Special receptacle or package – Combined or convertible – For pocket or personal use
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-04
2001-01-09
Silverman, Stanley S. (Department: 1731)
Special receptacle or package
Combined or convertible
For pocket or personal use
C206S247000, C131S329000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06170655
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a smoking container system and more particularly pertains to conveniently retaining tear away cigarette inserts and cigarette rolling paper for use by a smoker.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of smoking devices including paper holders and tobacco containers of known designs and configurations is known in the prior art. More specifically, smoking devices including paper holders and tobacco containers of known designs and configurations heretofore devised and utilized for the purpose of supporting smoking related implements in convenient packaging systems through known methods and configurations are known to consist basically of familiar, expected, and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which has been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
While prior devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the prior art does not describe a smoking container system that allows conveniently retaining tear away cigarette inserts and cigarette rolling paper for use by a smoker.
In this respect, the smoking container system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in doing so provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of conveniently retaining tear away cigarette inserts and cigarette rolling paper for use by a smoker.
Therefore, it can be appreciated that there exists a continuing need for a new and improved smoking container system which can be used for conveniently retaining tear away cigarette rolling paper for use by a smoker. In this regard, the present invention substantially fulfills this need.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of smoking devices including paper holders and tobacco containers of known designs and configurations now present in the prior art, the present invention provides an improved smoking container system. As such, the general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new and improved smoking container system and method which has all the advantages of the prior art and none of the disadvantages.
To attain this, the present invention essentially comprises a sheet of relatively stiff cardboard-like material has an exterior face and an interior face. The sheet also has an upper end and a lower end. The sheet has a height of about 12.75 inches. The sheet has a maximum width of about 3.25 inches and a minimum width of about 1.50 inches. The sheet has a rectangular rear panel. The rear panel has a height of about 2.75 inches and a width of about 1.75 inches. Lateral tabs are provided on the rear panel. Fold lines are provided between the tabs and the rear panel. Transverse slits are provided at equally spaced locations across the rear panel. The sheet also has a rectangular front panel. The front panel has a height of about 2.75 inches and a width of about 1.75 inches. Lateral tabs are provided on the front panel. Parallel score lines are provided between the tabs and the front panel. The sheet also has a small rectangular bottom. Closely spaced parallel fold lines couple the front panel and the rear panel. The bottom is adapted to position the front and rear panels in spaced parallel relationship to form a pocket between the front panel and rear panel. The sheet also has an upper end tab coupled to the upper end of the front panel. Transverse score lines are provided between the upper end tab and the front panel. The sheet also has a rectangular closure panel. The closure panel has a height of about 2.75 inches and a width of about 1.75 inches. The sheet also has a small rectangular top. The top couples the rear panel and the flap panel. Closely spaced transverse fold lines are provided between the tap and the rear panel and the top and the flap panel. The top is adapted to position the closure panel over the front panel in parallel relationship for covering the pocket. The sheet also has a rectangular tear away panel. The tear away panel has a height of about 2.75 inches and a width of about 1.50 inches. Transverse parallel perforations are provided. The tear away panel is positionable in the slits for retention purposes. In this manner, individual segments may be torn off. The torn off individual segment may then be rolled up and inserted into a cigarette between tobacco and the end held by a user's mouth. The use of the rolled up segment results in reduced waste of tobacco and tobacco is kept out of a user's mouth. The sheet also has a small rectangular spacer coupling the tear away panel and the closure panel. Closely spaced transverse fold lines are provided between the spacer and the tear away panel and between the spacer and the closure panel. A plurality of papers are positioned in the pocket between the front panel and the rear panel when folded together. An opening formed above the pocket is adapted to be closed and opened by the folding over and folding back of the closure panel.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of descriptions and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved smoking container system which has all of the advantages of the prior art smoking devices including paper holders and tobacco containers of known designs and configurations and none of the disadvantages.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new and improved smoking container system which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is further object of the present invention to provide a new and improved smoking container system which is of durable and reliable constructions.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved smoking container system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such smoking container system economically available to the buying public.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a smoking container system for conveniently retaining tear away cigarette inserts and cigarette rolling paper for use by a smoker.
Lastly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a new and improved smoking container system having an exterior face and an interior face and an upper end and a lower end; a rectangular rear panel with lateral tabs and fold lines there between and with transverse slits
McBride Robert
Silverman Stanley S.
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