US20140134302A1 - Damage Resistant Package - Google Patents
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- FIG. 5 is a schematic view of an apparatus for constructing a damage resistant package.
Abstract
A package has inner and outer layers of formed web material. The outer layer has a bottom wall portion, and has a side wall portion projecting upward from the bottom wall portion. A flange portion of the outer layer projects outward from an upper end of the side wall portion. The inner layer has bottom and side wall portions defining a cavity for containing a product. The inner layer further has a flange portion that is sealed to the flange portion of the outer layer fully around the upper end of the cavity. The bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer, and are unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer.
Description
- This application claims priority to provisional U.S. Patent Application 61/763,701, filed Feb. 12, 2013, and to provisional U.S. Patent Application 61/725,813, filed Nov. 13, 2012, both of which are incorporated by reference
- This technology includes packages for containing products with parts that could damage the package.
- Packaging items with sharp edges or containing hard protruding parts to protect them during handling at manufacturing, shipping, handling onto store shelves and at home has long been a challenge to the packaging industry. Particularly damaging is the abrasion caused by these sharp edges or hard protruding parts during shipment over long distances.
- To prevent the sharp edges or hard protruding parts from puncturing the package and thus compromising the package integrity, it is typical for the industry to either use very thick and puncture resistant materials, or to add separators between the object containing the sharp edges and the package, such as foamed plastics, loose expanded Styrofoam, additional layers of cardboard or so-called pads of various constitutions.
- However, such practice can prove either impracticable in certain situations or cost prohibitive. Such a case is constituted by the packaging of so-called bone-in meat in formed, vacuumed, plastic containers whereby the abrasion caused by protruding bones from meat parts during handling and shipping in vacuum packs causes significant amounts of leakers, i.e., bones puncturing their way during handling and shipping through the packaging material. Initial attempts in adding bulk to the package material to theoretically increase the force or abrasion required to puncture the thicker material have proven ineffective in reducing the amount of leakers, thus only increasing cost and environmental burden.
- Adding padding in form of foamed pads into the formed package to prevent damage to the walls of the package is cost prohibitive, adds significant complexity to the packing process, reducing product visibility, not to mention its unappealing appearance to consumers. The current practice adds so-called pads or reinforcement parts to packages in order to prevent sharp edges or protruding parts from puncturing the outside wall of the packages. Such packages are typically pouches into which pads are added and fixed through various means to the walls or parts of said pouches. Another type of pouch using the addition of pads is a so-called heat-shrinkable pouch.
- Furthermore, in order to overcome the puncturing of the pads and/or the outer pouch, various multilayered structures use various tough resins such as polyamide, metallocene catalyzed polyethylene etc. in order to improve the toughness of the materials used.
- When used in a heat-shrink application or when used in a vacuum or modified atmosphere package applications, the added protection in the pack has to be designed and added in such a manner as to allow vacuum to be drawn between the added protective material and the outer package material, thus the added protection can't necessarily cover the entire surface of the package, but has to be precisely placed in a strategic location where most of the sharp objects are located.
- In the absence of additional padding material, when using a thermoformed container in order to vacuum pack products, such thermoformed part is either a single layer material (if no particular requirements to gas barrier, mechanical performance etc. are required) or made out of multilayered materials in order to engineer barrier protection for instance against oxygen and moisture loss, potentially adding UV-light protection and offering a heat sealable layer for a permanently fused or peelable lid to close the package after applying vacuum on it. State of the art in such packages is to ascertain that all the layers properly adhere firmly to each other, such as to prevent the pack from so-called delamination and maintaining product protection. Such packages have limited puncture and abrasion resistance to sharp objects or to hard protruding parts such as bones in a piece of meat.
- A package has inner and outer layers of formed web material. The outer layer has a bottom wall portion, and has a side wall portion projecting upward from the bottom wall portion. A flange portion of the outer layer projects outward from an upper end of the side wall portion.
- The inner layer has bottom and side wall portions defining a cavity for containing a product. The inner layer further has a flange portion that is sealed to the flange portion of the outer layer fully around the upper end of the cavity. The bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer, and are unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer.
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FIG. 1 is perspective view of a damage resistant package. -
FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the package ofFIG. 1 . -
FIG. 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 ofFIG. 2 . -
FIG. 4 is a view similar toFIG. 2 , showing an alternative package. -
FIG. 5 is a schematic view of an apparatus for constructing a damage resistant package. - The apparatus shown in the drawings has parts that are examples of the elements recited in the claims. The illustrated apparatus thus includes examples of how a person of ordinary skill in the art can make and use the claimed invention. It is described here to meet the enablement and best mode requirements of the patent statute without imposing limitations that are not recited in the claims.
