Abstract
A composite pack for filling liquid material having an interior member as a non-self-standing type liquid material filling package member of filling a liquid material and an exterior member capable of stably holding the interior member, includes a bag-shaped interior member formed by the liquid material into a soft package bag and an exterior member for housing the interior member and including a cylindrical body, a bottom wall disposed at a lower end of the cylindrical body and an opening portion formed in an upper end of the cylindrical body. The interior member includes a sheet-like nozzle for pouring the liquid material protruded in an upper end portion or a side end upper portion of the package bag, and the exterior member includes at the opening portion a sealing structure unit having a top face wall closing the opening portion and plural vertical rubs standing from the top face wall.
Claims
1. A composite pack for filling a liquid material, comprising: a bag-shaped interior member including a soft package bag filled with a liquid material; and an exterior member having a cylindrical body provided on a lower end with a bottom wall and on an upper end with an opening for housing the interior member, wherein the interior member is provided with a sheet-like pouring nozzle for liquid material, the sheet-like pouring nozzle protruding from an upper end portion or a side end upper portion of the package bag, and the exterior member includes a top face wall for closing the opening and plural vertical ribs standing up from the top face wall, one of the plural vertical ribs is a vertical cover rib for clamping and covering the sheet-like pouring nozzle for liquid material, and the vertical cover rib includes a given cut-off line capable of exposing the sheet-like pouring nozzle.
2. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein the plural vertical ribs comprise at least three vertical ribs standing up from the flat or mountain-type top face wall and the at least three vertical ribs are arranged radially from an approximately central position of the cylindrical body in a planar view of the cylindrical body.
3. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein each vertical rib of the plural vertical ribs is provided by overlapping a pair of standing walls provided by cutting and raising a part of the top face wall.
4. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 3, wherein the vertical rib is provided by connecting one standing wall to the other standing wall through a connecting piece.
5. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 4, wherein the connecting piece is provided with a notch as a starting point for breaking the connecting piece by applying an external force to each standing wall constituting the vertical rib so as to separate from each other.
6. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein faces of the top face wall located at both sides of the vertical cover rib have a gradient larger than a gradient of the other faces of the top face wall.
7. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 6, wherein a lower end of the vertical cover rib is positioned lower than a lower end of an other vertical rib.
8. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein the interior member includes a protruding end of the sheet-like pouring nozzle for the liquid material, and the protruding end is located on an inner side of a side wall of the cylindrical body of the exterior member.
9. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein the package bag comprises a single plastic film or a laminate film provided by laminating one or more plastic films or plural plastic films including a metallic foil, and the exterior member comprises a paper, a plastic film or a composite of plastic film and paper.
10. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein at least one portion of an upper end portion of the interior member is joined and fixed to the exterior member.
11. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein the cylindrical body of the exterior member has an approximately equal opening area over a full length from the bottom wall to the opening on the upper end of the exterior member.
12. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein the exterior member is provided with a detachable cap for covering the sheet-like pouring nozzle for the liquid material during exposure.
13. The composite pack for filling a liquid material according to claim 1, wherein the sheet-like pouring nozzle for the liquid material has a self-sealing function that pouring of the liquid material in the package bag is performed by tilting the package bag or pushing the package bag without sucking external air, and an inner face of a pouring pathway in the sheet-like pouring nozzle for the liquid material is closed immediately with a thin film of the liquid material flowed from the package bag to block penetration of external air into the package bag in stopping the pouring by returning the package bag to a stand posture or releasing the pushing of the package bag.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
(1) FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the composite pack for filling a liquid material according to the invention.
(2) FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating an upper portion at a rear side of the composite pack for filling liquid material of FIG. 1.
(3) FIG. 3 is a plan view of the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 1.
(4) FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 1.
(5) FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating another embodiment of a sealing structure unit in the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(6) FIG. 6 is a perspective view of an exterior member constituting the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 1 before the housing of an interior member.
(7) FIG. 7 is a perspective view illustrating a state of housing an interior member into the exterior member of FIG. 6.
(8) FIG. 8 is a schematic view showing a method of cutting out a cover disposed in the exterior member of the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 1.
(9) FIG. 9 is a schematic view illustrating another embodiment of the cover disposed in the exterior member of the composite pack for filling liquid material.
