EP1634812A1 - Bande continue de conteneurs à structure renforcée et son procédé de remplissage - Google Patents

Bande continue de conteneurs à structure renforcée et son procédé de remplissage Download PDF

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EP1634812A1
EP1634812A1 EP04425675A EP04425675A EP1634812A1 EP 1634812 A1 EP1634812 A1 EP 1634812A1 EP 04425675 A EP04425675 A EP 04425675A EP 04425675 A EP04425675 A EP 04425675A EP 1634812 A1 EP1634812 A1 EP 1634812A1
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Luigi Bisio
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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
    • B65D1/00—Rigid or semi-rigid containers having bodies formed in one piece, e.g. by casting metallic material, by moulding plastics, by blowing vitreous material, by throwing ceramic material, by moulding pulped fibrous material or by deep-drawing operations performed on sheet material
    • B65D1/22—Boxes or like containers with side walls of substantial depth for enclosing contents
    • B65D1/26—Thin-walled containers, e.g. formed by deep-drawing operations
    • B65D1/30—Groups of containers joined together end-to-end or side-by-side
    • 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
    • B65D69/00—Articles joined together for convenience of storage or transport without the use of packaging elements

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  • the present invention relates to a strip of containers intended to be filled with a liquid, paste or powder substance and subsequently sealed.
  • a liquid, paste or powder substance Typically, such substances are pharmaceutical products, cosmetics and the like and the containers are phials of plastics material having a small volume (from less than 0.5 to about 15 ml) for administration in individual doses or repeated one after the other at short intervals of time.
  • each container of the strip comprises a hollow body having a longitudinal axis, a delivery end and an open bottom end, and is joined to the contiguous containers by tabs which project transversely from the median portion and/or from the delivery end of the hollow body.
  • the strips of containers once produced must be handled with suitable robots and packaged in an ordered manner whereby to avoid interpenetration with one another causing mechanical stresses which could lead to damage, breakage and the like.
  • the strips are fitted onto specific forked holders which must be subsequently either packaged or supplied manually to a filling machine where the containers are filled by operators working in shifts in sterile chambers. Consequently, the need to make use of sophisticated handling apparatus and staff operating in particular conditions has a definitely negative impact on the time and costs of the container production process and the subsequent filling procedure.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide a strip of containers of the type initially indicated in the present description and characterised by the fact that it includes temporary connection means at the open bottom ends of the said containers.
  • Such temporary connection means temporarily reinforce the structure of the strips which can thus be packaged loose, once produced, without the need for dedicated handling means.
  • the strips can be supplied loose to conventional selector-ordering devices disposed upstream of the container filling machines.
  • a further object of the present invention is constituted by a container filling process for the containers of a strip of the above-indicated type, characterised in that it comprises the following steps:
  • the filling process of the present invention has the advantage of avoiding the use of forked holders specific to the strips of containers, as well as staff dedicated to the operation of feeding such holders to the filling machine.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a strip of containers intended to be filled with a liquid, paste or powder substance and subsequently sealed.
  • Each container comprises a hollow body 10 having a longitudinal body 12, a delivery end 14 and an open bottom end 16, and is joined to the contiguous containers by tabs 18 which project transversely from the median portion and from the delivery end 14 of the hollow body 10.
  • the strip further includes temporary connection means for connecting the open bottom ends 16 of the containers, which means are formed as a plate 20 having a plurality of holes 22 within each of which a bottom end 16 of a respective container is located. From the edge of each hole 22 of the plate 20 project a plurality of circumferentially spaced frangible connection elements 24 which are joined to the outer surface of the bottom end 16.
  • the connection elements 24 advantageously have a shape which tapers - narrowing from the edge of the holes 22 of the plate 20 towards the containers.
  • the plate 20 is disposed orthogonally with respect to the longitudinal axes 12 of the containers.
  • the bodies 10 of the containers, the tabs 16 and the plate 20 of each strip are made of plastics material and are moulded in a single injection cycle. After moulding, the strips are subjected to the usual quality controls intended to ascertain the correctness of the dimension parameters of each container and the absence of micro-holes, after which they can be packaged loose, since the presence of the plate 20 reinforces their structure avoiding mutual interpenetration which can cause breakage, damage and/or deformations.
  • the strips of containers of the invention can be fed loose, for example by means of a loading hopper, to a selector-ordering device disposed upstream of a filling machine in which the open bottom ends 16 of the containers are oriented to face upwardly.
  • the plate 20 which has by now served its purpose of allowing a simplified management of the logistics of packaging and manipulation, is removed by exploiting the break points formed by the connections of the elements 24 to the bodies 10 of the containers. It is to be noted that the tapered form of the elements 24 promotes them to break off together with the plate 20 thereby avoiding fragments thereof remaining adherent to the bodies 10 of the containers.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a variant embodiment of a strip of phials according to the invention, in which the same reference numerals as in the preceding Figures are used for corresponding or equivalent parts.
  • the plate 20 further has a projection 26 which projects from the outer transverse perimetrical edge with respect to the general plane of the plate 20 so as further to reinforce the structure thereof.
  • the structure of the projection 26 can be continuous, as illustrated, or possibly even discontinuous.
  • the plate could be connected to the bottom end of each container by means of a respective single frangible connection element having a circumferential extension.
  • the height at which the reinforcing plate 20 is located with respect to the body 10 of the containers can vary and be chosen on the basis of the dimensions of these latter and the characteristics of the device for the removal the plate 20.
  • the number of containers in each strip can be substantially any number for example from 2 to 15 in dependence on their individual volume.

