Abstract: A device for controlling or regulating the through-flow amount and/or through-flow direction of fluids, includes: a housing with at least two inlets and/or outlets, at least one arm, which is movably arranged within the housing, and at least one closure element, which is arranged within the housing and is movably connected with the arm. The arm and the closure element connected therewith are arranged and connected with one another such that at least one inlet and/or outlet is able to be closed off by the closure element. The closure element and/or at least one inlet and/or outlet has a curved sealing surface for sealing the inlets and/or outlets. In order to achieve a high degree of mobility of the closure element in the stressed state with simultaneous defined alignment of the closure element in the relieved state, a pre-stressed spring element is arranged between the arm and the closure element.

Abstract: A device for processing, in particular for ultrasound welding, of packaging sleeves and/or packagings includes at least two tools for processing, in particular for ultrasound welding, of packaging sleeves. Each tool has an operating region. The tools are supported in such a manner that there is produced between the operating regions a gap whose longitudinal direction corresponds to the transport direction of the packaging sleeves, and the tools are supported in such a manner that the size of the gap can be changed. In order also to enable continuous welding of the packaging sleeves in a reliable manner with changing material thicknesses, there is provided at least one parallel spring on which at least one of the tools is movably supported transversely relative to the transport direction of the packaging sleeves.

Abstract: A pouring element for a composite packaging, in particular for a beverage carton for liquid food, comprising a fastening flange and a pouring tube, a cutting element arranged and guided in the pouring tube, first guide means formed in the pouring tube and second guide means formed on the cutting element, wherein the first and second guide means cooperate correspondingly, and a composite packaging, in particular a beverage carton for liquid foods, with a packaging gable panel suitable for accommodating a pouring element. The first guide means is formed by a surrounding and self-contained rib.

Abstract: A device for transporting packagings, in particular packagings for foodstuffs, is disclosed. The device may include a frame, at least two pulleys mounted rotatably on the frame, at least one traction means which runs around the pulleys, and a plurality of mounts for receiving the packagings. The mounts may be connected to the traction means. To also allow the packagings to be precisely positioned in the case of long transportation distances, the traction means may be a belt, in particular a synchronous belt. A method for use of a device of this type for transporting packagings for foodstuffs, in particular composite packagings for foodstuffs, is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sheetlike composite comprising, as layers of a layer sequence in the direction from an outer face of the sheetlike composite to an inner face of the sheetlike composite, a) a first polymer layer, b) a carrier layer, and c) a barrier layer, wherein the first polymer layer is characterized by a ratio of a proportion of aromatic groups in the first polymer layer to a proportion of carbonyl groups in the first polymer layer in a range from 0.18 to 0.34. The invention further relates to processes for producing a sheetlike composite, a container precursor and a closed container and to the aforementioned process products; to a further container precursor; to a further closed container; and to uses of the sheetlike composite, of a hardener and of a printing ink.

Abstract: A method for controlling a packaging machine in which at least two operating states of the packaging machine are defined and independent from one another. At least one of a plurality of defined process sequences is allocated to each of the operating states and at least one actuator of the packaging machine is actuated by a process sequence, in order to carry out at least one action. Improved control and maintenance of the machine is made possible by an authorisation for access to an actuator being exclusively and specifically allocated to only one process sequence depending on the operating state.

Abstract: A device and method for inductively heating package sleeves including: at least one unit for producing an alternating current, at least one inductor having at least one effective section, and a holding unit having a front holding area and a rear holding area for mounting the inductor, wherein the inductor is connected to the unit for producing an alternating current, and wherein the holding areas arranged in such a way that a gap is formed between the front holding area and the rear holding area, the longitudinal direction of which gap corresponds to the conveying direction of the package sleeves. The effective sections of the at least one inductor may be at least in sections arranged asymmetrically to one another in relation to a center plane lying in the gap.

Abstract: A device is illustrated and described for altering the jet shape of pourable products, in particular of foodstuffs, including an entry region for the entry of the pourable products, an exit region for the exit of the pourable products, and several ducts for conveying the pourable products, wherein each duct has at least one inlet associated with the entry region and at least one outlet associated with the exit region. The use of this device for the filling of foodstuffs and a method for the production of this device are also illustrated and described. In order to achieve that the shape and the velocity profile of the filling jet can be adjusted simply and gently, it is proposed that at least one of the ducts is curved, at least in sections.

