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EP2669199A1
EP2669199A1 EP13168868.1A EP13168868A EP2669199A1 EP 2669199 A1 EP2669199 A1 EP 2669199A1 EP 13168868 A EP13168868 A EP 13168868A EP 2669199 A1 EP2669199 A1 EP 2669199A1
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Ivanoe Bertuzzi
Antonio Vitali
Andrea Biondi
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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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1081—Inserts or accessories added or joined to the container, e.g. coins, pens, cards, spacers
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/228—Preparing and feeding blanks
    • 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
    • B65B51/00—Devices for, or methods of, sealing or securing package folds or closures; Devices for gathering or twisting wrappers, or necks of bags
    • B65B51/10—Applying or generating heat or pressure or combinations thereof
    • 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
    • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
    • 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
    • B65D85/00—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials
    • B65D85/07—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles
    • B65D85/08—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10—Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
    • B65D85/1036—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank
    • B65D85/1045—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank having a cap-like lid hinged to an edge
    • B65D85/1056—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank having a cap-like lid hinged to an edge characterized by the lid
    • B65D85/10564—Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank having a cap-like lid hinged to an edge characterized by the lid having means for holding the lid in a closed position

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  • This invention relates to a method for making a packet for elongate smokers' articles.
  • Hard, hinged-lid packets for cigarettes are currently the cigarette packets of the most widespread type on the market because they are simple to make, easy and practical to use and provide good mechanical protection for the cigarettes they contain.
  • a hard, hinged-lid packet for cigarettes comprises an inner wrapper, usually made of metallized paper, placed around a group of cigarettes, and a hard outer container which receives the inner wrapper.
  • the outer container comprises an open top container body with upward facing concavity and which receives the group of cigarettes placed in the inner wrapper, and a lid with downward facing concavity and which is joined to the container body along a hinge allowing it to rotate relative to the container body between an open position and a closed position.
  • a hard reinforcement frame made of paperboard was placed inside the inner wrapper and around the group of cigarettes to keep the inner wrapper in the correct configuration and protect the cigarettes during folding of the inner wrapping sheet itself. It has, however, been found that the position of the inner wrapper relative to this hard reinforcement frame is not very stable, especially after some of the cigarettes have been taken out of the packet, because handling the packet to take out the cigarettes tends to cause the inner wrapper to move sideways relative to the reinforcement frame.
  • hinged-lid packets different from the hinged-lid packets described above, having an inner wrapper placed around the cigarettes and housed in an outer container.
  • This invention has for an aim to provide a method for making a packet for elongate smokers' articles and which overcomes the above mentioned problem.
  • the numeral 1 in Figures 1 and 2 denotes in its entirety a hard, hinged-lid cigarette packet comprising a hollow outer container 2 made of stiff card or paperboard and an inner wrapper 3 housed inside the container 2.
  • the inner wrapper 3 encloses a group 4 of cigarettes 5 and is made, for example, of metallized paper.
  • the group 4 is substantially in the shape of a parallelepiped.
  • the outer container 2 has an open top end 6 and is provided with a hollow lid 7 joined to the container 2 along a hinge 8 allowing it to rotate relative to the container 2 itself between an open position (illustrated in Figure 2 ) and a closed position (illustrated in Figure 1 ) where the open top end 6 is open and closed, respectively.
  • the packet 1 also comprises an inner frame 16, which is folded into a U shape and fixed (normally by gluing) to the inside of the outer container 2 in such a way as to protrude partly from the open top end 6 and to engage a corresponding inside surface of the lid 7 when the lid 7 is in the aforementioned closed position.
  • the inner frame 16 is made of stiff card or paperboard and comprises a front wall 17 in contact with the front wall 11 of the outer container 2 and two side walls 18 located on opposite sides of the front wall 17 and in contact with the small side walls 13 of the outer container 2.
  • the inner frame 16 has a pair of tabs 19 which protrude laterally to engage the side walls of the lid 7 by interference in such a way as to keep the lid 7 in the closed position.
  • the inner wrapper 3 houses a stabilizing support member 23 or inner reinforcement, whose inside surface is in contact with a front and two sides of the group 4 of cigarettes 5 and which is surrounded by the inner wrapper 3 at a front wall 3' and two small side walls 3" of the inner wrapper 3.
  • the stabilizing support member 23 has a portion, constituted by its front wall 23', which is in contact with the front wall 3' of the inner wrapper 3, two side walls 23", which are in contact with corresponding side walls 3" of the inner wrapper 3, and is made of stiff card or paperboard identical to the stiff card or paperboard the outer container 2 and the inner frame 16 are made of.
  • the wall 23' of the stabilizing support member 23 adheres to a front of the group 4 of cigarettes 5, whilst the side walls 23" adhere to two sides of the group 4.
  • the stabilizing support member 23 has a front dimension which is smaller than the dimension of the front wall 11 of the outer container 2 and is delimited at the top by an edge 23a which substantially reproduces the shape of the top edge 16' of the inner frame 16 and which is positioned just under the edge 16' so it is hidden from view when the packet 1 is opened.
  • the function of the stabilizing support member 23 is to keep the inner wrapper 3 in the correct configuration, even when some of the cigarettes 5 have been taken out of the packet 1, and to protect the cigarettes 5 when the sheet of wrapping material constituting the inner wrapper 3 itself is folded.
  • a portion of the inside surface of the front wall 3' of the inner wrapper 3 is covered by a deposit 24 of adhesive material, consisting preferably of hot-melt glue.
  • the deposit 24 covers a substantially central, rectangular zone of the front wall 3', but it might be of any shape and size or it might be substituted for two or more deposits of adhesive material.
  • the adhesive material might be present also, or alternatively, on the inside surface of one or both of the small side walls 3" of the inner wrapper 3.
  • the adhesive material instead of on the inside surface of the walls 3' and/or 3" of the inner wrapper 3, might be applied to the adjacent walls 23' and/or 23" of the stabilizing support member 23 in contact with the inner wrapper 3 itself.
  • a particularly advantageous method of applying and managing the adhesive material mentioned above consists in applying the deposits 24 of hot-melt glue on a web 25 from which the sheets 26 that will form the inner wrappers 3 will later be cut off.
  • the deposits 24 must be applied on the web 25 at a spacing equal to the length of the sheets 26 and must be positioned on the sheets 26 themselves in such a way as to adhere to the correct parts of the walls 23', 23" of the stabilizing support members 23 when the inner wrapper 3 is formed.
  • the inner wrappers 3 might be made from sheets 26 picked from a stack. In this case, a deposit 24 of hot-melt glue must already be present on each of the sheets 26.
  • each inner wrapper 3 just made by a packing unit schematically represented as a block C1, and containing a group 4 of cigarettes 5 partly surrounded by a stabilizing support member 23, is made to pass between two parallel belt conveyors 27 which gently compress the front wall 3' and the wall opposite to it.
  • the conveyor 27 adjacent to the front wall 3' is heated and its contact with the inner wrappers 3 heats by conduction and reactivates the hot-melt glue of the deposits 24 on the inner wrappers 3, thus causing the front walls 3' of the inner wrappers 3 to be glued to the adjacent front walls 23' of the stabilizing support members 23.
  • the glue of the deposits 24 cools down and the front walls 3' of the inner wrappers 3 stick firmly to the walls 23' of the stabilizing support members 23. If deemed useful, the inner wrappers 3 might be made to pass with their front walls 3' in contact with cooling elements so that the hot-melt glue sets more quickly.
  • the adhesive material is present also, or alternatively, on the inside surface of one or both of the small side walls 3" of the inner wrappers 3, or has been applied to any other point of the inner wrapper 3 in contact with a portion of a stabilizing support member 23 (whatever the shape of the stabilizing support members 23, since their shape might differ from that described) the glue must be reactivated by causing the portions of the inner wrappers 3 just formed to pass by in contact with the heated surfaces.
  • the glue is applied to the stabilizing support members 23 instead of on the sheets 26 that will form the inner wrappers 3.
  • the glue of the deposits 24 might be heated by making the inner wrappers 3 just made pass through an electromagnetic field emitter device (of essentially known type) capable of heating by induction the metallic material contained in the sheets 26.
  • the glue of the deposits 24 might also be reactivated in the ways described above by acting on the finished packets 1, where the inner wrappers 3 have already been enclosed within corresponding outer containers 2.
  • the above described stabilizing support member 23 constitutes a structure for stabilizing and supporting the inner wrapper 3 and connected to portions of the selfsame inner wrapper 3 by means of an adhesive substance.
  • stabilizing support structure might, however, also be performed by the inner frame 16 which, if deemed necessary, might be larger in size than shown in Figure 3 , and part of its inside surface might be glued to the outside surface of the respective inner wrapper 3 in ways similar to those described above.
  • stabilizing support structure might also be performed by the outer container 2, a part of whose inside surface might be glued to the outside surface of the respective inner wrapper 3 in ways similar to those described above.
  • the deposit 24 of hot-melt glue is preferably applied to the sheet material that will make up the inner wrappers 3 or the stabilizing support members 23 or the outer containers 2 outside the packing machine C1 before the packets 1 are made and is then left to cool so that it loses its adhesive properties.

