WO2009148037A1 - Soft package - Google Patents

Abstract

A soft package (2) includes an outer case (16) for enclosing the bundle of cigarette goods (4) and forming a sealed space in the package (2).  The outer case (16) comprises a vertical seal (18), a lateral top seal (26), and a lateral bottom seal (30) formed by overlapping the outer peripheral edges of a wrapper (8).  These seals are provided in the form of fin seal.

Description

Soft package

The present invention relates to a package, and more particularly to a software package.

Various packaging containers have been developed in consideration of the properties of the goods. When the product is a tobacco product such as a filter cigarette or cigarette, for example, a hinge lid type hard package is often used as the packaging container.

∙ This hard package is usually discarded when all the tobacco products are consumed. However, since the manufacturing cost of this hard package is relatively high, for example, it is considered to reuse the hard package like a cigarette container shown in Patent Document 1.

The cigarette container of Patent Document 1 includes an inner pack that accommodates tobacco products, and this inner pack is accommodated in a reusable hinge-lid type hard package. When the tobacco product runs out, a new inner pack is refilled with a hard package.

This inner pack has an inner case, and this inner case is further wrapped with a film that does not allow air to pass through.

JP 2005-522386 A

By the way, the inner pack film packaging is preferably omitted in view of the recent demand for resource saving.

However, the film wrapping retains the inner pack's sealing properties, and prevents, for example, atmospheric moisture and unpleasant odors from adversely affecting the items in the package. For this reason, if film packaging is omitted, the quality of the product in the inner pack may be reduced.

The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a soft package in which film packaging can be omitted.

In order to achieve the above object, a soft package of the present invention includes an article and an outer envelope that encloses the article, and is formed by folding a packaging material around the article. Is obtained by overlapping the outer peripheral edges of the packaging material, and has a seam line that forms the inside of the jacket in a sealed space.

The above-mentioned soft package has a high sealing performance because the product is wrapped by a jacket including a seam line that forms the inside of the packaging material in a sealed space by overlapping the outer peripheral edges of the packaging material.

Specifically, the seam line is formed by overlapping the side edges of the packaging material, and is formed by overlapping the vertical seam extending in the vertical direction of the soft package and the upper edge of the packaging material, A top horizontal seam positioned on the upper surface of the soft package and extending in the width direction of the soft package and a lower edge of the packaging material are overlapped to be positioned on the lower surface of the soft package and the soft package And a bottom lateral seam extending along the width direction.

The package is sealed on the three sides by the above-mentioned vertical seam, top horizontal seam, and bottom horizontal seam, so that the sealing inside the package is improved.

Preferably, the vertical seam, the top horizontal seam, and the bottom horizontal seam have a fin seal shape. In this case, it is more preferable that the vertical seam, the top horizontal seam, and the bottom horizontal seam are obtained by heat sealing.

According to this configuration, since the vertical seal, the top horizontal seal and the bottom horizontal seal are formed by heat sealing, the package can be easily manufactured, and the packaging efficiency of the product can be improved. And when the form of a fin seal is employ | adopted, when sealing a packaging material, the heat influence with respect to an internal item can be restrained low.

Further, it is preferable that the product is a bundle of tobacco products having a bar shape, and the soft package further includes an inner frame that holds the bundle and has a rectangular parallelepiped shape.

Specifically, the inner frame has a U shape surrounding the bundle, and has a rear wall, both side walls, and an open surface.

¡By arranging the inner frame described above in the package, it is possible to protect the tobacco product when a compressive force is applied from the outside of the package. It also contributes to improving the moldability of the package. Furthermore, since the shape of the soft package can be maintained in a rectangular parallelepiped shape by the inner frame, the soft package can be easily inserted into the hard case, and the refilling operation of tobacco products can be performed easily.

Further, it is preferable that the vertical seam is arranged in a portion of the jacket covering the open surface of the inner frame and is positioned in the vicinity of one of the side walls.

According to this configuration, since the vertical seam having the double outer cover is positioned at the portion corresponding to the open surface of the inner frame, the outer cover of this portion can be reinforced.

