The present invention relates to a slider for a bag body which is equipped with a plastic zipper and which is employed as packaging materials for a variety of articles in the fields of foods, pharmaceuticals, electronic part items and the like; a bag body equipped with a plastic zipper having the aforesaid slider; and a process for producing the bag body.
Bag bodies each equipped with a plastic zipper having a slider are widely employed for a variety of articles in the fields of foods, pharmaceuticals, electronic part items and the like. There have hitherto been proposed various items relating to the structure of this kind of plastic zipper and a slider for opening and closing the same {for instance, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 214920/1996 (Heisei 8)}. In general, the structure of a plastic zipper is constituted as illustrated on FIG. 16 through FIG. 20.
That is to say,
In the FIG. 16 through
In order to attach the slider to a bag body equipped with the plastic zipper in an automatic and mass-producible manner, it is necessary to attach the slider simultaneously with bag manufacture in the case of manufacturing bags with a bag manufacturing machine. Since the manufacturing rate of a bag manufacturing machine is usually about 60 bags per minute, a slider attaching rate is required to be comparable thereto or more than the same.
However, since simultaneous attachment of the inside guide at an opening portion of the zipper and the outside guide at a closing portion of the zipper necessitates a considerably troublesome steps, it is difficult to simultaneously satisfy the above-mentioned requirements. In particular in the case of thin zipper portion with small slider, the slider attaching rate is markedly decreased to an uneconomical level.
In addition, the case where it is possible to use the above-mentioned slider having the anti-falling-off portion 6-1-1 in such form that a portion of the outside guide slidably nippes the lower portion of the zipper has been limited to a case where the size of the zipper is so large as to be capable of preventing the slider from falling off, and also to such a case where the film on which the hooks of the zipper are formed has favorable sliding properties and strength.
That is to say, the slider as mentioned above suffers from a serious disadvantage that it is unusable in the case of a small zipper portion and a film on which the zipper portion is formed and which has a small thickness or poor sliding properties, because of damage to the film or falling-off of the slider.
Moreover, the existence of the anti-falling-off portion causes further intricateness and difficulty to attaching procedure of the slider as well as remarkable decrease in slider attaching rate.
There is also known a slider which is used for a conventional plastic zipper and to which is applied anti-falling-off structure for sliders.
Specifically,
FIG. 26 and
With such a structure, the slider falling-off can be prevented even in the case of a small-sized zipper. Nevertheless it is remarkably difficult to simultaneously carry out two contradictory procedures wherein for the sake of attaching the slider to the zipper, on the one hand the zipper needs to be opened to insert the inside guide, and on the other hand the tip portion of the inside guide must be inserted into the inside of the closed zipper. Hence taking into consideration the slider attaching rate, the industrial implementation thereof is extremely difficult.
The object of the present invention is to provide a slider for a plastic zipper, a bag body equipped with the aforesaid slider and a process for producing the bag body, wherein the slider can easily be attached to the plastic zipper at a rate higher than a bag manufacturing rate, and further is free from a fear of falling off even if the plastic zipper is slender and is formed of a film having a thin material and low strength.
The slider according to the present invention to be attached to a plastic zipper is detailed as follows.
The bag body equipped with the plastic zipper having the slider according to the present invention is detailed as follows.
The process for producing the bag body according to the present invention which is equipped with the plastic zipper having the slider is detailed as follows.
In the following, some description will be given of the embodiments according to the present invention.
In order to attach the above-mentioned sliders S1 to the plastic zippers of bag bodies 1-4 each equipped with a zipper in a mechanical and mass-producible manner, it is necessary to attach the sliders thereto simultaneously with bag manufacturing by means of a bag manufacturing machine. Since a bag manufacturing rate by means of a bag manufacturing machine is generally about 60 bags per minute, a slider attaching rate needs to be comparable thereto or more than the same. In order to solve the above-mentioned subject according to the present invention, the inside guide 1-2 is rotatably mounted on the slider main body S-11 so that the inside guide is rotated about an axis perpendicular to the plastic zipper, and is inserted between the hooks 1-5, 1-6 to assemble the zipper having the slider at the time of attaching the slider main body S-11 to the plastic zipper.
