EP1876112B1 - Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss und Verfahren zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln - Google Patents

Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss und Verfahren zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln Download PDF

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EP1876112B1
EP1876112B1 EP06425457A EP06425457A EP1876112B1 EP 1876112 B1 EP1876112 B1 EP 1876112B1 EP 06425457 A EP06425457 A EP 06425457A EP 06425457 A EP06425457 A EP 06425457A EP 1876112 B1 EP1876112 B1 EP 1876112B1
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Manuele Levati
Gianluca Oddi
Gianluca Parisini
Giovanni Rossi
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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
    • 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
    • B65D75/28—Articles or materials wholly enclosed in composite wrappers, i.e. wrappers formed by associating or interconnecting two or more sheets or blanks
    • B65D75/30—Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding

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  • the present invention relates to a spoutless aseptic pouch and to a method for packaging food products.
  • Pouches which can be used for packaging food products having high degradability are known, which are presealed and their internal space, which is thus completely closed, is sterilized.
  • Said pouches are generally sold in webs comprising a plurality of pouches connected one to the other.
  • the webs can be fed as such to some known food product packaging apparatuses, which are provided with a device for cutting the web in single pouches which can be closed or already opened.
  • the apparatuses which perform the packaging of food products are also provided with a device for opening the pouches which cuts each pouch close to an edge thereof, removing it entirely. Subsequently, the pouch is filled with the food product and resealed.
  • the removed edge forms a waste which is taken away from the rest of the pouch and discharged by the packaging apparatus.
  • the apparatus needs to be accordingly designed for carrying out this step. It is therefore clear that the creation of a waste resulting from the step of opening the pouches is a drawback, which complicates the packaging process since it implies the need of a further step to be carried out. Further, the formation of the waste requires the presence, in the apparatus, of an additional opening for its elimination, thus increasing the risk of pollution from external contaminants. On the other hand, opening the pouches only when it is inside the aseptic portion of the packaging apparatus is a necessary condition for carrying out the packaging of food products having high degradability.
  • Pouches have already been disclosed which comprise reinforcing weldings or inserts, having the most dissimilar functions, for instance the function of increasing the strength of the pouch in the area of the handle.
  • US 2,951,628 and US 3,924,383 disclose pouches provided with an L-shaped shaped reinforcing welding which defines a portion of the pouch where a handle is provided, and at the same time defines an emptying channel which allows easily pouring of the pouch content.
  • US 5,378,065 discloses a pouch provided with a channel for emptying the food product made by means of an additional welding.
  • the pouches disclosed in the above mentioned patents are not presealed, but are superiorly open, and are sealed only after the filling thereof. Therefore, said pouches are not suitable for carrying out an aseptic packaging of food products having high degradability.
  • JP 2002114231 discloses an aseptic filling bag comprising a body on which a filling member and a pour-out member are arranged. The front and rear planes of the bag are sealed along their four sides.
  • An embodiment of the aseptic filling bag comprises a transverse seal defining a neck portion in the upper part of the bag wherein the filling member is arranged.
  • the pour-out member is arranged in the lower portion of the bag.
  • JP 2004262537 discloses a rolled product having a series of bags each having sealed and closed edges.
  • the rolled product is unwound and fed to an aseptic chamber wherein a lower section of a sealed edge is cut to form a port in each of the bags.
  • the bags are separated into individual bags.
  • the individual bags are then transmitted to a filling packaging device, wherein the ports are opened in order to fill the bags with a specific product. Once filled the bags, the ports are sealed and the bags are finally discharged out of the aseptic chamber.
  • US 2,990,101 discloses a bag for milk and other liquids formed of a flexible heat-sealable material.
  • the bag is produced from a flattened tubular strip of a suitable plastic material by heat-sealing at spaced positions along the strip.
  • Each heat seal includes a transverse section connecting the opposite edges of the strip.
  • a cut line is arranged in proximity to the transverse section. The cut line allows to separate the individual bags from the strip in order to fill them.
  • At a position spaced from one edge of the strip an L-shaped seal is arranged.
  • the L-shaped seal has a first portion extending in the longitudinal direction of the strip and a second portion extending outwardly and connecting the first portion to the edge of the strip.
  • U-shaped longitudinal section At a position spaced from the opposite edge of the strip a U-shaped longitudinal section is provided.
  • the U-shaped portion extends in the longitudinal direction of the strip from the transverse section.
  • a filling portion is arranged between the L-shaped portion and U-shaped portion. In order to facilitate the opening of the filling portion one or more cuts may extend from the cut line in the longitudinal direction.
  • Object of the present invention is therefore to provide an aseptic pouch and a method for packaging a food product, which are free from the above mentioned drawbacks. Said object is obtained by means of an aseptic pouch whose main features are specified in the first claim and other features are specified in the following claims, and a web whose features are specified in claim 9. The features of the method for packaging a food product are specified in claims 10 and 11.
