WO2023049474A2 - Emballage rescellable et refermable comportant un ruban d'étanchéité sensible à la pression et à gondolage réduit - Google Patents

Emballage rescellable et refermable comportant un ruban d'étanchéité sensible à la pression et à gondolage réduit Download PDF

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WO2023049474A2
WO2023049474A2 PCT/US2022/044764 US2022044764W WO2023049474A2 WO 2023049474 A2 WO2023049474 A2 WO 2023049474A2 US 2022044764 W US2022044764 W US 2022044764W WO 2023049474 A2 WO2023049474 A2 WO 2023049474A2
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    • 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
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    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • 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
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    • 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
    • B65D2575/00—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
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  • the present invention relates to re-sealable and reclosable packaging made from flexible packaging film. More particularly, it relates to packaging that is 100% recyclable and has a resealable or reclosable opening that resists curling after repetitive removal by pealing and re-adhesion of a closure tape.
  • FFS composite film on form, fill and seal
  • the seals that form the package including the top seal (relative to the consumers intended observation of the package), may comprise heat seals, cold seals, or ultrasonic seals, which are typically permanent and do not allow the consumer to non-destructively open and reclose the package along that seal.
  • These packages are inexpensive and durable, and are therefore prevalently used in a wide range of industries including the food, chemical, medical, agricultural, and mining industries.
  • the package is formed with a resealable opening so that the user can access and remove a portion of the package contents, and then reseal the package so that the remaining contents stay fresh or are simply encapsulated.
  • PSA tape pressure-sensitive adhesion tape
  • the tape usually has an adhesive-free grip edge that can be grasped to pull (peel) a portion of the tape (“reseal zone”) backward (or sideward as the case may be) to expose the opening in the package, while the remaining portion (“anchor zone”) of the tape remains affixed to the package.
  • the reseal zone of the tape is re-applied over the opening and pressed in contact with the surrounding packaging material.
  • 1/3 of the PSA tape surface is on one side of the opening and functions as the anchor, whereas the remaining 2/3 of the PSA tape reseals the slit.
  • the grip edge is typically formed by applying a grip strip of polymer material in parallel along the adhesive side of the base strip of tape (“tape base”).
  • the grip strip and tape base need not be made from the same material.
  • tape base could be a dry substrate selected from one of the group of bi-axially oriented polypropylene, mono-axially oriented polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, and polyester, while the grip strip could be single or multiple-layer, bi-axially-oriented polypropylene or high density polypropylene (“HDPE”).
  • the tape base could be coated with a pressure sensitive adhesive selected from the group of rubber solvent, acrylic solvent, acrylic emulsion, or hot melt.
  • the PSA tape may be applied in either the lengthwise or widthwise direction on the package such as shown in U.S. patent no. 9,090,383 (application over the widthwiseextending opening) and U.S. patent no. 8,794,834 (application along the length of the bag to hold the folded or rolled end of bag closed), both of which are incorporated herein by reference and collectively referred to as the Forman patents.
  • Commercially available examples of flexible packaging having PSA tape applied widthwise and lengthwise are sold under the trademarks FreshPak® and Peel&Seal®, respectively, which are owned by Sealstrip Corporation.
  • the PSA tape is either “pre-applied” or applied “inline” to the base film from which the package is form (“package base film”) as shown and described in the Forman patents.
  • the packaging industry strives to be ever-more environmentally friendly by improving the overall recyclability of plastic flexible packaging.
  • the plastics industry has developed new grades of polyethylene film, which are both functional for the overall package requirements but also sustainable (compatible in a polyethylene recycle stream). Examples of such films include Berry Plastics EntourTM and CharterNex Gen’s family of GreenArrowTM recyclable films for use in monomaterial polyethylene packages.
  • many known PSA tapes are made of polymers that have poor recycle properties, or are incompatibly recyclable with HDPE.
  • the Forman patents describe a dry tape base that could be a substrate from one of the group of biaxially oriented polypropylene, mono-axially oriented polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, and polyester, all of which have poor recycle properties. If the package is recycled without removing these non-compatible PSA tapes, the resulting recycled material yields gels, pinholes and mechanical points of weakness. As a result, these packages could not be accepted at, for example, retail store drop-off recycle stations. Therefore, it would be desirable to provide an improved PSA tape based entirely on (tape base and grip strip) polyethylene which can be compatibly recycled with the package base film so that the entire flexible package can be accepted in retail store and community recycle streams.
