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EP2532605A1 - Conditionnement sur-pressurisé et son procédé de fabrication - Google Patents

Conditionnement sur-pressurisé et son procédé de fabrication Download PDF

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EP2532605A1
EP2532605A1 EP11169025A EP11169025A EP2532605A1 EP 2532605 A1 EP2532605 A1 EP 2532605A1 EP 11169025 A EP11169025 A EP 11169025A EP 11169025 A EP11169025 A EP 11169025A EP 2532605 A1 EP2532605 A1 EP 2532605A1
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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
    • B65D81/18—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 providing specific environment for contents, e.g. temperature above or below ambient
    • B65D81/20—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 providing specific environment for contents, e.g. temperature above or below ambient under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure, or in a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas
    • B65D81/2046—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 providing specific environment for contents, e.g. temperature above or below ambient under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure, or in a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas under superatmospheric pressure
    • B65D81/2061—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 providing specific environment for contents, e.g. temperature above or below ambient under vacuum or superatmospheric pressure, or in a special atmosphere, e.g. of inert gas under superatmospheric pressure in a flexible container
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B31/00—Packaging articles or materials under special atmospheric or gaseous conditions; Adding propellants to aerosol containers
    • B65B31/04—Evacuating, pressurising or gasifying filled containers or wrappers by means of nozzles through which air or other gas, e.g. an inert gas, is withdrawn or supplied
    • 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
    • B65D75/5855—Peelable seals

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  • the invention relates to an over-pressurized packaging.
  • the invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such a packaging according to the first paragraph.
  • the invention further relates to a packaged good that is packed in a packaging according to the first paragraph.
  • a packaging according to the first paragraph is known e.g. from US2002/0096521A1 .
  • the packaging in form of a container is an elongated tubular construction and typically stores three tennis balls.
  • Tennis balls are manufactured with a hallow rubber core, which is pressurized with air or some gas.
  • the pressure in the ball is in the rage of approximately 1,3 to 1,5 bar, which means the inside of the ball shows an overpressure when compared with the atmospheric pressure that is of the magnitude of 1013 mbar.
  • the pressurization gives the balls their bouncing behavior or property. In order to avoid any gas diffusion from the inside of the ball to the outside of the ball, hence any loss of pressurization, the inside of the container in which the balls are packed is also pressurized.
  • An elongated pressurized chamber of the container which is typically made of plastic because of economical reasons, is closed with a closure panel that hermetically seals the pressure chamber.
  • a part of the closure panel is a removable lid that can be pulled off by means of a pull-tab attached to it.
  • the known container shows the disadvantage that the closure panel constitutes a major percentage of the overall costs of the container and in pulling the lid off, an immediately harmful situation is created for the fingers and hands of a user because the lid has razor-like edges.
  • a packaging comprising a wall that encloses a volume of the packaging and a closure that hermetically seals an opening of the bag to access said volume, wherein the volume is pressurized when compared with the pressure in the environment of the bag
  • the packaging is a bag that comprises as wall a foil that comprises a sealable inside layer facing the inside of the bag and the wall comprises a first region and a second region between which the opening is limited
  • the closure comprises said first region and said second region and a band sandwiched between the two regions, wherein the band has a first sealable side and a second sealable side, wherein the band is sealed with its second side to said inside layer of said second region by a non-peelable seal, and the band extends from the non-peelable seal into the volume and is sealed with its first side to the inside layer of said first region by a first peelable seal at a location beneath the non-peelable seal.
  • a method of manufacturing a packaging achieves said object, wherein said method comprises the steps of using a foil as a wall of a bag that realizes said packaging, wherein the wall encloses a volume of the bag and the foil comprises a sealable layer to realize a sealable inside layer of the wall of the bag, and defining a first region and a second region of the wall so that an opening of the bag is limited between the first region and the second region, and creating a closure that hermetically seals said opening in the bag, the step of creating said closure comprises inserting a band between the two regions so that the band is sandwiched between the two regions, wherein the band has a first sealable side and a second sealable side, and sealing said second side to said inside layer of said second region by a non-peelable seal so that the band extends from the non-peelable seal into a direction towards the volume of the ready made bag, and sealing said first side to said inside layer of said first region by a first peelable seal at a location beneath the non-
  • a packaged good in particular at least one tennis ball that is packed in a packaging according to the invention achieves said object.
  • Beneath indicates direction from the head to the foot of the bag.
