Abstract: Provided is a package sleeve made of a composite material for the manufacture of a package. The package sleeve includes a sleeve surface with an inner partial area and two outer partial areas, a longitudinal seam connecting two edges of the composite material to form a circumferential package sleeve, and two secondary fold lines running through the sleeve surface. The package sleeve is folded along two secondary fold lines. Apart from the two secondary fold lines, the package sleeve does not contain any further continuous fold lines in the region of the inner partial area of the sleeve surface. Also provided are a package and a method for manufacturing a package.

Abstract: A cleaning method for cleaning a filling machine for filling at least to one side open packs with products is described and illustrated, wherein the filling machine has a transport device for transporting the at least to one side open packs through the filling machine. To ensure satisfactory cleaning results repeatably in a defined and/or shorter time, it is provided that a preceding plurality of at least to one side open packs is transported at least partially through the filling machine by a transport device and is filled with products, at least one nozzle for dispensing cleaning medium is transported at least partially through the filling machine by the transport device and cleaning medium is thereby dispensed for cleaning the filling machine, and after the filling machine has been cleaned, a subsequent plurality of at least to one side open packs is transported at least partially through the filling machine by the transport device and is thereby filled with products.

Abstract: A resealable dispensing element for a composite package is shown and described including a main body with a flange and a hollow cylindrical spout with at least one outer thread, an opening means guided movably in the spout for opening the composite package and a resealable screw cap, having an anchor ring. The screw cap serves to drive the opening means when the composite package is opened for the first time and wherein the screw cap and the anchor ring are connected by a plurality of breakable material bridges or at least by a material anchorage for connection to the main body. The main body on the spout has at least one circumferential web for securely holding the anchor ring and wherein the anchor ring has on its inside a circumferential retaining web shaped such that it corresponds with the circumferential web, as well as a method for mounting the screw cap for such a dispensing element.

Abstract: A flat-shaped composite material is represented and described for manufacturing a package, including: a polymer outer layer, a polymer inner layer, a fibrous support layer, which is arranged between the polymer outer layer and the polymer inner layer. The flat-shaped composite material has a plurality of fold lines, which are arranged and designed such that a closed package can be manufactured by folding the flat-shaped composite material along the fold lines and by connecting seam surfaces of the flat-shaped composite material and a sleeve surface. The sleeve surface includes a front surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first rear surface and a second rear surface, and base surfaces. The base surfaces include triangular base surfaces and quadrangular base surfaces and gable surfaces. The gable surfaces include triangular gable surfaces and quadrangular gable surfaces. The base surfaces and the gable surfaces are arranged on opposite sides of the sleeve surface.

Abstract: A sealing device for sealing equipment elements to workpieces, in particular in the form of a composite laminate, by means of ultrasound, with a sonotrode for generating an ultrasound, with a sealing surface for transmitting the ultrasound to the equipment element and/or the workpiece, with an anvil opposite the sonotrode and with an adjusting device for adjusting the sonotrode. The anvil relative to one another from an open position for at least partial inserting of the equipment element. The workpiece into a sealing gap between the sonotrode and the anvil into a closed position for at least partially pressing the workpiece. The equipment element between the sealing surface of the sonotrode and the anvil during ultrasonic sealing and back.

Abstract: A spout packaging structure includes a spout structure, a cutting element, and a cap. The spout structure includes a fixing part and a mouth part connected to the fixing part. The mouth part has a cylindrical structure and first internal threads. Each protruding tooth structure of the first internal threads is provided with first and second inclined surfaces located on two sides of the protruding tooth structure with a recessed structure between two adjacent protruding ones. The first inclined surface faces the fixing part. Within a same cross section through the mouth part's axis, the bottom of the recessed structure has a tangent parallel to the mouth part's axis, angle ? between the first inclined surface and the tangent is 110°-145°, and angle ? between the second inclined surface and the tangent is at least 90°. The cutting element is sleeved in the mouth part with first external threads.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sheet-like composite including as layers of a layer sequence, in a direction from an external side of the sheet-like composite to an internal side of the sheet-like composite, a) a carrier layer, b) a polymeric intermediate layer, and c) a barrier layer, where a graph of differential scanning calorimetry of the polymeric intermediate layer includes a peak A at a temperature TA and a peak B at a temperature TB, where the temperature TB is more than the temperature TA, where a width of the peak B is less by at least 3° C. than a width of the peak A. The invention further relates to a container precursor and to a closed container including the sheet-like composite, and also to a process by which the sheet-like composite is obtainable, and to a use of the sheet-like composite.

Abstract: A sealing station configured to heat seal a wall made from heat-sealable film material, preferably metal-free heat-sealable film material, onto one another wall of heat-sealable material, e.g. another wall of heat-sealable film material, to create a sealed seam. The sealing station comprises an impulse sealing device comprising a first jaw and a second jaw, wherein at least the first jaw comprises at the respective front surface thereof at least one, e.g. a single elongated, impulse heatable member that extends along the respective front surface and that is covered by a heat-resistant non-stick covering.