  • These new polyethylene-based films will be utilized in a broad set of packaging applications including room temperature, freezer, and refrigerated conditions.
  • the surface properties of the package will vary greatly.
  • the surface may comprise untreated polyethylene of low surface energy, treated polyethylene of higher surface energy, or surface printed or even matte coated films.
  • These packages will therefore require a new pressure sensitive reseal solution, such as a reseal tape or label, which compliments their widely-varying properties.
  • these new reseal solutions may require strong (>150 grams/inch of peel adhesion (180 degree peel PSTC Method 1) or moderate (50-150 grams/inch of peel adhesion 180 degree peel PSTC method 1) adhesion to the packaging.
  • These new solutions will ultimately be subjected to a wide range of induced strain loads discussed below.
  • the consumer does not open and dispense the entire contents of the flexible package at one time.
  • the consumer may pull back and re-adhere the PSA tape a dozen or more times before the contents of the package are depleted.
  • the strain induced in the PSA tape by pulling and re-adhering can induce curling, which will make the tape difficult to re-adhere, especially if it winds back up on itself, and can cause the tape to de-adhere from the surface of the package, thereby compromising the integrity of its sealing function.
  • curled reclosing tapes can be viewed as a defective product.
  • the level of induced curl from strain depends on the material from which the PSA tape is formed.
  • multilayer polyethylene films are known to have good recycle properties but a propensity to curl when strained.
  • Many machine direction oriented polyethylene films such as disclosed in U.S. Patent 11,214,047, Dow Chemical Global Technologies LLC, incorporated herein by reference, also have a propensity to curl when strained.
  • W02008 039822 incorporated herein by reference, teaches a method of controlling production curl by applying a coating during manufacture of the film itself.
  • This patent also discloses the use of machine stretching of the film to achieve both flatness of the final film to achieve overall structure compatibility. It also highlights the observation that the observed curl occurs in the direction of the coated side due to the retraction of the coating.
  • This patent discusses that the maximum curvature generally occurs when the coating-to-web thickness ratio (i.e., the ratio of the coating thickness to the web thickness) is between about 0.5 and about 1.0.
  • Patent 8,709,611 discusses the use of nucleated high density polyethylene within multilayer structures to not only improve the modulus of the film but also to impart improved water vapor transmission rates in packaging films. These patents do not however highlight the need or a potential solution to how to use multilayer polyethylene films with a non-sealant layer such as in a label or tape film packaging application wherein a coating is applied, in this case a pressure sensitive adhesive coating but used in packaging applications.
  • U.S. Patent 9,724,901 discloses production methods for the use of mono and multilayer films which can be biaxially oriented to achieve flatness and reduced curl and is herein incorporated as a reference.
  • the solution developed in this patent describes the use of film core resin blends based on selected combinations of more than one mLLDPE or mLDPE resins having particular melt indices result in a blend of polymers having a broad molecular weight distribution, including the possibility of bimodal and trimodal distributions.
  • single site metallocene catalysts generally produce polymers with a narrow molecular weight distribution, i.e., Mw/Mn to be around 2 (weight-average molecular weight divided by number-average molecular weight, wherein Mw and Mn both can be measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC)).
  • Narrow molecular weight distributions deliver limited molecular chain entanglements in order to provide needed melt elasticity.
  • the enhanced melt elasticity can be desired during film orientation or stretching at elevated temperature in order to assist in maintaining film integrity without breakage.
  • the polymer melt or blend may have enhanced polymer chain entanglement, and, thus, improved melt elasticity at elevated temperatures.
  • This improved melt elasticity enables improved TD stretch at high temperatures, as well as reduced melt fracture during extrusion.
  • molecular weight distribution ⁇ by blending together three m-LLDPE resins, the three-component blends showed greatly improved melt elasticity and film orientation through tenter orientation as compared to narrow molecular weight distribution components and blends.
