Abstract: A heat shrinking apparatus for a shrink film, which can uniformly heat shrink a shrink film covering a part of a whole of an article and can prevent adherence of water droplets on the surface of the article and the shrink film. The heat shrinking apparatus may include a heat treatment chamber installed so as to surround a transfer conveyor for transferring a bottle on which cylindrical label has been fitted, and heating means that heats the cylindrical label fitted on the bottle passing through the heat treatment chamber. The heat treatment chamber may include an external tunnel and an internal tunnel installed in a preheating zone, and an external tunnel and an internal tunnel installed in a main heating zone.

Abstract: A tack labeler includes a reeling-out unit for reeling out a label formation base material pair from a base material pair roll set on a roll holder; a base material pair accumulation unit for accumulating the label formation base material pair; a separating-delivering unit for pulling out the label formation base material pair from the base material pair accumulation unit, separating the label formation base material pair into respective label formation base materials, and delivering the respective label formation base materials; cutting units for successively cutting connection portions of cut lines formed on each of the label formation base materials; adhering units for adhering the tack labels cut off from each of the label formation base materials onto containers conveyed to adherence positions; and base material collecting units for winding up and collecting each of the label formation base materials.

Abstract: A container set which connects and packages a plurality of containers with a package sheet is provided, wherein at least one container has a shape in which a plurality of large-width portions having a larger width in a connecting direction as compared with the other portions are formed on respective sides of a small-width portion having a smaller width than the large-width portion, with the small-width portion therebetween; the package sheet has a plurality of tubular portions which are shrunk along an outer shape of the containers and which individually store the containers; and, in the tubular portions, a connecting portion is formed between adjacent tubular portions at least at a part of the tubular portion corresponding to the large-width portion, and the tubular portions which oppose each other are separated from each other at the small-width portion, with no connecting portion formed.

Abstract: A pouch and a production method for a spout pouch container are provided, which suppress curling of an opened spout attachment edge portion and offset of a filling port defining edge portion adjacent to the spout attachment edge portion when a spout is heat-sealed to the spout attachment edge portion. The pouch (10) is of a bottom gusset type, which includes a pair of front and rear exterior sheets (11, 12) and a gusset sheet (13) folded inward from lower portions of the exterior sheets (11, 12) to define a bottom gusset portion.

Abstract: The heat-shrinkable cylindrical label of the present invention comprises a cylindrical body formed a heat-shrinkable film into a cylindrical form, and a resin layer laid on a partial region of the cylindrical body, wherein the heat-shrinkable film is a film having a heat shrinkage ratio of 30% or more when the film is heated to 85° C. and having a shrinkage stress of 6.5 MPa or less when the film is heated to 85° C., and the resin layer is a layer which does not substantially deform when the layer is heated to 85° C. In a cylindrical-label-attached article, wherein the cylindrical label is shrunk by heat to be fitted to an article, the regions where the resin layer is formed rise up as a three-dimensional pattern in a convex form.

Abstract: A label supplying device is provided, whereby false bonding at a cylindrical label's end is reliably released, and ill-timed supplying of the label to the label supply position hardly occurs. The supplying device includes: a material delivery unit (10) for continuously delivering an elongated label base material (M) paid out from a material roll by a pay-out unit; a cutting unit (20) for cutting, at a predetermined pitch, the base material (M) delivered by the delivery unit (10); an upstream and a downstream belt transfer units (30, 40) for transferring labels (L), formed by the cutting of the cutting unit (20), to a label supply position (a); and a separation unit (50) for separating overlapping edges of the upper end of the label (L) (upstream end in the transfer direction of the label (L)) during the transferring of the label (L) by the upstream transfer unit (30).

Abstract: A spout mounting method and a spout that enable smooth and high-speed mounting of the spout onto a pouch. The method includes an insertion step of inserting the spout (S) into the pouch (P) so that a mounting portion (IP) of the spout (S) is held between not-yet-sealed opening edges, a temporary fixation step of temporarily fixing the spout (S), inserted in the pouch (P), to the pouch (P), and a sealing step of fixing the mounting portion (IP) of the spout (S), temporarily fixed to the pouch (P), to the opening edges of the pouch (P) by heat-sealing. In the temporary fixation step, the opening edges of the pouch (P) are fixed together by spot-sealing near edges on both sides of the mounting portion (IP) of the spout (S) so that the spout (S) is held by the opening edges of the pouch (P).