Abstract: Described and depicted is an application apparatus for applying additional elements, in particular straws, to packages, preferably cardboard composite packages. So that the application can also be carried out reliably at high speeds and with moderate equipment complexity, it is provided that at least two applicators are provided which are adjustable along a common, circumferential transport track from a pick-up position for picking up the additional elements to an application position for applying the additional elements to the packages and back and which comprise respectively at least one application finger for pressing the additional elements onto the packages.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet-like composite comprising as layers of a layer sequence in a direction from an outer side of the sheet-like composite to an inner side of the sheet-like composite a) a carrier layer, and b) a barrier layer comprising i) a barrier substrate layer, and ii) a barrier material layer; wherein the barrier material layer has a thickness in a range from 1 nm to 1 ?m; wherein the barrier material layer overlies the barrier substrate layer on a layer surface of the barrier substrate layer that faces the inner side. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sheet-like composite, a container precursor and a closed container, and also to the aforesaid method products; to a further container precursor; to a further closed container; and to a use of the sheet-like composite.

Abstract: A device is shown and described for ultrasonic welding of composite material, in particular composite material of package sleeves and/or packages, including at least two tools for ultrasonic welding, in particular a sonotrode and an anvil. Each tool has a functional surface for contact with the material to be welded. The functional surfaces of the tools are aligned approximately parallel to one another in such a way that a gap with an approximately horizontal seam direction is created between the functional surfaces. The tools are mounted in such a way that the width of the gap can be changed by at least one of the tools being movable along a feed direction, and at least one joint having at least one axis of rotation about which one of the tools is rotatable. In order to enable optimal adaptation of the movably mounted tool—for example the sonotrode—to the materials to be welded and their size, it is proposed that the position of the axis of rotation can be changed.

Abstract: A system for packaging a plurality of packing units on a pallet, including: a plurality of packing units made of packaging sleeves and packing-unit overwrapping, the packing-unit overwrapping enclosing the packaging sleeves; a pallet for stacking the packing units; pallet overwrapping, which encloses the packing units stacked on the pallet; and an insert provided, where: the packaging sleeves are produced from a composite material; the front side and the rear side of each packaging sleeve are separated from one another by folding edges, along which the packaging sleeve is folded flat; each packaging sleeve has two openings which are arranged on opposite sides of the packaging sleeve; each packaging sleeve has a longitudinal seam which connects two edges of the composite material to form a peripheral packaging sleeve; and the pallet overwrapping is produced from a plastics film.

Abstract: A spout (1, 401, 601) having a plastic spout body which comprises an attachment portion (10, 410, 610) having a vertical first plane of symmetry (M1) with a vertical first sealing wall (11, 411, 611) and an opposed vertical second sealing wall (12, 412, 612), and with a transverse wall (20), which is integrally connected to an upper edge of the first sealing wall and to an upper edge of the second sealing wall, wherein the first sealing wall and the second sealing wall each depend from said transverse wall and each have a bottom edge (114, 115, 541, 515, 714, 715) remote from the upper edge. Each sealing wall is, seen in a bottom view of the attachment portion, composed of a first rectilinear portion (111, 121, 511, 521, 711, 721), a central curved portion (113, 123, 513, 523, 713, 723), and a second rectilinear portion (112, 122, 512, 522, 712, 722). The spout body has a tubular neck (30) having a bore (31) that adjoins an opening (21) in the transverse wall.

Abstract: A flat-shaped composite material is represented and described for manufacturing a package, including: a polymer outer layer, a polymer inner layer, a fibrous support layer, which is arranged between the polymer outer layer and the polymer inner layer. The flat-shaped composite material has a plurality of fold lines, which are arranged and designed such that a closed package can be manufactured by folding the flat-shaped composite material along the fold lines and by connecting seam surfaces of the flat-shaped composite material and a sleeve surface. The sleeve surface includes a front surface, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first rear surface, a second rear surface, and base surfaces. The base surfaces include triangular base surfaces, quadrangular base surfaces, and gable surfaces. The gable surfaces include triangular gable surfaces and quadrangular gable surfaces. The base surfaces and the gable surfaces are arranged on opposite sides of the sleeve surface.

Abstract: A package made of a composite material is represented and described, including: a package base with two front base corners and with two rear base corners, a package gable with two front gable corners and with two rear gable corners, and a package base body with a front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel and a rear panel. The package base and the package gable are arranged on opposite sides of the package base body. The composite material has a polymer inner layer, a polymer outer layer and a fibrous support layer, which is arranged between the polymer outer layer and the polymer inner layer. In order to enable the manufacture of packages with even more complex geometries without impairing the rigidity of the package, it is proposed that the package base body has at least one stress-relief panel, which is arranged between the front panel and one of the two side panels.

Abstract: The invention illustrates and describes a composite pack, in particular a parallelepipedal cardboard/plastic composite pack for pourable products, having an elliptical laminated hole which is provided in the composite pack gable, with an elliptical main axis and an elliptical minor axis, and a pouring element, comprising a basic body, a cutting element movably guided in the basic body and having the shape of a hollow cylinder with a cylinder outer diameter and a resealable screw cap, wherein the screw cap serves for opening the composite pack for the first time by activation of the cutting element, which thus forms a pouring opening in the region of the laminated hole and wherein first guidance means configured on the cutting element interact with second guidance means configured on the basic body.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sheetlike composite comprising, as mutually superposed layers in a direction from an outer face of the sheetlike composite to an inner face of the sheetlike composite, a) a carrier layer, and b) a barrier layer; wherein the sheetlike composite additionally includes a polymer layer P comprising a first polymer; wherein the polymer layer P has an L value in the L*a*b* colour space within a range from 30 to 56. The invention further relates to methods of producing a sheetlike composite, a container precursor and a closed container and to the aforementioned method products; to a container precursor and a closed container each including at least one sheetlike region of the sheetlike composite; to uses of the sheetlike composite for production of a food or drink product container and in a microwave oven; and to uses of compositions for production of a sheetlike composite for a food or drink product container.