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EP0189406B1
EP0189406B1 EP19840903456 EP84903456A EP0189406B1 EP 0189406 B1 EP0189406 B1 EP 0189406B1 EP 19840903456 EP19840903456 EP 19840903456 EP 84903456 A EP84903456 A EP 84903456A EP 0189406 B1 EP0189406 B1 EP 0189406B1
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outer casing
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Jan Söderholm
Hugo Cedraeus
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/24—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
    • B65D81/26—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators
    • B65D81/264—Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants with provision for draining away, or absorbing, or removing by ventilation, fluids, e.g. exuded by contents; Applications of corrosion inhibitors or desiccators for absorbing liquids
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/004—Information or decoration elements, e.g. level indicators, detachable tabs or coupons
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D81/00—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents
    • B65D81/02—Containers, packaging elements, or packages, for contents presenting particular transport or storage problems, or adapted to be used for non-packaging purposes after removal of contents specially adapted to protect contents from mechanical damage
    • B65D81/03—Wrappers or envelopes with shock-absorbing properties, e.g. bubble films

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  • the invention relates to a package with shock-absorbing material for shipment of samples contained in a primary package.
  • risk samples such as microbiological samples, chemicals, infectious substances, radioactive substances, nasty-smelling masses or material that is disagreeable in one respect or other in so-called primary packages must sometimes be shipped by post, by messenger, courier or some other way, and certain directions, announcements, provisions, etc. are to be observed.
  • infectious samples must be prevented from leaking out through the outer package if the primary package is or has become untight.
  • Enclosed to the package is usually a covering letter, a specification, a referral or other message which must not either be infected, contaminated or come into contact in any other way with the sample in question, if the sample container should not be tight or not be carefully sealed. It should not be possible to read the specification from the outside, i.e. not without opening the package, but in certain cases it should be possible to identify it from the outside. Moreover, the package must fulfil certain criteria for shock- proofness, dustlessness, tightness, etc. It should also be possible to inspect the sealed package from the outside and thus ascertain whether or not the sample in question has leaked out from its primary package. After sealing the sample pocket must be tight outwards, and leakage from the sample pocket into the specification pocket must also be prevented.
  • the sample package must be very tight and shock-protected.
  • it must be easy to open and in any case it should be possible to take out the specification or the like without making it necessary to open at the same time the sample compartment with a leaked-out sample, if any.
  • FI-B-48 337 discloses a package including an outer casing containing inner means, which is of shock-absorbing corrugated paper with solid elevations.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a package primarily for samples of the above- mentioned type, fulfilling to the greatest possible extent the above criteria and being rational and easy to manufacture also in large series. It should also be possible to apply a clearly visible warning text and/or other texts and it should be possible to ascertain any leakage from the primary package in the sample pocket without any risk of someone coming in touch with the leakage.
  • the package includes an inner casing 1 of shock-adsorbing material, e.g. so-called blister foil.
  • This blister foil consists of two translucent plastic foils welded or glued together so as to form a large number of small tablet-size air cushions.
  • the casing 1 has a slit-like opening 2 having edges 3, 3' overlapping each other according to Fig. 1 or situated substantially edge to edge according to Fig. 2.
  • a liquid-absorbing material 4 Arranged in the inner casing 1 is a liquid-absorbing material 4, in this case in the form of a sheet of blotting-paper.
  • blotting-paper use may be made of other liquid-absorbing materials, e.g. powder or gels, i.e. recently developed super-absorbing gels of modified starch or fibre sheets impregnated with such starch.
  • the inner casing 1 may consist of a blister foil sheet which is folded up according to Fig. 1 and welded together at the edges extending in parallel with the section plane of the drawing, and it may either lie loose or be welded into an outer casing 6.
  • the inner casing 1 includes a pocket 5 into which a sample 8 packed in a primary package 7 is to be inserted, as is seen in Fig. 2.
  • the primary package may in turn be put into an outer package, e.g. of glass or plastic with screw cover, in a way not shown in the drawing figures, while a foamed plastic plug may preferably first be placed in the bottom, whereupon the sample is introduced and another foamed plastic plug is put on and the - cover is screwed or pressed on.
  • FIG. 2 this has been represented in the form of a folded sheet.
  • an opaque liner 11 has been inserted on said specification pocket 9.
  • This liner may also be utilized for indication on its outward face of the name and address of the addressee, any warning text required, information about contents, sender, etc. It is also possible to place an outwardly visible address label 17 in the interspace between liner 11 and the outer casing.
  • the outer casing 6 is wholly or at least partly translucent and has, as seen at the top of the figures, a slit-shaped opening 13 and a cover flap 14 which for its major part is provided with a self-adhering layer 15 which, prior to use, is covered with a removable protective tape 16.
  • Fig. 1 the package according to the invention is shown, on one hand, with the cover flap 14, the self-adhering layer 15 and the protective tape 16 in upright outstanding position and, on the other hand, with full lines and removed protective tape 16, folded over the opening of the outer casing 6.
  • Figs. 1 the package according to the invention is shown, on one hand, with the cover flap 14, the self-adhering layer 15 and the protective tape 16 in upright outstanding position and, on the other hand, with full lines and removed protective tape 16, folded over the opening of the outer casing 6.
  • the edges 3, 3' of the slit-shaped opening 2 will be sealed by the self-adhering layer - after the protective tape 16 has been removed and the layer 15 has been pressed against the understructure - simultaneously as the outer casing is sealed.
  • the difference between Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 is that in the first case the edges 3 and 3' overlap while according to Fig. 2 they are situated more or less edge to edge.
  • the inner casing is welded at its outer edges and the slit-shaped opening is completely covered by the cover flap 14 with the self-adhering layer 15 there is obtained an entirely hermetic and leakage-free sealing of the inner pocket.
  • the air in the inner pocket will further contribute to the shock-absorbing effect of the package.
  • the outer casing 6 can be split up by means of a knife along the transition of the cover-flap 14 with the outer casing or be torn up along the upper edge for instance by means of a tear thread glued to it. Thereby only the specification pocket is opened, and the specification, the covering letter or the like may be taken out without opening the inner casing including the sample. If also the inner casing is to be opened, the cover flap is pulled off from one side and thus also the contents of the inner pocket will be accessible.
  • the package 19 according to the invention is very apt for mass production in large series.
  • One way of proceeding is to fold, around a sheet-cut absorbing material 4, a blister foil with the foil edges edge to edge or with a slight overlap, and then apply the opaque liner 11, which may also be unwound from rolls, whereupon an outer foil, which is translucent or provided with appropriate printing, with an adhesive protective tape is finally folded over and under the inner pocket and the band thus formed is welded with double transverse weld seams between which the packages are cut.

