SLIDE ACTION TYPE HINGED-LID PACKAGE

• US 20110062175A1
• Filed: 11/18/2010
• Published: 03/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
• Original Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
• Inventors: Fukui, Masahiro, Tokita, Hidehisa, NAKAMURA, Tetsuya, Saito, Akihiro, Tawada, Shunsuke
• Application Number:
  US12/948,819
• Publication Number:
  US 20110062175A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 220/810
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1054 combined with an outer sleeve connected to the lid

Abstract

A slide action type hinged-lid package (2) includes an inner case (6) having a lid (4), and an outer body (8) slidably accommodating the inner case. The outer body has an opening (46) formed through a front wall thereof (40) and allowing the inner case to be partly exposed, and a contact piece (48) provided at the rear edge of an upper open end thereof (38) and extending toward the interior of the outer body. The inner case has a reinforcing member arranged on the inside of a front wall thereof (14) which is exposed through the opening, and a strip (34) connected to the rear part of the lid and capable of engaging with the contact piece. When the inner case is slid up relative to the outer body, the engagement between the strip and the contact piece causes the lid to open and also regulates the amount of sliding of the inner case.

Claims

1. A slide action type hinged-lid package comprising:

an outer body having a rectangular parallelepipedic shape and having an open end at a top thereof; and

an inner case slidably accommodated in the outer body and having a hinged lid at an upper end portion thereof for opening and closing the inner case,

wherein the outer body includes a front wall and an opening formed through the front wall and allowing the inner case to be partly exposed therethrough, and

the inner case includes a reinforcing member arranged on an inside of a front wall thereof which is exposed through the opening.

2. The slide action type hinged-lid package according to claim 1, further comprising engagement means for engaging the outer body and the inner case with each other,

wherein, when the inner case is slid up relative to the outer body, the engagement means causes the hinged lid to open and also regulates an amount of sliding of the inner case.

3. The slide action type hinged-lid package according to claim 2, wherein the engagement means includes:

a strip arranged on the hinged lid, the strip having an upper end connected to a rear part of the hinged lid by an upper hinge which is located at a level higher than a lid hinge allowing the hinged lid to open and close, and a lower end portion forming a turned-back piece which is folded toward an inner surface of the outer body; and

a contact piece arranged inside the outer body, the contact piece extending from the open end toward the turned-back piece and capable of engaging with the turned-back piece.

4. The slide action type hinged-lid package according to claim 3, wherein the front wall of the inner case has a rough region formed at least on a portion of a surface thereof which is exposed through the opening.