Classifications

• • 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
  • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
  • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
  • B65B19/12—Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers
  • B65B19/20—Inserting the cigarettes, or wrapped groups thereof, into preformed containers into boxes with hinged lids
• • 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
  • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
  • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
  • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
  • B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
• • 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
  • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
  • B65B61/002—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for drying glued or sealed packages
• • 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
  • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
  • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
  • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
  • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
  • B65D85/1036—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank
  • B65D85/1045—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank having a cap-like lid hinged to an edge

Definitions

• the invention relates to a pack of (thin) cardboard or similar packaging material, with an inner pack for the package contents, in particular a cigarette group and with an outer pack in the embodiment preferably as a folding box, wherein the package contents enveloping inner pack see a closure la in the region of an end-side removal opening has, which is covered by a (permanent) adhesive provided actuating tab to form a protruding locking edge.
• a cigarette packet with the above features is known from EP 1 037 822.
• the cigarette group is surrounded in this known pack by a cup-shaped folded inner envelope of Stanniol, such that the cigarettes protrude approximately half of the cup.
• An inner pack is designed essentially as a folding box / hinge lid pack with a closing tab defined by punching lines for a removal opening arranged in the frontal area.
• the inner package formed in this way is surrounded on all sides by a film of dense material. Folding flaps of this film are connected by thermal sealing.
• An actuating tab formed as part of this sealing film is connected by gluing with the locking tab of the inner pack. When detecting the operating tab, this is moved together with the locking tab of the inner pack in an open position.
• the multi-part package thus formed is arranged in a separate outer pack, which is designed in a classical manner as a folding box.
• This known pack is material-intensive, complex in construction and can not be produced with efficient packaging machines.
• the invention has for its object to further develop a (cigarette) packing of the aforementioned type in that the tightness of the package obtained against aroma and moisture losses, but reduces the cost of materials and the production is possible on efficient packaging machines.
• the package according to the invention is characterized by the following features;
• the inner pack consists of thin cardboard or similar packaging material or of moisture or aroma-resistant, rigid material, in particular of (thin) cardboard with dense coating
• the inner pack is surrounded directly by the outer pack
• the actuating lug is as separate Blank formed and with the inner package or the blank of the inner pack in the area of the closure la see over the entire surface bonded together to form a running around connecting edge.
• the package according to the invention therefore consists essentially of two blanks or partial packs, each of thin cardboard.
• the tightness of the pack is ensured by appropriate design of the material of the inner pack. This surrounds the cigarette group preferably directly, so without further mecanicumhüilung.
• the closure tab of the inner pack is designed and arranged so that in the open position, a removal opening is formed as in a collar of a conventional folding box.
• the trained as a tape operating tab is provided over its entire surface with a permanent adhesive and connected under cover of the locking tab with the inner pack.
• a unit of blank of the inner package with positionally dismantled tape is provided as a prefabricated unit of the packaging machine or a second packer available.
• the blanks of the outer pack on the one hand and the inner pack on the other hand are designed so that both partial packs can be prepared using the usual method of folding cartons.
• two packaging machines are used in a cooperative manner, which correspond in a simplified design to a packer for folding boxes.
• a first packer is used to make the inner packs, including package contents.
• the second packer is used to make the outer pack as a classic folding box with the inner pack as content.
• FIG. 1 shows a blank for an outer pack
• FIG. 2 shows a blank for an inner pack
• FIG. 3 shows a detail of the inner pack, namely an actuating tab or a closure tape
• FIG. 5 shows a finished, sealed inner pack in a perspective view
• FIG. 6 shows a complete pack with inner pack and outer pack, also in perspective
• FIG. 7 shows a first step of the opening process of the pack according to FIG. 6, namely the opened outer pack
• FIG. 8 shows the open package, that is, including the opened inner package
• FIG. 9 shows an intermediate folding position of a blank of the inner package during the
• FIG. 10 shows a perspective flow chart of the production of packages according to FIG. 1 to FIG. 8,
• FIG. 11 shows a plant with two packaging machines in a schematic plan view.
• the present package is for receiving cigarettes 10 as package contents.
• a cigarette group 11 formed from a plurality of cigarettes 10 arranged in formation fills the interior of a partial pack, namely an inner pack 12. This is designed as a sealing pack.
• the cigarettes 10 are preferably arranged without additional inner wrapping, ie directly in the inner pack 12.