  • the invention provides the advantage that it completely deviates from the known solution because it not only avoids the use of a lid tightly sealed to a rigid container but it also avoids the use of the rigid container itself. It changes the concept of a pressurized packaging entirely because it provides a new pressurized packaging in form of a flexible bag made of a sealable foil, wherein the bag is closed by sealing two portions of said bag together.
  • the new bag can be easily manufactured on existing, slightly modified pouch making lines, it is more cost efficient, there is no extra tool (knife or pair of scissors) needed for opening the pressurized bag, and it can easily be adapted to a wide range of machinery and packaging concepts that make use of or are based on flexible plastic foils.
  • the invention also allows the use of foils having high mechanical resilience in order to achieve the required tightness of the pressurized bag during its entire shelf life.
  • the non-peelable seal acts as a permanent seal that is exposed to the force that pushes the first and second region away from each other. The internal pressure in the volume creates this force.
  • the non-peelable seal is also designed so that it cannot be manually opened by a user without the use of a tool.
  • the peel-off force caused by the over-pressure in the volume of the bag puts the non-peelable seal under peel-off stress while the first peelable seal is primarily kept without such peel-off stress.
  • the band is bent in direction of the inside layer of the wall so that hardly any peel-off force (acting perpendicular to the surface of the peel-seal) exists at the edge of the peelable seal.
  • the peelable seal is sensitive to a force that is applied in perpendicular direction at its edge of the peelable seal and causes a peel-stress in the sealed zone.
  • the peel-stress once above a threshold, creates a crack in the seal that propagates along the sealed zone until the sealed together components are separated.
  • the first peelable seal In contrast to being put under peel-off stress the first peelable seal is even supported in its closure state by the internal pressure because the band faces the same force (modulus and direction) created by the internal pressure of the volume as the adjacent part of the wall faces. Therefore the band is not pulled away from the wall but rather kept in position aligned with the wall so that the pressure cannot establish a peel-off stress in the first peelable seal.
  • the first peelable seal mainly examines sharing force that can easily be withstood by the peelable seal so that the band and the inside layer of the wall remain stuck to each other.
  • the peel-off force required to manually open the peelable seal can be limited by the design of the peelable seal so that a user can easily open the peelable seal by hand without the necessity of any tool like knife or pair of scissors.
  • the peel-off force to manually open the bag can be the same as it would be the case for a bag with a non-pressurized volume.
  • the bond strength provided by the peelable seal can be tuned by the properties of the material sealed together, the temperature used to establish the seal and / or the duration during which the materials are exposed to the temperature or the pressure applied in the sealing process or, if these parameters are frozen or in other words not available, by the size of the area sealed together.
  • the size of the area sealed together also defines the acceptable level of sharing force for the peelable seal.
  • the bond-strength of the non-peelable seal can be tuned to relatively high values so to easily withstand the peel-off force caused by the pressure difference between the outside of the bag and the inside of the bag.
  • the user when intending to open the bag, will not be hampered by such relatively high bond-strength because the required opening force to peel off the peelable seal will only be determined by the properties of the peelable seal, which can be chosen to be widely independent from the pressure in the pressurized volume.
  • the entire bag together with its closure is realized only by the foil.
  • one foil is used as the wall of the bag and on the other hand another foil is used as the band.
  • the opening of the bag is formed between the band and the first region.
  • the outer ends of the opening may be defined by the edges of he wall surrounding the opening.
  • the bag may have the permanent seal (a further non-peelable seal) along its entire outer periphery except of the closure.
  • the permanent seal In the permanent seal two confronting wall segments are sealed together to form the tightly sealed bag.
  • the permanent seal may in fact extend only in such areas where the bag must be tightly closed.
  • Such a bag may have a (one or more) further seals (edge-seal) substituting the closure-seal along the folding edge of the foil.
  • the bag may also have side gussets and each edge of the gusset may have its own edge-seal, wherein one edge seal is realized by the permanent seal.
  • the bag may also be created by a stripe of said foil that realizes the wall, that is folded to create a bottom fold (gusset) to be used as bottom part of the bag.
  • a bottom fold (gusset) to be used as bottom part of the bag.
  • the permanent seal is applied along a right and left longitudinal edge of a front wall portion and a rear wall portion.
  • Such a bag may have the closure along its entire head.
  • the bag may also show a dedicated bottom part intended to place the bag in an upright position in which the closure is located on top of the bag in a head area of the bag.