(10) FIG. 10 is a perspective view illustrating another embodiment of the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(11) FIG. 11 is a perspective view illustrating the other embodiment of the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(12) FIG. 12 is a perspective view illustrating the other embodiment of the sealing structure unit in the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(13) FIG. 13 is a perspective view illustrating a structure of a connecting piece.
(14) FIG. 14 is a perspective view illustrating a further embodiment of the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(15) FIG. 15 is a perspective view illustrating a still further embodiment of the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(16) FIG. 16 is a side view of the composite pack for filling liquid material viewing from a direction of arrow A-A in FIG. 15.
(17) FIG. 17 is a side view of the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 15 viewing from a side opposite to the arrow direction of FIG. 16.
(18) FIG. 18 is a perspective view illustrating a further embodiment of the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(19) FIG. 19 is a perspective view of an exterior member constituting the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 18 before the housing of an interior member.
(20) FIG. 20 is a plan view showing a method of forming a sealing structure unit in the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 18.
(21) FIG. 21 is a perspective view illustrating an example of a cap disposed in a top of an exterior member of the composite pack for filling liquid material shown in FIG. 1.
(22) FIGS. 22(a) and 22(b) are end views of the cap of FIG. 21 at a position B-B and FIG. 22(c) is a perspective view illustrating a state of forming a window hole in a vertical rib of an exterior member in the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(23) FIG. 23 is a perspective view illustrating another example of the cap disposed in the top of the exterior member of the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
(24) FIG. 24 is a perspective view illustrating an embodiment of an interior member constituting the composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention.
EMBODIMENTS FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
(25) The composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention is constructed with a bag-shaped interior member formed by filling a liquid material into a soft package bag made from a plastic film or the like and an exterior member made from a paper, aplastic or the like for housing and holding the interior member. The features of the invention will be described based on the illustrated embodiments below.
(26) FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an embodiment of a composite pack P for filling liquid material, and FIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating an upper portion at a rear side of the composite pack P for filling liquid material, and FIG. 3 is a plan view of the composite pack P for filling liquid material, and FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the composite pack P for filling liquid material.
(27) The composite pack P for filling liquid material is constructed with an interior member 30 shown by a dotted line in FIG. 1 and an exterior member 10 for housing and holding the interior member 30. The interior member 30 and the exterior member 10 are preferable to be fixed to each other by joining in at least one location. As a fixed portion 28 is preferable an upper end portion rearward a top of the interior member 30 (a side opposite to a protruding position of a sheet-like nozzle 31) as shown in FIG. 1. By the arrangement of the fixed portion 28 is made possible to perform smooth pouring without causing deformation of the sheet-like nozzle 31 when the composite pack P for filling liquid material is tilted so as to direct the sheet-like nozzle 31 downward for pouring the liquid material, while penetration of ambient air can be prevented sufficiently without blocking adhesion of inner faces in a pouring pathway to each other even if the sheet-like nozzle 31 has a self-sealing function of preventing penetration of ambient air as mentioned later.
(28) The fixed portion 28 may be disposed in a position just beneath the sheet-like nozzle 31 in the interior member 30 as shown in FIG. 1. In this case, it may be formed by cutting a part of the exterior member 10 and pushing inward and sticking an inner face of the cut portion to an outer face of the interior member 30 located at the inside thereof as shown in the figure.
(29) The upper portion of the composite pack P for filling liquid material is sealed by a sealing structure unit 13 comprised of four vertical ribs 17a-17d made from a pair of standing walls arranged radially (cruciform) and a top face wall 18 as shown in a plan view of FIG. 3. On the contrary, the lower portion of the composite pack P for filling liquid material is provided with a bottom wall 25 (bottom plate) as shown in a bottom view of FIG. 4, and the bottom wall 25 is formed by engaging or sticking plural bottom walls (4 walls in FIG. 4) continuing from a lower end of a cylindrical body 12 to each other. Moreover, the composite pack P for filling liquid material is comprised of the interior member 30 formed by filling the liquid material into the package bag and the exterior member 10 and the liquid material is not directly filled into the exterior member 10, so that the bottom wall 25 of the exterior member 10 may be anything as far as self-standing property is applied and falling-off of the interior member 30 can be prevented.
