A packaging and filling device for forming a paper container, the paper container comprising a cylindrical body having a substantially square cross section, four sidewalls, a top, and a bottom,
- wherein the paper container is formed of a blank prepared by cutting a band-shaped packaging material including an outermost thermoplastic layer, a paper layer, and an innermost thermoplastic layer, the blank further comprising:
- a first panel and a third panel, the first panel and third panels being configured to form a first pair of opposing sidewalls of the container;
- a second panel and a fourth panel, the second panel and fourth panels being configured to form a second pair of opposing sidewalls of the container;
- a first bottom panel and a third bottom panel, the first and third bottom panels extended from respective lower sides of the first panel and the third panel;
- a second bottom panel and a fourth bottom panel, the second bottom panel and fourth bottom panels extended from respective lower sides of the second panel and the fourth panel;
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- a plurality of top panels corresponding to the top of the paper container;
- wherein:
- the third bottom panel comprises a sixth panel partially extended from a center of the lower side of the third bottom panel;
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- a width of the sixth panel is 15-65% of a total length of the lower side of the third bottom panel;
- wherein the bottom of the paper container is formed by:
- extending the sixth panel from the lower side of the third bottom panel;
- bending the second bottom panel and the fourth panel into triangular flaps with the lower side surfaces of the second and fourth bottom panels facing outward and bending the flaps inward;
- laying the first bottom panel and the third bottom panel on the outsides of the second bottom panel and the fourth bottom panel with the first bottom panel positioned outside of the third bottom panel;
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- pressing from the inside and the outside of the paper container;
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- heat-sealing to form a seal;
- the packaging and filling device comprising:
- a loading unit configured to extract a selected blank from a bundle of a plurality of vertically sealed and flattened blanks;
- a bottom forming unit configured to form the bottom of a cylindrical blank to form the container having a top opening and the bottom;
- a filling unit configured to fill liquid food through the top opening;
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- a top sealing unit configured to heat-seal the top opening;
- wherein the loading unit further comprises:
- an extracting unit configured to extract the blank;
- an erecting unit configured to erect the flattened blank into the cylindrical blank;
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- an infeeder which inserts a mandrel of the bottom forming unit into the cylindrical blank;
- wherein the bottom forming unit comprises a press station, the press station comprising a triangular emboss configured to press the container bottom from the outside and the inside of the container by a forward side surface of the mandrel and a press surface, the triangular emboss being provided on a forward edge surface of the mandrel at a position where the third bottom panel is exposed on the inside surface of the container.