[go: up one dir, main page]

WO2006135314A1 - A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom. - Google Patents

A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom. Download PDF

Info

Publication number
WO2006135314A1
WO2006135314A1 PCT/SE2006/000685 SE2006000685W WO2006135314A1 WO 2006135314 A1 WO2006135314 A1 WO 2006135314A1 SE 2006000685 W SE2006000685 W SE 2006000685W WO 2006135314 A1 WO2006135314 A1 WO 2006135314A1
Authority
WO
WIPO (PCT)
Prior art keywords
packaging
packaging laminate
laminate
strip
shaped
Prior art date
Application number
PCT/SE2006/000685
Other languages
French (fr)
Inventor
Tommy Nilsson
Lars Bergholtz
Original Assignee
Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. filed Critical Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
Publication of WO2006135314A1 publication Critical patent/WO2006135314A1/en

Links

Classifications

    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D5/00Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper
    • B65D5/02Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body
    • B65D5/06Rigid or semi-rigid containers of polygonal cross-section, e.g. boxes, cartons or trays, formed by folding or erecting one or more blanks made of paper by folding or erecting a single blank to form a tubular body with or without subsequent folding operations, or the addition of separate elements, to close the ends of the body with end-closing or contents-supporting elements formed by folding inwardly a wall extending from, and continuously around, an end of the tubular body
    • B65D5/064Rectangular containers having a body with gusset-flaps folded outwardly or adhered to the side or the top of the container
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B27/00Layered products comprising a layer of synthetic resin
    • B32B27/06Layered products comprising a layer of synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer, which is next to another layer of the same or of a different material
    • B32B27/10Layered products comprising a layer of synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer, which is next to another layer of the same or of a different material of paper or cardboard
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B27/00Layered products comprising a layer of synthetic resin
    • B32B27/32Layered products comprising a layer of synthetic resin comprising polyolefins
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B3/00Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form
    • B32B3/02Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions
    • B32B3/08Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions characterised by added members at particular parts
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B3/00Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form
    • B32B3/02Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions
    • B32B3/08Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions characterised by added members at particular parts
    • B32B3/085Layered products comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar shape; Layered products comprising a layer having particular features of form characterised by features of form at particular places, e.g. in edge regions characterised by added members at particular parts spaced apart pieces on the surface of a layer
    • GPHYSICS
    • G08SIGNALLING
    • G08BSIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/22Electrical actuation
    • G08B13/24Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
    • G08B13/2402Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting
    • G08B13/2428Tag details
    • G08B13/2437Tag layered structure, processes for making layered tags
    • G08B13/2445Tag integrated into item to be protected, e.g. source tagging
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31BMAKING CONTAINERS OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31B2105/00Rigid or semi-rigid containers made by assembling separate sheets, blanks or webs
    • B31B2105/001Rigid or semi-rigid containers made by assembling separate sheets, blanks or webs made from laminated webs, e.g. including laminating the webs
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B2250/00Layers arrangement
    • B32B2250/40Symmetrical or sandwich layers, e.g. ABA, ABCBA, ABCCBA
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B2274/00Thermoplastic elastomer material
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B2307/00Properties of the layers or laminate
    • B32B2307/20Properties of the layers or laminate having particular electrical or magnetic properties, e.g. piezoelectric
    • B32B2307/208Magnetic, paramagnetic
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B2429/00Carriers for sound or information
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32LAYERED PRODUCTS
    • B32BLAYERED PRODUCTS, i.e. PRODUCTS BUILT-UP OF STRATA OF FLAT OR NON-FLAT, e.g. CELLULAR OR HONEYCOMB, FORM
    • B32B2439/00Containers; Receptacles
    • B32B2439/40Closed containers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS 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
    • B65D2203/00Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a sheet- or web-shaped packaging laminate comprising magnetisable particles, in which the magnetisable particles are localised within one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate.
  • the present invention further relates to a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate, as well as a method of providing a packaging laminate comprising magnetisable particles with a possibility for magnetic marking.
  • packaging laminate as this is employed in connection with the 15 present invention, is taken to signify both fibre-based packaging laminates and packaging laminates based exclusively on plastic.
  • the expression encompasses packaging laminates including layers of optional combinations of plastic, fibre and inorganic material, for example metal, preferably aluminium foil.
  • a guide marking which is not located in any of the two outermost layers of the packaging material.
  • the intention with such layers is to realise an alternative solution to optical or punched guide markings.
  • Such guide markings are often printed in a colour tone in clear contrast to their surroundings, preferably black against a white