(30) At first, the exterior member 10 will be described below.
(31) As shown in FIG. 1, the exterior member 10 is provided with a cylindrical body 12 and a sealing structure unit 13 for sealing an opening portion 12′ located at the upper end of the cylindrical body 12 (12′ is set as “upper end opened portion” hereinafter). Moreover, the sealing structure unit 13 is constructed with four vertical ribs 17a-17d composed of the pair of standing walls arranged radially and a mountain type top face wall 18 (top face plate) connecting the vertical ribs 17a-17d to the upper end opened portion 12′.
(32) In this embodiment, the cylindrical body 12 of the exterior member 10 is shown to be a quadrangular prism body as an example, but is not limited thereto in the invention. Also, the cylindrical body 12 may be a polygonal prism such as triangular prism, pentagonal prism or the like or a circular cylinder. The top face wall 18 may be a flat form approximately perpendicular to the vertical ribs 17a-17d as shown in FIG. 5. In the latter case, the height of the exterior member 10 can be suppressed.
(33) Also, the material of the exterior member 10 is not particularly limited, but is preferable to be a material having a strength capable of applying the self-standing property as the composite pack P for filling liquid material. It may be a paper, a plastic film, a composite of paper and plastic film or the like. The composite of paper and plastic film is ones obtained by using a paper as a base and laminating at least one plastic film such as nylon, polyester, polyethylene or the like thereon. It is further preferable to laminate a metallic foil, a metal deposited layer, various barrier layers or the like, if necessary. Moreover, the exterior member 10 is preferable to be formed by folding the one sheet in view of increasing the production efficiency. In this embodiment, the exterior member 10 is described to be made from a paper as an example.
(34) FIG. 6 is a perspective view illustrating an embodiment of the exterior member 10 before the housing of the interior member 30.
(35) A circular body 11 forming the sealing structure unit 13 for sealing the upper end opened portion 12′ is provided on an upper end edge of the cylindrical body 12. As shown in FIG. 7, the interior member 30 filled with the liquid material is housed through the upper end opened portion 12′ of the cylindrical body 12. In this case, it is preferable to overlap an upper end edge of the sealing structure unit 13 in the exterior member 10 with an upper end edge of the housed interior member 30 (for example, partly sticking them) in order to fix the interior member 30 to the exterior member 10 and arrange the sheet-like nozzle 31 of the interior member 30 to a given position.
(36) The circular body 11 is comprised of a pair of standing walls by folding mountain-folded lines 14 extending from 4 corner portions of the cylindrical body 12 along valley-folded lines 15 formed between the mountain-folded lines 14 and butting four internal tip portions 16 in the valley-folded lines 15 to each other to thereby form the sealing structure unit 13 comprised of four radially positioned (cruciform) vertical ribs 17a-17d (mountain-folded portions) and the mountain-shaped top face wall 18 formed between the vertical ribs 17a-17d and the upper end opened portion 12′.
(37) In this embodiment, four vertical ribs 17a-17d are disposed in the sealing structure unit 13. It is preferable to disposed three or more vertical ribs in the sealing structure unit 13. The number of the ribs is properly set in accordance with the purpose, applications and so on.
(38) In the thus constructed composite pack P for filling liquid material, the liquid material can be filled at the same opening area over a full length from the bottom portion to the upper portion of the cylindrical body 12 of the exterior member 10, while the height of the composite pack P for filling liquid material can be decreased as far as possible by sealing the upper end opened portion 12′ of the cylindrical body 12 with the sealing structure unit 13 disposed in the upper end opened portion 12′. In the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention, therefore, it can be expected that the volume efficiency of the liquid material is 2 times or more of an exterior vessel shown in the prior art and can be increased to the same level in the usually distributed plastic bottles.
(39) In the composite pack P for filling liquid material, four vertical ribs 17a-17d in the sealing structure unit 13 are formed by butting four internal tip portions 16 in the valley-folded lines 15 to each other as mentioned above, so that the upper end opened portion 12′ can be opened easily by pulling two opposed vertical ribs, i.e. vertical rib 17a and vertical rib 17c or vertical rib 17b and vertical rib 17d in FIG. 1 in a direction of separating away from each other with fingers. After use, the interior member 30 is taken out from the exterior member 10, whereby both the materials can be sorted and disposed, respectively.
