EP1375365A1 - Packaging bag, and method of and apparatus for manufacturing the same - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a packaging bag, particularly a transverse- or side-sealed bag of plastics film.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing packaging bags which are resistant to the curling problem of the prior art.
- Yet a further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for producing packaging bags which are resistant to this curling problem.
- a packaging bag comprising opposed first and second film plies joined at a closed end of the bag and sealed along lateral edges of the bag, said plies defining an open mouth end having a first edge of the first ply and a second edge of the second ply projecting beyond the first edge of the first ply, characterised in that the second edge comprises a folded over film portion to exhibit double thickness at the exposed end of the second ply.
- the turned over lip may define the mouth edge of a longer side of the bag which thus projects beyond the edge of the shorter opposite side of the bag.
- the turned over lip also therefore presents a rigidifying effect, which is particularly helpful in the case of packaging bags with a thickness at the smaller end of the available range of materials to be used, i.e. a lighter weight of film than is normal.
- a further aspect of the present invention provides apparatus for manufacturing a bag according to the first aspect, comprising means for feeding a flat folded tubular film material having first and second marginal folds along a film path, means for transversely sealing said tubular film at regularly spaced locations to define the joins between adjacent transverse-sealed bags formed from said tubular film material, means for taking up said succession of transverse sealed bags from said transverse sealing station, and means for slitting one flat wall of said flat-folded tubular film material adjacent said first fold of said film material to define said second mouth edge extending beyond said first mouth edge, said slitting means being mounted upstream of said transverse sealing station.
- a third aspect of the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a bag according to the first aspect, comprising feeding a flat-folded tubular film material along a machine direction while exhibiting first and second superposed plies extending between first and second marginal folds of said tubular film material, slitting said first ply adjacent said first marginal fold of said flat-folded tubular film material while leaving said second ply unslit whereby said second ply has a turned over edge at said first marginal fold of the tubular film material, downstream of said slitting station transversely sealing said tubular film material along a plurality of regularly spaced transverse seal lines which extend into said second ply at said turned over edge adjacent the first marginal fold of the tubular film material, and delivering the plurality of transverse-sealed packaging bags thus formed.
- a fourth aspect of the invention provides a method of packaging, comprising taking a bag according to the first aspect, or a bag made by the method of the third aspect, and pneumatically inflating the mouth of said bag to separate the edge of said shorter first ply from said projecting edge of the second ply to initiate opening of the bag, and subsequently holding the bag open and introducing a product article into a respective said open bag.
- the improved packaging bag shown in Fig. 1 is a side-sealed bag 1 having a closed end 1a at which are joined together first and second superposed main panels 2 and 3 which are sealed along opposite edges 4 and 5 by a heat-sealing operation.
- the closed end 1a is a first fold in the film material providing the two plies defining the panels 2 and 3.
- the mouth of the bag is at the end opposite the closed end 1a and is formed by a folded portion 7 of the second main panel 3 and a cut edge 6 of the first main panel 2.
- the manufacture of the mouth end involves using the second of the two folds of the flat folded film (12 in Figs. 3 and 4) of the plastic material used for the bag, the first fold being to define the closed end 1a, described above, of the bag.
- the production of the mouth end involves forming a cut at 7a in one of the two flat plies of the flat-folded tubular film adjacent to the second fold 7 referred to above, in order to separate the first main ply from the co-planar folded over part of the film margin at the fold 7.
- the folded end of the main ply exhibits a double thickness of the film in one wall which projects beyond the end 6 of the main ply (other wall), thereby (i) allowing easier pneumatic inflation of the bag mouth in order to open the bag 1 for loading purposes, and (ii) resisting wrinkling in that the increase in thickness of the end of the panel 3 at the folded end of the second ply helps to resist the tendency which the bag material would otherwise have to curl, as described above.
- Adjacent the closed end 1a of the bag are optional seal lines 8, 9a and 9b the purpose of which will be described later.
- the film used for manufacturing the bag 1 may be a mono-layer film, but is preferably a multi-layer film having different functions for the individual layers of the bag.
- one of the intermediate layers of the bag material may be a barrier layer in order to control the transmission of gas (for example O 2 ) between the interior and exterior of the bag when sealed
- another of the layers of the bag material on the inside of bag will be a sealing layer facilitating sealing to a similar material for the purposes of closing the bag when loaded
- a third layer will be an abuse-resistant layer giving strength to the bag material.
- Other functions may also be provided, for example there may be tie layers between any of the above mentioned layers.
- the thickness of films suitable for the manufacture of transverse-sealed bags is typically comprised between about 35 and about 120 mm, preferably between about 40 and about 100 mm. Thicker films as well as thinner films, e.g. films 15, 20, 25, 30 mm thick may however be employed in the process of the present invention.