  • Optical guide markings are normally placed in such panels of a continuous material web where no other printed markings or patterns are to be found or may be found. Guide markings of this type are employed in order, in connection with multicolour printing, to adapt the position of the patterns printed with different colours to one another, so that the different colour patterns will lie in register above one another. Similarly, markings of the type under consideration here are employed for register maintenance, i.e. for controlling the position of a packaging material web in, for example, the tube forming- and filling unit of a filling machine so that the correct operation is carried out in the correct position, not least with respect to the printed decorative artwork of the packaging material.
  • register maintenance i.e. for controlling the position of a packaging material web in, for example, the tube forming- and filling unit of a filling machine so that the correct operation is carried out in the correct position, not least with respect to the printed decorative artwork of the packaging material.
  • optical guide markings take up a certain area of the outside of the package, which, as a result, cannot
  • the paperboard layer which is included in the packaging laminate must display certain properties.
  • the paperboard layer In order to avoid the risk that those particles (which normally have a brown or black colour tone) which are to be found in the layer with magnetisable material inside the paperboard layer appear as a defacement of the outside of the packaging laminate, the paperboard layer must be sufficiently thick and/or possess such opacity that the applied particles are not seen through this layer. If such is not the case, the particles run the risk of imparting to the package an unattractive appearance.
  • magnetisable particles may be both ferro- and ferrimagnetic.
  • magnetite which is both commercially available and economical. Moreover, magnetite has very good magnetic properties.
  • One object of the present invention is thus to realise a packaging laminate of the type described by way of introduction through which the problems and drawbacks associated with the prior art technology can simply but effectively be obviated.
  • a further object of the present invention is to realise a method of producing a packaging laminate of the type described by way of introduction with a view to imparting to the packaging laminate a possibility for magnetic marking.
  • Yet a further object of the present invention is to realise a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate according to the present invention.
  • a packaging laminate including magnetisable particles which are located within one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate.
  • the packaging laminate is characterised in that the magnetisable particles are incorporated in separate bands which have been applied within said one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate.
  • packaging laminate according to the present invention already in the conversion process, may be provided with such particle-containing strip-shaped bands, a both simpler and more effective handling of the packaging laminate is made possible in, for example, a filling machine where the packaging laminate is intended to be reformed into packaging containers.
  • the packaging laminate according to the invention is preferably provided with the particle-containing strip-shaped bands already during the production of the packaging laminate, whereby a magnetic marking of the packaging laminate is made possible which can be utilised as a guide marking in the production- or conversion process of the packaging laminate.
  • a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate which is provided with the possibility for magnetic marking which neither disfigures nor even takes up parts of the outside of the packaging container.
  • the possibility for magnetic marking in the present invention may thus advantageously be utilised in one or more optional stages in a value-added chain ranging from a material conversion process to any optional consumer stage.
  • the packaging laminate is provided with particulate magnetisable material within one or more optional strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate.
  • the particulate magnetisable material is applied within such areas of the packaging laminate as, during the reforming of the packaging laminate into packaging containers, are intended to form so-called overlap joints or seams on the packaging container, since it is particularly easy to conceal the magnetic material between such overlapping parts of the packaging laminate.
  • the strip-shaped particle-containing area can be made extremely narrow, with a width of only one or a few millimetres, and nevertheless make possible a functional magnetic marking such an information carrier.
  • the information carrying magnetic field which is occasioned by the magnetisable particles has a detectable extent in all directions which is larger than the physical width of the strip-shaped area.
  • the magnetic field describes a spatially geometric pattern which can be read-off by a suitable reader head or be detected by a suitable sensor without the reader head or the sensor needing to be or risking coming into physical contact with the thus magnetically marked packaging laminate.
  • the present invention makes possible practical applications within, for example, communication between packaging material and conversion/packing processes or for traceability purposes.
  • One example of communication between material (packaging laminate) and packing process is register maintenance in a so- called form-fill-seal process where transverse seals of a tube-shaped material web must be put into effect in register with the printed decorative artwork.
  • Another example is corresponding register maintenance where the packaging laminate is reformed into a tube by longitudinal sealing of the overlapping longitudinal edges of the packaging laminate (so-called overlap joints).
  • the magnetisable, particle-containing band and its possible information will be at least as easy to detect as today's optically detectable markings.
  • the strip-shaped magnetisable band according to the present invention will probably, therefore, in many contexts be able to supersede earlier marking principles, in particular those of the optically detectable type.
  • the packaging laminate on which such a particle- containing strip-shaped band is applied may advantageously be used in applications where it is intended to form either a tube or individual blanks, so-called cartons, for filling purposes. A feature common to these applications is that they include a longitudinal seal.
