CA2476541A1 - Vertical stand-up pouch - Google Patents

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CA2476541A1
CA2476541A1 CA002476541A CA2476541A CA2476541A1 CA 2476541 A1 CA2476541 A1 CA 2476541A1 CA 002476541 A CA002476541 A CA 002476541A CA 2476541 A CA2476541 A CA 2476541A CA 2476541 A1 CA2476541 A1 CA 2476541A1
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Lawrence Joseph Bartel
Anthony Robert Knoerzer
Garrett William Kohl
Steven Kenneth Tucker
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Lawrence Joseph Bartel
Anthony Robert Knoerzer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/10—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
    • B65B9/2042—Means for altering the cross-section of the tube filling opening prior to transversal sealing, e.g. tube spreading devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
    • B65B61/18—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for making package-opening or unpacking elements
    • B65B61/188—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for making package-opening or unpacking elements by applying or incorporating profile-strips, e.g. for reclosable bags
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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    • B65B9/10—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
    • B65B9/213—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles the web having intermittent motion
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
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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
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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
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    • 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
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    • B65D75/008—Standing pouches, i.e. "Standbeutel"

Abstract

A vertical stand-up pouch or flexible package, and method for manufacturing same, constructed by modification to existing vertical form and fill packaging machines. The invention involves producing a vertical stand-up pouch from a single sheet of packaging film by creating a vertical crease along one edge of a packaging film tube prior to forming a transverse seal on the tube. Said vertical crease is formed using a stationary tucker bar (106) positioned outside the packaging film tube and between two forming plates (104) positioned inside the packaging film tube.

Claims (20)

1. A method for making a flexible package, said method comprising the steps of:
a) forming a tube of packaging film on a vertical form, fill, and seal machine;
b) forming a vertical crease in said tube of packaging film prior to sealing said tube horizontally;
c) forming a first horizontal seal on said tube, wherein said first horizontal seal includes a portion of said vertical crease;
d) forming a second horizontal seal on said tube, wherein said second horizontal seal includes a portion of said vertical crease; and e) cutting said tube segment from the remainder of said tube at said second horizontal seal, thus forming a flexible package having a crease along one edge.
2. The method of Claim 1 wherein the crease of step b) is formed by at least one stationary tucker bar positioned between a pair of forming plates.
3. The method of Claim 2 wherein said tucker bar comprises teflon.
4. The method of Claim 2 wherein said tucker bar comprises one or more gas ports and wherein further a metered blast of gas from said ports is used during the forming step b).
5. The method of Claim 1 wherein the forming of step b) further comprises holding said tube in tension with at least three extensions below the bottom of a forming tube on said vertical form, fill, and seal machine, wherein said extensions apply said tension on said tube from inside said tube pressing outwards on said tube and, wherein further, said vertical crease is formed by tension applied on the outside of said tube by a stationary device pressing inwardly on said tube at a point between two of said at least three extensions.
6. The method of Claim 5 wherein said device pressing inwardly on said tube comprises a tucker bar.
7. The method of Claim 6 wherein said tucker bar comprises teflon.
8. The method of Claim 6 wherein said device comprises at least one pressurized gas port.
9. The method of Claim 1 wherein the tube of packaging film comprises graphics on the exterior of said tube, wherein said graphics are oriented perpendicular to the direction of film travel on the vertical form, fill, and seal machine.
10. A vertical stand-up pouch formed by the method of Claim 1.
11. A flexible package formed by a form, fill, and seal packaging machine from a sheet of composite polymer film, said package comprising after formation:
a single sheet, composite film body, said film comprising a graphics layer;
two vertical transverse seals on opposite vertical edges of said package; and a horizontal crease at the bottom of said package, said crease being substantially perpendicular to said vertical transverse seals.
12. The flexible package of Claim 11 wherein said graphics layer is oriented for viewing by a consumer when said package is stood on its bottom, crease end.
13. The flexible package of Claim 11 wherein said package is formed on a vertical form, fill, and seal machine.
14. An improved vertical form, fill, and seal machine having a forming tube, said improvement comprising:
two forming plates attached to and extending below said forming tube;
at least one tension bar attached to and extending below said forming tube at a location approximately opposite from said forming plates; and at least one stationary tucker bar positioned between said forming plates.
15. The improved vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 further comprising a means for blowing a pressurized gas against packaging film formed in a tube around said forming tube, wherein said gas is blown against the exterior of said tube of packaging film at a point between said forming plates.
16. The improved vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 wherein said means for blowing a pressurized gas comprises gas ports in said tucker bar in communication with a pressurized gas source.
17. The improved vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 wherein said tucker bar comprises teflon.
18. The improved vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 wherein said two forming plates further comprise horizontal hinges between the forming plates and said forming tube.