- Figs. 1 and 2 The apparatus for producing a bag of the type shown in Figs. 1 and 2 will now be described with reference to Figures 3 and 4, Fig. 3 showing a prior art apparatus for manufacturing a strip of side-sealed packaging bags, and Fig. 4 showing a modification which produces the bags in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 3 there is shown bag making apparatus 10 which processes a flat folded tubular film 12 which may either have come straight from a bubble extrusion manufacturing plant or may have been previously formed by bubble extrusion and then rolled up for reuse at a later date at which point the roll is unwound so that the film can be fed to the bag making apparatus 10.
- the tubular material 12 arrives at a bag opening station 14 which includes a horizontally arranged knife blade 16 which can serve to slit the film 12 at the right-hand marginal fold as shown in Fig. 3.
- the film 12 arrives at an optional air introduction station 18 including an air nozzle 20 which is supported on the machine frame and is cantilevered to extend across the width of the flat folded film to introduce air near the left-hand fold line (which corresponds to the closed end 1a in Figs. 1 and 2). This may be helpful in case bags with the optional EZO feature, which will be described later, are manufactured.
- the film 12 arrives at a bottom forming station 22 which is optional but which in the present embodiment creates the seal lines 8, 9a and 9b to provide a particular easy open (EZO) configuration to the closed or bottom end of the bag so that the bag is substantially in accordance with US-A-6,260,705.
- EZO easy open
- the already slit film material then arrives at a transverse sealing station 24 including vertically closable and openable seal bars 26 and 28 which operate in synchronisation with stepwise advance of the tubular film material 12 so as to define a plurality of spaced transverse seal lines 30 which each include two spaced lines parallel sealing adjacent bags, one of such lines being associated with each of the adjacent bags, and between them a perforation line to allow the bags to be separated from one another at a downstream station.
- the bag material just at the slitting station 14 and downstream therefrom undergoes considerable curling particularly at the mouth end of the bag, and this results in pleats and wrinkles at the transverse sealing operation at station 24, particularly when the film material is of a heat shrinkable nature.
- the selvage 34 of the film material along the right-hand fold of the tubular material 12 is removed in its entirety by means of a vertically aligned trimming knife blade 32 which separates the selvage 34 to be sucked into an aspiration nozzle 36.
- the chain of perforated and side-sealed bags downstream of the knife 32 can then either be wound up for subsequent use, or be separated and reassociated in shingled or imbricated form on guide tapes, or possibly stacked vertically and delivered as a wicket of stacked bags, depending upon the type of bag loader for which they are to be used.
- the mouth of the bag along the right-hand edge, corresponding to the right-hand end 7 of the bag in Figs. 1 and 2 is closed by any convenient mechanism, preferably by heat seal bars, and then the bag can be subjected to a heat-shrinking operation which serves to tidy the structure of the bag around a product article which was loaded therein before the bag closing operation.
- the shrinking operation also results in formation of loose tabs or ears, illustrated by the portions 8a and 8b (Fig. 1) of the bag bottom to either side of the central V-notch shown therein (defined by the seal lines 9a and 9b), at which tearing of the bag can be initiated by pulling the two ears 8a and 8b apart from one another.
- This particular easy open feature is very useful for a shrink package but, as indicated above, is optional and can be used with or without the curl-preventing mouth structure in accordance with the present invention.
- Fig. 4 The difference between the prior art apparatus of Fig. 3 and the embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 4, which provides a bag in accordance with the present invention, resides in the fact that the film opening station 14 of Fig. 3 is replaced by a modified bag slitting station in Fig. 4, where the knife blade 17 is vertically aligned as compared with the horizontal alignment of the knife blade 16 at the film slitting station 14 of Fig. 3.
- the tube-slitting blade 17 is associated with a support 19 which carries both the knife blade 17 on the outside of the tubular film material 12 and an anvil (46 in Fig. 5) inside the tubular material so that the blade 17 can form a slit (illustrated at 7a in Fig.
- this slit 7a formed by the knife blade 17 in Fig. 4 forms, at a single stroke, the bag mouth in accordance with the present invention.
- the support 19 carrying the tube-slitting blade 17 and the anvil 46 is mounted on the machine frame so as to be released when desired, and so as to be adjustable in position in a direction transverse to the machine direction (i.e. to the direction of movement of the film web 12).
- the apparatus of Fig. 4 again includes the optional bottom-forming station 22 which may be used in conjunction with the optional air-introduction station 18 also shown in Figure 3.
- the optional air introduction station 18 can be located on the carrier 19 of the slitting station 15.
