Abstract:
A packaging container having an enhanced sealing performance includes a packaging material, an outside strip and a strip tape. The opposite side edges of the packaging material are overlapped with each other so that the outermost layer and the innermost layer of the packaging material face each other. The outside strip is interposed between the outermost layer and the innermost layer and is fused and joined with these layers so that a longitudinal sealing portion is formed. The outside strip has an outside layer and an inside layer. The strip tape is placed on the inner surface of the packaging container along the sealing portion, and is joined thereto by heat fusion. The innermost layer of the packaging material and the outside layer of the outside strip are made of a non-olefin flavor-retaining resin, and the outermost layer of the packaging material and the inside layer of the outside strip are made of a polyolefin resin. Since portions to be joined at the longitudinal sealing portion are both polyolefin, an enhanced sealing performance can be obtained.
Abstract:
A packing machine for the manufacture of packing containers wherein tubular packing container blanks which in flattened condition are placed into a magazine and wherein the feeding out of packing container blanks from the magazine is accomplished by a reciprocating driving element (7) located at the lower end of the magazine (7) which is provided with fingers which engage the open ends of the container blanks and to feed out one blank at a time is disclosed. As a result, a reliable operation, independent of the thickness of the blank, is obtained.
Abstract:
In a carton for liquids folded from a sheet of packaging material wherein the carton has a lapped seam with a protected edge, the improvement which comprises providing the protected edge with a wedge-like tapered profile, whereby the thickness of the sheet material is reduced along the protected edge. The sheet material carries a thicker protective coating on the inside of the carton and a thinner coating on the outside. The seams are lapped by various configurations of the wedge, depending upon which face is undercut.
Abstract:
A tearing edge is formed at an edge of a paperboard blank according to the present invention by arranging a plurality of paperboard blanks in a stack with the edges which are to be reinforced disposed in a common plane and applying a clamping force to the stack of blanks and applying to the edges which are to be reinforced a coating fluid of a type which is at least semi-rigid when set and allowing the coating to set to form a rigidifying edge and thereafter releasing the clamping force to permit separation of the blanks from the stack.
Abstract:
An apparatus for applying a heat responsive melt sealant to the side edge of a carton, such as a gable-top liquid carton prior to folding the carton into its tubular form. The apparatus forces the sealant to flow evenly along an edge of the carton to be sealed and confines the sealant adjacent to the edge. The apparatus has a reverse C-shaped channel through which the carton blank edge is fed and a duct opening in the bight portion of the channel through which the sealant is fed onto the carton blank edge. In the process of the invention, after the heat responsive melt sealant is applied to the interior edge of the carton blank, the latter is conveyed to a heat station where the heat responsive melt sealant is cured preparatory to final erection of the tubular carton.
Abstract:
Described is a pack for liquids which at least partially comprises walls of plastics-coated paper, in particular side walls of a tubular configuration having a longitudinal sealing seam and a bottom having a transverse sealing seam, wherein the longitudinal sealing seam extends within overlapping edge portions (4, 5) and the cut edge (11) of the edge (5) which is in the interior of the pack is covered by a plastics strip (7) as edge protection.In order, in spite of overlapping edge portions, (4, 5), to ensure that the pack is satisfactorily liquid-tight, with the capacity to carry tensile forces, with at the same time the edge protection effect, it is provided in accordance with the invention for the pack that the plastics strip (7) as the edge protection means is laid over in a U-shaped configuration in cross-section around the cut edge (11) of the inner edge portion (5) and is sealed (at 30) onto both surfaces of the edge portion (5).
Abstract:
Joints in packing containers of heat-sealable gas-tight laminate are sensitive to deformation, since this often results in a deterioration of the gas-tightness. This is due to the accumulation of melted thermoplastics which is produced during the heat-sealing. This problem is eliminated in that the sealing zone of the joint is given a limited width and is placed at a distance from the edge of the laminate. A method and an arrangement for realizing this comprises a heating zone whose width is limited in relation to the width of the sealing jaws which are used for the sealing together of the material layers.
Abstract:
A paperboard polymer coated carton having protected board raw edge surfaces for packaging food and non-food products is provided in which a thin slice of the inside carton raw edge surface is removed or skived away from the side seam flap. The thin slice includes all of the inside polymer layers and most of the paperboard. The resulting outside flap is folded into the carton inside over the paperboard raw edge surface, and is flame sealed to the inside polar polymer layer, to seal the paperboard raw edge surface. The sealed edge surface is then flame sealed to the inside of the opposite paperboard surface, thereby creating an additional inside-outside flame seal. By such a process only inside-outside seals are formed or polar-covalent seals.
Abstract:
A packaging container having an enhanced sealing performance includes a packaging material, an outside strip and a strip tape. The opposite side edges of the packaging material are overlapped with each other so that the outermost layer and the innermost layer of the packaging material face each other. The outside strip is interposed between the outermost layer and the innermost layer and is fused and joined with these layers so that a longitudinal sealing portion is formed. The outside strip has an outside layer and an inside layer. The strip tape is placed on the inner surface of the packaging container along the sealing portion, and is joined thereto by heat fusion. The innermost layer of the packaging material and the outside layer of the outside strip are made of a non-olefin flavor-retaining resin, and the outermost layer of the packaging material and the inside layer of the outside strip are made of a polyolefin resin. Since portions to be joined at the longitudinal sealing portion are both polyolefin, an enhanced sealing performance can be obtained.
Abstract:
A paperboard shaped into a profile substantially the same as that of a carton blank for folding into a carbon is formed with a plurality of first slits on an edge of the paperboard at a predetermined angle relative to the edge and with a plurality of second slits on the same edge at a predetermined angle relative to the first slits in such a manner that saw-teeth are integrally formed thereon. The saw teeth are immersed in a bath of a quick drying adhesive including .alpha.-cyanoacrylate to be impregnated with the adhesive and then dried, thereby forming teeth constituting a cutter on the carton blank. The carton obtained by folding the carton blank can be used as a packaging container for accommodating a roll of wrapping wed. An apparatus for carrying out the method comprises first cutting means for forming the first slits, second cutting means for forming the second slits so as to integrally form saw-teeth on the edge portion, a bath of adhesive for impregnating the teeth with the adhesive, drying means for drying the teeth, and transfer means for transferring the paperboard along a predetermined path via the first and second cutting means, the bath and the drying means.