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EP2502849A1 - Poche accessible individuellement à plusieurs chambres pour la fourniture de contenu - Google Patents

Poche accessible individuellement à plusieurs chambres pour la fourniture de contenu Download PDF

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EP2502849A1
EP2502849A1 EP11159669A EP11159669A EP2502849A1 EP 2502849 A1 EP2502849 A1 EP 2502849A1 EP 11159669 A EP11159669 A EP 11159669A EP 11159669 A EP11159669 A EP 11159669A EP 2502849 A1 EP2502849 A1 EP 2502849A1
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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
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/32—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents for packaging two or more different materials which must be maintained separate prior to use in admixture
    • B65D81/3261—Flexible containers having 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
    • B65D75/5816—Opening or contents-removing devices added or incorporated during package manufacture for tearing a corner or other small portion next to the edge, e.g. a U-shaped portion
    • 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
    • B65D75/5872—Non-integral spouts
    • B65D75/5883—Non-integral spouts connected to the package at the sealed junction of two package walls

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  • This invention relates to disposable pouches used as dispensers for wet and dry product contents, in general, and to such disposable pouches for dispensing individual ones of a plurality of products from a multi-chamber pouch, in particular.
  • Disposable, flexible plastic pouches are available to dispense dry or wet product contents such as in ketchup and mustard disposable dispensers employed by take-out food restaurants, in disposable one-dosage dispenser for pharmaceutical companies to distribute medications such as pills, liquid vitamins or ointments, and in dispensers used for delivering beverages as individual servings of juice-type drinks.
  • the user opens the dispenser by splitting, cutting or puncturing them -- and in the case of the beverage dispensers, oftentimes employs a straw to carefully pierce the packaging at a predefined location.
  • the present invention is of a multi-chamber pouch of two, three or four chambers -- individual ones of which contain their own product content, and each one of which is individually accessible to obtain the product therein since each chamber is sealed off from the other.
  • the product contents of each chamber may be "dry” for use in the cosmetic industry (with different color foundations, for example, in each chamber), or “wet” for the liquid or flowable candy industry (where the product content can be sucked or squeezed out).
  • the invention is of a multi-chamber pouch for dispensing such product contents from any one chamber individually, with each chamber of the pouch including a multi-layered front panel having an outer layer and a heat sealable inner layer, along with a multi-layered back panel also having an outer layer and a heat-sealable inner layer.
  • a dry, liquid or flowable product content is included between the front and back panels, to which access is had from a point outside the chamber.
  • a tear line in the chamber enclosing the "dry" product content serves as a manner of dispensing the product content to a point on the multi-chamber pouch dedicated to that one chamber as by splitting or cutting, or simply tearing along the dedicated line.
  • the access can be had by a similar tear line of that chamber, or by a crimping nozzle of the multi-chamber pouch dedicated to the individual chamber's product content -- as with a flowable candy.
  • a moisture barrier is included between the inner and outer layers of both the front panel and back panel to increase shelf life, with the central layer of the front panel layer being of a nylon composition and with the central layer of the back panel being of an aluminum foil -- thus enabling the product content to be viewable.
  • the inner layers of both its front panel and its back panel is fabricated of the same plastic composition -- preferably polyethylene.
  • the product contents of each chamber of the two, three or four multi-chamber pouch could be of the "identical" product content, or of "different" product contents.
  • FIGURES 2 , 3 and 4 illustrate 4-chamber, 3-chamber and 2-chamber types of tearable or rip-open pouches 10, 12, 14 constructed according to the invention.
  • FIGURES 5-7 show types of 4-chamber, 3-chamber and 2-chamber nozzle access pouches 16, 18, 20, also according to the invention.
  • pouches 10, 12, 14 are useful for dispensing "dry" product content, and flowable candy content product, while pouches 16, 18, 20 are particularly suited for dispensing liquid product content.
  • FIGURE 5 four nozzles 22, 24, 26, 28 are illustrated, of conventional design, to individually and uniquely co-join with the product contents in their individual chambers.
  • the product contents in each of its chambers 30, 32, 34 and 36 are indicated as being of a "different" liquid flavor.
  • the chambers 38, 40 and 42 of FIGURE 6 individual access is illustrated by the nozzles 44, 46 and 48 of that 3-chamber pouch -- where for purposes of illustration, the liquid product content in the chambers 38, 40 and 42 are each indicated as being identical.
  • the nozzles 50, 52 and 54 respectively couple to access the individual chambers 56, 58 and 60 of its 3-chamber configuration, indicating two flavor liquids (for example, in chambers 58 and 60) as being “identical” and one flavor liquid (in chamber 56) as being “different”.
  • Any one of the chambers of FIGURES 5 , 6 and 7 can be accessed through the use of a crimping nozzle sufficient to break a seal into its respective chamber, or to let it just flow therefrom as by a conventional sucking into a user's mouth.
  • a conduit is formed between the front and back panels to the dedicated crimping nozzle on the one hand, or to the exiting point on the other hand.
  • the 4-chamber rip-open pouch of FIGURE 2 is illustrated as being of different "dry”, or “wet” flowable and squeezable product contents in individual ones of its chambers 62, 64, 66 and 68, while the 3-chamber rip openable pouch of FIGURE 3 is illustrated as having product content in each of its chambers 70, 72 and 74 of identical "dry” or “wet” flowable product content.
  • the 2-chamber pouch of FIGURE 4 indicates each of its chambers 76, 78 as having different product content to be dispensed therefrom.
  • the rip-open characteristic of each of the chambers 62-68, of 70-74 and of 76-78 compose individual pairs of tear points.
  • the tear points are indicated at 80, 82 for each of the four chambers, commencing at the sides A, B, C, D of the pouch as noted.
  • the respective tear point pairs 80, 82 are adjacent to one another, as they are in the 2-chamber pairs of FIGURES 4 and 9 .
  • the tear line 152 when ripping open each individual one of the chambers 62-68, 70-74 and 76-78 of FIGURES 2 , 3 and 4 , as shown, will be between each tear point of the respective chamber.
  • Multi-layer front and back panels 100 and 120 are shown.
  • the front panel 100 includes an outer layer 102, a center layer 104 and an inner layer 106.
  • the back panel 120 similarly is composed of an outer layer 108, a center layer 110 and an inner layer 112.
  • the front and back panels 100 and 120 can be fabricated of the same compositional layers as each other, or can have different center layers 104, 110which can either be aluminum foil, nylon, or even paper.
  • the center layers 104 and 110 serve as a moisture barrier layer, such that with the center layer of nylon, for example, a user would be able to see the product content inside the chamber either through its front side or back side.
  • the moisture barrier protection and strength they each provide to the chamber carries the disadvantage of preventing the consumer from seeing exactly what product is inside the chamber.
  • the center layers With the nylon center layer as 104 in the front panel 100, and with an aluminum foil center layer 110 in the back panel 120 of the chamber, the center layers not only add strength to the chamber, provide it with moisture barrier protection, and extend its shelf life, but they better serve to reflect to a prospective purchaser the color of the product content of the chamber.
  • the inner layer 106 of the front panel 100 and the inner layer 112 of the back panel 120 are fabricated of the same plastic composition so that they are able to seal to one another.
  • the outer layers 102 and 108 of the front panel 100 and back panel 120, respectively, can be fabricated of different plastic compositions -- although in a preferred embodiment of the invention, the outer layers 102 and 108 are of the same composition, equal to that of the polyethylene inner layers 106 and 112.
  • the product content of each chamber is added and then sealed -- be it in the nature of dry cosmetics, liquids or flowable, squeezable candy.
  • FIGURES 2a , 3a , 4a and 8a illustrate by circular magnification an internal zigzag-tooth configuration for individually ripping open any of the chambers of the multi-chamber pouches of FIGURES 2 , 3 , 4 and 8 .
  • FIGURE 8a for example, repeats the 4-chamber rip pouch of FIGURE 2 , with its tear points 80, 82 at its respective sides A, B, C, D.
  • the zigzag-tooth pattern is shown at 150 through each of the layers 102-112, from one of the tear points (as at 80 in side B), to beyond the adjacent tear point (as at 82 in side A).
  • Such zigzag configuration will be understood to be created in the sealing mode which creates all of the sealed edges of the chambers and pouch, being skewed in the direction of the oncoming tear, from the other tear point. Tearing upwardly from the tear point 80 towards the tear point 82 in the chamber 66 will be seen to guide the tear across the corner of the chamber into the teeth of the zigzag area at the side A in providing a clean tear 152 between either of the two points of each chamber in allowing the corner to be completely removed from that particular chamber -- as more emphatically shown in FIGURE 4a .
  • the corner is completely removed whether the ripping be upwards along the tear line 152 of FIGURE 8 in accessing the contents of the chamber 66, or downwardly by ripping along a tear line extending between tear points 80 and 82 to access the contents of the chamber 62 (as in the downward tear of FIGURE 4a ).
  • Such zigzagging teeth will be understood to be part of a continuation of V-type cuts, each about 1" long or more, as a fine tooth forming the seal line, extending from ahead of the tear point 80 to beyond the tear point 82.
  • each pouch could be created with different capacities in a manner particularly desirable for the choice of different medications or cosmetics.
  • the pouch on the left of the drawing could be designed with a capacity to hold 20 grams of product, while the chamber on the right could be designed to have a capacity of 15 grams of product.
  • different mix products could be included in each pouch -- for example, by mixing "wet" and "dry” products in the different chambers.
  • a 3-chamber pouch could have two chambers with "wet” product and one chamber with “dry” product.
  • access to any one chamber could be had individually, leaving the remaining chambers intact, for later content dispensing.