  • the main advantage of the presealed and internally presterilized pouch according to the present invention consists in that, thanks to a particular sealing of which it is provided, it can be opened, filled and sealed inside an apparatus of known type, without creating wastes.
  • Another advantage of the aseptic pouch according to the present invention consists in that it does not require a high precision in carrying out the steps of opening and closing the pouch.
  • opening and closing devices having fixed dimension can be used, so as to avoid expensive adjustments of the apparatus which were necessary up to now when changing from large to small pouches or vice versa.
  • a further advantage of the aseptic pouch according to the present invention consists in that the opening step thereof by means of a packaging apparatus involves also the creation of a handle in a reinforced portion of the pouch.
  • the aseptic pouch 1 comprises two walls bonded together so as to form an internal space 2 of the pouch which is sterilized and hermetically closed.
  • the two walls are made preferably with a sealable plastic material, suitable for packaging food products.
  • a sealable plastic material suitable for packaging food products.
  • polycoupled materials can be used. Said materials are known in the field and have also the property of gas-tightness, so that pouch 1, once it has been closed and internally sterilized with known methods, for instance by treatment with gamma rays, maintains indefinitely its aseptic features.
  • pouch 1 has a substantially quadrangular shape, which is preferred since it is easy to manufacture and can be advantageously provided to the final users in the shape of a web comprising a plurality of pouches connected one to the other.
  • pouches having other shapes than the quadrangular one could be connected in series so as to form a web, for example pouches having slightly curved lateral sides which converge towards the center of the lower edge.
  • the walls of pouch 1 can be formed either from two separate sheet elements, sealed at the upper edge 3, lower edge 4 and lateral edges 5 and 6, as shown in the figure, or from a single tubular element, flattened and transversally sealed so as to form an upper and a lower edge of the pouch, according to a process known in the field.
  • sealing is meant a hermetical junction of the pouch walls, which can be made by means of thermo welding or ultrasound welding, or with other methods such as gluing of the two walls with a glue which is gas-tight and suitable for the contact with food.
  • pouch 1 is also provided with a sealing 7 which joins together said walls and extends between opposite sides of the pouch, and in particular, in the embodiment of the invention which is shown in the figures, between lateral sides 5 and 6,
  • Sealing 7 is suitable for defining, in said internal space 2, a neck portion 8, separating it from two border portions 9, external to said internal space, which are adjoining said neck portion 8 at the two sides of the pouch.
  • Neck portion 8 forms a thin and restricted portion of the internal space 2 and, as it will be described more in detail with reference to figure 2 , is suitable for providing an access to said internal space 2 after opening the pouch by means of a suitable device of the packaging apparatus.
  • the two border portions 9, between which neck portion 8 is arranged, are not included in the internal space 2 and form ideal grip areas for handling the pouch by means of a suitable device of the packaging apparatus.
  • said sealing 7 defines a broken line comprising at least five segments which separate a neck portion 8 from two border portions 9 at the sides thereof.
  • two external segments 7a ad 7e and a central segment 7c are arranged transversally with respect to the opposite edges of the pouch between which extends the sealing 7, for instance perpendicularly.
  • Two other segments 7b and 7d are obviously necessary to link the free ends of the first mentioned segments.
  • Sealing 7 can comprise a higher number of segments, for example six or seven, which are anyway preferably arranged substantially in a symmetrical way with respect to the center of said broken line.
  • the line defined by a sealing 12 is curved, and separates also in this case a neck portion 8 of the internal space 2 from two border portions 9 external to said internal space.
  • the border portions 9 are internally free from sealings, however further sealings between the walls of the pouch could be provided in said border portions or even in the internal space of the pouch, for example reinforcing sealings or sealings having other purposes.
  • FIG 2 there is shown the pouch of figure 1 after that it has been submitted to a packaging method according to the present invention in a packaging machine of a known type.
  • the pouch can be seized and handled through its border portions 9. Pouch 1 is then cut in aseptic environment within neck portion 8, so as to form an opening 10 for the access to the internal space 2.
  • the cutting of the pouch does not involve the creation of any waste since no part of the pouch is removed.
  • the size of the cutting device is proportioned to that of the neck portion 8 and not to that of the whole pouch, the filling of pouches having different sizes can be made with the same apparatus, without need to modify or adapt said apparatus by changing from large to small pouches or vice versa.
  • a filling nozzle of the packaging apparatus which injects a desired quantity of a food products inside internal space 2.
  • the filling nozzle is taken out of opening 10 and the pouch is closed by means of a sealing 11, preferably a thermo welding or an ultrasound welding, which is made between said opening 10 and the base of said neck portion 9.
  • base of the neck portion 9 means the area where said neck portion 9 opens into the internal space 2.
  • the sealing device of the packaging apparatus is proportioned to the size of the neck portion 8 and not to that of the pouch 1, with the same advantage above indicated for the cutting device.
  • Opening 10 forms at this point a useful handle for carrying pouch 1, which is also reinforced thanks to sealing 7.

