US20190144166A1 - Flexible packaging of the bag type with reclosing device - Google Patents

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US20190144166A1
US20190144166A1 US16/186,751 US201816186751A US2019144166A1 US 20190144166 A1 US20190144166 A1 US 20190144166A1 US 201816186751 A US201816186751 A US 201816186751A US 2019144166 A1 US2019144166 A1 US 2019144166A1
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Michele Amigoni
Ivano Lodi Rizzini
Laurette Defranco
Andrea Bordini Santucci
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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
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/24—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices using self-locking integral or attached closure elements, e.g. flaps
    • 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
    • B65D31/00—Bags or like containers made of paper and having structural provision for thickness of contents
    • B65D31/10—Bags or like containers made of paper and having structural provision for thickness of contents with gusseted sides
    • 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
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/1658—Elements for flattening or folding the mouth portion
    • 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
    • B65D77/10—Container closures formed after filling
    • B65D77/14—Container closures formed after filling by flattening and subsequently folding or rolling the mouth portion
    • 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
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/30—Deformable or resilient metal or like strips or bands

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  • the present invention relates, according to its more general aspect, to a flexible packaging of the bag type, in particular but not exclusively suitable for perishable food products, such as oven-baked products, in particular biscuits, and the like.
  • the invention may therefore have a useful application in the packaging sector, in particular in the food packaging sector.
  • oven-baked food products such as shortbread biscuits and the like, which are generally packaged loose in bag-type packaging and which are eaten gradually over time, along with the aforementioned requirement there is also the problem of ensuring a certain degree of protection for the product which remains following opening of the packaging.
  • bag-type packages provided with structural devices or systems designed to allow temporary reclosing of the said package, following peeling, tearing or cutting of the top fin necessary for accessing the products, have been designed and made available.
  • the main most widely used reclosing system of this kind is the self-adhesive label; it is used to fix a top part of the front and rear walls of the bag-type packaging, which comprise the inlet opening thereof, in a condition folded over several times onto itself.
  • a bag-type package provided with a self-adhesive reclosing label is described, for example, in European Patent EP 0 677 832 B1 in the name of the Applicant.
  • the problem underlying the present invention is that of providing a flexible package of the bag type provided with a reclosing device which overcomes, in a simple and low-cost manner, all the drawbacks mentioned with respect to the prior art: in particular a bag in which the reclosing device guarantees always, i.e. an indefinite number of times, the same efficient reclosing action while ensuring low production costs.
  • a flexible package of the bag type for loosely packaged perishable food products comprising: a front wall and a rear wall situated opposite each other, defining on the upper part a closing fin and laterally connected together by two gusset walls; and a reclosing insert comprising an attachment portion, externally adhering to said rear wall, and a non-adhesive free portion—or tongue—contiguous to said attachment portion and defining between itself and the rear wall an insertion space open at the top; said free portion being able to retain, in a reclosing configuration, a folded-over portion of said closing fin within said insertion space.
  • the configuration proposed above defines advantageously a reclosing device which, on the one hand, is reliable over time, since it does not use detachable adhesives, the adhesive properties of which may deteriorate after repeated reclosing; on the other hand, it is relatively low-cost since it is defined by a single element with a simple form which may be associated with the already sealed package by means of a single operation at the end of the production line, differently from mechanical solutions which involve two connecting elements mounted on the opposite walls of the package.
  • the reclosing insert is a rigid planar element.
  • the rigidity of the element does not have to be absolute, it being sufficient to ensure a resistance of the planar insert such as to keep the folded closing fin in position once it is inserted underneath the free portion.
  • the adjective “rigid” must be understood as being the opposite of “floppy” and not the opposite of “flexible” or “elastic”.
  • a certain degree of flexibility of the reclosing insert is on the contrary preferable in order to facilitate the operations involving insertion and extraction of the closing fin underneath the free portion.
  • Said reclosing insert preferably consists of a sheet of thin cardboard or material with a similar consistency, possibly of the paper recyclable type.
  • the attachment portion is preferably glued onto the outer surface of the rear wall, said free portion being instead without adhesive.
  • Other methods for fixing the attachment portion which are known to the person skilled in the art, may in any case be considered.
  • the attachment portion has an extension—namely a surface for attachment to the package—preferably equal to a quarter of the total extension of the reclosing insert. Even more preferably, the attachment portion has an extension equal to at least half the total extension of the reclosing insert.
  • the reclosing insert has preferably a substantially rectangular profile which is subdivided horizontally into an attachment portion and a free portion.
  • the attachment portion may also optionally have a lower skirt, for example with a trapezoidal shape, which is smaller in size than the rest of the substantially rectangular profile, so as to improve the adhesion to the outer surface of the rear wall.
  • the upper edge of the reclosing element in a shelf configuration, is preferably downwardly displaced with respect to the upper edge of the closing fin. In this way, the user is able to unseal easily the closing fin and duly fold it over.
  • the walls of the flexible package according to the present invention are preferably made of paper-like material, but obviously the use of another material—for example plastic—is possible provided that it allows the flexibility needed to fold over the packaging during operation of the reclosing device described above. It is therefore possible to have a package which is made entirely of plastic material.
