SLIDE PUSH PACK FOR SMOKING ARTICLES

• US 20160100630A1
• Filed: 10/09/2015
• Published: 04/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC (Altria Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Altria Client Services, Inc. (Altria Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: MITTEN, Robert T., CLARK, James Lindsay
• Granted Patent: US 9,687,026 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/10 for cigarettes
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1054 combined with an outer sleeve connected to the lid

Abstract

A slide push pack for smoking articles and a method of packaging smoking articles are disclosed. The slide push pack includes an outer shell and an inner shell. The outer shell has a front panel, a back panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel, the back panel having a pair of guide rails and an inner channel, the front panel having a front finger window. The inner shell is configured to receive a pack of smoking articles. The inner shell includes an inner back panel, an outer back panel, a front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel, and a hinged-lid. The hinged-lid has a hinged-lid back panel configured to attach the hinged-lid to the back panel of the inner shell, and wherein the inner back panel includes an upper tab, and the outer back panel includes a mid-tab and a lower retention tab.

Claims

1. A slide push pack for smoking articles, the pack comprising:

an outer shell, the outer shell having a front panel, a back panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel, the back panel having a pair of guide rails and an inner channel, the front panel having a front finger window; and

an inner shell configured to receive a bundle of smoking articles, the inner shell comprising an inner back panel, an outer back panel, a front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel, and a hinged-lid, the hinged-lid having a hinged-lid back panel configured to attach the hinged-lid to the inner back panel of the inner shell, and wherein the outer back panel of the inner shell includes an upper tab, and the inner back panel includes a mid-tab and a lower retention tab, and each of the upper tab, the mid-tab, and the lower retention tab is configured to be received within the inner channel and between the pair of guide rails of the outer shell.

2. The pack of claim 1, comprising:

a finger tip slot on the front panel of the inner shell, which is configured to be accessible via the front finger window.

3. The pack of claim 1, comprising:

a bottom panel on the inner shell.

4. The pack of claim 1, comprising:

a retention tab stop on the inner channel of the outer shell.

5. The pack of claim 1, wherein the hinged-lid includes a back lid panel, a top lid panel, and a pair of side lid panels.

6. The pack of claim 5, wherein the hinged-lid includes a front lid panel.

7. The pack of claim 5, wherein the hinged-lid back panel extends to a front edge of the top lid panel of the hinged-lid.

8. The pack of claim 1, wherein the finger slot has a rectangular shape thereto.

9. The pack of claim 1, wherein the upper tab is a 180 degree folded tab.

10. The pack of claim 1, wherein the mid-tab extends upward and has a lower edge attached to the back panel of the inner shell, a pair of angled side edges, a free upper edge, and a pair of rounded corners between the pair of angled side edges and the upper edge.

11. The pack of claim 1, wherein lower retention tab extends downward from the lower edge of the mid-tab.

12. The pack of claim 1, comprising:

a wrapped bundle of smoking articles.

13. A method of packaging a bundle of smoking articles, the method comprising:

erecting an outer shell from a first blank, the outer shell having a front panel, a back panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel, the back panel having a pair of guide rails and an inner channel, the front panel having a front finger window; and

erecting an inner shell from a second blank, the inner shell having an inner back panel, an outer back panel, a front panel, a first side panel, a second side panel, a hinged-lid, and a hinged-lid back panel configured to attach the hinged-lid to the back panel, the inner back panel including an upper tab, and the outer back panel including a mid-tab and a lower retention tab, and wherein each of the upper tab, the mid-tab, and the lower retention tab is configured to be received within the inner channel and between the pair of guide rails of the outer shell.

14. The method of claim 13, comprising:

inserting a wrapped bundle of smoking articles within the inner shell.

15. The method of claim 13, comprising:

locking the inner shell to the outer shell via the upper tab, the mid-tab, and the lower retention tab, and the inner channel and the pair of guide rails of the outer shell.

16. A slide and shell packaging, comprising:

an inner lid portion, an inner back panel and a hinged connection between said inner back panel and said inner lid portion;

an outer lid portion and an outer back panel connected with said outer lid portion;

a first tab operative with said outer back panel, said first tab cooperating with a first catch at a first location along said shell to arrest an upward movement of said outer back panel;

a second tab operative with said inner back panel, said second tab defining a second catch at a location along said inner back panel and operative to engage an edge portion of said arrested outer back panel to arrest an upward movement of said inner back panel;

said shell having a pair of spaced apart guide rails and an inner channel defined between said guide rails and a front panel having a front finger window; and

said first and second tabs received by said inner channel, whereby a tendency of the packaging to bind is abated.

17. The slide and shell packaging of claim 16, further comprising:

a third tab operative with said inner back panel, said third tab cooperating with a second catch at a second location along said shell to arrest a downward movement of said inner back panel, said third tab received by said inner channel.