(40) Moreover, the sheet-like nozzle 31 of the interior member 30 is housed between the pair of standing walls in one of the four vertical ribs 17a-17d, i.e. the vertical rib 17a in FIG. 1 as indicated by dotted lines, so that the vertical rib 17a acts as a cover 19 for the sheet-like nozzle 31. Thus, the sheet-like nozzle 31 is protected from both front and rear faces by the cover 19 before the start of use, and hence there is no fear of deforming or erroneously opening the sheet-like nozzle 31 in the handling for transportation or the like. If at least a part of the sheet-like nozzle 31 is detachably stuck or fused to an inner face of the cover 19, the deformation or the like of the sheet-like nozzle 31 can be more suppressed.
(41) On the other hand, the remaining three vertical ribs 17b-17d act as sealing pieces by sticking or fusing the pairs of standing walls overlapped at least in their upper end portions for sealing the upper end opened portion 12′ of the cylindrical body 12 in cooperation with the top face wall 18. In this case, it is preferable to fix the interior member 30 to the exterior member 10 by interposing the upper end portion of the interior member 30 between the pair of standing walls in the vertical ribs 17b-17d.
(42) In this embodiment, each of the four vertical ribs 17a-17d is disposed on a straight line passing through four corners thereof in a plan view of the cylindrical body 12. It is preferable that the vertical rib 17a as the cover 19 for housing and holding the sheet-like nozzle 31 is positioned at least on a straight line passing through at least one corner portion of the cylindrical body 12.
(43) As shown in FIG. 1, the cover 19 can be cut out along a predetermined cut-off line 20 of perforation or the like formed in the sealing structure unit 13. By cutting out the cover 19 can be exposed the sheet-like nozzle 31 from inside to outside.
(44) Moreover, one of the pair of standing walls constituting the vertical rib 17a is a flap 21 as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. The flap 21 can be opened by using the mountain-folded line 14 as shown in FIG. 8 or an upper end edge of the vertical rib 17a as shown in FIG. 9 as a starting point.
(45) The method of cutting out the cover 19 will be described by using FIG. 8 as an example. At first, the flap 21 is opened with fingers by using the mountain-folded line 14 as a starting point and then the vertical rib 17a (cover portion 19) is cut out along the predetermined cut-off line 20 formed in the other wall to expose the sheet-like nozzle 31 outward. Moreover, it is preferable that at least a part of the flap 21 is stuck or fused to the other standing wall of the vertical rib 17a to suppress exposure of the sheet-like nozzle 31 from inside to outside until the start of use.
(46) Also, it is preferable that a predetermined crushing line 24a is formed in the cylindrical body 12 of the exterior member 10 located just beneath the sheet-like nozzle 31 (corner portion of quadrangular prism in FIG. 1) and a predetermined another crushing line 24b is formed in the cylindrical body 12 located opposite thereto (another corner portion of the quadrangular prism in FIG. 1). Further, it is preferable that the bottom wall 25 is provided with a predetermined bending line 26 of perforation or the like communicated with the predetermined crushing lines 24a and 24b for bending the bottom wall 25 inward the cylindrical body 20 as shown in FIG. 4.
(47) Thus, the exterior member 10 can be crushed along the predetermined crushing lines 24a, 24b and the predetermined bending line 26 until the cylindrical body 12 becomes flat, so that the pouring amount of the liquid material can be adjusted by the pushing amount with fingers, while the liquid material can be squeezed out up to the end even if the residual amount of the liquid material becomes small.
(48) In FIG. 1, the cylindrical body 12 of the exterior member 10 is a quadrangular prism, so that the predetermined crushing line 24b is located in a corner portion of the cylindrical body 12. However, the predetermined crushing line 24b is properly formed in the wall portion of the cylindrical body 12 in accordance with the form of the cylindrical body 12.
(49) FIG. 10 is a perspective view illustrating another embodiment of the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention. In this composite pack P for filling liquid material, plural concave strips 29 each extending in a horizontal direction are formed in the wall face of the cylindrical body 12 of the exterior member 10 at a position gripping with fingers, for example, within a range of about 5 cm upward and downward from a central position in the height direction of the cylindrical body 12. The slipping off of the composite pack can be suppressed by these concave strips 29 when it is gripped with fingers. Moreover, the concave strips 29 can be formed by pressing a material constituting the exterior member 10 such as paper or the like in a given form.
