Packaging and filling device, paper container and blank

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9896225-B2
Application number	US-201514981802-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2015
Priority date	Jun 29, 2013
Publication date	Feb 20, 2018
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018

Abstract

A packaging and filling device, a paper container, and a blank is disclosed, in which the container is substantially protected from permeation leakage from an end surface. The blank for the paper container comprises an upper part, a bottom part, and a cylindrical main body having four side walls and a square cross-section, and is formed by a packaging and filling device. The packaging and filling device comprises a loading unit for retrieving the blank and loading a cylindrical blank, a bottom-part-molding unit for molding the bottom part of the cylindrical blank and obtaining a container, a filling unit for filling the container with a liquid food item from an upper opening, and an upper-part-sealing unit for heat-sealing the upper opening.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A packaging and filling device for forming a paper container, the paper container comprising a cylindrical body having a substantially square cross section, four sidewalls, a top, and a bottom,
wherein the paper container is formed of a blank prepared by cutting a band-shaped packaging material including an outermost thermoplastic layer, a paper layer, and an innermost thermoplastic layer, the blank further comprising:
a first panel and a third panel, the first panel and third panels being configured to form a first pair of opposing sidewalls of the container;
a second panel and a fourth panel, the second panel and fourth panels being configured to form a second pair of opposing sidewalls of the container;
a first bottom panel and a third bottom panel, the first and third bottom panels extended from respective lower sides of the first panel and the third panel;
a second bottom panel and a fourth bottom panel, the second bottom panel and fourth bottom panels extended from respective lower sides of the second panel and the fourth panel; and
a plurality of top panels corresponding to the top of the paper container;
wherein:
the third bottom panel comprises a sixth panel partially extended from a center of the lower side of the third bottom panel; and
a width of the sixth panel is 15-65% of a total length of the lower side of the third bottom panel;

wherein the bottom of the paper container is formed by:
extending the sixth panel from the lower side of the third bottom panel;
bending the second bottom panel and the fourth panel into triangular flaps with the lower side surfaces of the second and fourth bottom panels facing outward and bending the flaps inward;
laying the first bottom panel and the third bottom panel on the outsides of the second bottom panel and the fourth bottom panel with the first bottom panel positioned outside of the third bottom panel; and
pressing from the inside and the outside of the paper container; and
heat-sealing to form a seal;

the packaging and filling device comprising:
a loading unit configured to extract a selected blank from a bundle of a plurality of vertically sealed and flattened blanks;
a bottom forming unit configured to form the bottom of a cylindrical blank to form the container having a top opening and the bottom;
a filling unit configured to fill liquid food through the top opening; and
a top sealing unit configured to heat-seal the top opening;
wherein the loading unit further comprises:
an extracting unit configured to extract the blank;
an erecting unit configured to erect the flattened blank into the cylindrical blank; and
an infeeder which inserts a mandrel of the bottom forming unit into the cylindrical blank;

wherein the bottom forming unit comprises a press station, the press station comprising a triangular emboss configured to press the container bottom from the outside and the inside of the container by a forward side surface of the mandrel and a press surface, the triangular emboss being provided on a forward edge surface of the mandrel at a position where the third bottom panel is exposed on the inside surface of the container.

2. A packaging and filling device for forming a paper container having a top opening and a bottom, the packaging and filling device comprising:
a loading unit configured to extract a selected blank from a bundle of a plurality of vertically sealed and flattened blanks, the blank comprising a first bottom panel, a second bottom panel, a third bottom panel, and a fourth bottom panel, the loading unit further comprising:
an extracting unit configured to extract the selected blank;
an erecting unit configured to erect the flattened blank into a cylindrical blank; and
an infeeder;

a bottom forming unit configured to form a bottom of the cylindrical blank to form the paper container, the bottom forming unit comprising a mandrel and a press station;
a filling unit configured to fill liquid food through the top opening; and
a top sealing unit configured to heat-seal the top opening;
wherein:
the infeeder is configured to insert the mandrel into the cylindrical blank;
the press station of the bottom forming unit comprises a triangular emboss configured to press the container bottom from the outside and the inside by a forward side surface of the mandrel and a press surface, the triangular emboss being provided on a forward edge surface of the mandrel at a position where the third bottom panel is exposed on the inside surface of the container; and
the press surface comprises:
a projected surface for forming a wide upward trench in the container bottom, and
a triangular step H formed on the wide upward trench, the triangular step H being configured to trap the triangular emboss and press the third bottom panel.

Assignees

• Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance

Inventors

• Eto Satoshi
• Yano Keiji
• KUWATA Hiroyoshi
• Omiya Takashi

Classifications

• B65B43/185

  specially adapted for carton blanks · CPC title

• B65B3/025

  Making parallelepipedal containers from a single carton blank · CPC title

• B65B51/10

  Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof {(welding of plastics per se B29C65/02; closing plastic tube ends in general B29C57/10)} · CPC title

• B65B3/02 Primary

  Machines characterised by the incorporation of means for making the containers or receptacles · CPC title

• B65B43/225

  specially adapted for carton blanks · CPC title