Specifically as illustrated on FIG. 5 and
The embodiment as exemplified on FIG. 2 through
On the other hand, FIG. 7 through
In the above-described embodiments, the lower portion of the outside guide is not equipped with the anti-falling-off portion 1-1-1 that is illustrated on FIG. 3. Instead, the falling-off of the slider is prevented by such constitution that the cross section of the inside guide 1-2 is formed in the form of almost the letter “L” as illustrated on FIG. 9 and FIG. 10 and when the inside guide is fitted into the slider by rotating the hinge-shaped flexural portion 1-2-1 from the state in
In the following, the attachment configuration of the slider thus formed is detailed. As illustrated on FIG. 11(A), the outside guide 1-1 of the slider S1 is placed onto the zipper from the topside thereof in a closed zipper state, and subsequently as illustrated on FIG. 11(B) and
At the moment when the inside guide 1-2 is fitted into the outside guide 1-1 of the slider, the zipper is in a closed state inside the outside guide, but it is made possible by the above-mentioned means to smoothly insert the inside guide 1-2 of the slider into the inside of the zipper in a closed state. Accordingly it is made possible to carry out the steps of attaching the outside guide 1-1 to the zipper being closed in advance, rotatably inserting the inside guide 1-2 into the zipper which is made into an open state at the opening end of the the slider S1 and besides inserting an inside guide projecting portion 1-2-2 beneath the closed zipper portion so as to prevent the falling-off of the slider S1.
There has been described hereinbefore the example of attaching the slider as illustrated on
A series of operations for attaching the slider S1 to the bag body equipped with a plastic zipper are continuously carried out by using a bag manufacturing machine simultaneously with bag manufacture. In order to describe the manufacturing steps in more detail, the function of a conventional bag manufacturing machine of melt cut sealing system will be exemplified with reference to FIG. 14.
The film equipped with zipper 5-1-1, which is formed by folding a film with a zipper produced by T-die method or the like with the closed zipper placed at an end and thereafter winding the film in the form of spool, is let out with a roll 5-1-2, and is intermittently supplied to a ultrasonic heat sealing apparatus 5-1-4 via a dancer roll 5-1-3 to be used for intermittently sending out the film, so that the zipper portion is selectively heat sealed. Subsequently, the film is intermittently supplied to a melt cut sealing apparatus 5-1-6 by means of a roll 5-1-5, so that the film is fusedly bonded and simultaneously cut into bag bodies 5-1-7 as the objective products.
According to the above-described embodiment of the present invention, it is made possible as illustrated on
The embodiment of the present invention, although having been described with reference to the function of a conventional bag manufacturing machine of melt cut sealing system, needless to say, is not limited thereto,
A film equipped with a zipper was prepared by attaching a zipper in an engaged state to an end of an LL polyethylene resin film which had a peripheral length of 400 mm and a thickness of 40 micron and which was twice-folded, in which the zipper was made of the material same as that of the film, had a width of 2.2 mm and a thickness of 1.6 mm each in an engaged state, was equipped on the opening side thereof with a flange having a width of 2.0 mm and a thickness of 0.2 mm and an end of which was made to be 0.5 mm wide and 0.7 mm thick. The resultant film with a zipper was wound around a spool.
A slider S1 was made of polypropylene and was composed of an outside guide 1-1 having outside dimensions of 8 mm in width, 10 mm in length, and 11 mm in height each in an assembled state, and an inside guide 1-2 having a maximum width of 2.5 mm, a length of 9 mm and a height of 10 mm.
The slider S1 in a state that the inside guide 1-2 was open as illustrated on FIG. 11(A) and FIG. 11(B) was packed in a parts feeder connected to a slider fitting robot. Thereafter a spool 5-1-1 as exemplified on
Simultaneously therewith, the closed zipper portion of the film equipped with the zipper to which the slider S1 had been attached was heat sealed in dimensions measuring 3 mm in width and 6 mm in length by the use of a ultrasonic heat sealing machine. Subsequently, the closing bill 4-2-3 was opened and simultaneously the opening bills 4-2-1 and 4-2-2 were closed. Thereafter the film equipped with the zipper having the slider was moved to the melt cut sealing machine, and the film is sealed and disconnected so that the portion which had been heat sealed by ultrasonic heat sealing was bisected, thereby enabling to manufacture an objective bag body equipped with the zipper having the slider at a manufacturing rate of 67 bags per minutes.
In spite of the bag body which was composed of the LL polyethylene resin film having low strength due to a thickness of only 40 micron and poor sliding properties and of the small zipper having a thickness of only 1.6 mm, it was made possible to manufacture the bag bodies each equipped with the smoothly openable/closable zipper at a high manufacturing rate without any falling-off of a slider.
According to the present invention, it is made possible to manufacture the slider easily attachable to a plastic zipper and the bag body equipped with the aforesaid zipper in spite of the bag body which was composed of thin film with low strength and of the small zipper without any falling-off of a slider by virtue of the specific slider constitution in which an inside guide is openably closably installed on the slider main body and at the same time, the slider is fitted to the zipper so that the inside guide is inserted between the hooks by rotating the same about an axis perpendicularly to the zipper.
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