(50) FIG. 11 is a perspective view illustrating the other embodiment of the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention, which is different from the composite pack P for filling liquid material of FIG. 1 in the structure of the pair of standing walls constituting the vertical rib 17a of the exterior member 10. In this composite pack P for filling liquid material, the standing walls have the same form and the predetermined cut-off line 20 is formed in each of the two standing walls in the same form. Therefore, the vertical rib 17a composed of the pair of standing walls (cover 19) can be cut out at once by tearing or folding along the predetermined cut-off lines 20.
(51) FIG. 12 is a perspective view illustrating another embodiment of the sealing structure unit 13 in the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention. As shown in FIG. 12, the vertical ribs 17a-17d are segmented through an incision 37 formed in a central portion thereof, respectively. Therefore, the four vertical ribs 17a-17d are held at an independent state, respectively, so that even if the composite pack P for filling liquid material is dropped in error during the handling or the like, the dropping impact is absorbed by softly distorting each of the vertical ribs 17a-17d and the joint of the vertical ribs 17a-17d (between mutual walls) is prevented from peeling, deforming or the like and hence the composite pack P for filling liquid material (exterior member 10) can be held at its original form. Also, when the opposed two vertical ribs (vertical rib 17a and vertical rib 17c or vertical rib 17b and vertical rib 17d) are pulled in a direction of separating away from each other with fingers, the sealing structure unit 13 can be opened easily by using the incision 37 as a starting point. Furthermore, the four vertical ribs 17a-17d are at an independent state, respectively, so that inner faces of the two standing walls are easily overlapped to each other, and hence the sealing structure unit 13 can be shaped easily.
(52) As shown in FIG. 13(a), it is preferable that at least one connecting piece 22 connecting one standing wall to the other standing wall is disposed in each upper end portion of the vertical ribs 17a-17d. The joining strength between the pair of standing walls in each of the vertical ribs 17a-17d is increased by the connecting piece 22, so that even if the composite pack P for filling liquid material is dropped in error during the handling or the like, the joint of the vertical ribs 17a-17d (between mutual standing walls in the pair) is prevented from peeling, deforming or the like and hence the composite pack P for filling liquid material (exterior member 10) can be held at its original form.
(53) The connecting piece 22 is made of a member different from the exterior member 10. As shown in FIG. 13, the connecting piece 22 for connecting the two standing walls can be formed by arranging a protrusion piece 22a continued from one wall in the pair of standing wall constituting the vertical rib 17c and folding or sticking the protrusion piece 22a to the wall face of the other wall.
(54) Moreover, since the connecting piece 22 is strongly stuck to the wall faces of the vertical ribs 17a and 17b, when the interior member 30 is taken out from the exterior member 10, for example, in the disposal or the like of the composite pack P for filling liquid material, the connecting piece 22 cannot be broken by a force with fingers and hence there is a fear that the sealing structure unit 13 cannot be opened easily. As shown enlargedly in FIG. 13(a), therefore, it is preferable to dispose a notch portion 23 in the connecting piece 22 between double standing walls constituting the vertical rib 17c, preferably in an end portion side an internal tip portion 16 of the valley-folded line 15. In this case, when the opposed vertical ribs (vertical rib 17a and vertical rib 17c or vertical rib 17b and vertical rib 17d) are pulled with fingers in a direction of separating away from each other, the connecting piece 22 can be broken easily from the notch portion 23 as a starting point.
(55) In FIG. 14 is shown another embodiment of the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention. In this composite pack P for filling liquid material, three vertical ribs 17a-17c are disposed as the sealing structure unit 13 of the exterior member 10. As shown in this figure, an easily-deforming portion 27 capable of depressing and deforming inward is disposed in a corner portion of the cylindrical body 12 of the exterior member 10 or a wall portion of the cylindrical body positioning a finger (not shown) when the cylindrical body 12 is grasped with fingers. When the exterior member 10 is grasped with fingers through the easily-deforming portion 27, the exterior member 10 is easy to grasp with fingers and the slippage of the exterior member 10 from fingers can be suppressed in the handling thereof.
