A flexible container incorporating flexible front and rear sheets with a perimeter seal in which at least one length or section of the perimeter seal can include a seal weld that has both a permanent seal section and a pressure absorbing seal section. The pressure absorbing seal section is configured to peel, fail, or split when the flexible container, filled with a solution or liquid, is dropped onto a hard surface to thereby absorb the impact of the drop. The flexible container can be provided with one or more dispensing and/or additive ports or without any port. The flexible container may include more than one compartments with a peelable seal separating two adjoining compartments of the flexible container.

The application relates to a discharge system (1) for discharging a plurality of flexible containers from a tubular storage assembly, comprising: a storage assembly support (12) configured to support the tubular storage assembly; a discharge device (14) configured to remove the containers from the tubular storage assembly and move the containers one by one from the second end of the tubular storage assembly towards a discharge region (15), wherein the discharge device comprises: a gripper unit (81); a drive (82, 84) configured to cause the storage assembly and the gripper unit to rotate relative to each other; wherein the gripper unit is configured to grip dispensing spouts of containers successively passing by the gripper unit, to transport the gripped dispensing spouts and associated containers in a substantially axial direction and to collect the dispensing spouts in the discharge region.

A vertical bag-making/filling/packaging machine includes: a top folding portion which forms a first fold by folding one of sides of a band-shaped film into a Z shape; a bottom folding portion which folds a center of the film so that side edges of the film face each other; a first pleat guide which pulls a first pleat of the first fold upright; a spout portion-forming portion which forms a spout portion between the side edges of the film; and a second pleat seal portion which forms a second pleat by heat-welding the side edges of the film together so as to make the film into a tube shape.

The present disclosure provides a flexible container. In an embodiment, the flexible container includes a first multilayer film and a second multilayer film. Each multilayer film comprises a seal layer. The multilayer films are arranged such that the seal layers oppose each other and the second multilayer film is superimposed on the first multilayer film. The multilayer films are sealed along a common peripheral edge. The flexible container includes a fitment. The fitment comprises a base. The base comprises a polymeric blend of from 60 wt % to 90 wt % ethylene/-olefin multi-block copolymer and from 40 wt % to 10 wt % high density polyethylene (HDPE). The flexible container includes a fitment seal comprising the base located between the multilayer films. The base is sealed to each multilayer film at a portion of the common peripheral edge.

Provided are flexible containers for holding a concentrate, the containers comprising: a flexible body holding the concentrate, a spout, a filter element disposed in the spout, the filter element comprising a filter and an attachment element configured to attach to a water source. Also provided are methods of reconstituting concentrated products using the flexible containers.

A solid and liquid dietary dispensing system simultaneously stores and dispenses liquid and solid edible substances, while being manipulated with one hand. The system comprises a flattened tubular container defined by a container sidewall that forms a container cavity, containing a liquid edible substance. The container has a base end and a dispense end with a neck having a neck opening. Depressing the container forces the liquid edible substance through the neck opening. A cap detachably attaches to the container. The cap is defined by a continuous cap sidewall that forms a cap cavity. The cap has a discharge end and a mount end. The mount end comprises a channel that detachably mates with the neck of the container. The container cavity and the cap cavity are in fluid communication. Barriers segregates the cap cavity into compartments. A gate at discharge end of the cap regulates access to cap cavity.

Disclosed are apparatus for dispensing a liquid from within a flexible package and a method of dispensing a liquid from within a flexible package. The apparatus comprises a fitment and a piercing member. The fitment is secured to a wall of the flexible package and has a passageway extending through it and a screw-thread section. The piercing member has a passageway extending through it, a piercing tip, and a screw-thread section. The piercing member is configured for insertion in the passageway of the fitment, with the screw-thread sections engaging each other to cause the piercing tip to penetrate the package, whereupon the liquid within the package can flow into and through the piercing member.

To provide a spout pouch that improves easiness of spouting a content liquid through a spout and suppresses breakage of a pouch main body with the vicinity of a flange outer peripheral edge as a starting point. There is provided a spout pouch in which at least a part of a flange of a spout is disposed facing a region between an upper side inclined edge portion of a front side outer edge and an upper side inclined edge portion of a rear side outer edge, and at least a part of a grip-use film penetrating portion is formed in a second upper side sealing region of a second side seal or a second outer side non-sealing region.

Embodiments related to juicing systems including juicers for extracting juice from food matter contained within juicer cartridges are described.

A liner for use with a fluid dispensing vessel. The liner includes a flexible pouch defining an interior region and configured to be placed in a fluid dispensing vessel. The pouch includes a top end that is partially sealed and that includes a first opening. The pouch includes a fluid passageway defined by at least two sealed boundaries and that leads from the opening to the interior region. The pouch includes a bottom end that includes a second opening. The liner includes a fluid dispensing fitment connected to the pouch and configured to be in fluid communication with interior region via the second opening. When fluid is poured into the interior region of the pouch through the opening, it can be dispensed from the pouch through the fitment.