Packet for long articles

• US 6,216,860 B1
• Filed: 02/29/2000
• Issued: 04/17/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: GD SPA (Is Company SRL)
• Original Assignee: GD SPA (Is Company SRL)
• Inventors: Cocchi, Lorenzo, Minarelli, Alessandro, Boriani, Silvano, Colo′, Chiara
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US09/515,492
• Time in Patent Office: 413 Days
• Field of Search: 206/265, 206/268, 206/271, 206/273, 206/247, 206/459.5, 206/807, 340/572.8, 229/160.1, 229/87.13
• US Class Current: 206/268
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2211/00 Anti-theft means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/10 for cigarettes

Abstract

A packet for long articles comprises a first inner wrap around a group of articles and a second outer wrap around the first wrap which, together with the inner frame, envisaged when the packet is of the rigid type with hinged lid, constitute specific packaging components of the packet. The packet is equipped with a length of magnetic strip for data storage which is applied directly to a specified part of at least one of the specific packaging components in a hidden position not visible from the outside of the packet. If the packet has a revenue stamp or an insert, constituting additional components, the length of magnetic strip may be applied to at least one of said additional components, again in a hidden position.

Claims

1. A packet for a group of long articles designed for smoking, the packet comprising:

a first inner wrap around the group of articles;

a second outer wrap surrounding the first inner wrap; and

at least one magnetic data storage medium between the first inner wrap and the second outer wrap, wherein the at least one magnetic data storage medium is not visible from an exterior of the package.

2. The packet according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic data storage medium is secured to the first inner wrap.

3. The packet according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic data storage medium is secured to an inside surface of the second outer wrap.

4. The packet according to claim 1, further comprising:

an inner frame located on an interior of the second outer wrap, wherein the magnetic data storage medium is secured to the inner frame.

5. The packet according to claim 1, further comprising:

at least one additional component located between the first inner wrap and the second outer wrap, wherein the magnetic data storage medium is secured to the additional component.

6. The packet according to claim 5, wherein said additional component is a revenue stamp, wherein the magnetic data storage medium is secured to one face of the revenue stamp.

7. The packet according to claim 5, wherein said additional component is an insert inside the packet, wherein the magnetic data storage medium is secured to the insert.

8. The packet according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic data storage medium constitutes a means of checking for and detecting counterfeits and imitations of the packet.

9. The packet according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic data storage medium consists of a layer of plastic, which is magnetically recorded to form a preset code of information.

10. The packet according to claim 9, wherein said preset code is obtained by distributing separate magnetic elements along a given distribution line and varying at least one of the spacing between the magnetic elements and the size of said elements.

11. The packet according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic data storage medium consists of a layer of plastic a continuous, uniform layer of magnetic material with a high magnetic coercive force located on one side of the layer and a continuous, uniform layer of magnetizable material located on another side of the layer and designed to be magnetized at certain positions to form magnetized elements, distributed along the layer.