  • a particle-containing strip-shaped band in a packaging laminate according to the present invention includes magnetisable particles in a quantity which may vary within extremely broad limits. In practice however, use is made, for the objects of the present invention, of a quantity within the range of from 0.1 g/m 2 up to 25 g/m 2 . One preferred range is from 0.5 to 15 g/m , more preferably 1.0 to 8.0 g/m . In practical trials which have been conducted, it has proved to be possible, with suitable detecting- or read-off means, to detect and read-off, respectively, magnetic information from a distance of up to 4 mm from the information-carrying particle- containing band. As a consequence of the fact that the magnetic fields which the particle-containing strip-shaped band gives rise to become relatively wide in relation to their physical extent, the positioning of a reader head need only be relatively exact.
  • a packaging container according to the present invention has preferably the particle- containing strip-shaped band (or tape) applied in an edge area.
  • the packaging container may have the particle-containing strip-shaped band applied in a so-called overlap joint or seam, for example a longitudinal seal area.
  • the strip-shaped band may be concealed practically entirely and thereby be rendered invisible on the packaging container.
  • One particular advantage is that the application of such a strip-shaped particle-containing band may be combined with the application of an edge sealing strip which is often employed in packaging containers of a paper- or paperboard-based packaging laminate in order to protect exposed fibre edges against edge-wicking.
  • Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing a packaging laminate web provided with strip-shaped particle-containing areas
  • Fig. 2 is a partial section taken along the line II-II in Fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 3 shows a part of a commercial packaging container provided with strip-shaped particle-containing bands or tapes according to the invention.
  • Fig. 4 schematically shows one step in a laminate conversion process in which a band or tape containing magnetic material is laid on a layer in the packaging laminate.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates the principle of how one or more bands or tapes 1 containing particulate magnetisable material is provided on a packaging laminate web 2.
  • the web 2 is displaced in the direction of the double-headed arrow MD in a conversion line or in a filling machine and has, along its longitudinal edges 3, a plurality of regularly recurring bands Ia of optional length and width and/or an endless band Ib containing particles of a magnetisable material.
  • said bands (Ia and Ib) are placed preferably close to the one or both longitudinal edges of the web 1 in order more readily to be able to be protected/concealed in a so-called overlap joint, as has previously been mentioned.
  • Such an overlap joint is to be found on most packaging containers which are produced from sheets or from a web of a packaging laminate.
  • the positioning of the particle-containing magnetisable bands close to the longitudinal web edges is particularly advantageous when the packaging laminate includes comparatively thin paper- or paperboard layers which are not sufficiently thick to render the packaging laminate totally opaque or non-transparent.
  • Fig. 2 is a schematic cross section which shows one preferred example of a packaging laminate according to the present invention provided with particle- containing band 5.
  • the packaging laminate has a rigid, but foldable core layer 4 of paper or paperboard, as well as outer, liquid-tight coatings 6 of plastic, for example polyethylene, on both sides of the core layer 4. It is clearly apparent from Fig. 2 how the particle-containing strip-shaped band 5 can be placed close to and along the one longitudinal edge of the packaging laminate.
  • Fig. 3 shows the upper region of a packaging container 12.
  • the illustrated packaging container 12 may be produced from a web of the packaging laminate according to the invention by means of a filling machine which produces finished packaging containers in accordance with the known form-fill-seal principle.
  • a tube is first formed in that both longitudinal edges of the web are united in an overlap joint in which both outer plastic coatings of the packaging laminate are sealed to one another in liquid-tight fashion by surface fusion.
  • the tube is filled with the pertinent product, for example a liquid food product, and is divided into continuous, filled packaging units by repeated transverse seals of the tube transversely of the longitudinal direction of the tube beneath the product level of the tube.
  • the packaging units are separated from one another by incisions in the transverse sealing zones and are given the desired geometric outer configuration, for example parallelepipedic, by an additional fold forming- and sealing operation.
  • Fig. 3 schematically shows how a packaging laminate may be provided with a particle-containing strip-shaped band using the method according to the present invention. From a magazine reel 15, a web of a packaging laminate is unwound in the direction of the arrow.
  • an endless band 22 is unwound in the direction shown by the arrow, the band containing magnetisable particles.
  • the band 22 is led suitably via rollers 24, 24 in taut form and is applied by means of pressure rollers 25, 25 under the action of heat on the unwound web of packaging laminate close to and along the one longitudinal edge of the web.
  • the particle-containing strip-shaped band 22 is finally heated in position on the web.
  • the particle-containing strip-shaped band 22 may advantageously be combined with an edge-sealing strip in the event such a strip is to be applied on the packaging laminate in order to protect exposed incision edges on a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate, as was mentioned earlier.
  • both the packaging laminate and the packaging container produced from the packaging laminate may be modified without departing from the inventive concept as this is defined by the appended Claims.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Automation & Control Theory (AREA)
  • Computer Security & Cryptography (AREA)
  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Wrappers (AREA)

