Method of producing a packaging container, a packaging container and a curling tool
AssigneeGPI Systems AB
InventorSimon Holka
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a paperboard packaging container from a rectangular body blank, the method comprising the steps of providing a rectangular body blank having a first end edge and a second side edge, forming a tubular container body from the rectangular body blank, sealing together the first and the second side edge of the body blank, closing the first end opening by pressing a paperboard disc into the first end opening, pressing the first end of the tubular container body into a curl forming portion of a curling tool, filling the packaging container with bulk solids, and closing the second end opening.
Claims8
A curling tool for forming a curled edge on a paperboard packaging container, the curling tool being a curl plate having a curl forming portion in the form of a track having the shape of a closed loop configured for receiving a tubular container body end, the curl forming portion having an inner surface outer surface and a bottom surface, the curl plate having a first main side intended to face the paperboard packaging container when forming the curled edge, the curl forming portion being provided in the first main side and where the curl forming portion has a depth (dt), as measured from the first main side to the bottom surface of the curl forming portion, characterized in that the inner surface is provided with three or more protuberances being spaced apart along a circumference of the curl forming portion.
The curling tool according to 1, wherein the three or more protuberances are formed by studs provided in the curling tool and along the circumference of the curl forming portion.
The curling tool according to 1, wherein the three or more protuberances are aligned at level with each other along the circumference of the curl forming portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.