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
  • B65D75/5805—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture for tearing a side strip parallel and next to the edge, e.g. by means of a line of weakness
  • B65D75/5811—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture for tearing a side strip parallel and next to the edge, e.g. by means of a line of weakness and defining, after tearing, a small dispensing spout, a small orifice or the like
• • 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
  • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
  • B65D1/09—Ampoules
  • B65D1/095—Ampoules made of flexible material
• • 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
  • B65D11/00—Containers having bodies formed by interconnecting or uniting two or more rigid, or substantially rigid, components made wholly or mainly of plastics material
  • B65D11/20—Details of walls made of plastics material
• • 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
  • B65D35/00—Pliable tubular containers adapted to be permanently or temporarily deformed to expel contents, e.g. collapsible tubes for toothpaste or other plastic or semi-liquid material; Holders therefor
  • B65D35/02—Body construction
  • B65D35/04—Body construction made in one piece
  • B65D35/08—Body construction made in one piece from plastics material
• • 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
  • B65D75/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by associating or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
  • B65D75/30—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding
  • B65D75/32—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents
  • B65D75/321—Both sheets being recessed
  • B65D75/322—Both sheets being recessed and forming one compartment
• • 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
  • B65D75/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by associating or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
  • B65D75/30—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding
  • B65D75/32—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding one or both sheets or blanks being recessed to accommodate contents
  • B65D75/321—Both sheets being recessed
  • B65D75/323—Both sheets being recessed and forming several compartments
• • 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
  • B65D75/5861—Spouts
  • B65D75/5866—Integral spouts

Definitions

• the tube making process begins with the formation of a first laminate into a tube body. Separately, a shoulder and cap assembly is formed. Lastly, the tube body and shoulder and cap assembly are coupled together. The tube is then filled and sealed. The process is essentially the same for forming reclosable sachets. First, the fitment is made. Then the sachet is formed. The fitment and sachet are then assembled, filled and sealed.
• the present invention departs from accepted packaging technology for oral care materials, such as toothpaste, and utilizes a thermoforming process to create said packaging.
• the package of the present invention utilizes thermoforming to form, fill and seal the package on one machine in no more than two steps, and possibly in a one-step process.
• the package of the present invention in such an embodiment, is reclosable.
• the present invention solves the needs described above by enabling a recloseable package to be formed by a thermoforming process in one step and by a single machine.
• the present invention solves the above while providing protection for the product on the shelf and during use, enabling recloseability to satisfy consumer need and resulting in an easy dispensing package.
• Figure 3 is a perspective view of the package of FIG. 1 wherein the cover has been separated from the break-off cap along a second pre-weakened area;
• seal is intended to mean a hermetic seal whereby fluids can not penetrate the seal.
• This usage of the term seal is particularly desirable in terms of the seal of the nozzle portion 120 and the product cavity 111 described above where it is desired to prevent leakage of fluidic products from the product cavity 111 and dispensing conduit 124.
• the term seal is used in this application to refer to substantially closing an opening, while not necessarily meaning hermetically sealing that opening.
• the sealed flanges 134, 149 of the break-off cap 130 and the cover 140 seal the nozzle cavity 136 of the break-off cap 130 to prevent the intrusion of dusts and other debris into the nozzle cavity 136.
• the nozzle cavity 136 does not need to be hermetically sealed, just substantially closed.
• the slots 139 are axially aligned with the sealing flanges 129 of the nozzle portion 120 and the indents/protrusions 151 of the break-off cover 130 are axially aligned with the indents/protrusions 153 of the nozzle portion 120.
• the nozzle portion 120 comprises the protrusion 153 on its outer surface 154 that fits within the indent 151 on the inner surface 155 of the break-off cap 130.
• the break-off cap 130 may comprise a protrusion that fits within an indent or an aperture on the nozzle portion 120.
• each of the packages 1000 are formed as described above as comprising the first laminate sheet 200 and the second laminate sheet 300 thermo formed together to form the unitary body 100.
• the unitary body 100 and the packages 1000 are the exact packages 1000 described above with reference to FIGS. 1-6 and include all of the portions discussed herein above with regard to the packages 1000.
• the toothpaste multipack 600 adjacent packages 1000 in the longitudinal strip are separated from one another by a first transverse pre-weakened area 645. Specifically, the first transverse pre-weakened area 645 is disposed between the product containing portions 110 of adjacent packages 1000. Additionally, the break-off caps 130 and covers 140 of adjacent ones of the packages 1000 are also connected to one another. In certain embodiments, the connection between the break-off caps 130 and covers 140 of adjacent packages are accomplished by a second transverse pre-weakened area 646. Furthermore, the toothpaste multipack 600 includes an upper-most package 660 and a lower-most package 670. The upper-most package 660 includes a sealing flange 661 having a hanger hole 662 formed therein for hanging the multipack 600 from a hook for retail display. It is contemplated that in some embodiments, the adjacent packages 1000 may be connected to one another only at the first transverse pre-weakened area 645, or the adjacent packages 1000 may be connected to one another only at the second transverse pre-weakened area 646.
• each of the packages 1000 in the multipack 600 are formed from the first laminate sheet 200 and the second laminate sheet 300 (FIGS. 7 and 8). However, in certain embodiments all of the packages 1000 in the longitudinal strip are formed from a single one of the first laminate sheet 200 and a single one of the second laminate sheet 300. In this way, an entire toothpaste multipack 600 can be formed in a single machining step whereby each of the packages 1000 of the multipack 100 has a one or two-step recloseable feature as has been described in detail herein above.
• a package 2000 will be described according to another embodiment of the present invention.
• the package 2000 is similar to the package 1000 with regard to many of the components described above. Therefore, the package 2000 will be described below using the same reference numbering scheme except that the 400-series of numbers will be used. Only those components and elements that are different from the components and elements of the package 1000 will be described in detail.
• the package 2000 also comprises a unitary body 400 that is formed from the first and second laminate sheets 200, 300 as has been described in detail above with reference to FIGS. 1, 7 and 8.
• the unitary body 400 of the package 2000 generally comprises a product containing portion 410 having a product cavity containing a fluidic product, a nozzle portion 420 extending from the product containing portion 410 for dispensing the fluidic product from the product cavity, a first break-off cap 440 that seals a dispensing orifice of the nozzle portion 420 and a second break-off cap 430 that comprises a nozzle cavity having an insertion opening for slidably receiving the nozzle portion 420.
• the unitary body 400 of the package 2000 also comprises a first pre-weakened area 425 and a second pre-weakened area 435.
• the first pre-weakened area 425 defines a top edge 422 of the nozzle portion 420 and a bottom edge 432 of the first break-off cap 440. Separation of the first break-off cap 440 from the nozzle portion 420 by tearing or cutting along the first pre-weakened area 425 exposes the dispensing orifice of the nozzle portion 420 and provides an outlet through which the product fluid can flow from the product cavity.
• the second break- off cap 430 can include indents or protrusions 451 that mate with indents or protrusions 453 of the nozzle portion 420.
• the second break-off cap 430 can also include slots as described above with regard to the break-off cap 130 for engagement with flanges 429 of the nozzle portion 420.
• the second break-off cap 430 can be used to repeatedly close the dispensing orifice of the nozzle portion 420 to prevent the fluidic product from flowing out of the product cavity during non-use periods and re-open the dispensing orifice as desired.

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