  • the foil used as the wall of the bag may comprise various layers, which are manufactured by using various materials or combinations thereof. Although a monolayer foil would be feasible, according to a preferred embodiment of the invention a multilayer foil is preferred because each layer may have individual functions assigned to it.
  • the inside layer may be realized by e.g. PE, OPP, CPP, or PET.
  • the wall of the bag in particular the inside layer, should serve two practical constraints. Firstly the inside layer must be sealable against itself and against the band in order to hermetically close the volume. Secondly the so created seals as well as the wall itself must withstand the expected operation temperature during e.g. heating or cooking or even during transportation and storing of the bag. In case of food as packaged good, in particular the inside layer may not degrade or contaminate the packaged good during heating up the food or the entire bag, while the inside layer is in direct contact with the hot food.
  • One or more middle layer(s) may facilitate barrier functions against oil, moisture, oxygen and so on, and therefore realize a functional ply.
  • materials deployable are e.g. aluminum foil, metalized PET or OPA.
  • the outside layer may be used to provide a marketable finish of the bag that may show a glossy surface with or without any printings while typically not being sealable. Therefore, without any claim to completeness, materials like e.g. PET, PA, OPP, or paper are applicable.
  • the numerous layers may be assembled to form the foil by various techniques like blow extrusion, hot or cold lamination and so on.
  • the first peelable seal comprises a first edge that faces towards the volume and also the band comprises a second edge that faces towards the volume.
  • the alignment of the first peelable seal in relation to said second edge can be so that the first edge is remote from said second edge, provided that the band does not flip away from the inside layer of the wall, which will immediately cause a peel-off stress in the first peelable seal created by the pressure of the volume that will ultimately pull apart the band and the wall, hence open the first peelable seal.
  • the band is securely fixed on the wall. This measure guarantees that the pressure in the volume will not accidentally cause any peel-off stress at the beginning of the second peelable seal, which in the worst case may lead to an undesired opening or peeling-off of the second peelable seal and thereafter the first peelable seal.
  • the first peelable seal extends along the first region to a point above the non-peelable seal. Hence a continuous peelable seal is created from beneath the non-peelable seal to above the non-peelable seal. This embodiment is of advantage if the creation of the overlapping non-peelable seal and the peelable seal does not adverse effect one of the two seals.
  • the first side is sealed to said inside layer of said first region by a second peelable seal remote from the first peelable seal and above the non-peelable seal.
  • the space between the two peelable seals reduces a possible adverse influence of the creation of one seal of the peelable seals on the non-peelable seal or the other way around.
  • the first and the second peelable seal are located from each other in a distance that is equal to or wider than the width of the non-peelable seal.
  • the band has a length that is equal or longer than the length of the opening. If the length of the band is equal to the length of the opening, the band will typically not be embedded between permanent seals that are located adjacent to the opening and hermetically close the bag outside of the closure. In order to improve the rigidity of the entire bag it may be of advantage to use a band that is longer than the length of the opening, so that it can be embedded in the permanent seal adjacent to the opening.
  • the band may have a width that is equal to or lower than the length of the first edge region. This allows an easy installation of the band by aligning it with the outer end of the first edge region, in fact with the outer end of the opening that is given by the edge of the wall of the bag. This also allows the outer edge of the band to be grasped with the fingers of a user when the closure of the bag is opened.
  • the band may also be located between the first and second region so that its outer edge is hidden beneath the edge of the wall of the bag. In this case the width of the band is lower than the length of the first region so that it still extends beneath the non-peelable seal into the volume.
  • a possible confusion of a user by an additional layer in form of the band is avoided because the distance between the band and the outer edge of the opening can be so large that the band is virtually out of reach and consequently any faulty operation of the opening becomes impossible.
  • first and the second peelable seal are created before the non-peelable seal is created.
  • the sealing temperature required to cerate the peelable seal may be higher than the sealing temperature required to create the non-peelable seal.
  • any distance between the first and second peelable seal is of advantage because the peelable properties of the already created peelable seals may not be adversely influenced by the creation of the non-peelable seal.
  • sealing jaws may be used that bring in heat only from the respective side of the band where the respective seal is to be created.
  • a sealing jaw may only heat the first edge region.
  • a sealing jaw may only heat the second edge region.
  • the band comprises a thermally isolating layer between the first sealable side and the second sealable side.
  • a thermally isolating layer between the first sealable side and the second sealable side.
  • Such a layer may be realized by a paper-based layer or by a metallic layer or other materials having thermally isolating properties or a combination of these layers.