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  1. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss (1) zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln, umfassend zwei Wände, die so aneinander gefügt sind, dass sie einen Innenraum (2) eingrenzen, welcher sterilisiert und hermetisch verschlossen ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens eine Abdichtung (7; 12), die von der Oberkante (3) entfernt angeordnet ist, die beiden Wände miteinander verbindet und sich zwischen entgegengesetzten Kanten (5, 6) des Beutels (1) erstreckt, wobei besagte Abdichtung (7; 12) einen Halsabschnitt (8) des besagten Innenraums (2) und einen geschlossenen Außenraum mit zwei Randabschnitten (9) definiert und besagter Halsabschnitt (8) ein versiegelter, öffnungsloser Halsabschnitt ist, der, nachdem der Beutel (1) durch einen Schneidvorgang geöffnet wurde, einen Zugang (10) zu besagtem Innenraum (2) herstellen kann, und dass die besagten Randabschnitte (9) dazu geeignet sind, als Griffe für die Handhabung des besagten Beutels zu dienen.
  2. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die besagte Abdichtung (7) eine gebrochene Linie definiert, welche mindestens fünf Teilstücke umfasst, von denen zwei Teilstücke an den Enden der besagten Linie (7a und 7e) und ein mittleres Teilstück (7c) quer in Bezug auf entgegengesetzte Seiten (5, 6) des Beutels (1) angeordnet sind, zwischen denen sich die Abdichtung (7) erstreckt.
  3. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die besagte Abdichtung (7) eine gebrochene Linie definiert, welche mindestens fünf Teilstücke umfasst, von denen zwei Teilstücke an den Enden der besagten Linie (7a und 7e) und ein mittleres Teilstück (7c) orthogonal in Bezug auf entgegengesetzte Seiten (5, 6) des Beutels (1) angeordnet sind, zwischen denen sich die Abdichtung (7) erstreckt.
  4. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß Anspruch 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die besagten mindestens fünf Teilstücke auf eine im Wesentlichen symmetrische Weise in Bezug auf den Mittelpunkt der besagten unterbrochenen Linie angeordnet sind.
  5. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass besagte Abdichtung (12) gebogen ist.
  6. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er eine im Wesentlichen viereckige Form hat, wobei sich die besagte Abdichtung (7; 12) zwischen den Kanten des Beutels erstreckt, die nicht aneinander grenzen.
  7. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass er eine oder mehrere weitere Abdichtungen enthält, die besagte Wände des Beutels (1) miteinander verbinden und sich innerhalb der besagten Randabschnitte (9) erstrecken
  8. Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss gemäß einem oder mehreren der vorstehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die besagten Wände aus einem schweißbaren Verbundmaterial bestehen.
  9. Bahn, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie mehrere Beutel (1) gemäß einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche umfasst, wobei die besagten Beutel (1) miteinander verbunden sind.
  10. Verfahren zum Verpacken eines Lebensmittels in einem sterilen Beutel (1) gemäß einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass es die folgenden Schritte umfasst:
    • Aufschneiden des Beutels (1), um eine Öffnung (10) zum Zugang zu einem Innenraum (2) des Beutels herzustellen,
    • Befüllen des sterilen Beutels (1) durch besagte Öffnung (10),
    • Versiegeln des sterilen Beutels (1),
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass besagtes Aufschneiden innerhalb des Halsabschnitts (8) des sterilen Beutels (1) erfolgt.
  11. Verfahren gemäß Anspruch 10, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass besagtes Versiegeln zwischen der besagten Öffnung (10) und der Basis des Halsabschnitts (8) vorgenommen wird.
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DK06425457T DK1876112T3 (da) 2006-07-03 2006-07-03 Aseptisk pose uden hældetud og fremgangsmåde til emballering af födevarer
EP06425457A EP1876112B1 (de) 2006-07-03 2006-07-03 Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss und Verfahren zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln
DE602006008601T DE602006008601D1 (de) 2006-07-03 2006-07-03 Steriler Beutel ohne Ausguss und Verfahren zum Verpacken von Lebensmitteln
ES06425457T ES2329281T3 (es) 2006-07-03 2006-07-03 Bolsa aseptica sin pico y procedimiento para envasar productos alimenticios.
AT06425457T ATE440046T1 (de) 2006-07-03 2006-07-03 Steriler beutel ohne ausguss und verfahren zum verpacken von lebensmitteln

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