Abstract: A pouch-type container including a pair of main-body sheets defining a storage space for containing a packaged substance; an opening at a first end of the main-body sheets in a z-direction; a spout at a second end, opposite the opening, of the main-body sheets in the z-direction; and an opening/closing part offset from the opening toward the second end in the z-direction to open and close the storage space. The pouch-type container further includes: a locking band fixed to the main-body sheets at a pair of fixed portions spaced apart in a width direction (x direction) to define an insertion space with the outer surface of one of the main-body sheets, the width direction being perpendicular to the y-direction wherein the main-body sheets face each other and the z-direction; and a lock part including at least one of the main-body sheets and configured to be locked with the locking band.

Abstract: Disclosed is a conveying system comprising: a track, a plurality of carriages to be conveyed on the track, each carriage comprising: a main body which is held along the track; and a receptacle rotatably supported by the main body and configured for receiving a product, and further comprising a receptacle-rotating member which is configured to advance, at a defined advancing speed, along a region provided at at least a portion of the track, and to control the rotational orientation of the carriage's receptacles; wherein each carriage can be in engagement, via its receptacle, with the receptacle-rotating member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a shrink label for covering a receptacle having a protrusion, from a strip of flexible tubular material, wherein the shrink label has a given length measured from a first end to a second end, being measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip, the method having at least the step of: puncturing the strip to form a puncture being spaced apart from the first end and from the second end, wherein the puncture suits the shape of the protrusion.

Abstract: A pouch includes a packaging bag including a front surface sheet, a back surface sheet, a bottom surface sheet, and a top surface sheet and a spout. The packaging bag includes a pair of side seal portions, a front bottom seal portion, a back bottom seal portion, a front top seal portion, and a back top seal portion. At least one of the pair of side seal portions includes a side enclosing portion in which a gas is enclosed, the side enclosing portion having an elongated shape in a height direction. At least one of the front top seal portion or the back top seal portion includes a top enclosing portion in which a gas is enclosed, the top enclosing portion having an elongated shape in a width direction.

Abstract: [Problem to be Solved] To prevent delamination of a film layer in a sheet material container in which an enclosing portion is formed in an interlayer between a first film layer and a second film layer. [Solution] A sheet material container includes a container body 6, and an inner container 7 that is covered by the container body 6 and defines an accommodation space, wherein the container body 6 is formed of a sheet material 3 including a first film layer 1 and a second film layer 2 disposed inside the first film layer 1, the sheet material 3 has a joint portion 32 at which an interlayer between the first film layer 1 and the second film layer 2 is joined and an enclosing portion 51 in which a filler can be enclosed in the interlayer between the first film layer 1 and the second film layer 2, and the first film layer 1 has an extruded multilayer structural part having a polyolefin resin layer 11/an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin layer 12 on a side facing the enclosing portion 51.

Abstract: An apparatus for attaching a shrinkable label on a product placed on a conveyor, by irradiating light onto the shrinkable label, comprises two sets of light emitters which are arranged opposite each other on both sides of the conveyor along a defined length of the conveyor to form an irradiation volume through which the conveyor passes. The light emitters are configured to emit directed light bundles into the irradiation volume in different directions. In a plan view of the apparatus, the directions of the light bundles intersect with a longitudinal central axis of the conveyor. The intersection points of the directions of the light bundles emitted from the light emitters on a same side of the conveyor with the longitudinal central axis of the conveyor differ from each other.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pouch-type packaging material includes: a first folding process; a first cutting process of cutting the top-side sheet material, a second sub-region, a first main region, and a first sub-region along a first cutting line that extends from a portion where the top-side sheet material and the second sub-region overlap to a portion closer toward a bottom side in a z direction beyond a first boundary line; a second folding process; a second cutting process of cutting the top-side sheet material, the first sub-region, the first main region, and a second main region along a second cutting line to form a top-side sheet from the top-side sheet material, where the second cutting line extends from a portion where the top-side sheet material and the first sub-region overlap to a portion closer toward the bottom side in the z direction beyond the second boundary line.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a shrink label for covering a receptacle having a protrustion, from a strip of flexible tubular material, wherein the shrink label has a given length measured from a first end to a second end, being measured in the longitudinal direction of the strip, the method having at least the step of comprising: puncturing the strip to form a puncture being spaced apart from the first end and from the second end, wherein the puncture suits the shape of the protrustion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a conveying system comprising: a track, a plurality of carriages to be conveyed on the track, each carriage comprising: a main body which is held along the track; and a receptacle rotatably supported by the main body and configured for receiving a product, and further comprising a receptacle-rotating member which is configured to advance, at a defined advancing speed, along a region provided at at least a portion of the track, and to control the rotational orientation of the carriage's receptacles; wherein each carriage can be in engagement, via its receptacle, with the receptacle-rotating member.

Abstract: A pouch container packaging body and a pouch container package with which a container body can be more reliably opened. The packaging body includes a container body including a top sheet covering the container body at a top side and a spout fixed to an outer surface of the top sheet and including a dispensing space extending axially. The spout includes a fixed portion on the top sheet, a rotating portion to rotate the fixed portion, and a cutting portion to cut the top sheet. The top sheet includes a flat portion where the fixed portion is fixed. The cutting portion is positioned away from the flat portion in an initial state and moves while rotating in a direction from an external surface to an internal surface of the flat portion in response to rotation of the rotating portion, and cuts the flat portion.

Abstract: Provided is a method of efficiently removing an ink layer. The method of removing an ink layer from a shrink sleeve label includes preheating the shrink sleeve label including the ink layer, shredding the shrink sleeve label after the preheating to fabricate shrink sleeve label pieces , and removing the ink layer from the shrink sleeve label pieces by alkaline desorption. A temperature of the preheating is the same as a temperature of the alkaline desorption or higher than the temperature of the alkaline desorption.

