Storage case for storing hinge-lidded box-type package

• US 10,285,438 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2017
• Issued: 05/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
• Original Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
• Inventors: Iwata, Shinichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Grano, Ernesto A
• Application Number:
  US15/712,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20180007956A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• Field of Search: 206259
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 15/12 for pocket use A24F15/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/10 for cigarettes
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1036 Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank

Abstract

A storage case for storing a hinge-lidded box-type package, the hinge-lidded box-type package including a package body that has an open end at an upper part, and is capable of housing an object to be housed therein, and a lid part that is rotatably coupled to an edge of the open end through a hinge, and opens and closes the open end, the storage case having: a bottom surface wall; a rectangular tube wall body that is erected from the bottom surface wall, and forms therein a storage part that stores the package; and an insertion opening that is famed at an upper edge of the rectangular tube wall body, and enables the package to be inserted, wherein a slip-out regulating part that regulates slip-out of the package from the storage part is attached to the insertion opening.

Claims

1. A storage case for storing a hinge-lidded box-type package, the hinge-lidded box-type package including a package body that has an open end at an upper part, and is capable of housing an object to be housed therein, and a lid part that is rotatably coupled to an edge of the open end through a hinge, and opens and closes the open end, the storage case comprising:

a bottom surface wall;

a rectangular tube wall body that is erected from the bottom surface wall, and forms therein a storage part that stores the package; and

an insertion opening that is formed at an upper edge of the rectangular tube wall body, and enables the package to be inserted,

wherein a slip-out regulating part that regulates slip-out of the package from the storage part is attached to the insertion opening,

wherein the slip-out regulating part regulates slip-out of the package from the storage part when the slip-out regulating part is in a projecting posture of projecting toward inside from the rectangular tube wall body such that an effective cross-sectional area of the insertion opening is narrowed, and the slip-out regulating part allows slip-out of the package from the storage part when the slip-out regulating part is in a flat posture along the rectangular tube wall body such that the effective cross-sectional area of the insertion opening is widened,

wherein the slip-out regulating part includes a pushed part and a locking part connected to each other through a first folding line, and the pushed part is connected to an edge of the insertion opening through a second folding line,

wherein the slip-out regulating part is shifted from the projecting posture to the flat posture when the pushed part is pushed by the package inserted from the insertion opening, and

wherein the slip-out regulating part is shifted from the flat posture to the projecting posture, and the locking part locks the package when the package is stored in the storage part, and a pushed state of the pushed part is released.

2. The storage case for a hinge-lidded box-type package according to claim 1, wherein a window for package exposure that exposes an outer surface of the package stored in the storage part to outside is formed in the rectangular tube wall body or the bottom surface wall.

3. A storage case for storing a hinge-lidded box-type package, the hinge-lidded box-type package including a package body that has an open end at an upper part, and is capable of housing an object to be housed therein, and a lid part that is rotatably coupled to an edge of the open end through a hinge, and opens and closes the open end, the storage case comprising:

a bottom surface wall;

a rectangular tube wall body that is erected from the bottom surface wall, and forms therein a storage part that stores the package; and

an insertion opening that is formed at an upper edge of the rectangular tube wall body, and enables the package to be inserted,

wherein a slip-out regulating part that regulates slip-out of the package from the storage part is attached to the insertion opening,

a sheet member that has a first end side connected to the slip-out regulating part and a second end side inserted into the storage part, and includes an operation part for operating the slip-out regulating part,

wherein a window for operation part exposure for exposing the operation part of the sheet member to outside is formed in the rectangular tube wall body or the bottom surface wall,

wherein the operation part is a tongue-shaped flap that is formed by a cut provided in the sheet member overlapped so as to close the window for operation part exposure from a side of the storage part, and

wherein a position of the cut is disposed near an edge of the window for operation part exposure.

4. The storage case for a hinge-lidded box-type package according to claim 3, wherein the window for operation part exposure is formed by folding a second tongue-shaped flap on the side of the storage part, the second tongue-shaped flap being formed by a cut provided in the rectangular tube wall body, and

a slide moving amount of the sheet member is limited within a predetermined range by engaging the second tongue-shaped flap folded on the side of the storage part with the cut provided in the sheet member that forms the operation part.