A magazine for temporarily storing at least one package sleeve group having a plurality of flat-folded and upright standing package sleeves and for equipping an unfolding device for the package sleeves following the magazine is represented and described, comprising a supply side supplying the package sleeves, a removal side arranged in a transport direction of the package sleeve group behind the supply side and at least one transport unit movable forwards and backwards along the transport direction to transport the package sleeve group from the supply side to the removal side. In order to ensure the uniform supply of the subsequent unfolding device and therefore to increase the productivity of the subsequent filling machine and also to achieve a constructively simple and simultaneously cost-effective configuration of the magazine, which can also be flexibly applied to different package sleeve sizes, it is proposed that the transport unit has at least two slide elements, arranged opposite one another and in each case resting at least partially on one side of the package sleeves, to align the package sleeves.

A method for filling packages with changing products in a filling machine is disclosed. Packages are successively transported through a filling machine, and the packages are each successively filled with a first product in a sterile environment via a filling outlet connected to a product tank. To empty the product tank, at least one outlet means is brought into an emptying position, and a residue of the first product is discharged at least partially from the sterile environment, via the outlet means located in the emptying position. The outlet means is removed from the emptying position following the emptying of the product tank. Packages are subsequently each successively filled with a second product in a sterile environment, via a filling outlet connected to a product tank.

The present invention relates to a sheetlike composite comprising, as mutually superposed layers, a) a carrier layer, b) a barrier layer, and c) an inner polymer layer,
wherein the sheetlike composite has a multitude of groove lines arranged and configured such that, by folding the sheetlike composite along the groove lines and joining seam areas of the sheetlike composite thereby obtaining seams, a closed container is obtainable, wherein the closed container has a roof area, wherein a first portion of the groove lines of the multitude of groove lines at least partly forms a circumference of a first part-area of the roof area, wherein the groove lines of the first portion, relative to the first part-area of the roof area, have at least partly convex curvature, wherein the first part-area of the roof area has a first length in a longitudinal direction and has a second length in a circumferential direction at right angles to the longitudinal direction, wherein a ratio of the first length to the second length is in a range from 0.2 to 2.0. 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 further container precursor; to a further closed container; and to a use of the sheetlike composite.

Described and illustrated is a device for at least partially unfolding package sleeves, having a magazine comprising a stack formed from package sleeves, wherein the package sleeves of the stack are folded flat around at least two folding edges extending in the longitudinal direction of the package sleeves and wherein a gripper is provided for gripping a side of the package sleeves facing away from the stack and for moving, in particular pulling, the package sleeves along a withdrawal transport path with the folding edges into grooves of at least one receptacle of a moulding station and wherein the grooves are spaced so that the folding edges of the package sleeves are spaced apart further in the magazine than in the grooves. In order to further prevent operational malfunctions and allow a more reliable and largely malfunction-free production of packaging bodies which are open on one side from package sleeves which are open on both sides, it is provided that a drive is assigned to the gripper and/or the grooves for moving the package sleeve section gripped by the gripper first along the withdrawal transport path across a groove plane which connects the grooves, then back against the withdrawal transport path across the groove plane, and then again along the withdrawal transport path across the groove plane.

Apparatus including a forming anvil device for insertion into an end closure region of a partially formed container, the anvil device comprising a front edge region, a rear edge region, respective lateral edge regions extending between the front and rear edge regions and first and second forming portions each having a corner-forming zone including at the respective rear edge region and a lateral edge region arranged substantially orthogonal to each other, each lateral edge region, extending away from the corner-forming zone and towards the front edge region, also including an obliquely inwardly arranged portion. Also disclosed are apparatus for forming a bend in a packaging laminate about a boundary zone free from a pre-formed line of weakness and apparatus comprising a pressing device comprising an outermost pressing surface and connected to an arm member rotatable about an axis whereby rotating the arm member rotates the outermost pressing surface about the axis, wherein the outermost pressing surface is arranged at an oblique angle relative to the axis. Aspects of the partially formed container are also disclosed.

The invention relates to a sheetlike composite comprising, as layers of a layer sequence in the direction from an outer face of the sheetlike composite to an inner face of the sheetlike composite, a) a first polymer layer, b) a carrier layer, and c) a barrier layer, wherein the first polymer layer is characterized by a ratio of a proportion of aromatic groups in the first polymer layer to a proportion of carbonyl groups in the first polymer layer in a range from 0.18 to 0.34. The invention further relates to processes for producing a sheetlike composite, a container precursor and a closed container and to the aforementioned process products; to a further container precursor; to a further closed container; and to uses of the sheetlike composite, of a hardener and of a printing ink.

The invention relates to a sheetlike composite comprising, as layers of a layer sequence in the direction from an outer face of the sheetlike composite to an inner face of the sheetlike composite, a) a first polymer layer, b) a carrier layer, and c) a barrier layer, wherein the first polymer layer is characterized by a ratio of a proportion of aromatic groups in the first polymer layer to a proportion of carbonyl groups in the first polymer layer in a range from 0.18 to 0.34. The invention further relates to processes for producing a sheetlike composite, a container precursor and a closed container and to the aforementioned process products; to a further container precursor; to a further closed container; and to uses of the sheetlike composite, of a hardener and of a printing ink.

A sheet of packaging material to form a package, comprises a receiving region to receive an opening device of the package attached thereon, the sheet of packaging material further comprises two reference marks detectable by a detecting unit of an applying device arranged for applying the opening device on the receiving region. A method for producing a package comprises folding, filling and sealing a sheet of packaging material to obtain the package, the packaging material comprising a receiving region to receive an opening device and two reference marks, the method comprising detecting the reference marks and selecting a subsequent action to be performed on the package and/or the opening device on the basis of the detected position of the reference marks.

Packaging machine, in particular filling device, having at least one transport rail, and at least two transport slides movable along the transport rail and arranged on the transport rail, the transport slides being arranged for transporting at least one package and being moved clocked along a productive region of the transport rail. A processing becomes more flexible if the transport rail and the transport slides are so electromotively connected that the transport slides are moved along a productive area with two indices different from each other.

A device for post-forming the gable surfaces of packaging with a diagonal gable, including a conveying device with cells secured thereto for receiving the packaging and for transporting the packaging along a transport direction, at least one gable folder for folding a fin seam in the gable region of the packaging, and at least two lug folders for folding lugs in the gable region of the packaging. Both the gable folder and the lug folders are movably mounted relative to the conveyor device and the packaging transported therewith.