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FIG. 1 , apackage 10 includes acontainer 12 and a sealedlid 14. Thecontainer 12 defines acavity 17 for containing one or more products, and is constructed to resist abrasion, puncturing, and other damage that could be caused by the products pressing or moving against thecontainer 12. Accordingly, thecontainer 12 is especially well suited to securely contain a food product having hard, sharp or protruding parts such as, for example, a bone-in meat product 20 (shown schematically). - As best shown in
FIGS. 2 and 3 , thecontainer 12 is constructed with multiple layers of formed plastic web material. These include anouter layer 30 and aninner layer 32. Thelid 14 reaches over thecavity 17, and is sealed to bothlayers container 12 at the top of thepackage 10. The thickness of thelayers lid 14 is exaggerated in the drawings for clarity of illustration. - The
outer layer 30 of thecontainer 12 has a flatbottom wall portion 36 defining the bottom of thecontainer 12. Aside wall portion 38 of theouter layer 30 has foursections 40 projecting upward from thebottom wall portion 36 to provide thecontainer 12 with the shape of a rectangular tray. Aflange portion 42 of theouter layer 30 projects outward from the upper end of theside wall portion 38. - The
inner layer 32 of thecontainer 12 also has flatbottom wall portion 46 and an upwardly projectingside wall portion 48. Thebottom wall portion 46 of theinner layer 32 defines the bottom of thecavity 17. Theside wall portion 48 has foursections 50 defining the sides of thecavity 17 in a rectangular peripheral shape substantially the same as the outer peripheral shape of thecontainer 12. Aflange portion 52 of theinner layer 32 projects outward from the upper end of theside wall portion 48, and reaches over theflange portion 42 of theouter layer 30 in overlying contact. Anouter edge portion 54 of thelid 14 likewise overlies theflange portion 52 of theinner layer 32. Athermal weld 56 seals theedge portion 54 of thelid 14 and theflange portions layers cavity 17 fully around the top of thepackage 10. - As further shown in
FIGS. 2 and 3 , the bottom andside wall portions inner layer 32 are nested within the bottom andside wall outer layer 30 in overlying contact. However, the bottom andside wall portions inner layer 32 are not attached to the bottom andside wall outer layer 30. More specifically, thelayers cavity 17. The close fit can accommodate movement of theinner layer 32 relative to theouter layer 30 when thefood product 20 presses or moves against theinner layer 32 or, alternatively, can resist or block such movement even though thelayers cavity 17. This adjoining but unattached arrangement is found to provide thecontainer 12 with superior resistance to being abraded or punctured by sharp or protruding portions of thefood product 20 in thecavity 17. - The
lid 14 and eachlayer container 12 may be formed of any suitable material or combination of materials known in the art. Preferred examples of materials for theouter layer 30 include Surlyn, polyamide, polyolefin, and polyester materials and copolymers thereof. Examples of preferred materials for theinner layer 32 include Surlyn and tough, resilient polyolefin materials such as low density polyethylene, ultra-low density polyethylene, and ethylenevinylacetate type materials, and polyamides and copolymers thereof. Either or both of thelayers container 12. Examples of preferred barrier layer materials include ethylenevinylalcohol (EVOH), polyvinylalcohol (PVOH), and derivatives thereof, as well as cycloolefincopolymer (COC) as a moisture barrier or stiffness agent. Thelid 14 preferably has a so-called peelable weld to facilitate the user's access to thefood product 20 in thepackage 10. - A
package 100 comprising a second embodiment of the invention is shown inFIG. 4 . Thispackage 100 has acontainer 112 that differs from thecontainer 12 in thepackage 10 described above. Specifically, thecontainer 112 in the second embodiment has anintermediate layer 120 of formed plastic web material interposed between the inner andouter layers - The
intermediate layer 120 has bottom andside wall portions outer layers intermediate layer 120 further has aflange portion 126 projecting outward between the flange portions of the inner andouter layers thermal weld 128 seals theflange portion 126 of theintermediate layer 120 to the flange portions of the inner andouter layers cavity 17. - The bottom and
side wall portions intermediate layer 120 are fitted closely to adjoin the corresponding portions of the inner andouter layers cavity 17, but are unattached to the inner andouter layers cavity 17. Like the inner andouter layers intermediate layer 120 can be formed of any suitable material or combination of materials known in the art, and other embodiments can include multiple intermediate layers in the same configuration and closely fitted, unattached arrangement. In each case, this provides thecontainer 112 with more greatly enhanced resistance to abrasion and puncturing under contact with thefood product 20. - An example of an
apparatus 200 for constructing thepackage 10, thepackage 100, or another alternative embodiment as described above, is shown schematically inFIG. 5 . Theapparatus 200 includes awound roll 202 of plastic material in the form of aweb 204. Theweb 204 has layers to provide theouter layer 30, theinner layer 32, and anyintermediate layers 120 of thecontainer complete web 204 that includes all of the desired container layers. - The
web 204 is advanced past a preheatingstation 206 at which it is preheated for vacuum forming at athermoforming station 208. Thethermoforming station 208 includes amold cavity 211 in whichsuccessive sections 212 of theheated web 204 are vacuum formed into the shape of the container. Thefood products 20 are placed in thecavities 17 in the succession of formedcontainer sections 212 as theweb 204 is advanced through a loading area 214. Anotherweb 216 is withdrawn from awound roll 220 of lid material, and is fed to a sealingstation 222 at whichsuccessive sections 224 of thelid web 216 are thermally welded onto the formedsections 212 of thecontainer web 204. Anoptional printing station 226 follows the sealingstation 222, and theindividual packages webs station 228. - This written description sets forth the best mode of carrying out the invention, and describes the invention so as to enable a person skilled in the art to make and use the invention, by presenting examples of the elements recited in the claims. The patentable scope of the invention is defined by the claims, and may include other examples that occur to those skilled in the art. For example, a container and/or package constructed in accordance with the invention can have a circular or other nonrectangular peripheral shape. Other examples of suitable forming processes include cold vacuum forming, impact forming, and plug-assisted vacuum forming. Such other examples, which may be available either before or after the application filing date, are intended to be within the scope of the claims if they have structural elements that do not differ from the literal language of the claims, or if they have equivalent structural elements with insubstantial difference from the literal language of the claims.
