Special receptacle or package – For tobacco – pipe or cigarette holder – With closure
Reexamination Certificate
1998-07-30
2001-03-13
Gehman, Bryon P. (Department: 3728)
Special receptacle or package
For tobacco, pipe or cigarette holder
With closure
C206S273000, C229S149000, C229S160100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06199687
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a tongue lid pack for filter cigarettes, a blank for forming the pack, and a method for forming the pack from the blank.
2. Description of the Related Art
In order to contain 20 filter cigarettes, a hinged lid pack is generally used. This pack is hard as compared with the soft pack, and can protect the filter cigarettes therein from an external force appropriately.
For forming the above hinged lid pack, a main blank for a pack body having a lid and a sub-blank for an inner frame are needed. In view of an effective use of sources, the use of the hinged lid pack is not favorable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention relates to a tongue lid pack, which can be formed from one blank, a blank for forming the pack, and a method for forming the pack from the blank.
The above object can be attained by a tongue lid pack of the present invention. The pack comprises: a body for containing a packing article, the body having a front wall, an opening end, and a cutting line formed on the front wall; and a tongue lid hingedly connected to the opening end, the tongue lid including a lid portion for opening and closing the opening end, and a tongue extending from the lid portion and being insertable through the cutting line, and the tongue having a bent tip portion.
According to the tongue lid pack, when the tongue lid is closed, the bent tip portion of the tongue is inserted in to the body through the cutting line while the front wall is partially deformed.
Preferably, the cutting line is curved convexedly to the opening end of the body, or a tip edge of the tongue is curved convexedly. In this case, when the tongue lid is closed, the tip edge thereof abuts the edge of the cutting line in a point contact state, so that the tip edge of the tongue is more smoothly inserted into the body.
The body can further include a pair of side end flaps at opening edges of the opening end. At the time of forming the tongue lid pack, the side end flaps are useful to position the packing article and to increase rigidity of the body.
The packing article includes an envelope, and a part of the envelope, which is exposed from the front wall, is separable. In this case, the cutting line is preferably positioned at a lower side than the part of the envelope. Even if the part of the envelope is separated, the tip of the tongue does not catch on the separated edge of the envelope when the tongue is inserted in to the body.
The blank for the tongue lid pack includes a section array. The section array has a front wall section with the cutting line, a bottom wall section, and a rear wall section which serve as a front wall of the body, a bottom wall, and a rear wall, respectively. These sections stretch in line through the folding lines. A top flap, serving as a tongue lid, is connected to an end of the rear wall section through a folding line. A pair of inner side flaps, serving as linings for side walls, are connected to both side edges of the rear wall section through folding lines. A pair of outer side flaps, serving as side walls for the body, are connected to both side edges of the front wall section through folding lines. A pair of inner bottom flaps, serving as linings for the bottom wall of the body, are arranged between the inner side flaps and the outer side flaps. These flaps are connected to the inner side flaps through folding lines.
The above blank is formed to the tongue lid pack containing a packing article while the flaps and the sections are sequentially folded. The tip portion of the top flap is already bent before the front wall section and the top flap are folded. Therefore, when the front wall section and the top flap are folded, the bent tip of the top flap is inserted through the cutting line of the front wall section.
The inner side flaps may be folded either before or after the packing article is supplied to the rear wall section.
Further scope of applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given thereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific example, while indicating preferred embodiment of the invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the sprit and scope of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
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Sendoh Makoto
Tambo Hitoshi
Yamashita Kenichi
Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Gehman Bryon P.
Japan Tobacco Inc.
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