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Pattern Laminated Double Wall Hot Formable Plastic Web With Enhanced Puncture Resistance

a technology of formable plastic web and laminated double wall, which is applied in the direction of packaging foodstuffs, transportation and packaging, packaged goods type, etc., can solve the problems of achieve substantial stored shrink force, reduce stress, and reduce storage shrink force

Inactive Publication Date: 2013-11-21
CURWOOD INC
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Benefits of technology

The patent is about a method of making a food packaging film that has good protection against oxygen and punctures. The film is made up of two layers that are partially laminated together. The layers are made from blown films that don't have much stored shrinkage energy. The method of making the film involves stretching the layers and then cooling them down quickly to relieve the stresses caused by the stretching. If the film is heated up, it will display substantial shrinking. The technical effect of this method is to make a film that has good puncture resistance and protection against oxygen.

Problems solved by technology

Nonetheless these films are characterized as having substantial stored shrink forces because if they are heated to an appropriate temperature they will display substantial shrinking.

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[0033]Pork neck bones were packaged using a Multivac packaging machine which thermally formed an open mouth cavity in a thermoplastic web into which into which the neck bones were placed, followed by covering the open mouth with another thermoplastic web, evacuating the air in the cavity, heat sealing a portion of the covering web to the mouth of the cavity to create a sealed package and separating the sealed package from the remainder of the two webs. The packages were formed with three different types of film used as the cavity forming web. The finished and isolated packages were evaluated for leakage of contained fluid immediately after formation, after a twenty four period and after distribution testing.

[0034]The formation of the sealed packages was generally done in accordance with the teachings of U.S. Pat. No. 3,956,867 to Utz et al. of Multivac, incorporated by reference herein. However, unlike the teachings of this patent no attempt was made to cause shrinkage of t...

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[0043]The cavity forming web of Example 1 was used as both the cavity forming web and the covering web in packaging six meat and bone products using a Multivac packaging machine in a manner quite similar to that of Example 1. In some cases it was found that a smaller die draw (i.e. a shallower package) gave fewer leakers. In other cases results, the venting of chamber used to evacuate the product containing cavity was adjusted to reduce the impact of hard product against a top plate of the packaging machine.

[0044]The typical venting of cavity evacuation chamber was, in selected cases, adjusted to reduce the likelihood of puncture of the covering web. After the product containing cavity is evacuated and the appropriate portion of the covering web is heat sealed to the cavity mouth, this portion is closely adjacent to the top plate of the machine which carries the seal bars which effect this heat sealing. Without adjustment of the venting, the air vented back into the chamber has a te...

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Abstract

The present disclosure is concerned with thermoformable webs with improved puncture resistance suitable for use in semi-automatic horizontal form fill and seal (HFFS) packaging machines and a process for packaging hard food items with sharp angular surfaces using such webs in such machines. The webs have a double wall partially laminated structure. The structure is conveniently formed by adhesively laminating two component films in a face to face configuration using a pattern of adhesive which leaves a substantial portion of the two facing surfaces unlaminated. The lamination just needs to be sufficient that the two component films will hot form together when they are vacuum drawn into a die to form a cavity for packaging the food items. The lamination pattern can vary from just edge strips to the edge strips and a honey comb pattern or a pattern of dots over the facing surfaces between the edge strips.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]In the packaging of food products in thermoplastic film there have been attempts to address the problem of puncture of the film in various ways to assure both isolation from the atmosphere and to prevent leakage of liquids which may be present in the package. For meat products which contain bones which can be placed in a fixed relationship to the packaging, the practice has developed of applying a “patch” of polymer film on top of the primary packaging. Typically this “patch” has been adhered to the primary packaging film by a corona treatment of the facing surfaces or by covering the facing surfaces with an appropriate adhesive. Over time the size of the “patch” has evolved to cover almost the entire surface of the package thus making the location of bone less critical. However, this approach is not suitable for use with the semi-automated packaging approach wherein a cavity is thermoformed into a thermoplastic web, the food product is placed into t...

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IPC IPC(8): B32B7/12B65B25/00B32B3/24
CPCB65B25/065B32B3/085B32B3/12B32B7/12B32B7/14B32B27/08B32B2307/31B32B2307/7244B32B2439/70B65B31/028Y10T428/1352Y10T428/24331Y10T428/24843
Inventor BERBERT, OTACILIO TEIXERIA
Owner CURWOOD INC