• the cuboid inner package 12 in turn is content of an outer pack 13, here in the execution of a classic folding box or Hinge lid pack, but here without a collar.
• Outer pack 13 and inner pack 12 are provided with closure means which can be operated independently of each other to gain access to the contents of the pack.
• the outer pack 13 in the embodiment as a folding box is known to consist of a (lower) box part 14 and a lid 15. This is connected via a transverse line joint 16 in one piece with the box part 14.
• the carton part 14 consists of a carton front wall 17, a bottom wall 18 and a carton rear wall 19, as shown in FIG. 1. On both sides of the carton front wall 17 there are external side tabs 20 and side tabs lying on the carton rear wall 19. lapping 21 attached. These form together, namely due to overlap and connection with each other, box side walls 22nd
• the cover 15 consists of the lid rear wall 19 adjoining the lid rear wall 23, the upper end wall 24 and the lid front wall 25.
• side lids 26 and 27 are arranged laterally to form Lid sidewalls 28.
• Attached to a free edge of the lid front wall 25 is a lid inner tab 29 which is folded against and connected to the inside of the lid front wall 25 (glue dots 30).
• corner tabs namely bottom corner tabs 31 and top corner tabs 32 are arranged. These are foldable against the inside of the bottom wall 18 and end wall 24.
• the blank thus formed (Fig. 1) consists of (thin) cardboard or similar packaging material with increased dimensional stability.
• the inner package 12 and its blank (FIG. 2) are designed in a special way, so that preferably a largely closed, aroma-tight and moisture-proof envelope is formed.
• the blank (FIG. 2) for this purpose consists of (thin) cardboard 33, but here with one-sided or double-sided coating 34.
• the coating 34 is formed so that the packaging material as a whole becomes moisture or aroma-tight.
• the coating consists of plastic and / or a lacquer layer and / or a metal or metallized layer.
• the inner pack 12 forms a closed, cuboid container for the cigarette shelf 11.
• a removal opening 35 is formed, which extends in the region of an inner front wall 36 and at least in the region of an adjacent inner end wall 37.
• the extraction opening 35 extends in an upper portion of the inner front wall
• the removal opening 35 is before the first opening of the inner package 12 and in
• closing tab 39 is delimited by a U-shaped punching line 41, which at the same time determines the contour of removal opening 35.
• a reusable actuating member namely by a tape formed as an actuating tab 42.
• This consists of a film and is preferably provided on the closure flap 39 side facing the entire surface with a (permanent) adhesive .
• the actuating lug 42 designed as a single blank (FIG. 3) has an approximately rectangular contour and is dimensioned such that the closure lug 39 and thus the removal opening 35 are completely covered in the closed position, to form a protrusion or a connecting edge 43 which preferably extends around it , which is in the closed position due to the effect of the adhesive to a discharge opening 35 surrounding area of the inner pack 12 at.
• a transverse end strip 44 is permanently, so also during the opening and closing movements of the actuating tab 42, connected to the inner pack 12, namely with the inner rear wall 38.
• the actuating tab 42 is a detectable, adhesive-free handle 45 provided.
• the blank (FIG. 2) is designed for the inner pack 12.
• the inner rear wall 38 extends continuously over the full dimension or height of the
• Inner packing 12 The inner front wall 36 is - approximately in the middle - divided. A first, upper one
• Partial wall 46 is connected to the inner end wall 37. Another (lower) partial wall 47 connects to an inner bottom wall 48. In the finished inner pack 12 encounter the
• the blank of the inner pack 12 has side flaps which overlap each other and are bonded together by gluing.
• the inner rear wall 38 is provided with full height continuous, one-piece rear side tabs 51.
• outer side tabs of the inner front wall 36 are also divided, thus forming partial side tabs 52, 53 which form the outer side of the side walls 50 in the folded inner package 12, continuing the parting line 49.
• the continuous, inner rear side tabs 51 ensure the stability of the inner package 12. Corner tabs are arranged on the rear side tabs 51, namely inner bottom corner tabs 54 for bearing against the inside of the inner bottom wall 48. End tabs 55 are formed in a special way, namely as narrow strips of material.
• the front corner tabs 55 rest against the inside of the end wall 37 and are connected in the area of edge webs 56 of the inside end wall 37 next to the removal opening 35, in particular by gluing, here by two glue points 57 each.
• the edge webs 56 as Limitation of the removal opening 35 are thereby reinforced.
