US 2018/0002051 A1 · PROCESS AND DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING A PACK OF PRODUCTS COMPRISING A HANDLE

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a process for manufacturing a pack of products (1) having a bottom side (2) and an opposite top side (3), comprising a handle (5) formed over the top side (3) and adapted to be grasped by hand, wherein the process comprises the following steps:—providing the products (1) to be packaged;—fitting a binding structure around the products (1) to bind them;—forming a handle (5) by wrapping a plastic film (4) around the bound products (1) over at least one turn, the plastic film (4) covering at least most of the bottom side (2) and being gathered to a reduced width over the top side (3) to form the handle (5). The present invention is also directed to a device for manufacturing a pack of products (1).

Claims15

Dependent claims

A process for manufacturing a pack of products having a bottom side and an opposite top side, comprising a handle formed over the top side and adapted to be grasped by hand, wherein the process comprises the steps:

providing the products to be packaged;
fitting a binding structure around the products to bind them;
and
forming a handle by wrapping a plastic film around the bound products over at least one turn in which the plastic film covers at least most of the bottom side and is gathered to a reduced width over the top side to form the handle.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/536,776Filed 10 Dec 2015

Priority

EP 14198356.916 Dec 2014

Published

4 Jan 2018

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B65B 61/14
Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages: for incorporating,…
B65B 11/58
Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material: applying two…
B65B 21/245
Enclosing bottles in wrappers: in flexible wrappers, e.g. foils
B65B 27/04
Bundling particular articles presenting special problems using string, wire, or narrow tape or band; Baling fibrous material, e.g. peat, not…:…

Process and device for manufacturing a pack of products comprising a handle

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Process and device for manufacturing a pack of products comprising a handle

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Abstract

Claims15