IN THE CLAIMS:
1. A method for making a flexible package, said method comprising the steps of:
a) feeding, into a vertical form, fill, and seal machine, a packaging film on which the graphics are oriented perpendicular to a direction of travel of said film;
b) forming said packaging film into a tube on said vertical form, fill, and seal machine and forming a longitudinal seal;
c) forming a vertical crease in said tube of packaging film prior to scaling said tube horizontally;
d) forming a first horizontal seal on said tube, wherein said first horizontal seal includes a portion of said vertical crease, said first horizontal seal scaling all layers of said tube and said crease together;
e) dropping a product into a partially formed package created by steps a) through d);
i) forming a second horizontal seal on said tube, wherein said second horizontal seal includes a portion of said vertical crease, said second horizontal seal sealing all layers of said tube and said crease together; and g) cutting said tube segment from the remainder of said tube at said second horizontal seal, thus forming a stand-up pouch;
wherein said vertical crease is heat-sealed only at said first and second horizontal seals;
whereby a stand-up pouch is formed without additional folding steps.
2. The method of Claim 1 wherein the crease of step c) is formed by at least one adjustable, stationary tucker bar positioned between a pair of forming plates.
3. The method of Claim 2 wherein said tucker bar comprises a fluoropolymer.
4. A method for making a flexible package, said method comprising the steps of:
a) forming a tube of packaging film on a vertical form, fill, and seal machine;
b) forming a vertical crease in said tube of packaging film prior to sealing said tube; horizontally;

e) forming a first horizontal seal on said tube, wherein said first horizontal seal includes a portion of said vertical cease;
d) forming a second horizontal seal on said tube, wherein said second horizontal seal includes a portion of said vertical crease; and c) cutting said tube segment from the remainder of said tube at said second horizontal seal, thus forming a flexible package having a crease along one edge;
wherein the crease of step b) is formed by at least one stationary tucker bar positioned between a pair of forming plates;
wherein said tucker bar comprises one or more gas ports and wherein further a interested blast of gas from said ports is used during the forming step b).
5. The method of Claim 1 wherein the forming of step b) further comprises holding said tube in tension with at least three extensions below the bottom of a forming tube on said vertical form, fill, and seal machine, wherein said extensions apply said tension on said tube from inside said tube pressing outwards on said tube and, wherein further, said vertical crease is formed by tension applied on the outside of said tube by a stationary device pressing inwardly on said tube at a point between two of said at least three extensions.
6-9. (Cancelled) 10. A vertical stand-up pouch formed by the method of Claim 1.
11. A flexible package formed by a form, fill, and seal packaging machine from a sheet of composite polymer film, said package comprising after formation:
a single sheet, composite film body, said film comprising a graphics layer;
two vertical transverse seals on opposite vertical edges of said package; and a horizontal crease at the bottom of said package, said crease being substantially perpendicular to said vertical transverse seals;
wherein said graphics layer is oriented for viewing by a consumer when said package is stood on its bottom, crease end.

13. The flexible package of Claim 11 wherein said package is formed on a vertical form, fill, and seal machine.

14. A vertical form, fill, and seal machine comprising:
a forming tube, connected to receive a continuous sheet of packaging film, said forming tube having two forming plates attached to and extending below said forming tube;
a tension bar attached to and extending below said forming tube at a location approximately opposite from said forming plates; and an adjustable, stationary tucker bar attached to said vertical form, fill, and seal machine and capable of being positioned between said forming plates;
wherein said vertical form, fill, and seal machine can be quickly converted between making pouch packages and stand-up packages.

15. The vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 further comprising a means for blowing a pressurized gas against packaging film formed in a tube around said forming tube, wherein said gas is blown against the exterior of said tube of packaging film at a point between said forming plates.

16. An improved vertical form, fill, and seal machine having a forming tube, said improvement comprising:
two forming plates attached to and extending below said forming tube;
at least one tension bar attached to and extending below said forming tube at a location approximately opposite from said forming plates; and at least one stationary tucker bar positioned between said forming plates;
a means for blowing a pressurized gas against packaging film formed in a tube around said forming tube, wherein said gas is blown against the exterior of said tote of packaging film at a point between said forming plates;
wherein said means for blowing a pressurized gas comprises gas ports in said tucker bar in communication with a pressurized gas source.

17. The vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 wherein said tucker bar comprises a fluoropolymer.

18. The vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 14 wherein said two forming plates further comprise horizontal hinges between said forming plates and sail forming tube.
19. The vertical form, fill, and seal machine of Claim 13, wherein a zipper seal can be run continuously in a vertical line down the forming tube along with the packaging film as it is being formed into a tube and subsequent package.
20. The method of Claim 1, wherein said feeding step a) comprises feeding a packaging material having a zipper seal along the length of said packaging material.
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