US 12,006,098 B2
Composite container with separable top, a body blank, and a method of separating a top end portion from a main body of the container
Eva Sunning, Annelöv (SE)
Assigned to GPI Systems AB, Lund (SE)
Appl. No. 17/271,330
Filed by AR Packaging Systems AB, Lund (SE)
PCT Filed Aug. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/SE2019/050809
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 25, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/046196, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 5, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 1851035-4 (SE), filed on Aug. 31, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0323716 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. B65D 3/26 (2006.01); B65D 3/02 (2006.01); B65D 8/00 (2006.01); B65D 65/40 (2006.01); B65D 77/20 (2006.01); B65D 77/32 (2006.01)
CPC B65D 3/263 (2013.01) [B65D 3/02 (2013.01); B65D 15/08 (2013.01); B65D 65/40 (2013.01); B65D 77/2004 (2013.01); B65D 77/32 (2013.01); B65D 2565/385 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A composite container comprising:
a tubular body, said tubular body having an inside surface and an outside surface and being closed at a bottom end of said tubular body opposite a container opening at a top end of said tubular body, said tubular body being made from a laminate sheet material comprising a carton layer and an inside polymeric layer, said inside polymeric layer being arranged at an inside surface of said carton layer, said composite container comprising a top rim surrounding said container opening, said top rim being attached to a top end portion of said tubular body at said top end of said tubular body, and
a lid for opening and closing said composite container,
said composite container comprises a separation arrangement, for separating said top end portion of said tubular body together with said attached top rim from a main part of said tubular body, said separation arrangement comprising a tear strip comprising a portion of said inside polymeric layer, said tear strip being formed between a pair of inside score lines which are arranged in said laminate sheet material from said inside surface of said tubular body through only a part of a thickness of said laminate sheet material, said inside score lines and said tear strip extending in a circumferential direction of said tubular body, adjacent said top rim and wherein said separation arrangement comprises a first pull-tab which is arranged at a first end of said tear strip, said first pull-tab comprising a portion of said carton layer and being formed by a set of first pull-tab outside score lines arranged in said laminate sheet material from said outside surface of said tubular body through only a part of said thickness of said laminate sheet material.