  • the band may not smoothly follow the curvature of the wall.
  • the curvature of the band may deviate from the form defined by the curvature of the wall until that location where the first peelable seal seals the band to the wall.
  • the first region and the second region and the band extend parallel to each other above the non-peelable seal edge. In particular beneath the third edge the remaining part of the band continuously follows the contour of the inside layer.
  • the pressurized volume of the bag will force two confronting wall portions adjacent to the non-peelable seal to bend away from each other in different directions starting from an inner most point of the non-peelable seal.
  • any bumps along the band are avoided and the band will smoothly follow the bended wall so that the peel-off stress in the peelable seals is minimized or even fully avoided.
  • the area of the first peelable seal and/or the second peelable seal is dependent on the pressure in the volume by a given bonding strength of the first and second peelable seal.
  • the area of the first and / or the second peelable seal is adapted to the pressure in the pressurized volume.
  • the width of the band may be chosen to be wider for higher pressures as it would be the case for lower pressures.
  • the opposing inside layers of the foil are sealed together to hermetically close the volume from the outside of the bag at an outer periphery of the bag, preferably along its entire circumference except of its closure, and said head of the bag comprises said closure, preferably along the length of the head, and said first region is realized by an edge area of a front wall portion of the bag and said second region is realized by an edge region of a rear wall portion of the bag.
  • a relatively compact e.g. square shaped bag can be created showing a fin like head at which the closure is embedded between the front wall portion and the rear wall portion.
  • the bag also sometimes termed pouch, may be a premade bag, which can be applied e.g. on one side open to fill and close it as soon as filled with packaged good. Accordingly it is of advantage that in the method of manufacturing the steps of sealing said first side of the band to the inside layer is performed prior to the step of sealing said second side to said inside layer, preferably at a site for manufacturing a pre-manufactured bag that has an open opening. In this embodiment of the method of manufacturing the step of sealing said second side to the inside layer is performed after said steps of sealing said first side to said inside layer at a site for filling goods into the pressurized volume of the bag.
  • the bag may also be pre made with a bottom open to be filled with packaging goods.
  • said step of sealing said first side to the inside layer and said step of sealing said second side to the inside layer is performed simultaneously or consecutive to each other at a site for manufacturing a pre-manufactured bag. Thereafter the bag is delivered to a site for filling it and closing its bottom.
  • the bag may also be directly made according to the method of manufacturing on a filling machine, e.g. a so termed Form-Fill and Seal (FFS) machine. Without any claim to completeness the bag may be shaped in form of a pillow pouch, stick pack and so on. In general, the bag may have any shape or size.
  • a filling machine e.g. a so termed Form-Fill and Seal (FFS) machine.
  • FFS Form-Fill and Seal
  • the invention provides a bag, which shows a wider range of applications than the packaging known from US2002/0096521A1 , which is only suitable as tennis ball container.
  • the bag according to the invention can be applied as flexible tennis ball container as well as a packaging for food even during its processing like pre-cooking during which gas in the bag expands and an overpressure is created in the volume.
  • a bag may be used e.g. in food processing without the need for a counter pressure applied to it from its outside, hence the use of an autoclave may be avoided. This simplifies the processing and makes the underlying process more cost efficient.
  • the invention provides the advantages that a bag according to the invention can be easily processed on existing pouch making machines or lines. Although it is designed to be as robust as to withstand an overpressure in its volume it will be relatively cheap and no extra tool will be needed to open the pouch.
  • the flexible bag combines high sealing properties, in fact pressure resistance in case of a permanently over pressurized volume or in case of an occasionally (temporary) over pressurized volume (e.g. heating or cooking process or caused by a bag that dropped from a shelf or a table) with an easy open feature that does not require any additional tools to easily open the flexible bag, as it would have been the case prior to the invention.
  • Fig. 1 shows a bag 1 with a wall 2 that encloses a volume 3.
  • the bag 1 contains tennis balls 4 in its volume 3.
  • the volume 3 is pressurized with approximately the same pressure that exists inside the tennis balls 4.
  • the pressure inside the volume 3 is above the atmospheric pressure that exists in the environment 5 of the bag.
  • the pressure difference between the volume 4 and the environment 5 causes the bag 1 to look swelled.
  • the wall 2 is made of a flexible two-layer plastic foil 6.
  • the foil 6 has a non-sealable outside layer 7 that is glossy, transparent and shows some information regarding the tennis balls 4 printed on it (not depicted).
