FLIP-TOP PACKET FOR CIGARETTES

• US 20090205982A1
• Filed: 04/28/2007
• Published: 08/20/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Focke & Company
• Original Assignee: Focke & Company
• Inventors: Hein, Viktor, Buse, Henry
• Granted Patent: US 7,992,708 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 206/251
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 5/38 Drawer-and-shell type containers
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 85/1054 combined with an outer sleeve connected to the lid

Abstract

A cigarette pack of the hinge-lid-box type comprises an outer pack (13) and an inner pack which can be displaced in the longitudinal direction within the outer pack (13). A hinge lid (36) is fitted on one side of the outer pack (13). This hinge lid is moved into an open position by displacement of the inner pack (12) relative to the outer pack (13), to be precise by an opening force being transmitted by means of a pushing-action tab (27) arranged within the pack.

Claims

1. A pack with at least one hinge lid (36, 53) for articles, in particular for a cigarette group (1), having an inner part or an inner pack (12) and an outer part or an outer pack (13) which at least partially encloses the inner part or inner pack and in which the inner pack (12) can be displaced, the inner pack (12) and outer pack (13) being connected to one another by an actuating means for pivoting the hinge lid (36, 53) by relative displacement between the inner pack (12) and outer pack (13), characterized in that the actuating means, in particular a pushing-action tab (27, 62), by means of transmitting pressure to the hinge lid (36, 53), moves the latter into the open position.

2. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the hinge lid (36, 53) is fitted in a pivotable manner on the outer pack (13) and the actuating means, in particular the pushing-action tab (27, 62), is arranged and formed within the pack as a connecting means between the inner pack (12) and hinge lid (36, 53) such that, when the inner pack (12) is pushed within the outer pack (13) in the direction of the open position, a compressive force, and thus a pivoting movement, can be transmitted to the inside of the hinge lid (36, 53).

3. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the pushing-action tab (27, 62), which can be subjected to compressive loading, comprises tab portions or legs (49, 50, 51) which are delimited from one another by transversely directed, linear deformations of the pushing-action tab (27, 62), in particular by linear articulations (46, 47, 48), wherein preferably the linear articulations (46..48), in order to transmit the pushing force, have different levels of deformation resistance, in particular as a result of different perforations for forming the linear articulations (46..48).

4. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the pushing-action tab (27, 62) is part of the blank of the inner pack (12), in particular on a region of an inner front wall of the inner pack (12) which is directed toward the hinge lid (36, 53), wherein the pushing-action tab (27, 62) preferably has three parallel, differently spaced-apart linear articulations (46, 47, 48), of which the linear articulation (46), which is directed toward the inner front wall (14), is formed with a relatively high level of pivoting resistance.

5. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that an outer, end region of the pushing-action tab (27, 62), namely an end piece (49), is connected internally to the inside of the hinge lid (36, 53), in particular to a lid front wall (31) and/or lid rear wall (57), by adhesive bonding or the like.

6. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, in a region which is directed toward the hinge lid (36, 53), the inner pack (12) has cutouts (24, 63, 64) which, on the one hand, bound the pushing-action tab (27, 62) and, on the other hand, form an opening for the removal of cigarettes (10).

7. The pack as claimed in claim 6, characterized in that the cutouts (24) extend into the region of side walls of the inner pack (12) and/or into the region of overlapping outer flaps (18) and inner flaps (19) such that cigarettes along the periphery and/or at the corners are exposed.

8. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the hinge lid (36, 53) is connected to the outer pack (13) via a transversely directed linear articulation (39, 55), the linear articulation (39, 55) having a central interruption, in particular an opening (40, 56) in the region of adjacent outer walls (30, 54;

31, 57).

9. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, in a base region, the outer pack (13) has a cutout (44) for access to the inner pack (12), in particular a cutout (44) extending around the corner in the region of the base wall (29) and outer front wall (30), preferably one with a detachable piece of material (45).

10. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the inner pack (12) largely encloses the pack contents, namely with the exception of the cutouts (24;

63, 64) in the front region and an exposed region of the inner end wall (17) which extends over part of the width or depth of the end side.

11. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the outer pack (13), including the hinge lid (36, 53), fully encloses the inner pack (12) in the closed position.

12. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized by two lids arranged on opposite sides of the outer pack (13), namely a hinge lid (36), on the one hand, and inner lid (53), on the other hand, the hinge lid (36) being fitted on an outer front wall (30) and the inner lid (53) being fitted on an outer rear wall.

13. The pack as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that the hinge lid (36) and inner lid (53) can be moved approximately simultaneously into the open position by displacement of the inner pack (12) in the outer pack (13), preferably by way of a pushing-action tab (27, 62) assigned to each lid (36, 53).

14. The pack as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that the inner pack (12) or a blank of the same has two mutually opposite pushing-action tabs (27, 62), in particular as part of the inner front wall (14) and of an inner rear wall (65), respectively, the pushing-action tabs (27, 62) being delimited by cutouts (63, 64) exclusively in the region of the inner front wall (14) and inner rear wall (65), respectively.

15. The pack as claimed in claim 14, characterized in that the cutouts (63, 64) are spaced apart in each case from adjacent outer flaps (66) and inner flaps (67), respectively, of the inner pack (12) such that the inner front wall (14) and the inner rear wall (65) form material webs (68) which enclose the pack contents in the region of the front side and rear side.

16. The pack as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that an end wall (32) of the hinge lid (36) and/or an inner end wall (17) of the inner pack (12), preferably on both sides in each case, have corner flaps, namely lid corner flaps (38), on the one hand, and end flaps (21), on the other hand, wherein the folded lid corner flaps (38) are connected to side parts of the pack or of the hinge lid (36) and/or the folded end flaps (21) are connected to side walls of the inner pack (12), namely to lid side flaps (37), on the one hand, and to outer flaps (18), on the other hand.

17. The pack as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that, in the case of a configuration with an outer hinge lid (36), on the one hand, and inner lid (53), on the other hand, lid corner flaps (60) assigned to a lid end wall (59) of the inner lid (53) are connected to lid side flaps (58) and butt against the inside of the lid end wall (59) and are connected to the same.