Further, the outer cover of the soft package further includes a separable separation band, and the separation band extends along an outer periphery over the front surface, one side surface, the rear surface, and the other side surface of the soft package and the soft package. Preferably, the outer cover of the soft package further includes an opening tape on the inner surface of the separation band, and the opening tape protrudes from the outer cover. And having one end.

こ の According to this package, the package is easily opened by separating the separation band. In addition, when an opening tape is disposed on the inner surface of the separation band, the separation band is easily separated by peeling off the opening tape, so that the package can be opened more easily.

According to the soft package of the present invention, since the sealing performance in the outer casing is high, it is possible to suppress the deterioration of the quality of the goods accommodated therein. Therefore, film packaging can be omitted, which can contribute to resource saving.

It is the perspective view which showed the soft package of one Embodiment in the state before opening. It is the perspective view which looked at the soft package of FIG. 1 from back lower side. It is a perspective view which shows the soft package of FIG. 1 in the state after opening. It is a perspective view which shows the state by which the packaging material of the soft package was folded and the vertical seal | sticker was formed. It is a perspective view which shows the state in which the packaging material of FIG. 4 was further folded and the top horizontal seal and the bottom horizontal seal were formed. It is the figure which showed the packaging material of the soft package. It is a perspective view which shows the state which refills the soft package of FIG. 3 with a hard case.

FIG. 1 shows a package 2 of one embodiment.
This package 2 is a packaging container that accommodates tobacco products such as filter cigarettes and cigarettes. As apparent from FIGS. 1 and 2, the package 2 has a rectangular parallelepiped shape as a whole, and includes a front surface 20, a rear surface 28, a pair of side surfaces 40 and 42, a top surface 22, and a bottom surface 24.

This package 2 includes a bundle of rod-shaped tobacco products 4 and a wrapping material 8 for wrapping the bundle as shown in FIG. The tobacco product 4 is, for example, a filter cigarette having a length of 85 mm, and the number thereof is 20. A bundle of tobacco products 4 is bundled together by an inner frame 6, and the bundle and the inner frame 6 form a unit of tobacco products (hereinafter referred to as a product unit 14).

The inner frame 6 has the same height as the length of the tobacco product 4 and includes a rear wall 10 and a pair of side walls 12 connected to both side edges of the rear wall 10. In other words, the inner frame 6 has a U-shape that surrounds the bundle of tobacco products 4 on the three sides of the rear and both sides thereof, thereby protecting the tobacco products 4 and improving the moldability of the package 2. To do.

The packaging material 8 of the package 2 has a rectangular shape, and is wound and folded around the product unit 14 to form an outer cover 16 that seals the product unit 14. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, the packaging material 8 is wound around the outer periphery including the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the product unit 14. Both ends of the packaging material 8 are overlapped and bonded to each other on the front surface of the product unit 14 to form a so-called vertical seal 18 in the form of a fin seal. Such a vertical seal 18 extends over the entire range of the packaging material 8, and thereafter, the vertical seal 18 is folded toward one side surface of the product unit 14 (in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 4), and the jacket 16 are superposed on the front surface 20 of the 16th.

When the above-described vertical seal 18 is formed, the packaging material 8 forms protruding portions 36 that protrude from the product unit 14 in the vertical direction. These protruding portions 36 are gusset-folded on both sides thereof, and then folded to cover the upper end surface and the lower end surface of the product unit 14 to form the upper surface 22 and the lower surface 24 of the outer cover 16, respectively (FIG. 1, FIG. (See FIG. 2). In this folding, as shown in FIG. 5, a top horizontal seal 26 in the form of a fin seal is formed at the center of the upper surface 22 of the outer cover 16, and the top horizontal seal 26 extends over the entire upper surface of the outer cover 16. The product unit 14 extends in the width direction. Thereafter, the top horizontal seal 26 is folded toward the rear surface 28 (in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 5), and thus overlaps the upper surface 22 of the outer cover 16. On the other hand, a bottom horizontal seal 30 is formed on the lower surface 24 of the jacket 16, and the bottom horizontal seal 30 is also folded toward the rear surface 28 (in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 5) to overlap the lower surface 24 of the jacket 16. . In this way, the molding of the package 2 is completed.

