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EP0723519B1
EP0723519B1 EP94930250A EP94930250A EP0723519B1 EP 0723519 B1 EP0723519 B1 EP 0723519B1 EP 94930250 A EP94930250 A EP 94930250A EP 94930250 A EP94930250 A EP 94930250A EP 0723519 B1 EP0723519 B1 EP 0723519B1
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neck
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sealed container
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Ian Michael Daines Top Flat GAYLOR
Donna Joy Top Flat WILSON
Kenneth Reginald Duffield
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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
    • B65D77/00—Packages formed by enclosing articles or materials in preformed containers, e.g. boxes, cartons, sacks or bags
    • B65D77/22—Details
    • B65D77/24—Inserts or accessories added or incorporated during filling of containers
    • B65D77/28—Cards, coupons, or drinking straws
    • B65D77/283—Cards, coupons, or drinking straws located initially inside the container, whereby the straw is revealed only upon opening the container, e.g. pop-up straws
    • 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

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  • This invention relates generally to a package and in particular a fluid or powder food, drink or pharmaceutical package from which the contents are intended to be consumed directly through a straw.
  • DE-A-1,432,214 discloses a container in the form of an ampule which has a mouthpiece connected to a straw extending into the container.
  • the neck of this ampule is sealed with a plug of, for example, sugar.
  • a user can open the container by biting-off the plug to expose the straw.
  • US-A-2,613,988 discloses a glass bottle which is sealed with a crown cap.
  • the bottle contains a telescopic straw which telescopes out of the bottle when the cap is removed.
  • EP 0299562 shows a container which is formed from a pair of opposed sheets of foil material, and has a neck which is defined by a re-inforcing tube. The container is opened by tearing off a portion of the container.
  • an openable, sealed container having a neck, and containing a substance to be dispensed therefrom through a straw which is accommodated within the container (and which preferably extends from adjacent the bottom of the container into the container neck), the container neck being sealed to enclose the container contents and the straw by a seal which defines the free end of the neck, characterised in that the seal is integrally formed with the neck and in that there is provided a substantially linear weakened zone between the seal and the rest of the neck which zone enables the seal to be broken away along a line which is substantially perpendicular to the major axis of the straw in order to expose an end of the straw.
  • the straw may be sealed to the container neck below the tear initiator.
  • the straw may stand freely within the container, so that it can be raised outwardly of the container once the free end of the neck has been broken away.
  • the container preferably takes the form of a sealed sachet, which may be heat sealed, ultra-sonically welded or cold sealed, made of, for example, co-extended plastics film, laminated plastics film, polymer coated metallic foil or coated paper.
  • the line of the tear initiator on the neck is preferably aligned with the direction of orientation of the polymer chains, or the orientation of the fibres in the case of a paper sachet.
  • the invention may be extended to a two fluid (or powder) compartmented sachet having a single neck into which two straws extend from the respective compartments, or having two necks each provided with a tear initiator.
  • the neck may be cut between the two straws down to the level of the tear initiator, and optionally perforations may be provided in the partition wall between the compartments below the tear initiator to enable the compartments to be separated.
  • the partition wall may be perforated over its entire length to enable the sachet to be divided into two parts, each with its own neck and straw.
  • the food package shown in Figures 1 and 2 comprises a sachet 10 containing a fluid food 12 such as a drink or possibly a powder food such as powdered sherbet.
  • the sachet 10 comprises two opposed sheets of orientated polypropylene joined together by a process of heat sealing, at a peripheral web 9.
  • the dotted line 19 indicates the orientation of the polymer chains of the polypropylene forming a neck 14 of the sachet.
  • a straw 16 Sealed within the sachet, in addition to the food 12, is a straw 16, extending from adjacent the bottom of the sachet up into the neck 14.
  • the neck 14 is formed with a pair of opposed nicks 18.
  • Each nick 18 can act as a tear initiator, so that the free end portion of the neck 14 above the nicks 18 can be broken away, as by twisting, to expose the top of the straw 16.
  • the tear created by this process will be substantially parallel to line 19.
  • the straw 16 may stand freely in position within the sachet 10, or be sealed to the neck 14 of the sachet beneath the nicks 18.
  • the sachet 20 is divided by a partition wall 22 into two compartments 24, 26, respectively for containing alternative differing foods such as two different flavours of fruit drink.
  • the sachet 20 has a single neck 28 into which the partition wall 22 extends, and two straws 30, 32 are sealed within the sachet 20 with their upper ends extending up into the neck from the respective compartments 24, 26, respectively on opposite sides of the partition wall 22.
  • the neck has a pair of nicks 34 which can act as tear initiators for each straw, as heretofore described with reference to the embodiment of Figures 1 and 2. Twisting off the free end portion of the neck exposes the upper ends of both straws 30, 32.
  • the neck 14 is preferably cut within the partition wall 22 down to the level of the nicks 34, as indicated at 36, and below this point the partition wall 22 may optionally be perforated, as indicated at 38, so that the two compartments 24, 26 of the sachet can be split apart.
  • Figure 5 shows a modification in which, in a dual compartment sachet 40, two separate necks 42, 44 are provided, each with its own pair of nicks, respectively 46, 48.
  • the partition wall 50 may have perforations 52 to enable the two compartments to be split apart.