(56) In FIG. 15 is shown a still further embodiment of the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention. The exterior member 10 constituting this composite pack P for filling liquid material is provided with the cylindrical body 12 and the sealing structure unit 13 for sealing the upper end opened portion 12′ of the cylindrical body 12. The sealing structure unit 13 is constructed with mountain-shaped top face walls 18a-18d and four vertical ribs 17a-17d of pairs of standing walls stood radially from the top face walls 18a-18d. The vertical rib 17a among these ribs acts as a cover 19 for a sheet-like nozzle 31 storing the sheet-like nozzle 31 inside in the housing of the interior member 30.
(57) FIG. 16 is a side view of the composite pack P for filling liquid material of FIG. 15 (side view at a side of vertical rib 17a) viewing from a direction of arrow A-A, while FIG. 17 is a side view of the composite pack P for filling liquid material viewing from a side opposite to FIG. 16 (at a side of vertical rib 17c). As seen from FIGS. 16 and 17, the form of the sealing structure unit 13 in the exterior member 10 is largely different between the side of vertical rib 17a and the side of vertical rib 17c.
(58) This is due to the fact that gradients of mountain-shaped top face wall 18a (not shown) and 18b located at both sides of the vertical rib 17a are larger than those of the other top face walls 18c and 18d (not shown) and are steep angles. In this embodiment, a standing base end side 50 of the vertical rib 17a from the top face walls 18a, 18b is extended downward and positioned to a level lower than a standing base end side 51 of the other vertical ribs 17b-17d, whereby the gradients of the top face walls 18a and 18b are made large.
(59) Since the gradients of the top face walls 18a, 18b located at both sides of the vertical rib 17a are made large as mentioned above, a forming space of the vertical rib 17a becomes large, whereby the sheet-like nozzle 31 can be housed in the inside of the vertical rib 17a without protruding the vertical rib 17a from the side wall of the cylindrical body 12. Thus, a side end edge of the vertical rib 17a and a side wall of the cylindrical body 12 (the predetermined crushing line 24a in a corner portion of the cylindrical body 12 in FIG. 15) are aligned in a straight line, whereby space saving can be attained without butting the composite packs P for filling liquid material to each other when the plural composite packs P for filling liquid material are displayed or stored side by side and a fear of breaking them can be reduced.
(60) A length of the standing base end side 50 of the vertical rib 17a is 1.2-2.0 times of a length of the standing base end side 51 of the other vertical ribs 17b-17d, preferably 1.4-1.8 times thereof. When it is within the above range, the gradients of the top face walls 18a, 18b are made larger without decreasing the housing volume of the exterior member 10 to increase the forming space of the vertical rib 17a, whereby the whole of the sheet-like nozzle 31 can be housed in the vertical rib 17a. Also, when the packed liquid material is poured by cutting out the vertical rib 17a to expose the sheet-like nozzle 31 to external, the fixing and clamping of the sheet-like nozzle 31 with the remaining vertical rib 17a is made adequate, whereby the pouring amount of the packed liquid material can be controlled easily, and the pouring directionality is excellent and an effect of suppressing occurrence of liquid dripping or the like can be expected.
(61) In FIG. 18 is shown another embodiment of the composite pack P for filling liquid material according to the invention. In this composite pack P for filling liquid material, the exterior member 10 is made from a laminate plastic film of two or more layers composed of, for example, a base film layer and a sealant layer, and the cylindrical body 12 of a cylinder form is provided on its upper end portion with the sealing structure unit 13 constructed with four vertical ribs 17a-17d and mountain-shaped top face wall defined by these vertical ribs 17a-17d. Also, the exterior member 10 is provided on its lower end portion with a bottom wall 25 of an ellipsoid form viewing as a plan and is self-standing by the bottom wall 25.
(62) In the laminate plastic film constituting the exterior member 10, it is preferable that the base film layer is made from polyethylene terephthalate film, nylon resin film, polypropylene or polyethylene, while the sealant layer is made from polyethylene, polypropylene or the like.
