CIGARETTE PACKET

• US 20130248392A1
• Filed: 11/16/2011
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GD SPA (Is Company SRL)
• Original Assignee: GD SPA (Is Company SRL)
• Inventors: Biondi, Andrea, Roila, Patrizio
• Granted Patent: US 9,156,604 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/255
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/646 comprising a slidable panel or wall B65D5/723 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/6685 formed by extensions hinged to the upper edge of a container body formed by erecting a blank to U-shape
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/723 Sliding elements for covering and uncovering discharge openings of containers, e.g. slide-closures
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1009 provided with proffering means B65D85/1054 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1036 Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank

Abstract

A cigarette packet substantially having the shape of a parallelepiped and containing a group of cigarettes includes an outer case formed by two larger lateral walls, respectively a front wall and a rear wall, and by two smaller lateral walls or sides, by a lower wall or base and by an upper wall or lid. An inner case is inserted in the outer case. The outer case includes a projection for controlling the lid, the projection being interposed between the front wall of the outer case and a front wall of the inner case and moveable between a first position in which the lid is closed and a second position in which the lid is open. A mechanism is provided for reciprocal engagement of the projection and the inner case for partially extracting the group of cigarettes from the outer case.

Claims

1. ) A cigarette packet substantially having the shape of a parallelepiped, elongate according to an axis, containing a group of cigarettes and comprising an outer case formed by two larger lateral walls, respectively a front wall and a rear wall, and by two smaller lateral walls or sides, by a lower wall or base and by an upper wall or lid;

an inner case being inserted in the outer case and formed by two larger lateral walls, respectively a front wall and a rear wall, by two smaller lateral walls, by a lower wall or base and comprising at the top, at an upper face of the group, an opening, characterised in that the inner case is inserted in the outer case in such a way that it can slide axially and the outer case comprises a projection for controlling the upper wall or lid, the projection being interposed between the front wall of the outer case and the front wall of the inner case and being able to move between a first position in which the lid is closed and a second position in which the lid is open, there being means for reciprocal engagement of the projection and the inner case.

2. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 1, characterised in that the upper wall or lid is connected on one side to the rear wall by a hinge line and on the opposite side to the projection by a fold line.

3. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 1, characterised in that the projection comprises an opening substantially coinciding with the opening in the inner case in the open position.

4. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 1, characterised in that the means for reciprocal engagement comprise means for coupling the projection and the front wall of the inner case.

5. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 4, characterised in that the coupling means comprise a fold line of at least one flap of the front wall operating in conjunction with the edge of an indentation made in the projection.

6. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 1, characterised in that the opening laterally forms on the projection two strips for connection to the lid, forming, in the open position, elements designed to make contact with the upper face of the group.

7. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 1, characterised in that it comprises at least one zone for operating the projection;

an opening in the outer case through which the operating zone can be accessed, for controlling lid opening and closing.

8. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 7, characterised in that the opening is made in the front wall of the outer case at the projection.

9. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 7, characterised in that the opening is made in at least one of the two sides of the outer case, at a flap which is laterally connected to the projection.

10. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 9, characterised in that the flap is interposed between a lateral wall of the outer case and a lateral wall of the inner case.

11. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 9, characterised in that the flap is interposed between two flaps which form a side of the outer case.

12. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 7, characterised in that the projection comprises at least one lateral flap, the opening in the outer case being made at the edge formed between a panel of the projection and the lateral flap.

13. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 7, characterised in that the zone for operating the projection is a zone with a high friction coefficient.

14. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 1, characterised in that the projection comprises a portion connected to the lid by a fold line and forming a front wall of the lid.

15. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 14, characterised in that when the lid is in the open position the front wall of the lid is positioned in contact with the upper face of the group.

16. ) The cigarette packet according to claim 14, characterised in that when the lid is in the open position the front wall of the lid is coplanar with the rear wall of the outer case.