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US2825343A (en) * 1954-10-07 1958-03-04 James F Heffernan Cigarette package
FR2267258A1 (en) * 1974-04-10 1975-11-07 Focke Pfuhl Verpack Automat Cigarette packet has reinforced faces and thin flaps - esp. of laminated sheet giving robust case with easily folded flaps
EP0917947A2 (de) * 1997-11-20 1999-05-26 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von Klappschachteln für Zigaretten
EP1702848A1 (de) * 2005-03-17 2006-09-20 G.D.S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von Verpackungen für Tabakprodukte
EP2167401B1 (de) * 2007-07-02 2011-07-06 G.D Societa' per Azioni Zigarettenpackung

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US2825343A (en) * 1954-10-07 1958-03-04 James F Heffernan Cigarette package
FR2267258A1 (en) * 1974-04-10 1975-11-07 Focke Pfuhl Verpack Automat Cigarette packet has reinforced faces and thin flaps - esp. of laminated sheet giving robust case with easily folded flaps
EP0917947A2 (de) * 1997-11-20 1999-05-26 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von Klappschachteln für Zigaretten
EP1702848A1 (de) * 2005-03-17 2006-09-20 G.D.S.p.A. Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Herstellen von Verpackungen für Tabakprodukte
EP2167401B1 (de) * 2007-07-02 2011-07-06 G.D Societa' per Azioni Zigarettenpackung

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CN109803894A (zh) * 2016-09-30 2019-05-24 Jt国际股份公司 用于包装吸烟制品的方法和设备
CN109803894B (zh) * 2016-09-30 2021-12-24 Jt国际股份公司 用于包装吸烟制品的方法和设备

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