Abstract: The invention relates to a container precursor comprising a wall, wherein the wall a) surrounds an interior region, and b) comprises a first wall region and a second wall region; wherein the first wall region comprises a first layer sequence comprising a first wall layer, a second wall layer and a third wall layer as overlying layers from the interior region outwards; wherein, in the first wall region, a second carrier layer is characterised by a smaller layer thickness than a first carrier layer, or a third carrier layer, or both; wherein the second wall region comprises a second layer sequence comprising first wall layer, a second wall layer and a third wall layer as overlying layers from the interior region outwards; wherein, in the second wall region, the second wall layer is connected to the third wall layer; wherein, in the second wall region, the third carrier layer is characterised by a larger layer thickness than the first carrier layer, or the third carrier layer, or both.

Abstract: Terminal 20 for processing facilities having a communication device 28 arranged to exchange information about the processing facility with a communication partner, a screen 22 arranged to display the information about the processing facility, a position sensor 26 arranged to collect alignment information relating to an alignment of the terminal 20 and a processor 24 arranged to control the communication device 28, the screen 22 and the position sensor 26. The functionality of the terminal is extended by the fact that the processor sets a function of the terminal 20 dependent on alignment information from the position sensor 26.

Abstract: Illustrated and described are a method and a device for laminating a profiled fibre moulding with a thermoplastic film. The film is laminated onto a surface of the fibre moulding to be coated by heat and differential pressure. To improve the lamination of the fibre moulding and to achieve uniform lamination thicknesses over the entire fibre moulding, the method includes the following steps: fixing at least an edge of the fed film to a base plate, heating the film, deforming the film via a moulding tool, feeding the fibre moulding, joining the fibre moulding to the pre-formed film, and removing the laminated fibre moulding.

Abstract: A buffer table of a packaging system includes, at least two infeeds, at least two outfeeds, and a plurality of buffer lines supplied separately from each other, arranged between the infeed and the outfeed. Optimised use of the buffer table is achieved by the infeed supplying the respective package to one of the buffer lines depending on the level of completion of a package and by the outfeed removing the respective package from the respective buffer lines depending on the level of completion of the package.

Abstract: A mandrel wheel for producing packages is illustrated and described, including: a mandrel wheel shaft having a central axis, a plurality of mandrels attached to the mandrel wheel shaft, an inflow for a coolant and an outflow for the coolant. The mandrels form at least one mandrel group, the mandrels of which are arranged in a plane perpendicular to the central axis of the mandrel wheel shaft. Each mandrel has a hollow space for the coolant, which is connected to an inlet and to an outlet separate from it. At least one distribution element is provided, which connects all inlets of a mandrel group to the inflow and which connects all outlets of the same mandrel group to the outflow, so that the mandrels can be cooled more effectively.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a planar composite including, as a layer sequence, a first PE blend layer, a carrier layer, a barrier layer, and a further PE blend layer. The first PE blend layer or the further PE blend layer in each case includes in a range of from 10 to 50 wt. %, in each case based on the blend, a first LDPEa, and a further LDPEt to the extent of at least 50 wt. %, in each case based on the blend. The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the production of the planar composite, a container which surrounds an interior and comprises at least one such planar composite, and a process for the production of the container including the steps of provision of the planar composite of the abovementioned layer construction, folding, joining and optionally filling and closing of the container.

Abstract: A device for liquid-tight sealing of two partially overlapping packaging components. One of these is a tubular basic body. A further packaging component forms the packaging head or bottom, having at least one mandrel and one die. For the tubular basic body to be easily slid on to the mandrel and removed the expansion elements have sealing jaws which, in their working position, form a closed, encircling outer contour.

Abstract: A processing facility having at least one processing station and at least one covering at least partly surrounding the processing station. The covering has at least one viewing window. Improved error correction is then made possible if a display unit displays at least one item of information about the processing station on the viewing window.