Smoking Article Packet With Slide Aperture

• US 20090008277A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: British American Tobacco Germany GmbH (British American Tobacco PLC)
• Original Assignee: British American Tobacco Germany GmbH (British American Tobacco PLC)
• Inventors: Agirbas, Erdinc
• Granted Patent: US 8,245,841 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/267
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/38 Drawer-and-shell type containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/728 for drawer-and-shell-type containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1054 combined with an outer sleeve connected to the lid

Abstract

The invention relates to a smoking article packet (1) with an inner packet part (3) for accommodating the smoking articles and an outer packet part (2) for accommodating the inner packet part (3), and the outer packet part (2) has one essentially open face through which the inner packet part (3) can be pushed out of the packet part, and with a slide aperture (5) in the outer packet part (3), and the slide aperture (5) lies essentially on a face of the outer packet part which does not lie opposite the open face. It also relates to a smoking article packet in which the inner packet part (3) has a lid (6) attached to it, in particular articulated, and a lid opening tab (7) is provided in the region of the articulation line between the lid (6) and the face of the inner packet part (3) adjoining the articulation line, and the lid opening tab (7) has a cut-out (21) in which a co-operating piece on the outer packet part (2) is able to engage, causing the lid (7) to open as the inner packet part (3) is being pushed out of the outer packet part (2).

Claims

1. A smoking article packet, comprising:

an inner packet part for accommodating the smoking articles and an outer packet part for accommodating the inner packet part, which outer packet part has one essentially open face through which the inner packet part can be pushed out of the outer packet part, and with

at least one slide aperture in the outer packet part wherein the slide aperture lies essentially on a face of the outer packet part that does not lie opposite the open face.

2. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the face or a portion of the face with the slide aperture essentially lies not parallel with the open face and in particular subtends an angle of more than 30°

, more especially an angle of 90°

, with the open face.

3. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture lies on a face which essentially directly adjoins and in particular is perpendicular to the open face.

4. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the inner packet part is able to slide out of the outer packet part perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the smoking articles.

5. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the inner packet part is able to slide out of the outer packet part parallel with the longitudinal axis of the smoking articles.

6. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture is disposed on at least one of two oppositely lying bigger main faces of the packet.

7. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture is essentially disposed on at least one of two oppositely lying smaller side faces of the packet.

8. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein more than one slide aperture is disposed on one or more faces of the outer packet part which do not lie opposite the open face.

9. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the packet is a packet of a three-dimensional rectangular shape with six faces, and the open face is one of the shorter, narrow edge faces and the slide aperture is disposed on at least one of the longer, narrow edge faces or at least one of the main faces;

or the open face is one of the longer narrow, edge faces and the slide aperture is disposed on at least one of the shorter narrow edge faces or at least one of the main faces;

or the open face is one of the main faces and the slide aperture is disposed on at least one of the longer, narrow edge faces or at least one of the shorter, narrow edge faces.

10. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture is a cut-out in the face of the outer packet part.

11. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture has a round, in particular circular or oval shape, or an elongate slot shape, or a shape with corners, in particular rectangular, square or triangular or polygonal.

12. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture has a length in the pushing-out direction which corresponds to at least one fifth of the face length in this direction and may occupy up to 90% of the face length.

13. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the slide aperture has a width perpendicular to the pushing-out direction of at least 2 mm, in particular at least 5 mm and more especially at least 10 mm.

14. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the inner packet part has a friction-enhancing or purchase-enhancing surface in the region of the slide aperture or a slide aid, in particular a fold-out slide aid.

15. The smoking article packet of claim 1, wherein the inner packet part has a lid disposed on and in particular articulated on it, which lies on the open face of the outer packet part when the inner packet part is pushed in.

16. The smoking article packet of claim 15, wherein the lid is disposed on an articulation line of the inner packet part in a hinge-type arrangement so that it can be folded out, and a lid opening tab is disposed in particular in the region of the articulation line between the lid and the face of the inner packet part adjoining the articulation line, which opens the lid as the inner packet part is being pushed out of the outer packet part.

17. The smoking article packet of claim 16, wherein the lid opening tab has an engagement or contact system, in particular a cut-out, in which a co-operating piece on the outer packet part is able to engage, causing the lid to open as the inner packet part is being pushed out of the outer packet part.

18. The smoking article packet of claim 1, with the inner packet part for accommodating the smoking articles and the outer packet part for accommodating the inner packet part, which outer packet part has one essentially open face through which the inner packet part can be pushed out of the outer packet part, and the inner packet part has the lid disposed on it, in particular articulated, and the lid opening tab is provided in the region of the articulation line between the lid and the face of the inner packet part adjoining the articulation line, wherein the lid opening tab has a cut-out in which a co-operating piece on the outer packet part is able to engage, causing the lid to open as the inner packet part is being pushed out of the outer packet part.

19. The smoking article packet of claim 18, wherein the cooperating piece on the outer packet part is a tab disposed at its edge, in particular a punched tab, which can be folded inwards by 180°

and has catch lugs.

20. The smoking article packet of claim 18, wherein the cutout of the lid opening tab lies closer to the articulation line than at least one other cut-out which is used to restrict the pushing-out movement.