- the air introduction station 18 it is equally possible for the air introduction station 18 to be positioned downstream of the slitting station 15 but upstream of the optional bottom forming station 22.
- the transverse sealing station 24 in Fig. 4 is identical to that of Fig. 3 and will not be described in more detail.
- a further difference between the device of Fig. 4 in accordance with the present invention and the prior art embodiment of Fig. 3 is that there is no longer any need to remove the selvage material as shown at 32, 34, 36 in Fig. 3 because the reinforcement of the mouth portion, relying on the staggered mouth edges 6 and 7 (Fig. 2) and the folded over configuration of the projecting edge 7 (Fig. 1), rigidifies the bag structure sufficiently to eliminate the curling, and the absence of curling can be readily appreciated from the drawing of Fig. 4.
- the perforated chain of bags delivered at the far end of the apparatus as viewed in Fig. 4 can then either be immediately separated into individual bags for wicketing or imbricating or can remain as a chain of side-sealed bags for rolling up and storage.
- Both the Fig. 3 prior art embodiment and the Fig. 4 embodiment of the present invention include also a mouth separating blade 40 which serves merely to hold the right-hand edges of the upper 2 and lower 3 plies of the folded film 12 apart from one another and to guide them into the area between the jaws 26 and 28 of the transverse sealing station 24.
- the sealing station 24 in Fig. 4 operates in an intermittent manner synchronously with the stepwise movement of the bag chain.
- the modified apparatus 11 of Fig. 4 is threaded up in a similar manner except that the combined tube slitting station 15 and the optional air introduction station 18 provide for (i) the support 19 with the blade 17 to be removed from the bag path and for the nozzle then to be introduced between the opposed plies 2 and 3 of the centred folded film 12 once a slit (7a in Fig. 2) has been formed manually, and (ii) the air introduction station 18 (where fitted) to be similarly removed and then replaced after slitting the tube manually.
- the film material can then be advanced such that the anvil (46 in Fig. 2) at the slitting station 15 and the air nozzle 20a of the optional air introduction station 18 can be introduced into the space between the two opposed plies (2 and 3 in Fig.
- the anvil 46 and the slitting blade 17 of Fig. 4 are also adjustable in a direction perpendicular to the machine direction for accommodating flat folded films 12 of different widths.
- Fig. 5 shows the knife blade 17 on the carrier 19 and in the process of forming the cut 7a in the upper ply 2 of the material 12a and leaving the underneath ply 3 uncut.
- the sub-carrier 42 is bolted to the main carrier 19 by means of bolts (not shown) which engage in holes 44 of the main carrier 19.
- the entire carrier 19 is releasably mounted on the machine frame so that it can be introduced into the already slit tubular film so that subsequent operation of the apparatus will continue the slitting action.
- the carrier 19, and the sub-carrier 42 and the air introduction nozzle 20a carried thereby, are in this way able to be rigidly mounted on the machine frame once it has been introduced into the already pre-positioned tubular film.
- the lower film ply 3 is shown in section along its entire length in Fig. 5 and the upper film ply 2 is only shown in section up to the point where it arrives at the tip of the slitting blade 17. Thereafter it has been slit and the exposed face 6 of the ply 2 can be seen, except where it is concealed behind the rear surface of the main carrier 19.
- Fig. 1 shows this optional characteristic as comprising a first seal line 8 which is parallel to and disposed inwardly of the fold defining the bottom end 1a of the bag, and a pair of additional seal lines 9a, 9b which start from the bottom end 1a of the bag and converge towards one another in a direction towards the seal line 8.
- these additional lines 9a and 9b meet at the seal line 8, but this is not essential to the operation of the easy open means defined by the lines 8, 9a, 9b.
- An "easy-open” (EZO) pre-cut line 9c extends longitudinally of the bag (i.e. perpendicularly to the seal line 8 and to the bottom end 1a of the bag so as to define a point of initiation of a tear when the bag is to be open. This opening operation will occur after the open end of the bag at 6, 7 has been sealed and the thus sealed bag has been subjected to a shrinking operation.
- the bag closing operation involves placing the loaded bag into a vacuum chamber which exposes the exterior of the sealed bag to reduced pressure causing the bag to balloon slightly, and causing the sealed pockets 8a, 8b of the bottom end of the bag to inflate slightly to present the tabs or ears mentioned above.
- the thus partially evacuated and sealed bag is subjected to a heat shrinking operation, either in a hot air shrink tunnel or in a shrink bath, whereupon the bag material between the seal line 8 and the closed mouth end of the bag will hug the contours of the product within the bag to provide a tidy package, but the pockets 8a, 8b will protrude from the surface, in the manner described in US-A-6,260,705.
- perforation line 9c is optional, and that instead some other form of tear-initiating formation could be provided.