More specifically, the above-described vertical seal 18 is disposed on the package 2 so as to be positioned near the one side surface 40 on the front surface 20 of the outer cover 16, and the package 2 extends from the top lateral seal 26 over the entire vertical direction. And then extends to the bottom horizontal seal 30. Note that the upper and lower ends of the vertical seal 18 are overlapped with the top horizontal seal 26 and the bottom horizontal seal 30.

As is clear from FIGS. 1 and 2, the package 2 includes a separation band 32 around the outer periphery including a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, and an opening tape 34 is attached to the inner surface of the separation band 32. It is attached.

The separation band 32 is positioned at a position slightly lowered downward from the upper surface 22 of the outer cover 16 and is formed by a region sandwiched between a pair of separation lines 38. These separation lines 38 are provided by weak lines provided in the packaging material 8. If the separation line 38 is formed in a perforated row, the sealing performance of the package 2 may be impaired. Therefore, the perforated row as the separation line of the package 2 is not preferable.

The opening tape 34 has a width shorter than that of the separation band 32, and its tip 34 a is exposed from a notch portion 18 a formed at the tip edge of the vertical seal 18.

FIG. 6 shows the inner surface side of the packaging material 8.
A two-dot chain line in FIG. 6 indicates a folding line formed in the packaging material 8 when the product unit 14 is wrapped by the packaging material 8. As is apparent from FIG. 6, each region of the packaging material 8 defined by the folding line forms each part of the jacket 16 described above. Further, the packaging material 8 has a heat seal layer of a heat-weldable film over the entire inner surface, and this heat seal layer enables formation of the vertical seal 18, the top horizontal seal 26 and the bottom horizontal seal 30 described above.

More specifically, the region of the packaging material 8 includes a front region 44 that is a part of the front surface 20 of the outer cover 16, a side region 46, a rear region 48, which are sequentially positioned on the right side of the front region 44 in FIG. A side region 50 and a front region 52 are included. The side regions 46 and 50 form the side surfaces 42 and 40 of the jacket 16, the rear region 48 forms the rear surface 28 of the jacket 16, and the front region 52 forms the remainder of the front surface 20 of the jacket 16. .

Furthermore, upper surface regions 76, 78, 80, 82, and 84 that are the upper surface 22 of the jacket 16 are located above the regions 44, 46, 48, 50, and 52, respectively. On the other hand, under the regions 44, 46, 48, 50, and 52, lower surface regions 54, 56, 58, 60, and 62 that are the lower surface 24 of the outer cover 16 are respectively positioned.

Here, the regions 44, 46, 48, 50, 52 are provided with a planned separation region 64 positioned so as to cross the packaging material 8 at a position slightly lower than the upper surface regions 76, 78, 80, 82, 84. Including. The planned separation region 64 forms a separation band 32, and the opening tape 34 is bonded to the planned separation region 64.

As is clear from the above description, the left end portion 18a located on the left side in FIG. 6 of the regions 54, 44, and 76 and the right end portion 18b located on the right side in FIG. The vertical seal 18 is formed by being bonded to each other by heat sealing.

As is apparent from FIG. 6, the upper end portions 26a of the regions 76, 78, 80, 82, and 84 are overlapped with each other at the upper end edge of the packaging material 8, and the top horizontal seal 26 is formed by heat sealing. Further, the lower end portions 30a of the regions 54, 56, 58, 60, and 62 are overlapped with each other at the lower end edge of the packaging material 8, and the bottom horizontal seal 30 is formed by heat sealing.

The top and bottom horizontal seals 26 and 30 include the upper end portion and the lower end portion of the vertical seal 18, respectively. In addition, two-dot chain lines in the lower surface regions 56 and 60 and the upper surface regions 78 and 82 indicate that the above-described gusset folding is performed in these regions 56, 60, 78, and 82.

The consumer who has purchased this package 2 first picks up the opening tape 34 and then peels off the opening tape 34. As a result, the separation band 34 is cut off from the outer cover 16, the portion of the outer cover 16 above the separation band 34 is removed, and the package 2 is opened as shown in FIG.