  • Ethyl-Lite tm 25HDCSR a clear print film for example is offered by Jindal Films and can be corona treated on a single side in order to receive a print coating or film to film lamination.
  • the inventors of this patent do not contemplate the need or use of a recyclable biaxially oriented polyethylene recyclable film with minimal curl for use with adhesive coatings in the resealable packaging space where minimal curl from strain induced use can create an undesirable reseal packaging tape or label feature.
  • the present invention comprises a PSA tape that can be used in combination with a film of polymer packaging material to form a flexible package having a resealable opening.
  • the PSA tape is intended to be pre-applied to the film stock of the package (“package base film”), or applied to the package base film during an initial stage of a form, fill and seal process.
  • the PSA tape has high tensile strength, high resistance to tear propagation, good transparency, and limited elongation at break.
  • the PSA tape is made from a curl-resistant, polyethylene material that is compatibly recyclable with the package base film to which it is applied, thereby making the final consumer package fully recyclable.
  • compatibly recyclable means that the entire final consumer package is certified by third parties as being acceptable for store drop off stations for later repurpose/recycle into other polyethylene-based materials such as decking materials and trim fascia.
  • the PSA tape comprises a base made of 2 mil thick film, item no. GAP-2501, and a grip strip made of 0.9 mil thick film, item no. GAP-1001, both of which are machine-direction-oriented films manufactured by Charter Next Generation (“CNG”). These films are marketed as recyclable films as determined by compatibility testing by third parties such as Trex and additionally through established Association of Plastics Recyclers(APR) Protocol (FPE-CG-01) guidelines.
  • CNG Charter Next Generation
  • These film structures can be produced through various production methods that include blown and cast production processes. The film may be oriented in the machine direction or bi-axially oriented.
  • the invention comprises a flexible package formed from a film of polymer packaging material having first and second panels sealed at a top portion and a bottom portion, an elongate slit in the first panel, and an elongate strip of pressure-sensitive-adhesion, re-closing tape (“PSA tape strip”) applied to the surface of the first panel over the slit.
  • PSA tape strip has an adhesive edge portion abridging and releasably sealing the slit and a non-adhesive edge portion arranged on one side of the slit and lying against the first panel.
  • the PSA tape strip is adapted so that the slit can be unsealed by gripping the non-adhesive edge portion and pulling the PSA tape strip away from the first panel until the adhesive edge portion no longer abridges the slit.
  • the PSA tape strip comprises a base material of polymer film that is compatibly recyclable with the packaging material.
  • the PSA tape strip also resists curling when it is strained by pulling it away from the first panel to unseal the slit.
  • the PSA tape strip comprises a base material of polymer film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive applied to a first side of the base material, and a non-adhesive grip strip of polymer film applied to the adhesive along one edge of the first side of the base material to form a non-adhesive edge portion, and the remainder of the first side forming an adhesive edge portion.
  • the grip strip is preferably compatibly recyclable with the packaging material.
  • the PSA tape strip comprises a base material of polymer film, a pressure-sensitive adhesive applied to a first side of the base along one edge in a pattern less than the width of said tape strip to form an adhesive edge portion. The remainder of the first side has no adhesive applied thereto and forms a non- adhesive edge portion.
  • the PSA tape strip has a substantially reduced tendency to curl when strained.
  • the PSA tape has a percentage curl less than about 10%, more preferably less than 7%, and even more preferably less than about 5% as measured on 1 in. wide test samples using ASTM Method 3330 for peel adhesion. The degree of curl was determined by measuring the change of width of the 1 inch wide tape at 2.5 in. down the 6 in. test strip that was applied to the test panel.
  • the base material comprises machine-direction-oriented polyethylene film produced from a blown film process having a multilayer film structure of at least 3 but less than 8 layers. The base material may have a stretch ratio of 1:3 but no greater than 1:10.
  • the base material may contain 25 to 65 percent by weight of HDPE, combined with a blend of metallocene LLDPEs and higher alpha olefin LLDPE utilizing butene, hexene, or octane, said blend comprising 10 to 90 percent by weight of metallocene LLDPE.
  • the base material preferably has a thickness of at least 1.6 mils but less than 2.5 mils.