- a hole is formed centrally in the triangular region defined between the fold line 1a of the tubular film material and the converging additional seal lines 9a, 9b.
- tear-initiating means could be omitted and one could rely simply on the fact that it is easy to apply tearing tension to the film material simply by grasping the two ears defined by the pockets 8a, 8b and pulling them apart.
- the tear-initiating bottom formation 8, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 9c is optional and it would have been possible for the bag to be finished with simply the fold line 1a defining the closed end of the product compartment of the bag.
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Abstract
A packaging bag (1) comprises a first ply (2) and a second ply (3) joined along an
edge (1a) defining the closed end of the bag and along side edges (4,5) of the bag. A
mouth of the bag has a first edge (6) on the first ply (2) and a second edge (7) on the
second ply (3), the bag mouth lip defined by the first edge (6) being nearer to the bag
bottom (1a) than is the lip defined by the second edge (7).
Description
- The present invention relates to a packaging bag, particularly a transverse- or side-sealed bag of plastics film.
- In the manufacture of side- or transverse-sealed plastic packaging bags a problem arises from time to time in that the mouth edge of the bag may tend to curl during the manufacturing process. This problem is particularly noticeable when producing the bags from a shrink film, due to the application of the heat to achieve the side seal or transverse seal between adjacent bags in a stream being produced, particularly when working with film thicknesses of smaller values. One solution to this problem has been to add a final step of trimming off the mouth edge material after formation of the side-sealed bags, in order that freshly exposed mouth edge will have a straight, uncurled configuration in the finished bag.
- It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel packaging bag which is resistant to the curling experienced with the prior art bags.
- A further object of the present invention is to provide a method of producing packaging bags which are resistant to the curling problem of the prior art.
- Yet a further object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for producing packaging bags which are resistant to this curling problem.
- According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a packaging bag comprising opposed first and second film plies joined at a closed end of the bag and sealed along lateral edges of the bag, said plies defining an open mouth end having a first edge of the first ply and a second edge of the second ply projecting beyond the first edge of the first ply, characterised in that the second edge comprises a folded over film portion to exhibit double thickness at the exposed end of the second ply.
- The turned over lip may define the mouth edge of a longer side of the bag which thus projects beyond the edge of the shorter opposite side of the bag. The turned over lip also therefore presents a rigidifying effect, which is particularly helpful in the case of packaging bags with a thickness at the smaller end of the available range of materials to be used, i.e. a lighter weight of film than is normal.
- A further aspect of the present invention provides apparatus for manufacturing a bag according to the first aspect, comprising means for feeding a flat folded tubular film material having first and second marginal folds along a film path, means for transversely sealing said tubular film at regularly spaced locations to define the joins between adjacent transverse-sealed bags formed from said tubular film material, means for taking up said succession of transverse sealed bags from said transverse sealing station, and means for slitting one flat wall of said flat-folded tubular film material adjacent said first fold of said film material to define said second mouth edge extending beyond said first mouth edge, said slitting means being mounted upstream of said transverse sealing station.
- A third aspect of the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a bag according to the first aspect, comprising feeding a flat-folded tubular film material along a machine direction while exhibiting first and second superposed plies extending between first and second marginal folds of said tubular film material, slitting said first ply adjacent said first marginal fold of said flat-folded tubular film material while leaving said second ply unslit whereby said second ply has a turned over edge at said first marginal fold of the tubular film material, downstream of said slitting station transversely sealing said tubular film material along a plurality of regularly spaced transverse seal lines which extend into said second ply at said turned over edge adjacent the first marginal fold of the tubular film material, and delivering the plurality of transverse-sealed packaging bags thus formed.
- By leaving the turned over lip in place at the mouth edge of the finished bag it is possible to utilize all of the film material of the flat-folded tubular film used as starting material for the manufacture of side-sealed bags, and this both provides better economy of material and also eliminates the complication of the need to remove the trimmed mouth edge as has been conventional as a way of avoiding curling in the finished bags.
- A fourth aspect of the invention provides a method of packaging, comprising taking a bag according to the first aspect, or a bag made by the method of the third aspect, and pneumatically inflating the mouth of said bag to separate the edge of said shorter first ply from said projecting edge of the second ply to initiate opening of the bag, and subsequently holding the bag open and introducing a product article into a respective said open bag.
- In order that the present invention may more readily be understood the following description is given, merely by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:-
- Fig. 1 is a top plan view of an embodiment of packaging bag in accordance with the first aspect of the present invention, in this case incorporating an optional easy open (EZO) feature
- Fig. 2 is a side sectional view of the bag of Fig. 1, taken along the line II-II of Fig. 1;
- Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a prior art form of bag making apparatus and process;
- Fig. 4 is a view corresponding to Fig. 3 but showing an embodiment of the bag making process and apparatus in accordance with the present invention in the special case of the EZO bag embodiment of Fig. 1; and
- Fig. 5 is a sectional view, taken on the line V-V of Fig. 2, showing the knife and anvil of the slitting station of the apparatus of Fig. 4.