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a packaging laminate (2) including magnetisable particles which are incorporated in a quantity of from 0.1 to 25 g/m2 in one or more separate strip-shaped bands (1a, 1b) along at least one of the two longitudinal edges of the packaging laminate. From the packaging laminate (2) finished packaging containers are produced by fold forming and sealing, the packaging containers being of the type which have a longitudinal overlap joint, said strip-shaped particle-containing bands being localised within the area of this overlap joint.

Description

A PACKAGING LAMINATE AND PACKAGING CONTAINER PRODUCED
THEREFROM
Technical field 5
The present invention relates to a sheet- or web-shaped packaging laminate comprising magnetisable particles, in which the magnetisable particles are localised within one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate.
10 The present invention further relates to a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate, as well as a method of providing a packaging laminate comprising magnetisable particles with a possibility for magnetic marking.
The expression packaging laminate, as this is employed in connection with the 15 present invention, is taken to signify both fibre-based packaging laminates and packaging laminates based exclusively on plastic. In its broadest scope, the expression encompasses packaging laminates including layers of optional combinations of plastic, fibre and inorganic material, for example metal, preferably aluminium foil. 20
Background art
It is previously known in the art to provide packaging laminates with integrated layers which offer a possibility for magnetic marking. Such layers include
25 magnetisable particles and afford a possibility of being able to read-off, for example, a guide marking which is not located in any of the two outermost layers of the packaging material. The intention with such layers is to realise an alternative solution to optical or punched guide markings. Such guide markings are often printed in a colour tone in clear contrast to their surroundings, preferably black against a white
30 background. Optical guide markings are normally placed in such panels of a continuous material web where no other printed markings or patterns are to be found or may be found. Guide markings of this type are employed in order, in connection with multicolour printing, to adapt the position of the patterns printed with different colours to one another, so that the different colour patterns will lie in register above one another. Similarly, markings of the type under consideration here are employed for register maintenance, i.e. for controlling the position of a packaging material web in, for example, the tube forming- and filling unit of a filling machine so that the correct operation is carried out in the correct position, not least with respect to the printed decorative artwork of the packaging material. However, optical guide markings take up a certain area of the outside of the package, which, as a result, cannot be provided with decorative printing or information intended for an end user and may, moreover, be perceived as intrusive.
Gradually as the development of laminated packaging materials becomes increasingly sophisticated, it has become interesting, not least from the cost- and environmental viewpoints, to produce as thin packaging laminates as possible. If the intention is to provide a packaging laminate with a layer containing magnetisable particles, the paperboard layer which is included in the packaging laminate must display certain properties. In order to avoid the risk that those particles (which normally have a brown or black colour tone) which are to be found in the layer with magnetisable material inside the paperboard layer appear as a defacement of the outside of the packaging laminate, the paperboard layer must be sufficiently thick and/or possess such opacity that the applied particles are not seen through this layer. If such is not the case, the particles run the risk of imparting to the package an unattractive appearance. This is obviously not desirable and has resulted in packaging laminates comprising layers with magnetisable particles not having been commercially successful. The choice of magnetisable particles is large and must be made taking as the point of departure the intended use. However, it should be observed that the magnetisable particles may be both ferro- and ferrimagnetic. One preferred example of a magnetisable material is magnetite which is both commercially available and economical. Moreover, magnetite has very good magnetic properties. Objects of the invention
One object of the present invention is thus to realise a packaging laminate of the type described by way of introduction through which the problems and drawbacks associated with the prior art technology can simply but effectively be obviated.
A further object of the present invention is to realise a method of producing a packaging laminate of the type described by way of introduction with a view to imparting to the packaging laminate a possibility for magnetic marking.
Yet a further object of the present invention is to realise a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate according to the present invention.
These and other objects and advantages will be attained according to the present invention by means of the characterising features as disclosed in appended Claims 1 and 5, respectively.
Expedient embodiments of the present invention have further been given the characterising features as set forth in the appended subclaims.
Description of the invention
According to the present invention, there will thus be realised a packaging laminate including magnetisable particles which are located within one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate. The packaging laminate is characterised in that the magnetisable particles are incorporated in separate bands which have been applied within said one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate.
