EP3245140A1 - Emballage comportant des récipients reliés dans la moitié inférieure - Google Patents

Emballage comportant des récipients reliés dans la moitié inférieure

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EP3245140A1
EP3245140A1 EP16700118.9A EP16700118A EP3245140A1 EP 3245140 A1 EP3245140 A1 EP 3245140A1 EP 16700118 A EP16700118 A EP 16700118A EP 3245140 A1 EP3245140 A1 EP 3245140A1
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container
containers
adhesive
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bottles
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Uwe Hoffmann
Mathias Fischer
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KHS GmbH
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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
    • B65D21/00—Nestable, stackable or joinable containers; Containers of variable capacity
    • B65D21/02—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together
    • B65D21/0201—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side
    • B65D21/0205—Containers specially shaped, or provided with fittings or attachments, to facilitate nesting, stacking, or joining together stackable or joined together side-by-side joined together by bonding, adhesive or the like

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  • Container with containers connected in the lower half
  • the invention relates to a container with at least two containers, which are interconnected by an adhesive point and a method for producing such a container.
  • Containers with at least two containers which are interconnected by one or more splices are known from US 3,902,992, US 3,388,791 and DE 23 31 193.
  • a container has at least two containers, which are interconnected by an adhesive, characterized in that the containers have a height H, and that the adhesive, with respect to the height H, is arranged in the lower half of the container.
  • the reduced force for separating also has a gentle effect on the containers themselves, which, in particular, if they have a small wall thickness, can break once in each case when detaching a container under unfavorable force conditions.
  • the use of adhesive has already been optimized or minimized for known containers. Surprisingly, it turns out that even with the same optimized use of adhesive to create a bond, an adhesive patch placed in the lower half of the container alone sufficiently bonds the containers of one package to one another to withstand the forces applied during the transport of the package.
  • the adhesive point based on the height H in the lower third, advantageously arranged in the lower quarter of the container, which are connected by the adhesive point to a container.
  • the adhesive point is, based on the bottom of the container, arranged in up to 10% of the height of the container, preferably in up to 30%, advantageously arranged in up to 48% of the height of the container.
  • Containers according to the invention are bottles, cans, tubes, bags, each made of metal, glass, plastic and / or a composite material, typically z.
  • the containers include all materials, in particular those which are suitable for filling liquid or viscous products.
  • Also already grouped into containers (multiple packs) are among the containers in the context of the invention.
  • the containers of the container are preferably arranged in a non-nesting position, that is, the containers of one row of the container are not arranged in the gap of an adjacent row of the container.
  • the containers according to the invention may have any cross-section, oval, round or angular.
  • the shape of the container may be bag, pyramid or cuboid, but is often cylindrical, either completely cylindrical such.
  • a container has a height, which is measured from the lower end, with which the container stands on a support surface, to an upper end, with a standing container farthest from the support surface, and that usually the opening of the container having.
  • bottles have wall sections with a larger outer wall diameter than the cylindrical main body of a wall bottle.
  • This so-called Abrollring which thus has a larger outer wall diameter than the rest of the base body, is the wall portion to attack or rest on the other containers or conveying tools.
  • According to an advantageous embodiment of the invention is in a container with containers, in particular bottles, which have a Abrollring, the adhesive point or the adhesive point arranged on a Abrollring. Attaching the adhesive to a roll-off further reduces the forces required to extract a container from a container.
  • Containers in particular bottles, which have a plurality of approximately point-shaped support regions at the lower end, have at the lower end a non-cylindrical section, in which the container wall extends from the point-shaped support regions to the main body of the container, which is usually cylindrically shaped.
  • the container wall does not reach the radius of the main body at all points; in the sections between the point-shaped support areas, the radius of the container is smaller. Since the non-cylindrical portion is disposed at the lower end of the container, it is preferable to form the adhesive portion in this portion of the container. The leverage is then particularly large.
  • An apparatus for producing a container according to the invention therefore requires, before the means for applying a glue point, means for aligning the container, based on the means for applying gene of a glue point, with the proviso that the container is oriented so that a point of the container wall is provided with a glue point whose radius corresponds to the radius of the body.
  • Adhesive in the context of the invention is any material - are all materials or masses that are suitable for producing an adhesive bond between containers, in particular such materials, materials or masses, applied in the liquid or viscous state, form a self-adhesive glue point, but also such materials, materials or masses, which by energy input, z. B. by applying pressure, radiation or temperature or by means of chemical curing or crosslinking build a splice.
  • Typical adhesives are UV-curable adhesives, which can also be processed in a low-viscous state and hardened by radiation, or a hot-melt that cools after application and loses its adhesive force below a typical temperature of the material, so that hot-melt adhesive is only for immediate use Generation of a bond is suitable.