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DE102009026121A1 (de) * 2009-07-07 2011-01-13 Krones Ag Verfahren zur Handhabung und Behandlung von Flüssigkeitsbehältern und Anordnung mehrerer Vorrichtungen zur Behandlung von Flüssigkeitsbehältern
JP2014530149A (ja) * 2011-09-09 2014-11-17 コルゲート・パーモリブ・カンパニーＣｏｌｇａｔｅ−Ｐａｌｍｏｌｉｖｅ Ｃｏｍｐａｎｙ 切り離し可能なクロージャーを備えた容器

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FR848960A (fr) * 1943-01-30 1939-11-09 Tubes en matière plastique ou similaire formant emballages
FR1091856A (fr) * 1953-10-20 1955-04-15 Perfectionnements à l'emballage des produits ou articles tels que suppositoires et analogues au moyen de feuilles de matière plastique
US2808926A (en) * 1954-11-10 1957-10-08 Blair M Drake Single dose vial assembly of animal semen
FR1211229A (fr) * 1958-12-17 1960-03-15 Assemblage temporaire de tubes cylindriques
US2932386A (en) * 1957-02-06 1960-04-12 Rich Hill Drug Co Inc Combination mold and dispenser
US4512475A (en) * 1983-11-04 1985-04-23 Alberto Federighi Single or multiple dose container-closure assemblies
DE4437435A1 (de) * 1994-10-20 1996-04-25 Wilfried Dziersk Verfahren zur Vereinfachung des Handlings von geblasenen Kunststoffbehältern bei der Beschickung von Behandlungsstationen
FR2738224A1 (fr) * 1994-06-10 1997-03-07 Yoshida Kogyo Kk Recipient multitube et procede de fabrication de celui-ci

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
FR848960A (fr) * 1943-01-30 1939-11-09 Tubes en matière plastique ou similaire formant emballages
FR55629E (fr) * 1943-01-30 1952-09-02 Tubes en matière plastique ou similaire formant emballages
FR1091856A (fr) * 1953-10-20 1955-04-15 Perfectionnements à l'emballage des produits ou articles tels que suppositoires et analogues au moyen de feuilles de matière plastique
US2808926A (en) * 1954-11-10 1957-10-08 Blair M Drake Single dose vial assembly of animal semen
US2932386A (en) * 1957-02-06 1960-04-12 Rich Hill Drug Co Inc Combination mold and dispenser
FR1211229A (fr) * 1958-12-17 1960-03-15 Assemblage temporaire de tubes cylindriques
US4512475A (en) * 1983-11-04 1985-04-23 Alberto Federighi Single or multiple dose container-closure assemblies
FR2738224A1 (fr) * 1994-06-10 1997-03-07 Yoshida Kogyo Kk Recipient multitube et procede de fabrication de celui-ci
DE4437435A1 (de) * 1994-10-20 1996-04-25 Wilfried Dziersk Verfahren zur Vereinfachung des Handlings von geblasenen Kunststoffbehältern bei der Beschickung von Behandlungsstationen

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE102009026121A1 (de) * 2009-07-07 2011-01-13 Krones Ag Verfahren zur Handhabung und Behandlung von Flüssigkeitsbehältern und Anordnung mehrerer Vorrichtungen zur Behandlung von Flüssigkeitsbehältern
JP2014530149A (ja) * 2011-09-09 2014-11-17 コルゲート・パーモリブ・カンパニーＣｏｌｇａｔｅ−Ｐａｌｍｏｌｉｖｅ Ｃｏｍｐａｎｙ 切り離し可能なクロージャーを備えた容器

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