• the tightness of the inner pack 12 is produced.
• the inner pack 12 fills the outer pack 13 completely.
• the removal opening 35 is positioned so that when the lid 15 of the outer package 13, the removal opening 35 is freely accessible (Fig. 8).
• the dimensions are selected so that the actuating tab 42 is completely exposed when the lid 15 is in the open position (Fig. 7).
• the grip flap 45 can be detected at the front.
• the closure tab 39 is lifted into the open position.
• the inner pack 12 can be closed again.
• the outer pack 13 is designed as a folding box without collar.
• the removal opening 35 of the inner package 12 can be dimensioned in the region of the front side, which remains free from an upper boundary of the box front wall 17, namely an upper (edge) edge 67, only a relatively narrow strip of the inner front wall 36 the plant of the actuating tab 42 with handle flaps 45. This extends just above the edge 67th
• Inner package 12 and outer package (13) are coordinated so that the parting line 49 of the inner package 12 is clearly in the box front wall 17 of the outer package 13 (Fig. 6). At least in this area, the partial walls 46, 47 are connected to the inside of the box front wall 17, by gluing. Glue points or glue spots 66 are arranged so that the areas adjacent to the parting line 49 are connected to create a certain tightness with the outer package 13. The glue areas are arranged so that the parting line 49 remains free of glue.
• the actuating tab 42 may be arranged and / or formed such that the handle flap 45 is located in the region of the upper edge 67 (closing edge) of the box front wall 17 and covers it against the outside of the box front wall 17. As a result, the grip flap 45 can be easily grasped.
• the package consists in total of two blanks (FIG. 1, FIG. 2) and the separate blank of the actuating tab 42.
• a further blank can be used, namely an inner blank made of paper or tinfoil for the (complete) wrapping of the cigarette group 11.
• the formation of the blanks according to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 makes it possible to produce the complete pack by using the filling and filling steps customary for standard folding boxes.
• the inner package 12 and the outer package 13 are made by separate packers. Referring to Figs. 10, 11, a first packaging machine 58 is used to make the inner package 12 and a second packaging machine 59 to make the complete package by inserting the inner package 12 into each outer package 13.
• the machines 58, 59 are in parallel alignment arranged side by side and connected to each other via a transfer path 60.
• the (complete) inner packages 12 produced by the packaging machine 58 are transported via the transverse transfer line 60 to the input side of the packaging machine 59 and processed as package contents for the outer package 13.
• Both packers 58, 59 are equipped with a folding turret 61, 62, which largely corresponds to a conventional folding turret in a folding carton packaging machine, namely is rotatable about a vertical axis and radially directed pockets 63 for receiving a blank for the inner package 12 or outer package 13.
• the blanks are folded into an angular intermediate fold position upon insertion into a pocket 63 ( Figure 9). This is selected in the blank of the inner package 12 so that the inner rear wall 38 is aligned in a horizontal plane, as well as the inner end wall 37 with adjoining partial wall 46 and partial side tabs 53.
• the rear side tabs 51, so at the inner Rear wall 38 arranged inside side lobes are folded into the upright position.
• the inner bottom wall 48 with partial wall 47 and partial side tabs 52 forms an upright folding leg.
• the inner bottom flap 54 are likewise erected in this first folding step and folded against the inside of the inner bottom wall 48.
• the package contents namely a shaped cigarette group 11
• the area of the bottom-side partial wall 47 is first folded against the upper side of the cigarette group 11.
• the inner end wall 37 is erected and the partial wall 46 is also folded against the cigarette group 11.
• the side flaps 52, 53 are folded into an upright position.
• the inner package 12 thus produced is fed to a first shaping drying turret 64 and then to a second drying turret 65.
• the finished and dimensionally stable inner packs 12 then pass via the transfer path 60 to the input side of the packaging machine 59.
• the packaging machine 59 is expediently designed like a standard folding box packaging machine, with the difference that the inner packing 12 takes the place of a cigarette block with a collar.
• a further simplification of the production process can consist in that finished blanks according to FIG. 2 are fed to the packaging machine 58 with an appropriately positioned operating tab 42, optionally in the area of a blank web for feeding the blanks to the folding turret an assembly for applying the actuating tabs 42 to the unfolded blanks the inner pack 12 may be attached.
• the outer pack 13 is provided on the inside with glue, here with glue dots 66 for fixing the inner pack 12 in the outer pack 13 or in the box part 14 of the same.

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