  • Adhesive according to the invention are also multi-layer materials, eg. As those of at least one carrier material, which is coated with an adhesive such that a bond between two containers can be produced. Typically, these multilayer materials are formed as pads, which are formed on two sides adhesive or adhesive.
  • a trained with a glue point container thus has adhesive, which is applied in a dot or line or in a pattern of dots and / or lines.
  • an adhesive is selected whose adhesive force allows a detachment of the container from a container by hand.
  • UV-curable adhesives are suitable because the adhesive force developed by the adhesive at the bond site, through the Composition of the adhesive and the intensity of curing can be well adjusted.
  • the containers according to the invention are connected to each other by adhesive joints in the lower half of the containers.
  • the splices connect the containers directly to each other.
  • the adhesive sites represent the exclusive or sole connection of the container of a container.
  • the adhesive points and the resulting adhesive sites are designed as small as possible to save adhesive.
  • a container is provided at its upper end with a transport lock, in particular with a band-shaped transport lock.
  • the transport lock can be extended to a carrying strap.
  • the application of the adhesive is carried out in a conventional manner by nozzles which apply the most liquid adhesive directly to a container to one or more adhesive dots, preferably spray.
  • the container possibly after aligning the splices to the container to be connected, joined, z. B. by the action of terminal strips, which bring a plurality of containers in contact with each other, so that at the points where a glue dot is applied to a first container, by applying a second container without glue point, a point of adhesion is formed.
  • the second container may also have a glue dot at the point where the first container comes into abutment, so that a glue point can be made up of two glued together dots.
  • the method for producing a container according to the invention provides:
  • the means for applying a glue point are usually designed as a movably mounted nozzle which applies liquid glue to a container. Alternatively, these means are designed for applying a double-sided adhesive pad.
  • the nozzle or the means for applying a pad are guided by the method according to the invention into the lower half of the container, so that the glue point is mounted in the lower half of the container, preferably in the lower third or in the lower quarter, at most 48% of Height of the container, starting from the bottom of the container. This method can be implemented easily and without effort even with existing systems and makes it possible to produce the containers according to the invention. Especially at high containers, z.
  • the container according to the invention is preferably connected exclusively by adhesive points between the containers, optionally supplemented by a carrying handle, but preferably without wrapping by foil or cardboard.
  • the number of containers may be more than two, common are in particular containers with four, six, eight or ten containers.
  • the containers are often arranged in rows, so that there are splices that connect the rows of containers to a container.
  • the containers are first connected to a series, then several rows by arranging splices, especially on the marginal containers, to a multi-row container.
  • FIG. 2 is a plan view of a container according to FIG. 1.
  • Fig. 1 shows a container 2, which is composed of six similar containers 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 4e, 4f, here: PET bottles.
  • the container 2 has two rows of bottles, which are arranged in two rows 1 1, 13 with bottles 4a-c and 4d-f.
  • the adjacent bottles 4a, b and 4b, c, a row 1 1 are connected to each other by a bonding point 6. The connection of the rows with each other is shown in FIG. 2 and will be described there.
  • the bottles 4 have a height H, measured from the lower edge 3 of the bottles, with which they stand on a substrate up to the upper edge 5, which is formed by a closure cap 8.
  • the bottles 4 are divided by a non-visible, shown in FIG. 1 only for orientation center line 10 in a lower half 7 and in an upper half 9.
  • the adhesive 6 is in the lower half 7 bottles 4, that is arranged below a center line 10. Starting from the lower edge 3 of the bottle 4, the adhesive point 6 is attached to about 10% of the height H. The adhesive 6 is thus mounted in the lower quarter of the bottle 4.
  • the adhesive 6 has sufficient adhesive to connect the adjacent bottles 4 a, 4 b together, so that the connection projects beyond the transport of the container 2.
  • preferred embodiment of the invention shows a second adhesive patch 12 between the same bottle 4, which are already connected by the splice 6.
  • the splice 12 is mounted in the lower half 7 of the bottle 4, below the center line 10. It is mounted above the splice 6 at about 40% of the height H, starting from the lower edge 3 of the bottle.
  • each of two juxtaposed bottles 4a, 4b and 4b, 4c connect a row 1 1 of bottles 4, add the bottles 4 sufficiently firmly together, so that the container. 2 even a rough manipulation or unfavorable loads during transport easily survives.
  • FIG. 2 shows the entire container 2.
  • two rows 1 1, 13 each have three bottles 4a, b, c and 4d, e, f interconnected by adhesive sites 6, 12.
  • the two rows 1 1, 13 are connected to form a container, that in each case the outer bottles 4 a, 4 c of the row 1 1 are connected to the adjacent outer bottles 4 c, 4 f of the row 13 by a respective adhesive point 14.
