Pouring element for a package for holding flowable or pourable products and method of producing such a package

US8336758B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SIG Technology AG · CH

Inventor

• Volker Scheu · Mühlheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 2006
• Grant date: Dec 25, 2012
• Expiry date: May 27, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B31B50/84
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

There is shown and described a pouring element for a package for holding flowable or pourable products, and particularly a cardboard/plastics composite package having a gabletop, said pouring element having a pouring passage, the pouring passage having passage cross-sections of substantially identical areas arranged perpendicularly to its centerline, the outer passage cross-sections of the pouring passage being a product inlet opening and a substantially circular product outlet opening and the product inlet opening having associated with it a flange for connection to the package. To enable improved pouring characteristics to be achieved without having to accept disproportionately large costs and complication in production, provision is made, in the form for application, for the product inlet opening to be of an elongated shape which is not symmetrical in rotation.