In that the packaging laminate according to the present invention, already in the conversion process, may be provided with such particle-containing strip-shaped bands, a both simpler and more effective handling of the packaging laminate is made possible in, for example, a filling machine where the packaging laminate is intended to be reformed into packaging containers.
As was intimated above, the packaging laminate according to the invention is preferably provided with the particle-containing strip-shaped bands already during the production of the packaging laminate, whereby a magnetic marking of the packaging laminate is made possible which can be utilised as a guide marking in the production- or conversion process of the packaging laminate.
According to the invention, there will further be realised a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate which is provided with the possibility for magnetic marking which neither disfigures nor even takes up parts of the outside of the packaging container.
The possibility for magnetic marking in the present invention may thus advantageously be utilised in one or more optional stages in a value-added chain ranging from a material conversion process to any optional consumer stage.
In the method according to the present invention, the packaging laminate is provided with particulate magnetisable material within one or more optional strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate. Preferably, the particulate magnetisable material is applied within such areas of the packaging laminate as, during the reforming of the packaging laminate into packaging containers, are intended to form so-called overlap joints or seams on the packaging container, since it is particularly easy to conceal the magnetic material between such overlapping parts of the packaging laminate.
One surprising advantageous property in the packaging laminate according to the invention is that the strip-shaped particle-containing area can be made extremely narrow, with a width of only one or a few millimetres, and nevertheless make possible a functional magnetic marking such an information carrier. This is a consequence of the fact that the information carrying magnetic field which is occasioned by the magnetisable particles has a detectable extent in all directions which is larger than the physical width of the strip-shaped area. In other words, the magnetic field describes a spatially geometric pattern which can be read-off by a suitable reader head or be detected by a suitable sensor without the reader head or the sensor needing to be or risking coming into physical contact with the thus magnetically marked packaging laminate.
Hence, the present invention makes possible practical applications within, for example, communication between packaging material and conversion/packing processes or for traceability purposes. One example of communication between material (packaging laminate) and packing process is register maintenance in a so- called form-fill-seal process where transverse seals of a tube-shaped material web must be put into effect in register with the printed decorative artwork. Another example is corresponding register maintenance where the packaging laminate is reformed into a tube by longitudinal sealing of the overlapping longitudinal edges of the packaging laminate (so-called overlap joints).
Those patterns which a detector device can give are vastly superior to today's methods of approach. As a result of the relation of the strip width to the reading width, the magnetisable, particle-containing band and its possible information will be at least as easy to detect as today's optically detectable markings. The strip-shaped magnetisable band according to the present invention will probably, therefore, in many contexts be able to supersede earlier marking principles, in particular those of the optically detectable type. The packaging laminate on which such a particle- containing strip-shaped band is applied may advantageously be used in applications where it is intended to form either a tube or individual blanks, so-called cartons, for filling purposes. A feature common to these applications is that they include a longitudinal seal.
A particle-containing strip-shaped band in a packaging laminate according to the present invention includes magnetisable particles in a quantity which may vary within extremely broad limits. In practice however, use is made, for the objects of the present invention, of a quantity within the range of from 0.1 g/m2 up to 25 g/m2. One preferred range is from 0.5 to 15 g/m , more preferably 1.0 to 8.0 g/m . In practical trials which have been conducted, it has proved to be possible, with suitable detecting- or read-off means, to detect and read-off, respectively, magnetic information from a distance of up to 4 mm from the information-carrying particle- containing band. As a consequence of the fact that the magnetic fields which the particle-containing strip-shaped band gives rise to become relatively wide in relation to their physical extent, the positioning of a reader head need only be relatively exact.
A packaging container according to the present invention has preferably the particle- containing strip-shaped band (or tape) applied in an edge area. In particular, the packaging container may have the particle-containing strip-shaped band applied in a so-called overlap joint or seam, for example a longitudinal seal area. In this case, the strip-shaped band may be concealed practically entirely and thereby be rendered invisible on the packaging container. One particular advantage is that the application of such a strip-shaped particle-containing band may be combined with the application of an edge sealing strip which is often employed in packaging containers of a paper- or paperboard-based packaging laminate in order to protect exposed fibre edges against edge-wicking.