  • the foil 6 also has a sealable inside layer 8 (not visible in Fig.
  • the bag 1 is constructed in a way so that it has a bottom (foot) 9 and a top (head) 10 and that allows the bag 1 to stand in an upright position so that the volume 3 can be accessed from top-down via the head 10.
  • the bag 1 also comprises a closure 11 that hermetically seals an opening 12 of the bag 1.
  • the bag 1 also has corner seals 13 and structure seals 14 (only one visible). Along the corner seals 13 opposing inside layers of the foil are sealed together to hermetically close the volume 3 from the environment 5 of the bag 1 at an outer periphery of the bag 1.
  • the corner seals 13 extend along the entire circumference of the bag 1 except of its head 10 that comprises said closure 11 along its entire head length HL.
  • the structural seals 14 help to structure the bottom 9 of the bag 1 to be flat, while the head 10 has the form of a fin.
  • the wall 2 comprises a front wall portion 15 (visible in the drawing plane of Fig. 1 ) and a rear wall portion 16 (invisible in the drawing plane of Fig. 1 because it is hidden behind the front wall portion 15).
  • the closure 11 comprises a first region 17 at the edge region of the front wall portion 15 in proximity to the head 10 and a second region 18 at the edge region of the rear wall portion 16 in proximity to the head 10 and a band 19.
  • the first region 17 is longer than second region 18 when measured in direction from the head 10 to the foot 9.
  • the band 19 is depicted in Fig. 3 .
  • the band 19 has a first sealable side 20 and a second sealable side 21 as depicted in Fig. 3 .
  • the band 19 is sealed with its first side 20 to said inside layer 8 of said first region 17 by a first peelable seal 22 and with its second side 21 to said inside layer 8 of said second region 18 by a non-peelable seal 23.
  • the first peelable seal 22 and the non-peelable seal 23 do not overlap and the first peelable seal 22 has its beginning beneath the non-peelable seal 23 in direction of the volume 3.
  • the band 19 is also sealed by a second peelable seal 24 to the inside layer 8 of the wall 2 in a first region above the non-peelable seal 23.
  • the first peelable seal 22 has a first edge 32 that faces towards the volume 3.
  • the band 19 has a second edge 26 that faces towards the volume 3.
  • the non-peelable seal 23 has a third edge 33 that faces towards the volume 3.
  • outer edge means that this edge is located further way from the volume 3 than the other (inner) edge of the respective seal 22, 23 or 24 is located, while the term “inner edge” means that this edge is located closer to the volume 3 than the other (outer) edge of the respective seal 22, 23 or 24 is located.
  • the second peelable seal 24 is located closer to the head 10 than the non-peelable seal 23 and does not overlap with the non-peelable seal 23.
  • first and the second peelable seal 22 and 24 are located from each other in a distance D that is wider than the seal width SW of the non-peelable seal 23, which is located between the peelable seals 22 and 24.
  • This is visualized e.g. in Fig. 5 that shows the closed closure 11.
  • Fig. 5 shows the existence of a thermally isolating layer 25 between the first sealable side 20 and the second sealable side 21 of the band 19.
  • the band 19 has a width BW that is narrower than the length R1L of the first region 17.
  • the band 19 has an inner band edge 26 that faces towards the volume 3 of the bag 1.
  • an inner edge (the first edge 32) of the first peelable seal 22 is located at the position of the inner band edge 26 of the band 19. Hence the two edges 32 and 26 are aligned congruently to each other.
  • Fig. 5 shows the bag with a pressurized volume 3.
  • the wall 2 beneath the non-peelable seal 23 is deformed (front wall portion 15 and rear wall portion 16 are pushed apart from each other) while at the location of the non-peelable seal 23 and above the non-peelable seal 23 the first region 17 and the second region 18 extend parallel to each other with a part of the band 19 sandwiched in parallel thereto in between.
  • the remaining part of the band 19 follows the contour of the inside layer 8 adjacent to the first region 17.
  • the remaining part of the band 19 follows the contour of the inside layer 8 into the volume 3.
  • the pressure in the volume 3 pushes the front wall portion 15 to the left and the rear wall portion 16 to the right, which means apart from each other.
  • a third arrow 29 indicates the pressure in the volume 3.
  • the band 19 that is fixed by the aid of the first peelable-seal 22 to the inside layer 8 is pushed to the left with the same force that applies to the front wall portion 15 beneath the end of the band 19.
