create a packaging which is simple and practical to use, but nevertheless simple and inexpensive to produce, for a plurality of wet wipes or for a plurality of similar consumables.
• the packaging according to the invention should in particular be usable at an essentially freely selectable location, which can also change from use to use, without the help of elements not directly belonging to the packaging, such as wall brackets or the like, and should be simple and in particular one-handed operation for Allow a consumer item to be removed and, if necessary, also to open and close the package.
• the packaging according to the invention is a bag, for example a tubular bag package, made of a flexible packaging material without substantial inherent rigidity, for example made of a plastic film, an aluminum foil or a composite material such as coated paper.
• the bag is flat, that is to say it has two surface areas which are essentially parallel to one another and define a front side and a rear side of the bag, the distance between the front side and the back side, i.e. the thickness of the bag, not being greater than the dimensions of the Front and back side.
• the flat pouch points to the
• the front has an optionally reclosable opening and is at least partially coated on the back with a permanent adhesive, the permanent adhesive being covered, for example with a cover film, at least when the bag is new.
• the cover film is removed and the bag is attached to a wall or other stable surface (e.g. table, cistern, chair back, computer screen, possibly also a piece of clothing) using the adhesive.
• a wall or other stable surface e.g. table, cistern, chair back, computer screen, possibly also a piece of clothing
• This attachment gives the bag, which has little stability in itself, especially when it is no longer completely full, a new stability and rigidity, which makes it possible to remove part of the contents from it and, if necessary, to open it and to close again.
• the shape and the rigidity of the bag are changed only to an insignificant extent by the successive withdrawals, such that the first withdrawal is essentially the same as the last one. Thanks to its own flexibility, the empty or partially filled bag can be easily removed from the surface to which it sticks by peeling it off.
• the opening is located on the front of the pack according to the invention, that is to say on the side of the flat bag opposite the adhesive side.
• the design of the adhesive side, the opening and, if applicable, the closure thereof are coordinated with one another in such a way that when the packaging is removed and, if appropriate, also when the packaging is opened and re-closed, there are no forces by which the bag peels from the base to which it adheres becomes.
• the opening does not have to be actually present in the new packaging but can be defined, for example, by a predetermined breaking line such that it is only formed when the packaging is opened for the first time.
• FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal section through a preferred embodiment of the packaging according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows the opening side (front) of the packaging according to FIG. 1;
• Figure 3 shows the adhesive side (back) of the packaging according to Figure 1.
• FIG. 1 shows an exemplary, preferred embodiment of the packaging according to the invention in a longitudinal section. It is a tubular bag package made of a flexible packaging material 1, which closes like a tube around the contents of the packaging 2 and is closed with two transverse seams 3 lying opposite one another.
• the packaging is therefore flat and has a reclosable opening on one side (front or opening side 4) and is coated on the other side (rear side or adhesive side 5) with a permanently adhesive adhesive, which adhesive is advantageously covered with a cover film 6.
• the packaging content 2 is, for example, a stack of wet wipes.
• the packaging according to the invention is not limited to packaging for wet wipes, but can in the same way contain a plurality of consumables, which consumables are not all removed from the packaging together and for which consumables it is necessary or at least advantageous if the packaging can be closed again between individual withdrawals and if the removal and also the opening and reclosing can be carried out with one hand.
• the packaging contents are also dry kene tissues such as handkerchiefs, toilet tissues or serviettes are conceivable or cotton balls, cotton swabs and many other similar consumables.
• the packaging material 1 depends on the content of the packaging, but is sufficiently flexible for peeling off the packaging.
• a plastic film or coated paper is suitable for packaging wet wipes.
• the entire packaging essentially consists of the same material, that is to say not only the tubular bag per se but also a closure element and the cover film, which is still to be described.
• the reclosable opening on the opening side 4 of the packaging is designed, for example, as a predetermined breaking line 10 in the packaging material 1, which predetermined breaking line defines an opening 12 and is covered by a flexible closure element 11.
• the closure element 11 can also consist of the packaging material or of another flexible material. As can be seen in particular from FIG. 2, which shows the opening side 4 of the packaging according to the invention, the closure element 11 projects beyond the opening 12 defined by the predetermined breaking line 10 and has a holding area 13 and a hinge area 14 opposite the holding area 13.
• the closure element 11 is advantageously not connected to the packaging material, so that it can be easily grasped for opening.
• the closure element 11 can be glued onto the packaging (if necessary, except for the holding area).
• Appropriate measures relating to the closure element and / or the predetermined breaking line advantageously prevent the closure element from also in the hinge area of the packaging can be removed, so that the opening can be closed again without repositioning the closure element.
• the closure element 11 is shown drawn out in a position which it assumes during the opening, and in dash-dot lines in the closed position.
• the holding area 13 of the closure element 11 which is not connected to the packaging material 1 is grasped for opening and the closure element 11 is peeled off from this side of the packaging, the packaging material 1 tearing along the predetermined breaking line 10 when it is opened for the first time and the part of the packaging material 1 lying within the predetermined breaking line 10 with the closure element is removed from the opening and the packaging content 2 is thereby exposed for removal.
• the closure element 11 remains connected to the packaging material 1, which eliminates the need to hold the closure element 11 during removal and facilitates the repositioning of the closure element 11 for reclosing.
• the opening can also be designed differently, in particular not reclosable.
• the packaging according to the invention does not need to have an actual opening either; a portion marked as an opening is sufficient, which the consumer opens, for example with a knife or scissors, before the first removal.
• FIG. 3 shows the adhesive side 5 of the packaging according to FIG. 1. If the packaging has a longitudinal seam 20, this runs, for example, approximately centrally over the adhesive side 5. A central region of this side is coated with the adhesive 21. The coated area is covered with the cover sheet 6 in such a way that the coating is covered as completely as possible and that the cover sheet 6 projects beyond the coating at least in an edge area and thereby for removal can be recorded. For example, the cover film projects beyond the coating in the area of the transverse seams 3, which are not coated.
• the area of the back of the packaging fixed by the adhesive on the surface is as large as possible, although it is in no way a condition that the entire area to be fixed is coated with adhesive.
• a regular or irregular coating pattern or a coating of only the edges of the area to be fixed or only parts of these edges can also be provided.
• the adhesive is a permanently adhesive adhesive, for example a permanently adhesive hot melt adhesive (hot melt), a permanently adhesive dispersion adhesive or an adhesive that can be polymerized after application by UV radiation.
• the adhesive is advantageously transparent, so that labeling of the packaging material 1 remains visible through the adhesive.
• SYNCOLLAN 762 40 from Casanin AG (6033 Buchrain, Switzerland) is suitable as an adhesive for a packaging material 1 which consists of a plastic film.
• the adhesive is applied, for example, through a nozzle in the form of a layer, in strips, beads or dots. However, it can also be applied by spraying, spraying, spinning spray or sputtering or by rolling it up on the packaging.
• the cover film 6 is, for example, a transparent plastic film or consists of siliconized paper or wax paper.
• the opening 12 is to be arranged over a central area of the adhesive coating 21 or the area of the packaging fixed by the adhesive coating, such that it does not extend over an edge area of the adhesive coating 21 or the area of the area which can be fixed by the adhesive coating Packaging extends. If a peelable closure element 11 is arranged above the opening, no such forces, which peel the packaging, should arise when the closure element 11 is peeled off.
• the peelable area of a closure element without a predetermined peeling direction should not project beyond the fixable area of the adhesive side. From the peelable area of a closure element, the peeling direction of which is predetermined by a holding area, at least the area in which the peeling begins should not project beyond the adhesive area.

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