Special receptacle or package – For tobacco – pipe or cigarette holder – Sheet-formed receptacle
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-07
2001-04-17
Bui, Luan K. (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
For tobacco, pipe or cigarette holder
Sheet-formed receptacle
C206S273000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06216861
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to packs for smoking articles which are elongate in appearance such as cigarettes.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Packs for such smoking articles generally fall into one of three well known types. These are “hard” or “crushproof” packs having a hinged lid portion, “hull and slide” packs having an open ended outer hull in which the slide reciprocates and “soft” packs in which a foil bundle of smoking articles are covered in a paper wrapper which is open at its upper end. The “hard” and “soft” packs are much more popular than the rather old fashioned “hull and slide” packs and tend to appeal to different consumers for different reasons. “Soft” packs are less rigid than “hard” packs and tend to be less bulky after some of the contents have been used. This, however, can lead to damage to the remaining contents due to crushing of the flexible paper wrapper.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided a pack for elongate smoking articles encased in an inner wrapping, said pack comprising a paperboard outer container having a generally rectangular base, four hingedly connected side walls upstanding therefrom, and top panel means which at least partially closes off the top of the pack, said side walls being substantially the same height as the smoking articles and being secured with respect to the base, and access to the smoking articles being made by way of the top panel means.
Preferably said top panel means comprises a single top panel hingedly connected to one of said side walls and one or more securing panels hingedly connected to said top panel and adhesively secured to the inside of one or more of the other side walls. Ideally the top panel comprises a single thickness of paperboard. In some arrangements a single securing panel is provided and is adhesively secured to the side wall opposite said one side wall to which the top panel is connected. Normally said one side wall and said opposite side wall are wider than the other two side walls.
With certain embodiments the junctions between adjoining pairs of side walls are bevelled, either as radiussed bevels or as flat, angled bevels.
Another preferred feature is that the top panel extends wholly across the top of the pack and has a removable portion defined by lines of weakening such as perforations.
In one type of construction the base is hingedly connected at opposite edges to said one side wall and the opposite side wall, both of which side walls are each hingedly connected to oppositely disposed side wall portions, the side wall portions of said one side wall being adhesively secured to the respective side wall portions of the opposite side wall to produce the other two side walls.
With many embodiments the pack also incorporates a tax band which extends over the top panel means and which is secured thereto and to opposite side walls, said side walls being wider than the other two side walls.
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James Anthony George
Luton Colin Dennis
Taylor Rodney George
Bui Luan K.
Imperial Tobacco Limited
Larson & Taylor PLC
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