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Claims (13)

  1. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (10; 20; 40) muni d'un goulot (14; 28; 42; 44) et contenant une substance (12) devant être distribuée à partir de ce dernier au travers d'une paille (16; 30; 32) qui est placée à l'intérieur du récipient (10; 20; 40), la paille s'étendant à partir d'un point adjacent au fond du récipient jusque dans le goulot, le goulot du récipient (14; 28; 42; 44) étant scellé afin d'enfermer le contenu du récipient (12) ainsi que la paille (16; 30; 32) au moyen d'un scellement qui définit l'extrémité libre du goulot (14; 28; 42; 44), caractérisé en ce que le scellement fait partie intégrante du goulot (14; 28; 42; 44) et en ce qu'il est muni d'une zone d'affaiblissement (18; 19) au-dessous de la partie supérieure de la paille entre le scellement et le reste du goulot (14; 28; 42; 44), ladite zone permettant au scellement d'être brisé le log d'une ligne (19) qui est perpendiculaire à l'axe principal de la paille (16; 30; 32) afin d'exposer une extrémité de la paille (16; 30; 32).
  2. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (10; 20; 40) selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la paille (16; 30; 32) est scellée au goulot du récipient (14; 28; 42; 44) au-dessous de ladite zone d'affaiblissement (18; 19).
  3. Un récipient ouvrable scellé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel la paille (16; 30; 32) peut être bougée de façon axiale par rapport au récipient de telle sorte que la paille puisse être levée vers l'extérieur du récipient une fois que le scellement a été brisé.
  4. Un récipient ouvrable scellé selon l'une des revendications précédentes dans lequel le récipient comprend un sachet fabriqué avec des films coétendus de polypropylène, un film de plastique laminé ou des feuilles métalliques revêtues de polymère.
  5. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (10; 20; 40) selon la revendication 4, dans lequel la zone d'affaiblissement (18; 34; 46; 46) sur le goulot (14; 28; 42; 44) est alignée dans la direction de l'orientation des chaínes polymères.
  6. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (10; 20; 40) selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le récipient comprend un sachet de papier enduit.
  7. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (10; 20; 40) selon la revendication 6, dans lequel la zone d'affaiblissement (18; 34; 46; 48) sur le goulot est alignée selon l'orientation des fibres de papier du sachet.
  8. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (20; 40) selon l'une des revendications 4 à 7, muni de deux compartiments (24; 25) et deux pailles (30; 32), chacune s'étendant dans un compartiment respectif (24; 26).
  9. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (20) selon la revendication 8, dans lequel le récipient est muni d'un seul goulot (28) dans lequel s'étendent les deux pailles (30; 32).
  10. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (40) selon la revendication 8 dans lequel le récipient est muni de deux goulots (42; 44), une paille respective s'étendant dans chacun d'entre eux et chaque goulot étant muni d'une zone d'affaiblissement respective (46; 48).
  11. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (20; 40) selon l'une des revendications 9 ou 10, dans lequel des perforations (38) sont fournies dans une paroi de séparation (50) entre les compartiments afin de permettre aux compartiments d'être séparés.
  12. Un récipient ouvrable scellé selon l'une des revendications 4 à 7, dans lequel la zone d'affaiblissement (18; 34; 46; 48) est fournie par un creux ou une partie en retrait (18; 34; 46; 46) sur au moins l'un des côtés de l'extérieur du goulot (14; 28; 42; 44).
  13. Un récipient ouvrable scellé (10; 20; 40) selon la revendication 12, dans lequel le récipient comprend deux pièces opposées de matériau en feuille qui sont jointes l'une à l'autre au niveau d'une zone périphérique et dans lequel le creux ou la partie en retrait (18; 34; 46; 48) est formée au niveau de la zone périphérique.
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GB939321750A GB9321750D0 (en) 1993-10-21 1993-10-21 Improvements in or relating to packaging
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PCT/GB1994/002269 WO1995011176A1 (fr) 1993-10-21 1994-10-17 Recipient a goulot comprenant une paille

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