EP0797531B1 - Disposable container for liquids, in particular drinks - Google Patents

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EP0797531B1
EP0797531B1 EP95936512A EP95936512A EP0797531B1 EP 0797531 B1 EP0797531 B1 EP 0797531B1 EP 95936512 A EP95936512 A EP 95936512A EP 95936512 A EP95936512 A EP 95936512A EP 0797531 B1 EP0797531 B1 EP 0797531B1
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Giorgio Trani
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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

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  • This invention relates to a disposable container for liquids, in particular drinks, intended to be directly sipped from the container via a straw.
  • a known type of container is formed from a piece of polyethylene-coated paper tube which is welded at its ends after being filled with the liquid.
  • This container is provided with a hole to which a tearable closure seal is applied, for example a thin aluminium strip, which at the time of use can be removed or torn to allow the insertion into said hole of a straw through which the drink can be directly sipped.
  • a drawback of this construction is the limited number of shapes available, these merely a parallelepiped shape if the two transverse thermoweld lines of the starting tube are mutually parallel, or a tetrahedron shape if the two transverse thermoweld lines are mutually perpendicular.
  • a further drawback is that the straw to be inserted into the container has to be produced separately and then applied to the closed container, with the evident need for automatic machines or alternatively a certain laboriousness in assembly.
  • Another known type of container consists of two half-shells of plastic or polyethylene-coated paper welded along their mutually contacting edges and comprising at said edge a delivery nozzle provided with a cloasure plug.
  • the nozzle can be applied to the two half-shells during the thermowelding and hence with already existing automatic machines.
  • containers of this type do not enable the drink to be sipped with a straw, but at most allow the drink to be poured into a tumbler or directly into the mouth of the consumer. In neither case would it appear possible to comfortably consume the drink while walking, without the availability of a tumbler or straw, neither of which is provided with the pack.
  • DE-A-3520451 relates to a drink carton consisting of lengths of foil.
  • the straw is pushed with its inner end from outside, between the foil edges, which converge at the lower welded edge of the container, and is clamped between them.
  • the container consists of a pair of half-shells 2 of substantially flexible food-compatible plastics material, which are cut and preformed to the desired shape and joined together along their mutually contacting edges.
  • the half-shells can be formed of thermoweldable plastics material, ultrasonic-weldable plastics material, or composite materials such as paper-aluminium, paper-polyethylene or aluminium-polyethylene.
  • the two half-shells 2 which in the illustrated example are symmetrical but could also be different from each other provided that they comprise mating edges, are provided with two facing appendices 4 and are joined together, including along said appendices, by a continuous thermoweld line 6.
  • the container comprises a further weld line 6' extending parallel to the major sides and defining with the weld 6 joining the two half-shells a seat for housing a straw 10, the seat being closed at both ends by welds 16,16' of peelable type.
  • the upper weld 16 is provided with two small tabs 8 by which the two appendices 4 can be easily separated from each other.
  • the upper end of the straw 10 comprises a weld spot (not shown on the drawings) the purpose of which is explained hereinafter.
  • the invention foresees to start from a continuous web of plastics material, and to form two half shells after which they are thermowelded together along their contacting edges with the exclusion of the two appendices 4.
  • the container is then filled with the liquid to be contained, after which the straw 10 is inserted between the two appendices 4 again using automatic equipment. Finally the two appendices 4 are thermowelded to hence complete the sealing of the pack.
  • the two appendices 4 can be turned over outwards after being separated and are provided with a snap button 12 which maintains them securely in this overturned configuration, in which their inner surface also forms the contact surface for the consumer's lips.

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EP95936512A 1994-10-18 1995-10-17 Disposable container for liquids, in particular drinks Expired - Lifetime EP0797531B1 (en)

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IT94VE000049A IT1268682B1 (it) 1994-10-18 1994-10-18 Contenitore a perdere per liquidi.
ITVE940049 1994-10-18
PCT/EP1995/004076 WO1996011860A1 (en) 1994-10-18 1995-10-17 Disposable container for liquids, in particular drinks

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EP0797531A1 EP0797531A1 (en) 1997-10-01
EP0797531B1 true EP0797531B1 (en) 1999-05-26

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AT (1) ATE180457T1 (da)
AU (1) AU3843095A (da)
DE (1) DE69509918T2 (da)
DK (1) DK0797531T3 (da)
ES (1) ES2134502T3 (da)
IT (1) IT1268682B1 (da)
WO (1) WO1996011860A1 (da)

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US3799914A (en) * 1970-04-29 1974-03-26 Jenos Inc Standable flexible container with straw
DE2036226A1 (de) * 1970-07-22 1972-01-27 Conn Med Corp , Madison, Conn (V St A) Packung
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DK0797531T3 (da) 1999-11-29
AU3843095A (en) 1996-05-06
EP0797531A1 (en) 1997-10-01
DE69509918D1 (de) 1999-07-01
ITVE940049A0 (it) 1994-10-18
IT1268682B1 (it) 1997-03-06
DE69509918T2 (de) 1999-12-23
ITVE940049A1 (it) 1996-04-18
ATE180457T1 (de) 1999-06-15
ES2134502T3 (es) 1999-10-01

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