  • the splices 6, 12 are, relative to the circumference of the Fla see 4, offset by 90 ° to the splice 14. This is shown in FIG. 2, but is also illustrated in FIG. 1 by an indication of the position of the adhesive spot 14.
  • all the adhesive sites 6, 12, 14 can be applied outside the semi-circularly affixed labels 15 of the bottles 4. This avoids that only the label, but not the bottle 4 dissolves when the bottles 4 are released from the container.
  • this embodiment requires that the bottles 4 are aligned prior to the application of a glue point, this alignment of the bottle 4 is usually carried out anyway so that the labels 15 of the bottles 4 in the container 2 are clearly visible and aesthetically pleasing to the outside.
  • the two middle bottles 4b, 4e are provided at the upper end 5 with a carrying strap 15, which in addition to the strength of the container 2 contributes during transport.
  • a carrying strap 15 which in addition to the strength of the container 2 contributes during transport.
  • an adhesion between two containers is made in such a way that on a first container 4a, 4c means z.
  • a glue dot from usually liquid adhesive is applied.
  • a second container 4b is disposed adjacent to the first container 4a, 4c, and the first and second containers 4a, 4b, 4c are joined to form an adhesive joint connecting the first and second containers. The joining takes place z. B. in that the containers 4a, b, c are pressed against each other, for example by the use of terminal strips.
  • the adhesive is selectively crosslinked or cured, act at this time means for curing on the pressed against one another containers, for.
  • B. a radiation source for UV-curing adhesives or a heat or drying system for adhesives that cure or crosslink with evaporation of a solvent or by the action of heat.
  • means for aligning known from the prior art are to be provided which align the containers, typically by rotation, according to the production conditions.
  • Containers are z. B. often aligned so that the splice is not attached to a label or a band. If a container has several rows of containers connected to one another, the containers of one row are usually first connected to one another by means of adhesive joints, then the rows are joined to one another by adhesive bonding.
  • the container 2 according to the invention shown in FIGS. 1, 2 is produced as follows: In a row of three bottles 4a, 4b and 4c, either an adhesive dot 6 is applied to an outer bottle 4a, 4c or to the middle bottle 4b A glue dot is applied to opposite sides facing each other when joining the bottles 4a, 4c, and the three bottles 4a, 4b and 4c, after being aligned with respect to the label 15, are joined under pressure to a row 11 and crosslinked or cured of the adhesive becomes an adhesive point from the adhesive dot applied to the bottle, connecting two adjacent bottles 4a, 4b and 4b, 4c. Should two superimposed
  • Adhesive points are generated, which are both arranged in the lower half 7 of the bottle 4, so the superposed adhesive dots can be generated either by two simultaneously acting nozzles or through a nozzle that generates one and then the other glue point.
  • another adhesive dot 14 is applied to the respective outer bottles 4a, 4c, 4e and 4f and the rows are joined under pressure, for example by the action of clamping strips, so that the adhesive hardens or crosslinks and 14 form adhesive joints.
  • the glue point 14 is preferably made with a smaller amount of adhesive, so preferably the constructed by the splices 14 connection between the rows 1 1, 13 with less effort is to be solved as the constructed by the splices 6, 12 Connection between the bottles of a row. In this way, the container 2 when detaching containers 4 is first broken down into rows 1 1, 13 and only then into individual containers.
  • Adhesive 6 proves to be advantageous because when detaching a container 4 from the bandage 2 and the row 1 1 according to the invention by gripping the container at the upper end 5 and turning away a container 4 of the adjacent container is less force than in known containers, because a larger lever is available, which extends from the upper end 5 of the container to the adhesive 6 or 12 patch.
  • a centrally arranged holding or carrying handle 16 is arranged at the upper end 5.
  • the holding or carrying handle is advantageously taut over the upper end 5 between containers 4b, 4e of the container 2 joined, but can be extended for carrying by hand, so that the carrying handle can be easily detected by hand.
  • the invention can be advantageously implemented in such a way that these containers are aligned before the application of a gluing point for producing a gluing point 6 in such a way that the nozzle moves the gluing point to a position in the non-stick area.
  • cylindrical, bottom wall portion of the container applies there where the container already has the full radius or diameter of the above subsequent, cylindrical body of the container.

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La présente invention concerne un emballage (2) comportant au moins deux récipients (4) qui sont reliés l'un à l'autre par une jonction (6). L'objectif de l'invention est de disposer d'un emballage avec lequel il est possible de détacher un récipient de l'emballage avec un effort minimal. A cette fin, l'invention est caractérisée en ce que les récipients présentent une certaine hauteur et en ce que la jonction est placée dans la moitié inférieure de l'emballage par rapport à ladite hauteur.
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