(63) In order that the exterior member 10 has self-standing property and moldability in the housing and holding of the interior member 30, the thickness of the laminate plastic film is 80-300 μm, preferably 100-200 μm, and further a nerve of the laminate plastic film is preferably about 40-300 mN. On either surface of the base film layer may be provided a gas burrier layer such as a SiO.sub.2 deposited layer, an EVOH layer, a vinylidene chloride coating layer, an aluminum oxide coating layer, an Al deposited layer or a sputtering layer thereof at a thickness of 0.5-20 μm. In this case, a steam impermeability, a gas burlier property and so on are applied to the exterior member 10, whereby it is made possible to store the liquid material housed in the interior member 30 fresh over a long period of time.
(64) In this embodiment of the composite pack P for filling liquid material, the exterior member 10 and the interior member 30 are made from a plastic film, respectively, so that the packed liquid material can be squeezed out by folding the composite pack P for filling liquid material when the amount of the liquid material filled in the interior member 30 is decreased.
(65) FIG. 19 is a perspective view illustrating an embodiment of the exterior member 10′ before the housing of the interior member 30, which is comprised of a cylindrical body 12 having a cylinder form and a self-standing bottom wall 25 disposed in a bottom thereof. Moreover, the exterior member 10′ can be manufactured by various methods well-known as a method of manufacturing a standing pouch. For example, the bottom wall 25 composed of a gusset bottom can be formed by sandwiching a two-folded plastic film for bottom wall between lower ends of front and rear plastic films constituting the cylindrical body 12 so as to turn up the folded portion and sealing a peripheral portion thereof at such a state.
(66) In FIG. 19, the cylindrical body 12 is formed by fusion-joining both side edges of the front and rear plastic films (sealing portions 12a, 12b). Also, the cylindrical body 12 may be formed by folding the single plastic film in the widthwise direction thereof.
(67) After the interior member 30 is housed in the cylindrical body 12, the upper end portion of the cylindrical body 12 is folded between the sealing portion 12a and the sealing portion 12b outward so as to pick a widthwise central portion thereof as shown in FIG. 20. Thus, four internal tip portions 16 as a valley-folded portion are butted to each other to form a pair of standing walls as shown in FIG. 18, whereby a tapered sealing structure unit 13 of four vertical ribs 17a-17d arranged radially (cruciform) can be formed.
(68) In the invention, a cap 38 made from a resin, for example, a paper or the like may be disposed detachably on a head portion of the exterior member 10 in the composite pack P for filling liquid material as shown in FIG. 21. This is hygienic because the pouring port of the sheet-like nozzle 30 exposed to external can be prevented from contaminating even if the composite pack P for filling liquid material is stored over a long period of time after the opening of the sheet-like nozzle 31. Moreover, the cap 38 is preferable to be formed in approximately same form as in the sealing structure unit 13 of the exterior member 10 shown in FIG. 1 (form somewhat larger than that of the sealing structure unit 13) so as to arrange ribs 38a-38d radially (cruciform). Any form may be taken as far as at least the sheet-like nozzle 31 can be covered.
(69) Moreover, the cap 38 is preferable to have a clamping structure that the rib 38a covering the vertical rib 17a at least clamping the sheet-like nozzle 31 can tuck at least a part of the sheet-like nozzle 31 from both side faces thereof. By such a clamping structure is suppressed a force acting to a direction of expanding the pouring pathway of the sheet-like nozzle 31 (opening direction), whereby the leakage of the liquid material can be prevented even if the composite pack P for filling liquid material is fallen down accidentally after the opening of the sheet-like nozzle 31.
(70) As the clamping structure may be taken any structures as far as the sheet-like nozzle 31 can be clamped from both side faces thereof. For example, as shown in an end view in a position B-B of FIG. 21 (FIGS. 22(a),(b)), clamping portions 40a, 40b contacting to each other are arranged in inner faces of a pair of wall portions 39a, 39b constituting the rib 38a (FIG. 22(a)), or one or more irregularities are disposed so as to engage with inner faces of the pair of wall portions 39a, 39b (FIG. 22(b)), or a dogleg-shaped folding portion 42 is disposed in a longitudinal direction of the pair of wall portions 39a, 39b as shown in FIG. 23.