Abstract: Provided is a film opener and a film placement system capable of smoothly and securely placing even a thin tubular film around a placement target. The film opener is mounted to a film placement apparatus for opening a tubular film supplied so as to be sheet-like folded and placing the tubular film around a bottle, and includes first and second suction rods and third and fourth suction rods that grip a sheet-like folded label by suction, and the first and second suction rods, and the third and fourth suction rods, separate from each other, and thereby the label is opened, and in a state where the label is open, suction holes of the first suction rod and suction holes of the fourth suction rod oppose each other, and suction holes of the second suction rods and suction holes of the third suction rod oppose each other.

Abstract: A film supplying apparatus includes: an upstream belt conveying unit and a downstream belt conveying unit that sequentially convey label formed by cutting a label-forming base material, to a label delivery position; a label detection sensor that detects the label at an upper position of the downstream belt conveying unit; an encoder attached to a take-up spindle of a label delivery apparatus; and a control unit that calculates the amount of shift in the label on the basis of a label detection signal from the label detection sensor and a pulse signal from the encoder, and controls the operation of the downstream belt conveying unit conveying the label, so as to convey the label and stop the label at the label delivery position, while modifying the amount of shift.

Abstract: A device for forming envelopes from a continuous flat strip of a sleeve-like foil material, comprising a supply member, a cutting member for making a cut over the full width of the material so as to provide individual envelopes, and a discharge member for discharging the envelopes. The cutting member comprises at least two cutting elements movable relative to the strip of material, each cutting element comprising at least one cutting blade extending parallel to the width of the strip, such that the individual cutting blades form several partial cuts contiguous to each other in the foil material over the width thereof in successive cutting operations.

Abstract: An elongated packaging material (A1) for manufacturing a pouch comprises a first elongated flexible sheet (10), and a second elongated flexible sheet (10) layered on the first sheet. The side ends of the first and the second sheets are provided with a plurality of side sealing portions (2) extending lengthwise of the sheets. A plurality of cross sealing portions (3) are spaced from each other lengthwise of the sheets. Each of the side sealing portions is provided with a plurality of projecting portions (20), each projecting toward a center of the width of the sheets, between an adjacent pair of cross sealing portions.

Abstract: The heat-shrinkable cylindrical label of the present invention comprises a cylindrical body formed a heat-shrinkable film into a cylindrical form, and a resin layer laid on a partial region of the cylindrical body, wherein the heat-shrinkable film is a film having a heat shrinkage ratio of 30% or more when the film is heated to 85° C. and having a shrinkage stress of 6.5 MPa or less when the film is heated to 85° C., and the resin layer is a layer which does not substantially deform when the layer is heated to 85° C. In a cylindrical-label-attached article, wherein the cylindrical label is shrunk by heat to be fitted to an article, the regions where the resin layer is formed rise up as a three-dimensional pattern in a convex form.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a tack labeler capable of automatically adhering this type of tack labels without using release papers to articles to be adhered.

Abstract: The heat-shrinkable cylindrical label of the invention comprises a laminated substrate made of two or more layers which have an outer layer sheet and an inner layer sheet. In one side end section of this label substrate, an outer layer sheet exposure section having no inner layer sheet is formed. This outer layer sheet exposure section is overlapped with the other end section of the front face of the label substrate to form a center seal section. In such a heat-shrinkable cylindrical label, the center seal section can be formed without interposing the inner layer sheet. Accordingly, the center seal section does not become thick. Thus, a heat-shrinkable cylindrical label having a beautiful external appearance can be provided.

Abstract: Disclosed is a coating composition for a plastic label, which contains an oxetane compound, an epoxy compound, and a cyclic acetal and/or a poly(vinyl butyral). The coating composition excels in suitability for printing such as gravure printing or flexographic printing, cures rapidly to give excellent productivity, and after curing, gives a coating layer that excels in adhesion to a plastic base film and in toughness. A plastic label formed using the coating composition excels in surface scratch resistance and crumpling resistance, and therefore is particularly useful as a label for use in plastic containers, and metal containers such as bottle cans.

Abstract: [Object] To provide a multilayer shrink film which is composed of different polymers, i.e., a polypropylene resin and an aromatic polyester resin and which does not suffer from delamination even in a center-sealed portion during shrinking process; and a cylindrical shrink label using the shrink film. [Solving Means] The shrink film has a multilayer structure including layers A, B, and C in the order of (layer A)/(layer B)/(layer C) without the interposition of any other layer, in which the layer A is a resin layer mainly containing a modified aromatic polyester resin; the layer B is an intermediate layer mainly containing an ethylene-vinyl acetate resin and having a vinyl acetate component content of 20 to 30 percent by weight; and the layer C is a resin layer mainly containing a polypropylene resin.