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US 8,474,612 B2Granted
Rigid, hinged-lid with grippable tab package and relative packing method
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsIvanoe Bertuzzi, Andrea Biondi
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Abstract
A rigid package having a group of articles; an inner package enclosing the group of articles and having an extraction opening; a reclosable sealing panel, which closes the extraction opening of the inner package, and has an inner surface gummed with non-dry, re-stick adhesive, and a grip tab with no re-stick adhesive; and a rigid outer container, which houses the inner package, and has an open end, and a lid hinged to rotate between an open position and a closed position opening and closing the open end respectively; the grip tab being designed to project from the lid when the lid is in the closed position closing the open end.
Claims12
A rigid package comprising:
- a group (4) of articles;
- an inner package (3) enclosing the group (4) of articles and having an extraction opening (5);
- a reclosable sealing panel (6), which closes the extraction opening (5) of the inner package (3), and has an inner surface (21) gummed with non-dry, re-stick adhesive, and a grip tab (25) with no re-stick adhesive;
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- a rigid outer container (2), which houses the inner package (3), and has an open end (7), and a lid (8) hinged to rotate between an open position and a closed position opening and closing the open end (7) respectively;
- the package (1) being characterized in that:
- a) the grip tab (25) has a first closed configuration, in which the grip tab (25) is folded 180° onto an outer surface of the sealing panel (6), so as not to project from the lid (8) when the lid (8) is in the closed position closing the open end (7) with the grip tab (25) maintained in the closed configuration by the lid (8) in the closed position closing the open end (7);
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- b) the grip tab (25) has a second, subsequent open configuration in which the grip tab (25) projects away from the lid (8) so as to be grippable in the closed position of the lid (8) closing the open end (7).
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A rigid package comprising:
- a group (4) of articles;
- an inner package (3) enclosing the group (4) of articles and having an extraction opening (5);
- a reclosable sealing panel (6), which closes the extraction opening (5) of the inner package (3), and has an inner surface (21) gummed with non-dry, re-stick adhesive, and a grip tab (25) with no re-stick adhesive;
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- a rigid outer container (2), which houses the inner package (3), and has an open end (7), and a lid (8) hinged to rotate between an open position and a closed position opening and closing the open end (7) respectively;
- the package (1) being characterized in that the grip tab (25) has a first closed configuration, in which the grip tab (25) is folded 180° onto an outer surface of the sealing panel (6), so as not to project from the lid (8) when the lid (8) is in the closed position closing the open end (7) and is maintained in the closed configuration by the lid (8) in the closed position closing the open end (7);
- and the grip tab (25) has a second, subsequent open configuration in which the grip tab (25) is not coplanar with the sealing panel (6) so as to be grippable.
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A packing method for producing a rigid package;
- the packing method comprising the steps of:
- forming an extraction opening (5) in a sheet (35) of packing material;
- folding the sheet (35) of packing material about a group (4) of articles to form an inner package (3) that encloses the group (4) of articles and has the extraction opening (5);
- applying a reclosable sealing panel (6), which closes the extraction opening (5) of the inner package (3), and has an inner surface (21) gummed with non-dry, re-stick adhesive, and a grip tab (25) with no re-stick adhesive;
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- folding a blank (51) about the inner package (3) to form a rigid outer container (2), which houses the inner package (3), and has an open end (7), and a lid (8) hinged to rotate between an open position and a closed position opening and closing the open end (7) respectively;
- the packing method being characterized by comprising the further steps of:
- before the parts (12′, 14′) of the blank (51) forming the lid (8) are completely folded, folding the grip tab (25) 180° with respect to the rest of the sealing panel (6) into a first closed configuration, in which the grip tab (25) is folded 180° onto an outer surface of the sealing panel (6), so as not to project from the lid (8) when the lid (8) is in the closed position closing the open end (7);
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- folding the parts (12′, 14′) of the blank (51) forming the lid (8) over the grip tab (25) in the closed configuration, so the lid (8) in the closed position closing the open end (7) keeps the grip tab (25) in the closed configuration.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.