Hinge-lid box for cigarettes

Details Hinge-lid box for cigarettes Hinge-lid box for cigarettes

2000-03-20

2001-11-06

Gehman, Bryon P. (Department: 3728)

Special receptacle or package

For tobacco, pipe or cigarette holder

With closure

C206S273000, C229S160100

Reexamination Certificate

active

06311834

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to hinge-lid boxes (hinge-lid packs) for cigarettes or the like, comprising a box part, lid and collar, it being the case that a box rear wall is connected to a lid rear wall via a transversely directed articulation line, and the hinge-lid box is of an overall (more or less) cuboidal configuration with four upright pack edges as the lateral boundary of the box front wall and lid front wall, on the one hand, and the box rear wall and lid rear wall, on the other hand. The invention also relates to blanks for producing such hinge-lid boxes.
Hinge-lid boxes are among the commonest types of packs for cigarettes. In the case of this type of pack the (four) upright pack edges are intrinsically of cross-sectionally right-angled design. However, cigarette packs which are of this type and in which the upright pack edges, including corresponding collar edges, are of cross-sectionally rounded design, with a quarter-circle in cross section, or bevelled, with a corresponding bevelled formation, are already known (EP 204 933 and EP 205 766).
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to develop and improve the configuration of hinge-lid boxes for cigarettes or other products, in particular to the effect that the surface areas available for printing, namely decorative or informative printed sections, are utilized in more optimum fashion.
In order to achieve this object, the hinge-lid box according to the invention is characterized in that two of the four pack edges are of cross-sectionally right-angled design and the other two pack edges are of cross-sectionally rounded design—forming a quarter-circle circle in the process—or bevelled design—forming a bevel formation in the process—the rounded or bevelled pack edges being adapted, in terms of the quarter-circle or bevel dimensioning, to the dimensions of a cigarette.
In hinge-lid boxes with (exclusively) rounded or bevelled pack edges, the interior of the packs is utilized more favourably, that is to say in accordance with the predetermined contour of the pack contents (cigarettes). The hinge-lid boxes designed according to the invention likewise have this advantage, but can provide larger free visible surfaces in the region of the front side and rear side, and in the region of the side surfaces, of the hinge-lid box. This is important or decorative or contents-related printing. The configuration of the hinge-lid box according to the invention is particularly advantageous if a printed section is to extend over an (upright) pack edge into the region of a (narrow) side wall. In this case, the printing may continue beyond the (one) rounded or bevelled pack edge.
The collar, which is preferably formed from a separate blank, is adapted to the configuration of the hinge-lid box, namely with one cross-sectionally right-angled collar edge and one rounded or bevelled collar edge.
A further special feature is the configuration of blanks for producing hinge-lid boxes according to the invention. Folding lines or scores (for rounded pack edges) are provided in selected regions by impressing operations. Folding tabs of the blank, in particular side tabs and corner tabs, are configured in a specific way in terms of their dimensions.


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