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WO2014106281A1 (fr) * 2012-12-31 2014-07-03 Lgs Sky Chefs Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. Poche multicompartiment
WO2021076715A1 (fr) * 2019-10-15 2021-04-22 Hwang Hee Young Emballage à sections multiples pour café instantané ayant une pluralité de paquets flexibles scellés combinés ensemble

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US2791324A (en) * 1953-09-28 1957-05-07 Knoop Herbert Dow Compartmented package
FR2760436A1 (fr) * 1997-03-06 1998-09-11 Oreal Sachet multi compartiments
GB2350102A (en) * 1999-05-21 2000-11-22 Pepsico Inc Flexible container with neck portion
US20050194060A1 (en) * 2004-03-03 2005-09-08 Vincent Houwaert Peelable seal closure assembly
EP1669303A1 (fr) * 2003-09-30 2006-06-14 Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Sachet pour aliments sterilisables

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US2791324A (en) * 1953-09-28 1957-05-07 Knoop Herbert Dow Compartmented package
FR2760436A1 (fr) * 1997-03-06 1998-09-11 Oreal Sachet multi compartiments
GB2350102A (en) * 1999-05-21 2000-11-22 Pepsico Inc Flexible container with neck portion
EP1669303A1 (fr) * 2003-09-30 2006-06-14 Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Sachet pour aliments sterilisables
US20050194060A1 (en) * 2004-03-03 2005-09-08 Vincent Houwaert Peelable seal closure assembly

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2014106281A1 (fr) * 2012-12-31 2014-07-03 Lgs Sky Chefs Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. Poche multicompartiment
WO2021076715A1 (fr) * 2019-10-15 2021-04-22 Hwang Hee Young Emballage à sections multiples pour café instantané ayant une pluralité de paquets flexibles scellés combinés ensemble

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