  • the haze value of the base material is preferably less than 10%.
  • at least one side of said base has been corona treated to a surface tension of at least 36 dynes/cm but less than 46 dynes/cm.
  • the base material has a secant modulus between 130,000 to 250,000 p.s.i.
  • the base material has a secant modulus between 200,000 to 250,000 p.s.i. in the machine direction and 175,000 to 225,000 p.s.i. in the cross direction.
  • the secant modulus ratio (machine direction to cross direction) is greater than 90%.
  • the pressure sensitive adhesive is selected from known, VOC-compliant adhesives for flexible webs and film.
  • the adhesive preferably should be low foaming and have high optical clarity. If a grip strip is not incorporated into the tape, as taught in the prior art, the adhesive can be applied in a defined pattern or a broad pattern with a defined pattern of deadener, to create the grip edge.
  • the adhesive coating has a thickness from 0.6 to 1.1 mils and is selected from the group consisting of: solvent based acrylic or rubber based, aqueous based, formulated styrenic isoprene or formulated styrenic butadiene block copolymer hot melt adhesive or Ultra Violet Light (UV C) hot melt acrylics.
  • the pressure sensitive adhesive comprises a waterbased, acrylic emulsion such as Robond PS-90 (From Dow Chemical) formulated with a low level of isocyanate coreactant such as Dow Chemical CR 9-101.
  • the adhesive is formulated with less than 1% CR 9-101 per solid part of acrylic emulsion.
  • the package base film may be corona treated prior to application of the PSA adhesive to increase adhesive anchorage of the PSA adhesive to the package base film. Adhesive anchorage can be achieved in numerous other ways such as adding external crosslinkers such as isocyanate chemistries, aziridines, carbodiimides, multi-layer coatings in addition to optimal levels of corona treatment.
  • the invention comprises a resealable, pressure- sensitive-adhesion tape (“PSA tape”) for use in combination with a flexible package formed from a film of polymer packaging material.
  • PSA tape comprises a base material of polyethylene film that is compatibly recyclable with the packaging material, and a pressure sensitive adhesive applied to one side of the base material along one at least a lengthwiseextending edge to form an adhesive edge portion and a non-adhesive edge portion.
  • the PSA tape strip preferably comprises a base material of polymer film that is compatibly recyclable with said packaging material.
  • the PSA tape resists curling when it removed from a surface to which it has been adhered by pulling on the non-adhesive edge portion.
  • the PSA tape may be formed as a continuous roll or a series of segmented labels.
  • the PSA tape has pressure-sensitive adhesive applied to the entirety of one side of the base material, and a grip strip of polymer film applied to the pressure-sensitive adhesive along one edge of the first side of the base material to form the non-adhesive edge portion. The remainder of the first side forms the adhesive edge portion.
  • the grip strip and the pressure-sensitive adhesive are preferably compatibly recyclable with the packaging material.
  • the PSA tape has the properties described above with respect to the flexible package.
  • the grip strip preferably comprises either polyethylene or polypropylene film.
  • the pressure-sensitive adhesive is applied to the entirety of one side of the base material, and a water based or UV cure deadener used in the label industry is applied to the pressure-sensitive adhesive along one edge of the first side of the base material to form a non-adhesive edge portion. The remainder of the first side forms the adhesive edge portion.
  • the width of the non-adhesive edge portion is at least !4 in.
  • the base material of the PSA tape comprises a multilayer biaxially-oriented, polyethylene-based film.
  • the film has a core layer formed of a core resin composition comprising a blend of 50 to 90% by weight of a first metallocene linear low density polyethylene (mLLDPE) resin having a melt index from about 0.8 dg/s to about 2 dg/s, about 5-25% by weight of a second mLLDPE resin having melt index from about 0.1 dg/s to about 0.8 dg/s, and about 5-25% by weight of a third mLLDPE resin having a melt index from about 2 dg/s to about 10 dg/s.
  • mLLDPE metallocene linear low density polyethylene
  • the film also has a skin layer having a skin resin composition comprising one or more polyolefin plastomers, wherein said skin layer has a thickness of approximately 3% to 20% as compared to a total thickness of the extruded, oriented, multilayer, film structure.
