Abstract: A sealed package includes top and bottom portions, and a main portion between the top and bottom portions and including side wall portions. The main portion is divided from the top and bottom portions respectively by top and bottom peripheral outlines extending transversally to a longitudinal direction. The top and bottom peripheral outlines each have a broken-line shape and are formed by plural joined contour edges. The top/bottom portion includes a quadrilateral top/bottom panel orthogonal to the longitudinal direction and delimited by the top/bottom peripheral outline. The bottom panel area differs from the area of a top quadrilateral obtained by projecting, along the longitudinal direction, the top panel on a reference plane parallel to the bottom panel, crossing the package and containing at least one of the contour edges of the top peripheral outline.

Abstract: A multilayer sheet of packaging material for producing a sealed package of a pourable food product comprises: at least one base layer for imparting stiffness; a plurality of lamination layers applied to and covering both sides of the base layer; a pre-laminated opening which is formed by a through slot provided in the base layer and is covered by one or more of the lamination layers, the pre-laminated opening being configured to receive an opening device for outpouring the pourable food product; a plurality of folding lines configured to define an edge between two adjacent walls of a sealed package, wherein the pre-laminated opening is not intersected by any one of the folding lines and includes an outer rim being arc-shaped so as to define a first portion of a first circumference.

Abstract: A packaging blank for forming a package filled with a pourable product includes at least a first transversal crease line and a second transversal crease line extending transversally to a longitudinal axis of the packaging blank and dividing the packaging blank into a top region containing a top crease pattern and a bottom region containing a bottom crease pattern and an intermediate region contained between the first transversal crease line and the second transversal crease line. The first transversal crease line delimits the top crease pattern and the second transversal crease line delimits the bottom crease pattern. The packaging blank further comprises a plurality of linear crease lines parallel to the longitudinal axis and extending from the first transversal crease line and towards the second transversal crease line. Each linear crease line is parallel to the longitudinal axis and extends along only a portion of the intermediate region.

Abstract: There is described a packaging blank comprising a first longitudinal boundary edge, a second longitudinal boundary edge, a first transversal boundary edge and a second transversal boundary edge. The packaging blank also comprises a top crease pattern having a first transversal crease line and a second transversal crease line and a bottom crease pattern having a third transversal crease line and a fourth transversal crease line. The second transversal crease line is closer to the first longitudinal boundary edge and/or to the second longitudinal boundary edge than the first transversal crease line and/or the fourth transversal crease line is closer to the first longitudinal boundary edge and/or the second longitudinal boundary edge than the third transversal crease line.

Abstract: A package assembly (300, 400, 500) comprising a package (100, 302) arranged to hold a food product, wherein the package (100,302) comprises a rear section (140) provided with a longitudinal seal (LS), and an exoskeleton (308, 402, 502, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300) attached to the rear section (140) of the package (100,302) such that an improved robustness is achieved and that the longitudinal seal (LS) is protected.

Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package with a pourable food product; the packaging material has a quadrangular configuration with two boundary edges parallel to a longitudinal direction and two other boundary edges parallel to a transversal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction; the packaging material comprises two transversal crease lines extending transversally to the longitudinal direction and dividing the packaging material into: a bottom region containing a bottom crease pattern and configured to form a bottom portion of the package; a top region containing a top crease pattern and configured to form a top portion of the package; and an intermediate region contained between the transversal crease lines and designed to form a main portion of the package having a plurality of side wall portions; the intermediate region further comprises a plurality of V-shaped crease lines having respective vertices located on or adjacent to the transversal crease lines and at given points t

Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package containing a food product, comprising crease lines that have sections that are angled towards each other such that at least two sides panels of the sealed package are given a trapezoidal shape.

Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core material layer and at least one polymer layer being laminated thereto. The core material layer is provided with at least one area being configured to assist in folding the packaging material into a bottom end corner of a package to be formed, wherein the packaging material comprises a first set of crease lines being designed to form a bottom end of the package, and a second set of crease lines being designed to form a main body of the package. The at least one area comprises an intersection of a plurality of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section, while a plurality of crease lines of the first set of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section and having a virtual extension through the intersection, are terminated such that they end at a distance from the intersection.

Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package comprises two first boundary edges parallel to a longitudinal direction and two second boundary edges parallel to a transversal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The sheet packaging material includes at least a bottom transversal crease line including a bottom central portion, a bottom end portion and a bottom side portion. The sheet packaging material includes a pair of slanted crease lines inclined relative to both the longitudinal and transverse directions. The slanted crease lines have first ends pointing to one of the second boundary edges and second ends pointing to a continuous line parallel to the transversal direction and including the bottom central portion and the bottom end portion. The slanted crease lines delimit, with the bottom side portion, a flap area of the sheet packaging material designed to form at least part of a lateral flap of the package.

Abstract: There is described a pre-creased sheet packaging material for forming a sealed package comprising: a plurality of longitudinal crease lines, which extend along a longitudinal direction; a plurality of transversal crease lines, which extend along a transversal direction; at least one first additional crease line, which extends along a further direction, which is slanted with respect to longitudinal direction and transversal direction; a first joining point, at which longitudinal crease line and a transversal crease line join with respect to one another; and at least one first area, which is bounded by longitudinal crease line, transversal crease line and additional crease line; further direction being incident to first longitudinal crease line and to first transversal crease line in first joining point; at least one of first longitudinal crease line, first transversal crease line and first additional crease line being interrupted at first joining point.

Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package containing a food product, comprising crease lines that have sections that are angled towards each other such that at least two sides panels of the sealed package are given a trapezoidal shape.

Abstract: A carton package is disclosed comprising a top panel, a bottom panel, a front panel, a back panel, a left panel, and a right panel separated by four edges. The front panel is connected to the top panel along a front-top edge and is connected to the bottom panel along a front-bottom edge. At a first height, measured from the front-bottom edge, the transversal width of the front panel measured from a front-left edge to a front-right edge is larger than a length of the front-bottom edge, and larger than a length of the front-top edge. At a second height measured from the front-bottom edge, the transversal width of the front panel measured from the front-left edge to the front-right edge is smaller than the length of the front-bottom edge, and smaller than the length of the front-top edge.

Abstract: A package assembly (300, 400, 500) comprising a package (100, 302) arranged to hold a food product, wherein the package (100,302) comprises a rear section (140) provided with a longitudinal seal (LS), and an exoskeleton (308, 402, 502, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300) attached to the rear section (140) of the package (100,302) such that an improved robustness is achieved and that the longitudinal seal (LS) is protected.

Abstract: A sheet packaging material for producing a sealed package comprises two first boundary edges parallel to a longitudinal direction and two second boundary edges parallel to a transversal direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. The sheet packaging material includes at least a bottom transversal crease line including a bottom central portion, a bottom end portion and a bottom side portion. The sheet packaging material includes a pair of slanted crease lines inclined relative to both the longitudinal and transverse directions. The slanted crease lines have first ends pointing to one of the second boundary edges and second ends pointing to a continuous line parallel to the transversal direction and including the bottom central portion and the bottom end portion. The slanted crease lines delimit, with the bottom side portion, a flap area of the sheet packaging material designed to form at least part of a lateral flap of the package.

Abstract: A packaging material is provided, comprising a core material layer and at least one polymer layer being laminated thereto. The core material layer is provided with at least one area being configured to assist in folding the packaging material into a bottom end corner of a package to be formed, wherein the packaging material comprises a first set of crease lines being designed to form a bottom end of the package, and a second set of crease lines being designed to form a main body of the package. The at least one area comprises an intersection of a plurality of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section, while a plurality of crease lines of the first set of crease lines, each having a triangular cross-section and having a virtual extension through the intersection, are terminated such that they end at a distance from the intersection.

Abstract: There is described a pre-creased sheet packaging material for forming a sealed package comprising: a plurality of longitudinal crease lines, which extend along a longitudinal direction; a plurality of transversal crease lines, which extend along a transversal direction; at least one first additional crease line, which extends along a further direction, which is slanted with respect to longitudinal direction and transversal direction; a first joining point, at which longitudinal crease line and a transversal crease line join with respect to one another; and at least one first area, which is bounded by longitudinal crease line, transversal crease line and additional crease line; further direction being incident to first longitudinal crease line and to first transversal crease line in first joining point; at least one of first longitudinal crease line, first transversal crease line and first additional crease line being interrupted at first joining point.