Easy-open container, manufacturing method thereof and manufacturing device thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9469444-B2
Application number	US-201314101021-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2013
Priority date	Jan 31, 2005
Publication date	Oct 18, 2016
Grant date	Oct 18, 2016

Abstract

In manufacturing an easy-open container ( 1 ), a flange ( 25 ) of a container body ( 2 ) and a lid ( 3 ) are heat-sealed, where a circular sealing board ( 7 ) having a curved surface on an inner circumferential edge and an inclined surface on an outer circumferential edge side is pressed onto an upper side of the flange ( 25 ) to form a swelling gathered resin part ( 6 ) formed of respective resin components of a surface layer ( 21 ) of the container body ( 2 ), a subsurface layer ( 22 ) adjacent to the surface layer ( 21 ) and a seal layer ( 31 ) of the lid ( 3 ), while heat-sealing the surface layer ( 21 ) of the container body ( 2 ) and the seal layer ( 31 ) of the lid ( 3 ). With the arrangement, the easy-open container ( 1 ) having both a high sealing performance and an easy-open performance can be provided with low cost.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An easy-open container, comprising:
a container body having an opening and a flange extending from a circumference of the opening; and
a lid for covering the opening, a surface layer of the container body exposed on the flange and a seal layer of the lid being circularly heat-sealed to form the easy-open container, wherein
the lid is configured to be opened by a cohesive failure occurring in at least one of the surface layer of the container body and the seal layer of the lid,
a swelling first gathered resin part formed of respective resin components of the surface layer of the container body, a layer adjacent to the surface layer and the seal layer of the lid is formed in a vicinity of an inner circumferential end of a seal part located on the flange, and
an outer circumferential end of the seal part at an open trigger is flat or defines a smaller second gathered resin part smaller than the first gathered resin part in the vicinity of the inner circumferential end of the seal part.

2. The easy-open container according to claim 1 , wherein
the second gathered resin part is provided in a vicinity of the outer circumferential end of the seal part at a portion other than the open trigger.

3. The easy-open container according to claim 1 , wherein
the first gathered resin part selectively provided in the vicinity of the inner circumferential end of the seal part at the open trigger is curved in a vicinity of a base thereof near an outer circumference of the container body.

4. The easy-open container according to claim 1 , wherein
the seal part is inclined upward from the vicinity of an inner circumferential end of the flange toward an outer circumferential end of the flange.

5. The easy-open container according to claim 1 , wherein
the surface layer of the container body and the seal layer of the lid are fused at an area closer to an outer circumference of the flange than the first gathered resin part on the flange.

6. The easy-open container according to claim 1 , wherein
the outer circumferential end of the seal part at the open trigger is flat.

7. The easy-open container according to claim 2 , wherein a size of the second gathered resin part is substantially the same as the first resin gathered part at the portion other than the open trigger.

Assignees

• Idemitsu Unitech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sato Toshiya

Classifications

• B29C66/53461

  joining substantially flat covers and/or substantially flat bottoms to open ends of container bodies · CPC title

• B29C66/81427

  comprising a single ridge, e.g. for making a weakening line; comprising a single tooth · CPC title

• B29C66/71

  characterised by the composition of the plastics material of the parts to be joined (welding bar compositions B29C65/125) · CPC title

• B29C66/3452

  Making complete joints by combining partial joints · CPC title

• B29C66/81463

  comprising a plurality of single pressing elements, e.g. a plurality of sonotrodes, or comprising a plurality of single counter-pressing elements, e.g. a plurality of anvils, said plurality of said single elements being suitable for making a single joint · CPC title