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- The improved packaging bag shown in Fig. 1 is a side-sealed bag 1 having a closed end 1a at which are joined together first and second superposed
main panels opposite edges 4 and 5 by a heat-sealing operation. In this embodiment the closed end 1a is a first fold in the film material providing the two plies defining thepanels - The mouth of the bag is at the end opposite the closed end 1a and is formed by a folded
portion 7 of the secondmain panel 3 and acut edge 6 of the firstmain panel 2. - The manufacture of the mouth end involves using the second of the two folds of the flat folded film (12 in Figs. 3 and 4) of the plastic material used for the bag, the first fold being to define the closed end 1a, described above, of the bag.
- The production of the mouth end involves forming a cut at 7a in one of the two flat plies of the flat-folded tubular film adjacent to the
second fold 7 referred to above, in order to separate the first main ply from the co-planar folded over part of the film margin at thefold 7. As a result, at the mouth end the folded end of the main ply exhibits a double thickness of the film in one wall which projects beyond theend 6 of the main ply (other wall), thereby (i) allowing easier pneumatic inflation of the bag mouth in order to open the bag 1 for loading purposes, and (ii) resisting wrinkling in that the increase in thickness of the end of thepanel 3 at the folded end of the second ply helps to resist the tendency which the bag material would otherwise have to curl, as described above. - Adjacent the closed end 1a of the bag are
optional seal lines 8, 9a and 9b the purpose of which will be described later. - The film used for manufacturing the bag 1 may be a mono-layer film, but is preferably a multi-layer film having different functions for the individual layers of the bag. For example, (i) one of the intermediate layers of the bag material may be a barrier layer in order to control the transmission of gas (for example O2) between the interior and exterior of the bag when sealed, (ii) another of the layers of the bag material on the inside of bag will be a sealing layer facilitating sealing to a similar material for the purposes of closing the bag when loaded, and (iii) a third layer will be an abuse-resistant layer giving strength to the bag material. Other functions may also be provided, for example there may be tie layers between any of the above mentioned layers. The thickness of films suitable for the manufacture of transverse-sealed bags, including those according to the present invention, is typically comprised between about 35 and about 120 mm, preferably between about 40 and about 100 mm. Thicker films as well as thinner films,
e.g. films - The apparatus for producing a bag of the type shown in Figs. 1 and 2 will now be described with reference to Figures 3 and 4, Fig. 3 showing a prior art apparatus for manufacturing a strip of side-sealed packaging bags, and Fig. 4 showing a modification which produces the bags in accordance with the present invention.
- In Fig. 3 there is shown
bag making apparatus 10 which processes a flat foldedtubular film 12 which may either have come straight from a bubble extrusion manufacturing plant or may have been previously formed by bubble extrusion and then rolled up for reuse at a later date at which point the roll is unwound so that the film can be fed to thebag making apparatus 10. Initially thetubular material 12 arrives at abag opening station 14 which includes a horizontally arrangedknife blade 16 which can serve to slit thefilm 12 at the right-hand marginal fold as shown in Fig. 3. - Next the
film 12 arrives at an optionalair introduction station 18 including anair nozzle 20 which is supported on the machine frame and is cantilevered to extend across the width of the flat folded film to introduce air near the left-hand fold line (which corresponds to the closed end 1a in Figs. 1 and 2). This may be helpful in case bags with the optional EZO feature, which will be described later, are manufactured. - Next the
film 12 arrives at abottom forming station 22 which is optional but which in the present embodiment creates theseal lines 8, 9a and 9b to provide a particular easy open (EZO) configuration to the closed or bottom end of the bag so that the bag is substantially in accordance with US-A-6,260,705. The operation of this closed end will be described later with reference to the use of the finished bags. - The already slit film material then arrives at a
transverse sealing station 24 including vertically closable andopenable seal bars tubular film material 12 so as to define a plurality of spacedtransverse seal lines 30 which each include two spaced lines parallel sealing adjacent bags, one of such lines being associated with each of the adjacent bags, and between them a perforation line to allow the bags to be separated from one another at a downstream station. - As can be seen in Fig. 3, the bag material just at the
slitting station 14 and downstream therefrom, undergoes considerable curling particularly at the mouth end of the bag, and this results in pleats and wrinkles at the transverse sealing operation atstation 24, particularly when the film material is of a heat shrinkable nature. - In order to remove the unsightly curled mouth region from the bag, and to guard against the possibility of that curling leading to difficulties in opening the bag by a pneumatic opening device at the loading station, the selvage 34 of the film material along the right-hand fold of the
tubular material 12 is removed in its entirety by means of a vertically aligned trimming knife blade 32 which separates the selvage 34 to be sucked into anaspiration nozzle 36. - The chain of perforated and side-sealed bags downstream of the knife 32 can then either be wound up for subsequent use, or be separated and reassociated in shingled or imbricated form on guide tapes, or possibly stacked vertically and delivered as a wicket of stacked bags, depending upon the type of bag loader for which they are to be used.
