Package having a slide actuated closure member

• US 4,049,117 A
• Filed: 05/04/1976
• Issued: 09/20/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (British American Tobacco PLC)
• Original Assignee: Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation (British American Tobacco PLC)
• Inventors: Grimm, Wolfgang H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lowrance, George E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Farrow, Douglas B.
• Application Number:
  US05/682,901
• Time in Patent Office: 504 Days
• Field of Search: 206/264, 206/268, 206/270, 229/20, 229/19, 229/44 CB
• US Class Current: 206/270
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/6688 the container body sliding in an outer sleeve B65D85/1054 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1054 combined with an outer sleeve connected to the lid

Abstract

A package for cigarettes or other articles comprised of a receptacle for housing the cigarettes or other articles and defining an open top for removal of said articles and an integral slide actuated lid structure including a closure member operatively connected to the receptacle and a slide member portion reciprocally movable vertically of the receptacle to open and close the package the slide portion including folding panels positioned between the receptacle and the slide portion permitting reciprocal movement of the slide portion.

Claims

1. A blank for forming a receptacle for cigarettes or other articles comprising:

a. a rear wall panel,

b. a first side wall panel operatively connected to the rear wall panel by a first score line, the upper edge of the side panel being diagonal from a lower point adjacent the rear panel to an upper point,

c. a front wall panel operatively connected to said first sidewall panel by a second score line opposite said first score line, the upper edge of said panel at each side thereof is at the elevation of the upper point of the diagonal top edge of the first side panel and the center portion of the upper edge is recessed relative thereto,

d. a second sidewall panel operatively connected to the front wall panel by a third score line opposite the second score line, the upper edge of the side panel being diagonal from the upper edge of said front panel downwardly in a manner generally corresponding to the upper edge of said first sidewall panel,

e. at least one bottom panel connected to one of the front and rear panels by a fourth score line,

f. a glue flap connected to the top edge of the rear wall panel by a fifth score line.

2. A blank as recited in claim 1 wherein each of the front and rear wall panels have a bottom panel operatively connected thereto by respective score lines and wherein each of the side panels opposite the top edges thereof have a sidewall glue flap operatively connected thereto by respective score lines.

3. A blank as recited in claim 1 wherein said second side wall panel has a side wall glue flap operatively connected thereto by a sixth score line opposite said third score line.

4. A blank for forming a slide actuated lid structure comprising:

a. a slide portion having side, rear and front wall panels connected respectively by score lines,

b. a fold-over panel connected to the top edge of the rear wall panel of the slide portion by a first score line,

c. folding panels connected by score lines, one of said folding panels being connected to the fold-over panel by a second score line opposite said first score line,

d. a hinge panel connected by a third score line to said folding panels on the opposite side of said folding panels from the fold-over panel,

e. a closure member operatively connected to the hinge panel by a fourth score line on the opposite side thereof from the third score line.

5. A blank as recited in claim 4 wherein the closure member is comprised of a top panel operatively connected to the hinge panel by the fourth score line, and a pair of side panels disposed on opposite sides of the top panel and connected thereto by fifth and sixth score lines extending generally perpendicular to said fourth score line and side panel glue flaps operatively connected to each of said side panels respectively by score lines extending perpendicular to said fifth and sixth score lines and being generally in alignment with said fourth score line.

6. A blank as recited in claim 5 wherein said top panel has a glue flap operatively connected thereto by a seventh score line on the opposite side thereof from the fourth score line, the glue flap being generally coextensive in size with the top panel.

7. A blank as recited in claim 5 wherein the side panels have diagonal outer edges, the greatest dimension being along the score lines connecting the respective side panel glue flaps to the respective side panels.