Abstract: A pouch-type container including a pair of main-body sheets defining a storage space for containing a packaged substance; an opening at a first end of the main-body sheets in a z-direction; a spout at a second end, opposite the opening, of the main-body sheets in the z-direction; and an opening/closing part offset from the opening toward the second end in the z-direction to open and close the storage space. The pouch-type container further includes: a locking band fixed to the main-body sheets at a pair of fixed portions spaced apart in a width direction (x direction) to define an insertion space with the outer surface of one of the main-body sheets, the width direction being perpendicular to the y-direction wherein the main-body sheets face each other and the z-direction; and a lock part including at least one of the main-body sheets and configured to be locked with the locking band.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of attaching a shrinkable label (22) on a product (23) wherein the shrinkable label comprises a multi-layered film (1, 10) comprising a heat shrinkable material and a photothermic material (3, 4, 14), the method comprising: —transporting the at least one product on a conveyor (65); —arranging the at least one product in an irradiation volume, the irradiation volume being defined by a plurality of LED UV light emitters (63) arranged to emit UV-light in the direction of at least a shrinkable label arranged around the at least one product; —controlling the UV-light emitters to irradiate the at least one shrinkable label arranged around the one or more products in the irradiation volume in order for the photothermic material to heat up causing the heat shrinkable material to shrink around the at least one product.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for manufacturing spouted pouch containers. The method includes arranging an upper and lower strip with their inner sides on top of each other, folding at least one longitudinal edge of the upper strip away from the lower strip to expose both an inner side portion of the folded longitudinal edge of the upper strip and an inner side portion of the lower strip, arranging a spouted cover strip on top of the exposed inner side portions, sealing pairs of side walls of the upper and lower strip to each other and sealing the spouted cover strip to the exposed inner side portion of the lower and upper strips, and cutting the upper strip and lower strip into individual pouch containers. The apparatus is provided for carrying out the manufacturing method.

Abstract: A device is provided for arranging folds in a strip of flattened tubular shrink foil material in a container sleeving system for applying tubular shrink foil material around containers. The device includes a guiding element having an upstream guiding element part formed by a first flat plate extending in a first plane, a downstream guiding element part formed by a second flat plate extending in a second plane rotated with respect to the first plane, and an intermediate guiding element connected to or integrally formed with the upstream and downstream guiding elements and shaped so as to smoothly guide the flattened tubular shrink foil material moving over the first flat plate towards the second flat plate. The device also includes pressure rollers arranged to press at least one additional fold into the tubular shrink foil material.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a discharge apparatus for discharging an assembly of interconnected guiding elements, having a support having at least one support section configured to support the assembly of interconnected guiding elements and the flexible pouch containers carried therein; a gripping unit configured to grip a first guiding element of the guiding element assembly and displace the first guiding element together with one or more interconnected further guiding elements of the guiding element assembly in a transport direction substantially perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the first guiding element; and a disconnection unit configured to disconnect at least the gripped and displaced first guiding element from a neighboring second guiding element, the disconnection unit having a movable wedge and a wedge drive unit configured to move the wedge between the first and second guiding elements, thereby disconnecting the first guiding element from the second guiding element.

Abstract: A method of activating the shrink characteristic of multi-layered film (1), the method comprising the steps of providing a multi-layered film comprising at least a base layer film (2) that comprises a shrinkable film, a photothermic layer (3), associated with the base layer film, and comprising a photothermic material, exposing the multi-layered film (1) to electromagnetic radiation in order for the photothermic material to generate heat and shrink the multi-layered film (1), wherein the electromagnetic radiation comprises UV-light having a peak wavelength between 200 nm and 399 nm, and at least 90% of the UV-light is within a bandwidth of ±30 nm of the peak wavelength.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of attaching a shrinkable label on at least one product wherein the shrinkable label comprises a film comprising heat shrinkable material and photothermic material, the method comprising: transporting a plurality of products on a product conveyor through an irradiation volume defined by a plurality of UV light emitters arranged sideways of the product conveyor; arranging at least one reflector between consecutive products on the product conveyor while the at least one product is being transported; controlling the UV light emitters to emit UV-light towards the shrinkable label arranged around the at least one product in the irradiation volume and towards the at least one reflector arranged between consecutive products in order for the photothermic material of the shrinkable label to heat up causing the heat shrinkable material to shrink around the at least one product.

Abstract: A plurality of pouch containers are continuously manufactured from materials including: a plurality of separate-type tubular film members each including a portion to be formed as a barrel portion; and a single first belt-shaped film member and a single second belt-shaped film member each including a plurality of portions each to be formed as a gusset portion. The step of closing an opening end of each of the separate-type tubular film members includes: supplying the belt-shaped film member to the opening end by conveying the belt-shaped film member in parallel with the separate-type tubular film members at the same speed as a conveyance speed of the separate-type tubular film members, to cause the belt-shaped film member to overlap with an opened joining margin of each of the separate-type tubular film members; and joining the joining margin to a portion of the belt-shaped film member that overlaps with the joining margin.

Abstract: An apparatus for heat treatment of a heat shrinkable film includes a steam generation apparatus that generates steam, a heated air generation apparatus that generates heated air not lower in temperature than steam generated in the steam generation apparatus, a mixed gas generator that generates mixed gas not lower in temperature than steam generated in the steam generation apparatus by mixing steam generated in the steam generation apparatus and heated air generated in the heated air generation apparatus, a reheating apparatus that generates superheated steam by reheating mixed gas generated in the mixed gas generator, and a supply portion that supplies superheated steam generated in the reheating apparatus to a heat treatment chamber.