Packaging technology
1. Utility
Packages function in the physical environment, subject to moisture, temperature extremes, mechanical shocks and vibration. No matter what environmental conditions are encountered, the package is expected to protect the product keeping it in the condition intended for use until the product is delivered to the ultimate consumer. This article will introduced some packaging technique.
(1) Container of Packaging
Bag - a preformed container of tubular construction made of flexible material generally enclosed on all sides except one forming an opening that may or may not be sealed after filling.
Bale - in packaging a shaped unit bound with cord or metal ties under tension and containing compressed articles or materials. It may be wrapped. Unit load with a product that is compressed.
Barrel - a columnar container of greater length than breadth made of wooden staves bound together with hoops and having two flat ends of equal diameter.
Bottle - it is a rigid or semi-rigid container typically of glass or plastic having a fairly narrow neck or mouth and usually no handle (Webster).Package with necked-in upper part ,made of various packaging materials as glass, metal, plastics to be closed in different ways.
Box - a rigid container having closed faces and completely enclosing the contents. When this term is used in connection with fiberboard boxes, such fiber boxes must comply with all the requirements of the carrier rules.
Can - in packaging, a receptacle generally of 10-gallon capacity or less, normally not used as a shipping container. The body is made of lightweight metal or is a composite of paperboard and other materials having the ends made of paperboard, metal, plastic or a combination thereof.
Carton - A folding box generally made from boxboard for merchandising consumer quantities of product (for example, shelf packages or prime packages).
Container - a nonspecific term for a receptacle capable of closure.
Crate - a rigid container of framed wood, steel, or plastic construction joined together with nails, bolts, or any equivalent method of fastening. The framework may or may not be enclosed with sheathing .It may be demountable (reusable) or nondemoutable. Wooded box exclusively made of laths with spaces between Sidewalls and heads are attached to front or corner. See definition for "Dangerous Goods/Hazardous Materials Packaging for Box in that purpose..
Drum - a packaging of circular cross sector which may have straight or caved sides and convex or embossed end designed for storage and shipment as an unsupported outer package that may be shipped without boxing or crating .It may be made of metal plywood, plastic, rubber, wood or fiber with suitable material ends. Columnar, generally reliable package you to 450L.Capacity the body are plain or waved with detachable or fixed upper base(lid) and may have filling holes in the upper base without falling handles bracket or other carrier device. Base and upper base may be to body connected by suitable methods and materials, including steel straps. There are removable no removable head drums-see definitions for each. Fiber is the body which consists of several layers of long-fiber paper one would and pasted on top of the other.
Pail - a container, usually columnar with a handle, which may or may not have a lid (a tucker. These may range in sizes from 250ml to 50 liters (12 gallons).
Wire bound Box - a rigid container whose sides, top, and bottom are of rotary cut lumber, sliced lumber, rescan lumber, fiberboard or combinations thereof, usually 9.5mm or less in thickness, fastened to cleats and to each other by means of binding wire and staples; and ends of similar material, plain or stapled thereto. The closure is made by twisting or looping together the ends of the binding wires. Collapsible box suitable normally for single use, the parts of which are reinforced and connected to each other by means of tempered wires; the parts of the box are delivered flat; the box is closed by twisting of the wire ends or by connecting the prefabricated loops.