Brief description of the accompanying Drawings
The present invention will now be described in greater detail hereinbelow, with reference to one embodiment shown on the accompanying Drawings. In the accompanying Drawings:
Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view showing a packaging laminate web provided with strip-shaped particle-containing areas;
Fig. 2 is a partial section taken along the line II-II in Fig. 1 ; Fig. 3 shows a part of a commercial packaging container provided with strip-shaped particle-containing bands or tapes according to the invention; and
Fig. 4 schematically shows one step in a laminate conversion process in which a band or tape containing magnetic material is laid on a layer in the packaging laminate.
Detailed description of the invention
Fig. 1 illustrates the principle of how one or more bands or tapes 1 containing particulate magnetisable material is provided on a packaging laminate web 2. The web 2 is displaced in the direction of the double-headed arrow MD in a conversion line or in a filling machine and has, along its longitudinal edges 3, a plurality of regularly recurring bands Ia of optional length and width and/or an endless band Ib containing particles of a magnetisable material.
As is apparent from Fig. 1, said bands (Ia and Ib) are placed preferably close to the one or both longitudinal edges of the web 1 in order more readily to be able to be protected/concealed in a so-called overlap joint, as has previously been mentioned. Such an overlap joint is to be found on most packaging containers which are produced from sheets or from a web of a packaging laminate. The positioning of the particle-containing magnetisable bands close to the longitudinal web edges is particularly advantageous when the packaging laminate includes comparatively thin paper- or paperboard layers which are not sufficiently thick to render the packaging laminate totally opaque or non-transparent.
It is naturally possible to apply the strip-shaped particle-containing band 1 at any desired position on a web 2 of the packaging laminate. Further, the band or bands may be applied already in connection with a conversion process or in a later stage, for example in connection with or immediately before both of the longitudinal edges of the web are united to one another in an overlap joint. Fig. 2 is a schematic cross section which shows one preferred example of a packaging laminate according to the present invention provided with particle- containing band 5. The packaging laminate has a rigid, but foldable core layer 4 of paper or paperboard, as well as outer, liquid-tight coatings 6 of plastic, for example polyethylene, on both sides of the core layer 4. It is clearly apparent from Fig. 2 how the particle-containing strip-shaped band 5 can be placed close to and along the one longitudinal edge of the packaging laminate.
Fig. 3 shows the upper region of a packaging container 12. The illustrated packaging container 12 may be produced from a web of the packaging laminate according to the invention by means of a filling machine which produces finished packaging containers in accordance with the known form-fill-seal principle. From the web, a tube is first formed in that both longitudinal edges of the web are united in an overlap joint in which both outer plastic coatings of the packaging laminate are sealed to one another in liquid-tight fashion by surface fusion. The tube is filled with the pertinent product, for example a liquid food product, and is divided into continuous, filled packaging units by repeated transverse seals of the tube transversely of the longitudinal direction of the tube beneath the product level of the tube. The packaging units are separated from one another by incisions in the transverse sealing zones and are given the desired geometric outer configuration, for example parallelepipedic, by an additional fold forming- and sealing operation.
It is apparent from Fig. 3 how the particle-containing strip-shaped bands 13 may be placed on a finished packaging container. As a result of the illustrated positioning of these bands within the area of the longitudinal overlap joint on the packaging container, the bands may effectively be concealed and made invisible to the eye. Moreover, this positioning of the particle-containing strip-shaped bands in an overlap joint contributes in the magnetisable particles' not running the risk of coming into contact with and being affected by either the packed product in the packaging container or by the surroundings of the packaging container. Fig. 4 schematically shows how a packaging laminate may be provided with a particle-containing strip-shaped band using the method according to the present invention. From a magazine reel 15, a web of a packaging laminate is unwound in the direction of the arrow. From a corresponding magazine reel at 23, an endless band 22 is unwound in the direction shown by the arrow, the band containing magnetisable particles. The band 22 is led suitably via rollers 24, 24 in taut form and is applied by means of pressure rollers 25, 25 under the action of heat on the unwound web of packaging laminate close to and along the one longitudinal edge of the web. At 26, the particle-containing strip-shaped band 22 is finally heated in position on the web.
The particle-containing strip-shaped band 22 may advantageously be combined with an edge-sealing strip in the event such a strip is to be applied on the packaging laminate in order to protect exposed incision edges on a packaging container produced from the packaging laminate, as was mentioned earlier.
With the guidance of the description above, it will be obvious to a person skilled in the art that both the packaging laminate and the packaging container produced from the packaging laminate may be modified without departing from the inventive concept as this is defined by the appended Claims.