  • the PSA tape is applied to the package film by an applicator arranged upstream in a FFS packaging line.
  • a rotary blade initially slits the film in a lengthwise-extending (travel direction) pattern, and then immediately applies the PSA tape over the slits. Because the tape is thin and flexible, no modification of the FFS machine’s former or seal jaws is needed. No heat is used to apply the tape and the PSA tape has no effect on line speed.
  • Fig. 1 is a flexible package in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of the package shown in Fig. 1, which illustrates opening the package by pealing back an elongate stripe of pressure-sensitive-adhesion tape in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • Fig. 3 is a top plan view (not to scale) of a section of schematic illustration of a pressure- sensitive-adhesion tape in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view (not to scale) of a pressure-sensitive-adhesion tape in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • Fig. 5 is a fragmented perspective view of a pressure-sensitive-adhesion tape applied to a film of packaging material during in accordance with an embodiment of the invention
  • Fig 6 is a schematic illustration of a pressure-sensitive-adhesion tape in accordance with an embodiment of the invention illustrating the width of the seal zone and anchor zone;
  • Figs. 7 and 8 are perspective views of a flexible package in accordance with an embodiment of the invention in the closed and open configuration, respectively;
  • Figs. 9 and 10 are perspective views of a flexible package in accordance with an embodiment of the invention in the re-closed configuration.
  • Fig. 11 is a schematic illustration of a method of producing a flexible package in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • LLDPE includes both resin made using the traditional Ziegler-Natta catalyst systems as well as single-site catalysts, including, but not limited to, bis-metallocene catalysts (sometimes referred to as “m-LLDPE”) and constrained geometry catalysts, and includes linear, substantially linear or heterogeneous polyethylene copolymers or homopolymers.
  • LLDPEs contain less long chain branching than LDPEs and includes the substantially linear ethylene polymers, which are further defined in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,272,236, 5,278,272, 5,582,923 and 5,733,155; the homogeneously branched linear ethylene polymer compositions such as those in U.S. Pat. No.
  • HDPE refers to polyethylenes having densities greater than about 0.935 g/cm 3 , which are generally prepared with Ziegler-Natta catalysts, chrome catalysts or single- site catalysts including, but not limited to, bis-metallocene catalysts and constrained geometry catalysts.
  • the resins may be blends of metallocene LLDPEs, higher alphaolefin LLDPEs, and HDPEs.
  • the materials should have good thermal stability with minimal film shrinkage at 120°C, and surface energy of about 38-44 dynes.
  • the secant modulus is preferably approximately 3x higher than traditional PE films used at similar gauges.
  • the tape materials should preferably have the additional properties recited in Table 1:
  • the tape base was formed from 2.0 mil GAP -2501 machine-direction-oriented polyethylene film (formerly GAP-1501) and the grip strip was formed from GAP 1001, both of which are manufactured by Charter Next Generation, Inc., Milton, Wisconsin.
  • adhesive anchorage of pressure sensitive adhesives can be achieved in numerous way including the addition of external crosslinkers such as isocyanate chemistries, aziridines, carbodiimides, multi-layer coatings in addition to optimal levels of corona treatment.
  • external crosslinkers such as isocyanate chemistries, aziridines, carbodiimides, multi-layer coatings in addition to optimal levels of corona treatment.
  • the typical properties of the films are described in Table 1. Table 2
  • stainless steel roller was used to apply the test tapes to the panel. A one minute dwell time was used prior to measuring the peel force and curl behavior of each sample. The peel force was measured using an SP-2100 Slip Peel Tester from Imass Inc., Accord, Massachusetts. Those skilled in the art of pressure sensitive adhesives will understand that the use of a stainless-steel surface represents a standardized method to measure adhesion and the tapes response to deformation for an applied force.
  • the PSA tape may be applied to numerous different polymer surfaces with different surface properties, such has polyethylene and polyester.
  • polyethylene may have a typical base surface energy of 30 dyne, which would yield lower adhesion an introduce less strain and ultimately less curl to the tape when you use it, compared to one that is corona treated to 42 dynes, which would introduce a higher grab and then ultimately more strain and then curl when you peel the tape off of a higher energy surface.