  • the first peelable seal 22 is not exposed to a peel-off force created by the pressure in the volume 3.
  • the entire force that pushed the front wall portion 15 away from the rear wall portion 16 is focused on the non-peelable seal 23, which is designed to withstand the peel-off force created by the pressure in the volume 3.
  • Fig. 1 , 5 , 6 and 7 depict that at the head 10, that is located remote (approximately 10 mm) from the band 19, the front wall portion 15 and the rear wall portion 16 are not sealed together so that they can be individually grasped by a user's hands (not depicted) and pulled apart from each other to open the closure 11 of the bag 1.
  • the length of the opening 12 is equal to the head length HL.
  • the bag 1 can be opened as depicted in the sequence of the Figures 7 and 8 .
  • Pulling the front wall portion 15 away from the rear wall portion 16 (indicated by a fourth arrow 30 and a fifth arrow 31) at the head 10 initially forces the second peelable seal 24 to peel-off (open) as shown in Fig. 7 .
  • Pulling the two wall portions 15 and 16 further away from each other also forces the first peelable seal 22 to peel-off (open) as shown in Fig. 8 .
  • the closure 11 is completely opened. Through an opening formed between the first wall portion 15 and the band 19 the tennis balls 4 can be taken out of the bag 1.
  • FIG. 2 , 4 and 5 some steps of a method of manufacturing the bag according to Fig. 1 are visualized in form of lateral cuts through the area of closure 11 and explained in the following.
  • a first step of the method said foil 6 is used to create the wall 2 of the bag 1. Therefore the foil 6 is folded so that the inside layer 8 of the front wall portion 15 and rear wall portion 16 face each other.
  • a gusset is created by folding inward a part of the foil 6.
  • the two wall portions 15 and 16 are located from each other with sufficient distance so that said closure 11 can easily be created by the aid of some automated machinery (not depicted). Beneath the head 10 the band 19 is placed between the two wall portions 15 and 16, which is indicated by a first arrow 27.
  • a second arrow 28 indicates the propagation direction of the bags 1 and the band 19 along the manufacturing process.
  • sealing said first side 20 of the band 19 to said inside layer 8 of said first region 17 is performed in order to create the second peelable seal 24.
  • sealing said remaining part of the first side 20 to the inside layer 8 of the wall 2 adjacent to the second peelable seal 24 where the band 19 extends into the volume 3 is performed in order to create said first peelable seal 22.
  • the two peelable seals 22 and 24 are created by a pair of sealing jaws (not visualized), which squeeze together the first wall portion 15 with the band 19 at the locations where the two peelable seals 22 and 24 shall be created.
  • heat is transferred into the squeezed structure only via that sealing jaw that is in contact with the front wall portion 15. This avoids any negative effect that heat applied by the other sealing jaw may have on the seal-ability of the second side 21 of the band 19.
  • the first peelable seal 22 is aligned with regard to the second edge 26 of the band 19 so that the first edge 32 of the first peelable seal 22 is created at a position of the second edge 26 of the band 19. Hence the two aforementioned edges 32 and 26 are congruently aligned. After the two peelable seals 22 and 24 were created the pair of sealing jaws is removed. The result is shown in Fig. 4 .
  • corner seals 13 are created by sealing jaws (not depicted) that squeeze together the opposing inside layer 8 of the front wall portion 15 and the rear wall portion 16 at the location where the corner seals shall be created. Heat can now be introduced into the squeezed structure via both sealing jaws. Also the structure seal 14 is created in a similar manner.
  • the method is interrupted and the pre-made bag 1 that still has an open head 10 is supplied from a so termed converter that converts the foil into said pre-made bag 1 to a filler that fills the bag 1 with tennis balls 4 and finally closes the bag 1 with a pressurized volume 3.
  • the bag is filled with tennis balls and the volume is pressurized. Thereafter the non-peelable seal 23 is created by a further pair of sealing jaws (not depicted), which squeeze together the rear wall portion 16 with the already sealed together compound of the first wall portion and the band 19 at the locations where the non-peelable seal 23 shall be created.
  • the position of the non-peelable seal 23 is selected along the band width BW of the band 19 so that the non-peelable seal 23 is created on the second side 21 of the band 19 between the first and second peelable seal 22 and 24.
  • heat is transferred into the squeezed structure only via that sealing jaw that is in contact with the rear wall portion 16.

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WO2000058167A1 (fr) * 1999-03-31 2000-10-05 Safta S.P.A. Systemes de conditionnement refermables
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