- During the bag closing operation the mouth of the bag along the right-hand edge, corresponding to the right-
hand end 7 of the bag in Figs. 1 and 2, is closed by any convenient mechanism, preferably by heat seal bars, and then the bag can be subjected to a heat-shrinking operation which serves to tidy the structure of the bag around a product article which was loaded therein before the bag closing operation. Where the optionalbottom forming device 22 is present, the shrinking operation also results in formation of loose tabs or ears, illustrated by theportions ears - In order to complete description of the prior art apparatus of Fig.3, it is sufficient to indicate that initially the centre folded
film 12 is withdrawn from the supply and pulled past theslitting station 14, the optionalair introduction station 18, the optionalbottom forming station 22, the mouth separatingblade 40 and theheat sealing station 24 while itsjaws film material 12 can be inserted therebetween. Then the right-hand edge of the tubular film material at thefilm slitting station 14 is slit and the tubular material is placed over thehorizontal knife blade 16 such that the blade enters the slit which has thus been formed, and then subsequent movement of the tubular film material in the machine direction illustrated by arrow 21 will cause theblade 16 to continue slitting the film passing thereover. - Finally the leading end of the continuous perforated strip of bags is drawn to the slitting blade 32 where another slit is formed by the blade 32 to isolate the selvage 34 for continuous removal of the selvage 34 as the
machine 10 continues to operate with stepwise advancing of the film material synchronised with intermittent operation of thetransverse sealing station 24. - The difference between the prior art apparatus of Fig. 3 and the embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 4, which provides a bag in accordance with the present invention, resides in the fact that the
film opening station 14 of Fig. 3 is replaced by a modified bag slitting station in Fig. 4, where theknife blade 17 is vertically aligned as compared with the horizontal alignment of theknife blade 16 at thefilm slitting station 14 of Fig. 3. In Fig. 4 the tube-slitting blade 17 is associated with asupport 19 which carries both theknife blade 17 on the outside of thetubular film material 12 and an anvil (46 in Fig. 5) inside the tubular material so that theblade 17 can form a slit (illustrated at 7a in Fig. 2) in theupper ply 2 of thefilm 12 without penetrating thelower ply 3 of the film. It will be readily understood that this slit 7a formed by theknife blade 17 in Fig. 4 forms, at a single stroke, the bag mouth in accordance with the present invention. Thesupport 19 carrying the tube-slitting blade 17 and theanvil 46 is mounted on the machine frame so as to be released when desired, and so as to be adjustable in position in a direction transverse to the machine direction (i.e. to the direction of movement of the film web 12). - The apparatus of Fig. 4 again includes the optional bottom-forming
station 22 which may be used in conjunction with the optional air-introduction station 18 also shown in Figure 3. Preferably the optionalair introduction station 18 can be located on thecarrier 19 of theslitting station 15. However, it is equally possible for theair introduction station 18 to be positioned downstream of theslitting station 15 but upstream of the optionalbottom forming station 22. - The
transverse sealing station 24 in Fig. 4 is identical to that of Fig. 3 and will not be described in more detail. - A further difference between the device of Fig. 4 in accordance with the present invention and the prior art embodiment of Fig. 3 is that there is no longer any need to remove the selvage material as shown at 32, 34, 36 in Fig. 3 because the reinforcement of the mouth portion, relying on the staggered
mouth edges 6 and 7 (Fig. 2) and the folded over configuration of the projecting edge 7 (Fig. 1), rigidifies the bag structure sufficiently to eliminate the curling, and the absence of curling can be readily appreciated from the drawing of Fig. 4. - As in the case of the Fig. 3 embodiment, the perforated chain of bags delivered at the far end of the apparatus as viewed in Fig. 4 can then either be immediately separated into individual bags for wicketing or imbricating or can remain as a chain of side-sealed bags for rolling up and storage.
