Pillow Packaging Bag, Pillow Type Packaged Body, Heat Seal Bar for Pillow Packaging Machine, and Pillow Packaging Machine

Abstract

A pillow packaging bag, a pillow type packaging body, a heat seal bar for pillow packaging machine, and a pillow packaging machine. The pillow packaging bag enabling the suppression of the occurrence of pin holes in a handling step and a transportation course after packaging comprises two lateral seal parts positioned roughly parallel with each other and a contents filling part held by the two lateral seal parts. Damping portions connected to the contents filling portion are formed near both side end parts of the lateral seal part from the border line thereof with the contents filling part near the center part of the lateral seal part toward the lateral seal part.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a divisional of and claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 662,855 filed on Mar. 14,2007, which claims priority from International Application No. PCT / JP2005 / 017687 with an international filing date of Sep. 27, 2005, which claims priority from Japanese Patent Application Serial No. 2004-290578, filed Oct. 1, 2004, all of which are incorporated herein in their entirety by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to a pillow packaging bag for packaging foods, pharmaceuticals, medical tools or the like and preserving their quality, and more particularly to a pillow type packaging machine usable for manufacturing such bags or devices, and a heat sealing bar for use with the pillow type packaging machine.BACKGROUND[0003]Whereas various packaging materials for packaging various goods, such as beverages, foods, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, items for daily use and sundries, have been develo...

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Benefits of technology

[0060]By taking up an exemplar packaging bag which is a pillow packaging bag (L=60 mm, c=55 mm, d=15 mm) of a laminated film specifically comprising polyethylene terephthalate, low-density polyethylene and straight-chain low-density polyethylene and filled with agar, the effect of the invention attributable to the difference in the shape of lateral seal portions will be described.

[0061]Six each of filled pillow packaging bags, namely pillow type packaged bodies (a=0, b=0) with straight lateral seals and of pillow type packaged bodies having the seal shape according to the invention (arc-shaped: a=7 mm, b=7 mm, 7 mm in radius of curvature) were loaded in bulk into a self-sustaining bag (140×180 mm, 37 mm in fold length), which, after being subjected to a drop test as stated with respect to Embodiment 1 to be described below, was unsealed to observe the surfaces of the pillow packaging bags; while scratches were observed on bag surfaces of the straight-sealed pillow type packaged bodies, no such scratches were observed on the pillow type packaged bodies having the seal shape according to the invention. In fact, no angle formation was observed on the pillow type packaged bodies having the seal shape according to the invention, while angle formation was observed on the straight-sealed pillow type packaged bodies. Thus, by disposing some buffering regions, it is made difficult for acutely angled portions to be formed at the side ends of the lateral seal portions, and the risk of piercing or scratching mutually adjacent pillow packaging bags is eliminated.

[0062]Hereupon, the shape of seals in the lateral seal portions in this mode for implementing the invention will be described in more details.

[0063]The lateral seal portions 1A and 1B in this mode for implementation, as shown in FIG. 3 which shows an enlarged view of the essential part of FIG. 1, have a plurality of linear seals, which are combined to constitute the configuration.

[0064]In further detail, three first linear seals 5 each are formed toward the ends of both sides. These three first linear seals 5 are substantially as wide straight seals, extending over the whole width of the pillow packaging bag 10 in the lateral direction. These first linear seals 5 are disposed substantially in parallel at appropriate intervals in the direction of the sealing width. And along these first linear seals 5, two second linear seals 6 are formed on the content-filled region 2 side. These second linear seals 6 are straight seals, disposed substantially in parallel at appropriate intervals, and their ends on both sides are formed short closer to the vertical seal 1C than the first linear seals 5. Incidentally, the widths of these two second linear seals 6 are greater on the content-filled region 2 side than on the first linear seals 5 side. Further, a linking seal 7 connect both side ends of these two second linear seals 6 and the first linear seal 5 closest to the content-filled region 2 to each other. Incidentally in this example, the linking seal 7 smoothly connects in a curve which is concave toward the lateral seal portions 1A and 1B both side ends of the second linear seals 6 and the first linear seals 5. Further, there are areas e consisting only of the first linear seals 5 at both ends of the lateral seal portions 1A and 1B.

[0065]And the connection of the two types of seals by this linking seal 7 results in the demarcation of the concave areas formed at both ends of the lateral seal portions toward the content-filled region 2 as the aforementioned buffering regions 1D. For this reason, as the lateral seal portions 1A and 1B in this mode for implementation are provided with a plurality of linear seals, which are combined to constitute the configuration, they excel in the ability to seal off foreign matter and are less susceptible to fluctuations in seal portion thickness. Furthermore, as the lateral seal portions 1A and 1B hardly go off position in this pillow packaging bag 10, pillow packaging bags and pillow type packaged bodies having the aforementioned pin hole restraining effects can be stably obtained.

Problems solved by technology

However, as an inherent cause of occurrence of a pin hole, there has been found out a phenomenon in which the projection of a corner of a packaging bag pierces an adjacent packaging bag.

Similarly, in a collective packaged unit where an external bag is packed with small packaging bags in bulk, a major problem may arise.

It is difficult to cope with pin holes occurring from such causes merely by ameliorating the film material or the film configuration to improve the strength and other characteristics, and they often give rise to problems in protection or leakage of the content.

However, this provides no full solution as it involves such problems as susceptibility to angle formation due to a positional deviation in the curved portion, biting of the content into the seal portion due to the expansion of the area of the seal portion, sealing failure invited by an increase in the quantity of dirt, and a phenomenon of partial thinning of the thickness of the packaging material due to localized variation of the bearing at the time of sealing (hereinafter referred to as poly-slimming), further entailing difficult in machining the seal bar.

However, this technique described in Patent Document 4 takes no heed of the function of the bag to be filled with and to package a fluid content, such as liquid or viscous fluid.

As a result, folding due to the fall of the lateral seal portions may arise, still giving rise to angle formation at both side ends of lateral seals.

Especially according to this technique described in Patent Document JP6-127556A, as it is intended for use with light food, such as snacks, the lateral seal portions embody no consideration to prevent sealing failure caused by the intervention of the fluid content, and in this respect it is inadequate as a bag to be filled with and package a fluid content, therefore unable solve the problem of having to restrain pierced pin holes mentioned above.

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