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1. A package comprising:
an outer layer of formed web material having a bottom wall portion, a side wall portion projecting upward from the bottom wall portion, and a flange portion projecting outward from an upper end of the side wall portion; and
an inner layer of formed web material having bottom and side wall portions defining a cavity for containing a product, and having a flange portion projecting outward from an upper end of the cavity, with the flange portion of the inner layer sealed to the flange portion of the outer layer fully around the upper end of the cavity;
wherein the bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer, and are unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer.
2. A package as defined in claim 1 wherein the bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer in overlying contact.
3. A package as defined in claim 1 further comprising an intermediate layer of formed web material having bottom and side wall portions nested between the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers, and having a flange portion projecting outward between the flange portions of the inner and outer layers, with the flange portion of the intermediate layer sealed to the flange portions of the inner and outer layers fully around the upper end of the cavity, and with the bottom and side wall portions of the intermediate layer unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers.
4. A package as defined in claim 1 further comprising a plurality of intermediate layers of formed web material, each of which has bottom and side wall portions nested between the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers, and each of which has a flange portion projecting outward between the flange portions of the inner and outer layers, with the flange portion of each intermediate layer sealed to the flange portions of the inner and outer layers fully around the upper end of the cavity, and with the bottom and side wall portions of each intermediate layer unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers.
5. A package as defined in claim 1 wherein the formed web material is vacuum formed web material.
6. A package as defined in claim 1 wherein the outer layer is shaped as a rectangular tray.
7. A package comprising:
an outer layer of formed web material having a bottom wall portion, a side wall portion projecting upward from the bottom wall portion, and a flange portion projecting outward from an upper end of the side wall portion;
an inner layer of formed web material having bottom and side wall portions defining a cavity for containing a food product, and having a flange portion projecting outward from an upper end of the cavity;
a food product in the cavity; and
a lid layer of web material reaching over the upper end of the cavity, projecting outward over the flange portions of the inner and outer layers, and sealed to the flange portions of the inner and outer layers fully around the upper end of the cavity;
wherein the bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer, and are unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer.
8. A package as defined in claim 7 wherein the food product is movable within the cavity, and the bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer in overlying contact that accommodates movement of the inner layer relative to the outer layer under the influence of the food product.
9. A package as defined in claim 7 wherein the food product is movable within the cavity, and the bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer in overlying contact that resists movement of the inner layer relative to the outer layer under the influence of the food product.
10. A package as defined in claim 7 wherein the food product is movable within the cavity, and the bottom and side wall portions of the inner layer are nested within the bottom and side wall portions of the outer layer in overlying contact that blocks movement of the inner layer relative to the outer layer under the influence of the food product.
11. A package as defined in claim 7 further comprising an intermediate layer of formed web material having bottom and side wall portions nested between the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers, and having a flange portion projecting outward between the flange portions of the inner and outer layers, with the flange portion of the intermediate layer sealed to the flange portions of the inner and outer layers fully around the upper end of the cavity, and with the bottom and side wall portions of the intermediate layer unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers.
12. A package as defined in claim 7 further comprising a plurality of intermediate layers of formed web material, each of which has bottom and side wall portions nested between the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers, and each of which has a flange portion projecting outward between the flange portions of the inner and outer layers, with the flange portion of each intermediate layer sealed to the flange portions of the inner and outer layers fully around the upper end of the cavity, and with the bottom and side wall portions of each intermediate layer unattached to the bottom and side wall portions of the inner and outer layers.
13. A package as defined in claim 7 wherein the formed web material is vacuum formed web material.
14. A package as defined in claim 7 wherein the outer layer is shaped as a rectangular tray.
15. A package as defined in claim 7 wherein the food product comprises bone-in meat.
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