After this, the opened package 2 is packed in a rectangular parallelepiped hard case 86. A known hinge lid type package can be used for the hard case 86. More specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, when the lid 90 of the hard case 86 is opened, the hard case 86 exposes the open end 88, and the package 2 is inside the hard case 86 from the open end 88 of the hard case 86. Inserted into. Thereafter, the lid 90 is closed, and the package 2, that is, the tobacco product 4 is accommodated in the hard case 86.

When taking out the tobacco product 4, the consumer opens the lid 90 and takes out the tobacco product 4 through the opening end 88.

When all the tobacco products 4 are consumed, the empty package 2 is discarded, and the new package 2 is accommodated in the hard case 86 in the same procedure as described above. As described above, the package 2 of the present embodiment enables the reuse of the hard case 86. Further, since the seam line of the outer cover 16 of the package 2 of the present embodiment is formed by the vertical seal 18, the top horizontal seal 26 and the bottom horizontal seal 30, the package 2 has high sealing performance. Therefore, the exterior film for the package 2 can be omitted, and a demand for resource saving can be met.

Further, since the vertical seal 18, the top horizontal seal 26, and the bottom horizontal seal 30 have the form of fin seals, when these seals are formed by heat sealing, there is little thermal influence on the tobacco product 4. In this regard, if a seal form in which the inner surface and the outer surface of the packaging material 8 are superimposed on the seals 18, 26, and 30 is employed, the thermal effect on the tobacco product 4 is inevitable.

The vertical seal 18, the top horizontal seal 26, and the bottom horizontal seal 30 may be formed by bonding with an adhesive.

Furthermore, the hard case 86 is made of paper such as card paper or Manila cardboard, but may be manufactured from other materials such as plastic or metal.

The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications are possible. For example, the soft package of the present invention can accommodate 20 tobacco products having a length of about 95 mm.

Also, the software package of the present invention can be used as it is without being housed in a hard case.

Furthermore, the soft package of the present invention can also be used to accommodate other commodities such as foods such as confectionery.

2 Package 4 Tobacco product 6 Inner frame 8 Packaging material 10 Rear wall 12 Side wall 14 Product unit 16 Outer casing 18 Vertical seal 20 Front surface 22 Upper surface 24 Lower surface 26 Top lateral seal 28 Rear surface 30 Bottom lateral seal 32 Separating strip 34 Opening tape 40, 42 Side 86 hard case

Claims (9)

Goods,
An outer envelope that encloses the article, and an outer envelope formed by folding a packaging material around the article;
The jacket is
A soft package having a seam line which is obtained by overlapping outer peripheral edges of the packaging material and forms an inside of the outer cover in a sealed space. The seam line is
A vertical seam formed by overlapping the side edges of the packaging material and extending in the vertical direction of the soft package;
A top lateral seam formed by overlapping upper edges of the packaging material, positioned on the upper surface of the soft package and extending along the width direction of the soft package;
The soft package according to claim 1, further comprising: a bottom lateral seam formed by overlapping lower end edges of the packaging material, positioned on a lower surface of the soft package, and extending along a width direction of the soft package. 3. The soft package according to claim 2, wherein the vertical seam, the top horizontal seam, and the bottom horizontal seam have a fin seal shape. The soft package according to claim 3, wherein the vertical seam, the top horizontal seam, and the bottom horizontal seam are obtained by heat sealing. The item is a bundle of stick-shaped tobacco products,
The soft package according to claim 4, further comprising an inner frame for holding the bundle, wherein the soft package has a rectangular parallelepiped shape. The soft package according to claim 5, wherein the inner frame has a U shape surrounding the bundle, and has a rear wall, both side walls, and an open surface. The soft package according to claim 6, wherein the vertical seam is disposed in a portion of the jacket covering the open surface of the inner frame and is positioned in the vicinity of one of the side walls. The outer cover of the soft package further includes a separable separation band,
The separation band is
The soft package according to claim 7, wherein the soft package extends along an outer periphery extending over a front surface, one side surface, a rear surface, and the other side surface of the soft package, and is positioned at a position near the upper surface of the soft package. The soft package according to claim 8, wherein the outer cover of the soft package further includes an opening tape on an inner surface of the separation band, and the opening tape has one end protruding from the outer cover.

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