- Both the Fig. 3 prior art embodiment and the Fig. 4 embodiment of the present invention include also a mouth separating
blade 40 which serves merely to hold the right-hand edges of the upper 2 and lower 3 plies of the foldedfilm 12 apart from one another and to guide them into the area between thejaws transverse sealing station 24. As in the Fig. 3 apparatus, thesealing station 24 in Fig. 4 operates in an intermittent manner synchronously with the stepwise movement of the bag chain. - The modified apparatus 11 of Fig. 4 is threaded up in a similar manner except that the combined
tube slitting station 15 and the optionalair introduction station 18 provide for (i) thesupport 19 with theblade 17 to be removed from the bag path and for the nozzle then to be introduced between theopposed plies film 12 once a slit (7a in Fig. 2) has been formed manually, and (ii) the air introduction station 18 (where fitted) to be similarly removed and then replaced after slitting the tube manually. The film material can then be advanced such that the anvil (46 in Fig. 2) at theslitting station 15 and the air nozzle 20a of the optionalair introduction station 18 can be introduced into the space between the two opposed plies (2 and 3 in Fig. 1) while theknife blade 17 is positioned above theupper ply 2 and is able to slit only the upper ply while leaving the lower ply intact as illustrated in Fig. 2. The rest of the threading-up operation is the same for the apparatus 11 of Fig. 4 as it is for theapparatus 10 of Fig. 3, except that there is no need to form the downstream slit at knife blade 32 for the selvage-removing operation. - The
anvil 46 and theslitting blade 17 of Fig. 4 are also adjustable in a direction perpendicular to the machine direction for accommodating flat foldedfilms 12 of different widths. - In order to illustrate more clearly the operation of the combined
air introduction station 18 and thefilm slitting station 15 in Fig. 4, reference will now be made to Fig. 5 which shows theknife blade 17 on thecarrier 19 and in the process of forming the cut 7a in theupper ply 2 of thematerial 12a and leaving the underneath ply 3 uncut. - In order to establish the precise configuration for Fig. 5 it should be noted that this drawing is taken on the line V-V of Fig. 2, in other words at the location of the slit 7a of Fig. 2, and for that reason a
sub-carrier 42 which has a clamp (not shown) to support theblade 17 thereon is illustrated in broken lines in Fig. 5 but in fact this is just in front of the plane of the paper and would therefore, strictly speaking, not be visible in Fig. 5. In other words, theblade 17 is clamped to the back face of thesub-carrier 42, and that face is in the plane of the paper of Fig. 2. - The
sub-carrier 42 is bolted to themain carrier 19 by means of bolts (not shown) which engage inholes 44 of themain carrier 19. - As mentioned earlier, the
entire carrier 19 is releasably mounted on the machine frame so that it can be introduced into the already slit tubular film so that subsequent operation of the apparatus will continue the slitting action. - The
carrier 19, and thesub-carrier 42 and the air introduction nozzle 20a carried thereby, are in this way able to be rigidly mounted on the machine frame once it has been introduced into the already pre-positioned tubular film. - It should be noted that the lower film ply 3 is shown in section along its entire length in Fig. 5 and the upper film ply 2 is only shown in section up to the point where it arrives at the tip of the
slitting blade 17. Thereafter it has been slit and the exposedface 6 of theply 2 can be seen, except where it is concealed behind the rear surface of themain carrier 19. - In order to explain in more detail the way in which the tear initiation formation provided by the bottom-defining
means 22 is structured, reference will now again be made to Fig. 1 which shows this optional characteristic as comprising afirst seal line 8 which is parallel to and disposed inwardly of the fold defining the bottom end 1a of the bag, and a pair of additional seal lines 9a, 9b which start from the bottom end 1a of the bag and converge towards one another in a direction towards theseal line 8. In this particular embodiment these additional lines 9a and 9b meet at theseal line 8, but this is not essential to the operation of the easy open means defined by thelines 8, 9a, 9b. - An "easy-open" (EZO) pre-cut line 9c extends longitudinally of the bag (i.e. perpendicularly to the
seal line 8 and to the bottom end 1a of the bag so as to define a point of initiation of a tear when the bag is to be open. This opening operation will occur after the open end of the bag at 6, 7 has been sealed and the thus sealed bag has been subjected to a shrinking operation. - It is possible for the bag closing operation to involve placing the loaded bag into a vacuum chamber which exposes the exterior of the sealed bag to reduced pressure causing the bag to balloon slightly, and causing the sealed
pockets seal line 8 and the closed mouth end of the bag will hug the contours of the product within the bag to provide a tidy package, but thepockets - The fact that there is air within these
pockets pockets pockets - It will of course be understood that the existence of the perforation line 9c is optional, and that instead some other form of tear-initiating formation could be provided. One possibility would be for a hole to be formed centrally in the triangular region defined between the fold line 1a of the tubular film material and the converging additional seal lines 9a, 9b. Another would be to provide a notch at the fold line 1a, again within the triangular zone defined between the fold line 1a and the converging additional seal lines 9a, 9b. However, such a tear-initiating means could be omitted and one could rely simply on the fact that it is easy to apply tearing tension to the film material simply by grasping the two ears defined by the
pockets - As indicated above, the tear-initiating
bottom formation
Claims (15)
- A packaging bag comprising opposed first (2) and second (3) film plies joined at a closed end (1a) of the bag and sealed along lateral edges (4, 5) of the bag, said plies (2, 3) defining an open mouth end having a first edge (6) of the first ply (2) and a second edge (7) of the second ply (3) projecting beyond the first edge (6) of the first ply, characterised in that the second edge (7) comprises a folded over film portion to exhibit double thickness at the exposed end of the second ply (3).