(71) As shown in FIG. 22(c), a window hole 41 is formed in the vertical rib 17a and the clamping portions 40, 41 of the cap 38 are fitted into the window hole 41. Thus, the state of the cap 38 fitted into the head portion of the exterior member 10 is improved, while the detaching of the cap 38 can be prevented. By forming the window hole 41 can also be observed the sheet-like nozzle 31 located at the inside of the vertical rib 17a visually.
(72) Furthermore, the cap 38 is preferable to have an engaging structure for preventing the detaching from the head portion of the exterior member 10. For example, a concave portion is formed in the lower end portion of the cap 38, while a convex portion is formed in the side face of the exterior member 10, and the cap and exterior member are rigidly fixed to each other by engaging them through the concave portion and the convex portion.
(73) Next, the interior member 30 will be described below. As shown in FIG. 24 as an example, the interior member 30 can be used by filling and packing a liquid or viscous material into a package bag 32 made from a laminate film, which is formed from the single plastic film or by laminating two or more plastic films or plural plastic films including a metallic foil, for example, through liquid-in seal filling. Particularly, when the package bag 32 is made from the plastic film having sufficient thickness and nerve, the occurrence of wrinkles in the package bag 32 can be suppressed to conduct smooth pouring, while the downward slippage of the interior member 30 can be suppressed when the composite pack P for filling liquid material is tilted for pouring the liquid material.
(74) In FIG. 24, the sheet-like nozzle 31 is provided in a side and upper portion of the interior member 30 in a protruding condition. However, the sheet-like nozzle 31 may be provided in an upper end portion of the interior member 30 in a protruding condition. The sheet-like nozzle 31 can be opened, for example, by cutting out a top end portion along a notch 33 such as V-notch or the like formed near to the top end portion. Also, it is preferable that a protrusion 34 for preventing liquid from dripping and propagating is provided in a lower edge portion of the sheet-like nozzle 31 at a position near to a nozzle base end portion 31a in the vicinity of a predetermined opening position. Thus, the liquid dripped from the opening of the sheet-like nozzle 31 (liquid dripping) is dropped from the top of the protrusion 34 onto a floor face, whereby contamination of the interior member 30 and the exterior member 10 due to the liquid dripping can be prevented.
(75) The sheet-like nozzle 31 is preferable to be made from a laminate plastic film comprising at least a base film layer and sealant layers laminated on both surfaces of the base film layer. The pouring pathway 35 is formed in a central portion by thermal-fusing peripheral edge portion other than the base end portion 31a at a state of overlapping the laminate plastic film from front and rear faces thereof.
(76) Especially, when the sheet-like nozzle 31 has a self-sealing function, the pouring of the liquid material in the package bag 32 is performed by tilting of the package bag 32 or pushing to the package bag 32 without sucking ambient air, while when the pouring is stopped by returning the package bag 32 to the standing position or releasing the pushing of the package bag 32, the interior of the package bag 32 is rendered into a negative pressure associated with a reduced-pressure atmosphere and the inner faces of the pouring pathway 35 in the sheet-like nozzle 31 are closed to each other immediately through an intervention of a thin film of the liquid material adhered to the inner face of the pouring pathway 35 (flowed out from the inside of the package bag 32), whereby penetration of ambient air into the package bag 32 can be blocked.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY
(77) The composite pack for filling liquid material according to the invention can be utilized as a vessel for filling and packing a liquid or viscous material such as beverages, medicines, chemicals or the like.
DESCRIPTION OF REFERENCE SYMBOLS
(78) P composite pack for filling liquid material 10, 10′ exterior member 11 circular body 12 cylindrical body 12′ upper end opened portion 13 sealing structure unit 14 mountain-folded line 15 valley-folded line 16 internal tip portion 17a, 17b, 17c, 17d vertical rib 18 top face wall 19 cover 20 predetermined cut-off line 21 flap 22 connecting piece 23 notch portion 24a, 24b predetermined crushing line 25 bottom wall 26 predetermined bending line 27 easily-deforming portion 28 fixed portion 29 concave strip 30 interior member 31 sheet-like nozzle 31a base end portion 32 package bag 33 V notch 34 protrusion 35 pouring pathway 37 incision 38 cap 38a, 38b, 38c, 38d rib 39a, 39b wall portion 40a, 40b clamping portion 41 window hole 42 folding portion 50, 51 standing base end side 52 border line