  • the adhesive has a greater inherent ability to adhere to polyester because of the surface energy and the chemistry of the surface itself (more polar than PE).
  • ASTM Method 3330 for peel adhesion provides one test method for measuring and thus quantifying the low curl percentage of the invention.
  • Tapes 1 and 2 comprise the combination of Films A+C and Films B+C, respectively.
  • a 5 in. by 8 in. package of the configuration shown in Figs. 1 and 2 was formed using a three-layer packaging film schematically illustrated below: exterior side of bag interior (contents) side of bag
  • the inward facing side of Film 1 was corona treated to greater than 40 dynes/cm for print receptivity.
  • the outside layer of Film 1 was not corona treated and was at 32 dynes/cm surface tension for this specific testing.
  • the peel and reseal test protocol involves opening and then resealing Tape 1 and Tape 2 over the package slit.
  • the seal tape When the seal tape is initially applied to the package, the entire width of the adhesive portion of the tape, i.e., excluding the grip strip, is adhered to the package and straddles the slit as best seen in Figs. 1 and 6.
  • the width of the tape on the top side of the slit that re-adheres to the package is illustrated in Fig. 6, identified by reference letters “WRZ”, and is hereinafter referred to as the seal zone width.
  • Cycle 3-5 peel back and re-adhere the reseal strip immediately after completion of the previous cycle; wait 72 hours; measure WRZ.
  • Table 6 shows that the amount of curl and adhesion reduction of Tape 2 is small enough to make the package acceptable as a resealable consumer package.
  • the amount of curl and adhesion reduction of Tape 1 is unacceptable as a resealable consumer package.
  • the overall performance of each tape could be further improved by corona or flame treatment, or coating of the packaging film surface to raise the surface tension from that of untreated polyethylene 30-32 dynes/cm to greater than 36 dynes/cm but a broad range of surface treatments are common in the packaging industry and the benchmarking of an untreated surface film demonstrates the invention with its preferred properties.
  • Table 6 also shows how the amount of strain-induced curl reduces dramatically after the third cycle. After the third cycle, subsequent cycles induce very little strain-induced curl. Therefore, any further reduction in adhesion is more likely associated with a degradation of the adhesive.
  • the reduction in the width of the reseal zone after the first cycle is preferably less than 15%, after the second cycle is preferably less than 35%, and after the third cycle is preferably less than 50%. Preferably, the reduction in the width of the reseal zone remains less than 50% in any subsequent cycles.
  • the PSA reseal tape 12 is constructed and arranged to “reseal” the slit when the consumer presses the tape down over the slit. When properly re-adhered, the package will not leak through the slit over an extended period of time.
  • the package 110 has a conventional construction and was formed on an FFS machine by folding flexible packaging film into a tube with lateral edges of the film being heat welded along a longitudinal seam 114 at the rear of the package 110. Heat seal welds 114, 115 at the top and bottom, respectively, of the package complete its construction.

Abstract

L'invention concerne un emballage souple constitué d'un film de matériau d'emballage polymère comportant un premier et un second panneau scellés au niveau d'une partie supérieure et d'une partie inférieure, une fente allongée dans le premier panneau, et une bande allongée de ruban adhésif sensible à la pression de refermeture (« bande de ruban PSA ») appliquée à la surface dudit premier panneau au-dessus de la fente. La bande de ruban PSA comporte une partie bord adhésif raccourcissant et scellant amovible la fente et une partie bord non adhésif disposée sur un côté de ladite fente et reposant contre le premier panneau. La bande de ruban PSA est conçue de façon à ce que la fente puisse être descellée en saisissant la partie bord non adhésif et en tirant la bande de ruban PSA à l'opposé du premier panneau jusqu'à ce que la partie bord adhésif ne raccourcisse plus la fente. La bande de ruban PSA comprend un matériau de base constitué d'un film polymère qui est recyclable de manière compatible avec ledit matériau d'emballage. La bande de ruban PSA résiste également au gondolage lorsqu'elle est tendue en la tirant à l'opposé dudit premier panneau pour desceller la fente. De préférence, le ruban PSA présente un rapport de module sécant (sens machine vers sens travers) supérieur à 90 %.
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