- A bag in accordance to claim 1, wherein the two plies (2, 3) are joined at a fold line defining the closed end (1a)
- A bag according to claim 1 or 2, including at the closed end of the bag a first seal line (8) joining the first and second plies (2, 3) and further seal lines (9a, 9b) extending from the closed bottom (1a) of the bag and converging toward one another in a direction towards the further seal line (8).
- A bag in accordance to claim 3, wherein said further seal lines (9a, 9b) meet at the said additional seal line (8).
- Apparatus for manufacturing a plurality of packaging bags according to claim 1, comprising means for feeding a flat folded tubular film material (12) having first and second marginal folds along a film path, means (24) for transversely sealing said tubular film at regularly spaced locations to define the joins between adjacent transverse-sealed bags to formed from said tubular film material, means for taking up said succession of transverse sealed bags from said transverse sealing station, and means (17) for slitting one flat wall (2) of said flat-folded tubular film material (12) adjacent said first fold of said film material to define said second mouth edge (7) extending beyond said first mouth edge (6), said slitting means (17) being mounted upstream of said transverse sealing station (24).
- Apparatus according to claim 5, and further including means defining a tear-initiating formation (8, 9a, 9b) at said closed end (1a) of the bags by heat sealing said flat-folded tubular film adjacent its second marginal fold.
- Apparatus according to claim 6 and including an air introduction nozzle (20a) extending transversely across and within said tubular film material either at said slitting station (15) or downstream of it but before the heat sealing of the flat-folded tubular film adjacent its second marginal fold, for introducing air into the space between said superposed plies (2, 3).
- Apparatus according to any one of claims 5 to 7, wherein said slitting station comprises an anvil (46) arranged to be disposed within said tubular film material at said slitting station and to extend upstream from a carrier (19), and a slitting blade (17) disposed adjacent said anvil (46) whereby said slitting blade will slit only said first ply (2) passing over said anvil (46).
- Apparatus according to claim 8, wherein said anvil (46) and said slitting blade (17) are fixed to said carrier (19), and including means for releasably attaching said main carrier (19) to the machine frame.
- A method of making a plurality of packaging bags according to claim 1, comprisingfeeding a flat-folded tubular film material (12) along a machine direction while exhibiting first and second superposed plies (2, 3) extending between first and second marginal folds of said tubular film material,slitting said first ply (2) adjacent said first marginal fold of said flat-folded tubular film material while leaving said second ply unslit whereby said second ply has a turned over edge at said first marginal fold of the tubular film material (12),downstream of said slitting station (15) transversely sealing said tubular film material along a plurality of regularly spaced transverse seal lines which extend into said second ply at said turned over edge adjacent the first marginal fold of the tubular film material (12), anddelivering the plurality of transverse-sealed packaging bags thus formed.
- A method according to claim 10, wherein said transverse sealing operation applies closely spaced seal lines defining lateral margins (4, 5) of adjacent transverse-sealed bags, and between said closely spaced seal lines a line of weakness permitting subsequent separation of said adjacent bags from one another.
- A method according to claim 10 or claim 11, and including the further step of separating said transverse-sealed bags from one another and presenting them in a package ready for subsequent use at a bag loader.
- A method according to any one of claims 10 to 12, and including the further step of applying, at said second marginal fold of the tubular film material, a longitudinally extending seal line spaced inwardly from said second fold of the tubular film material, and applying additional seal lines which extend from said second fold line in a converging manner towards said additional seal line.
- A method according to any one of claims 10 to 13, wherein said tubular film material is formed of a shrinkable plastic film.
- A method of packaging comprising taking a bag according to any one of claims 1 to 4 or manufactured by the method of any one of claims 10 to 14, and pneumatically inflating the mouth of said bag to separate the edge (6) of said shorter first ply (2) from said projecting edge (7) of the second ply (3) to initiate opening of the bag, and subsequently holding the bag open and introducing a product article into a respective said open bag.
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