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:
1. A sheet- or web-shaped packaging laminate (2) comprising magnetisable particles which are localised within one or more strip-shaped areas of the packaging laminate, characterised in that the magnetisable particles are incorporated in separate bands (1) which are applied along at least one of the two longitudinal edges of the packaging laminate (2),
2. The packaging laminate as claimed in Claim 1, characterised in that the strip-shaped areas (1) are applied on one of the layers (2) of the laminate.
3. The packaging laminate as claimed in Claim 2, characterised in that it includes information which is applied by magnetisation of such strip-shaped areas (1) provided with magnetisable particles.
4. The packaging laminate as claimed in Claim 3, characterised in that the strip-shaped areas (1) and likewise the information thereon are to be found in one or more of the edge areas (3) of the laminate (2).
5. A packaging container produced from a sheet or from a web of a packaging laminate according to any of the preceding Claims.
6. The packaging container as claimed in Claim 5, characterised in that said particle-containing strip-shaped bands are placed in the area of a longitudinal overlap joint on the packaging container.
PCT/SE2006/000685 2005-06-17 2006-06-12 A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom. WO2006135314A1 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
SE0501407 2005-06-17
SE0501407-1 2005-06-17

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
WO2006135314A1 true WO2006135314A1 (en) 2006-12-21

Family

ID=37532577

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
PCT/SE2006/000685 WO2006135314A1 (en) 2005-06-17 2006-06-12 A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom.