  • the aforementioned closing fin which in the shelf configuration is sealed—preferably by means of heat-sealing—may be conveniently unsealed, or else cut, by the user so as to define a mouth for accessing the product.
  • the user may therefore fold over at least twice, along a first folding axis and a second folding axis situated parallel to and below the first axis, said closing fin against the rear wall so as to close said access mouth, and then insert the resulting closing fin which has been folded over several times inside the insertion space below the free portion, so as to ensure provisional reclosing.
  • FIG. 1 shows in schematic form a perspective view of a bag-type package according to the present invention in a shelf configuration.
  • FIG. 2 shows in schematic form a process for opening the bag-type package according to FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 3 shows in schematic form a process for reclosing the bag-type package according to FIG. 1 .
  • FIG. 4 shows in schematic form the bag-type package according to FIG. 1 in the reclosed configuration.
  • 1 denotes overall a flexible bag-type package for perishable food products, in particular for oven-baked products such as shortbread biscuits and the like, which are loosely packaged.
  • front or “rear” it is pointed out that these are used mainly for the sake of easier description and, although they suggest a preferred orientation of the package on the shelf of the distribution outlet, they must not be regarded as having a limiting meaning.
  • side described here as “rear” it is possible for the side described here as “rear” to be printed or otherwise decorated with brand markings and/or pictures of the product such that it may be placed on display so as to face the consumers.
  • the flexible package 1 which is referred to below simply as “package”, has a substantially parallelepiped form with a front wall 2 and rear wall 3 , opposite and identical to each other, and gusset walls 5 which laterally connect said front and rear walls.
  • the front wall 2 and rear wall 3 are joined together at the top in the form of a closing fin 4 where the two top edge zones of these walls are heat-sealed or in any case sealed using a suitable method.
  • the package 1 has a support base 14 which may be defined by a suitably folded bottom fin or in any other manner known to the person skilled in the art.
  • the walls 2 , 3 , 5 and the support base 14 are all made of paper-like material, i.e. paper, cardboard or other material which can be recycled together with paper.
  • paper-like material i.e. paper, cardboard or other material which can be recycled together with paper.
  • other materials for example plastic materials, may be used, provided obviously that they do not adversely affect the flexibility of the walls where necessary for the reclosing operations described below.
  • the aforementioned closing fin 4 in a manner known per se, may be unsealed or in any case torn along the seal, so as to define a mouth 9 for accessing the products—in the preferred example oven-baked products such as biscuits—contained inside the package 1 .
  • the package 1 also comprises an insert 10 for reclosing the aforementioned access mouth 9 , which may be used by the end user to close said mouth following initial opening of the package 1 .
  • This reclosing insert 10 is in the form of a planar element, preferably made of rigid cardboard or other material with a sufficient rigidity which is fixed—by means of gluing or some other system suitable for the prechosen material—to the rear wall 3 of the package 1 .
  • the reclosing insert 10 in the preferred embodiment described here, has a rectangular profile, with a lower trapezoidal skirt 11 extending transversely with respect to the rectangular profile situated above it.
  • reclosing inserts 10 which have a different shape both for functional requirements and for merely aesthetic and/or commercial reasons.
  • the reclosing insert 10 is fixed only partially to the rear wall 3 : in particular only a lower portion of the reclosing insert 10 , identified here as attachment portion 7 , adheres to the surface of the rear wall.
  • the upper portion defines instead a free portion 8 which may be moved away from the outer surface of the rear wall 3 in order to free an insertion space 6 which is directed upwards.
  • the attachment portion 7 and the free portion 8 are subdivided vertically: in the present case of a rectangular form of the reclosing insert 10 , the upper portion of the rectangle defines the free portion 8 .
  • the attachment area namely the extension of the attachment portion 7 , is sufficiently large with respect to the totally surface area of the reclosing insert 10 : in the preferred embodiment described here it is equal to half the total surface area.
  • the reclosing insert 10 is fixed so as to be spaced from the upper edge of the respective rear wall 3 , in order to allow the folding-over operations described below.
  • the reclosing insert 10 is preferably arranged in a middle position, namely equidistant from the two lateral gusset walls 5 .
  • the package 1 In a shelf configuration, namely in the configuration following packaging and prior to opening by the end user, the package 1 has the form shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the closing fin 4 the top seal of which is still intact—is arranged vertically erect; in any case it is also possible to envisage that the closing fin 4 is already presented in the folded-over configuration so as to suggest to the user the correct reclosing process.
  • the reclosing insert 10 is in this configuration arranged against the rear wall 3 even though the free portion 8 may be separated from this wall.
  • FIG. 2 shows opening of the package 1 by the end user. During this step the closing fin 4 is unsealed in order to free the access mouth 9 and thus allow the user to reach the product.
  • the configuration thus obtained is the open configuration of the package 1 .
  • FIG. 3 shows a first step of the reclosing process in which the closing fin 4 is folded over along the rear wall 3 along a first folding line “x” parallel to the upper edge, so as to close the access mouth 9 and is then folded over again along a second folding line “y” situated parallel to and below the first axis, so as to define a closing fin 4 which is folded over twice.
  • the closing fin 4 which has been folded over twice is introduced into the previously defined insertion space 6 where it is mechanically retained by the free portion 8 .
  • the reclosing configuration thus achieved is shown in FIG. 4 .
  • the reclosing insert 10 is preferably applied after formation, filling and closing of the package 1 . These operations may therefore advantageously be performed using a conventional packaging line which must not be substantially modified, other than in order to integrate downstream, where needed, a further station for applying the reclosing insert 10 .
  • the main advantage achieved by the package according to the present invention is that of allowing practical, rapid and efficient reclosing of the said package, which may be repeated a significantly greater number of times than that which is possible with the prior art, while ensuring relatively low production costs.

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