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EP19840903456 1983-09-13 1984-09-12 Package for risk samples Expired EP0189406B1 (en)

Priority Applications (1)

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AT84903456T ATE33237T1 (de) 1983-09-13 1984-09-12 Verpackung fuer muster mit risiko.

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SE8304910A SE444555B (sv) 1983-09-13 1983-09-13 Forpackning for riskprover
SE8304910 1983-09-13

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EP0189406A1 EP0189406A1 (en) 1986-08-06
EP0189406B1 true EP0189406B1 (en) 1988-03-30

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AU (1) AU3396084A (sv)
DE (1) DE3470141D1 (sv)
SE (1) SE444555B (sv)
WO (1) WO1985001272A1 (sv)

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EP0368007A3 (en) * 1988-10-14 1990-05-30 Joseph Donald Russo Packaging for shipment and containment of hazardous liquids
SE469556B (sv) * 1991-09-06 1993-07-26 Hugo Cedraeus Foerpackning, foeretraedesvis foer riskprover, samt foerfarande foer tillverkning av foerpackningen
GB9309782D0 (en) * 1993-05-10 1993-06-23 Jiffy Packaging Co Ltd Improvements relating to the transportation and storage of perishable produce
US5620097A (en) * 1994-12-30 1997-04-15 Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation Protective packaging system
US5647480A (en) * 1995-01-27 1997-07-15 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Flexible pressure vessels for and method of transporting hazardous materials
SE9904210L (sv) 1999-11-21 2000-12-04 Jan Soederholm Anordning vid provpåse
US6631801B2 (en) 2000-02-09 2003-10-14 Inspiral, Llc Transport package
GB2461741B (en) * 2008-07-10 2013-01-09 Jones & Brooks Ltd Bag assembly with pad of absorbent material
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SE8304910D0 (sv) 1983-09-13
SE8304910L (sv) 1985-03-14
SE444555B (sv) 1986-04-21
WO1985001272A1 (en) 1985-03-28
EP0189406A1 (en) 1986-08-06
AU3396084A (en) 1985-04-11

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