Country Status (1)

Country Link
WO (1) WO2006135314A1 (en)

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN102449079A (en) * 2009-05-29 2012-05-09 利乐拉瓦尔集团及财务有限公司 Magnetisable ink
WO2012072309A1 (en) * 2010-11-29 2012-06-07 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Packaging material comprising magnetisable portions

Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO1997024278A1 (en) * 1995-12-29 1997-07-10 Tetra Laval Holding & Finance S.A. Packaging material with invisible information
EP0705759B1 (en) * 1993-06-23 1998-10-14 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA Filling machine and wrapping material
FR2773357A1 (en) * 1998-01-02 1999-07-09 Georges Giulj Packaging for merchandise
US20030038044A1 (en) * 2000-01-18 2003-02-27 Fiorenzo Draghetti Rigid packet of cigarettes
WO2003095198A1 (en) * 2002-05-10 2003-11-20 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. A packaging laminate, a creasing roller, as well as a layer for use for a packaging laminate

Patent Citations (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
EP0705759B1 (en) * 1993-06-23 1998-10-14 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA Filling machine and wrapping material
WO1997024278A1 (en) * 1995-12-29 1997-07-10 Tetra Laval Holding & Finance S.A. Packaging material with invisible information
FR2773357A1 (en) * 1998-01-02 1999-07-09 Georges Giulj Packaging for merchandise
US20030038044A1 (en) * 2000-01-18 2003-02-27 Fiorenzo Draghetti Rigid packet of cigarettes
WO2003095198A1 (en) * 2002-05-10 2003-11-20 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. A packaging laminate, a creasing roller, as well as a layer for use for a packaging laminate

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN102449079A (en) * 2009-05-29 2012-05-09 利乐拉瓦尔集团及财务有限公司 Magnetisable ink
CN102449079B (en) * 2009-05-29 2016-01-20 利乐拉瓦尔集团及财务有限公司 magnetisable ink
US9630371B2 (en) 2009-05-29 2017-04-25 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Magnetisable ink
WO2012072309A1 (en) * 2010-11-29 2012-06-07 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Packaging material comprising magnetisable portions
US9208422B2 (en) 2010-11-29 2015-12-08 Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A. Packaging material comprising magnetisable portions
RU2589675C2 (en) * 2010-11-29 2016-07-10 Тетра Лаваль Холдингз Энд Файнэнс С.А. Packaging material comprising magnetisable parts

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
WO2006135313A1 (en) A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom
WO2006135315A1 (en) A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom
US9248631B2 (en) Method of controlling working operation of a filling machine
US6494491B1 (en) Object with an optical effect
CA2763260C (en) Packaging material comprising magnetisable portions
JP2017521287A (en) Method for manufacturing laminated packaging material and laminated packaging material
WO2012072309A1 (en) Packaging material comprising magnetisable portions
WO2009131496A1 (en) Inside creasing on a packaging laminate, a packaging container made from the packaging laminate, and a method for producing the packaging laminate
US6783823B2 (en) Embossed packaging laminate and method of making laminate
US20050269386A1 (en) Food wrap
WO2006135314A1 (en) A packaging laminate and packaging container produced therefrom.
JP2018135116A (en) Mount and mount with cylindrical film
SK12192003A3 (en) Security features
EP3279102A1 (en) A packaging material, a package, and a method for manufacturing a packaging material
GB2332899A (en) Easy tear bag
JP5280572B1 (en) Pouch film
JP5500447B2 (en) Laminated tube
JP5793780B2 (en) Sealing label
JP6913740B2 (en) Packaging material containing magnetized parts and method of magnetizing the material
JP6108089B2 (en) Cylindrical label continuous body and method for producing cylindrical label
HK1020271A (en) Easy tear bag
JP2006160355A (en) Method for manufacturing series of packaging bags
JP2011110907A (en) Laminated structure
JP2007191171A (en) Laminate sheet, and its using method
JP2008265786A (en) Packaging bag with ic tag

Legal Events

Date Code Title Description
121 Ep: the epo has been informed by wipo that ep was designated in this application
NENP Non-entry into the national phase

Ref country code: DE

122 Ep: pct application non-entry in european phase

Ref document number: 06747878

Country of ref document: EP

Kind code of ref document: A1