Packet for bar-shaped articles

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10294014-B2
Application number	US-201615576516-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2016
Priority date	Jul 9, 2015
Publication date	May 21, 2019
Grant date	May 21, 2019

Abstract

A packet for bar-shaped articles including an outer wrapper defining an internal space for housing the bar-shaped articles and accessible through an access opening. The packet includes an internal drawer located inside the outer wrapper and a sleeve located inside the outer wrapper with an upper free edge accessible through the opening. The sleeve is configured to receive and support the evenly spaced bar-shaped articles with their longitudinal axes parallel to a longitudinal axis of the sleeve itself. The sleeve is wrapped round the outside of the internal drawer. The outer wrapper has at least one opening facing a sidewall of the sleeve at the internal drawer to allow applying at least one sliding force on the sleeve and to produce a rotation of the selfsame sleeve relative to the internal drawer and the outer wrapper.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A packet for bar-shaped articles comprising
an outer wrapper defining an internal space for housing the bar-shaped articles and including an access opening for accessing the bar-shaped articles,
a sleeve located inside the outer wrapper and configured to support the bar-shaped articles positioned with their longitudinal axes parallel to a longitudinal axis of the sleeve and to move the bar-shaped articles inside the outer wrapper along a closed path running transversely to the longitudinal axis, the closed path being configured to make at least one of the bar-shaped articles accessible through the access opening,
wherein the outer wrapper includes a window facing a sidewall of the sleeve, the sleeve including a plurality of elongate cavities, each of the plurality of elongate cavities extending along a respective longitudinal axis to house one of the bar-shaped articles which is slidably insertable into and extractable from the each of the plurality of elongate cavities along the respective longitudinal axis, wherein the longitudinal axes of the plurality of elongate cavities are parallel to each other and to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve, wherein the plurality of elongate cavities project from an internal surface of a side wall of the sleeve towards an internal space of the sleeve,
an internal drawer inserted in the sleeve and provided at the window to allow application of a sliding force on the sleeve to produce a rotation of the sleeve along the closed path.

2. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein an upper free edge of the sleeve is accessible through the access opening.

3. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein the sleeve is wrapped around an outside of the internal drawer.

4. The packet according to claim 3 , wherein the internal drawer includes rounded vertical edges and a longitudinal dimension of the sleeve measured along the longitudinal axis of the sleeve is greater than a corresponding longitudinal dimension of the internal drawer.

5. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein in an assembled configuration of the packet, the internal drawer rests on a bottom wall of the packet and axially overlaps the sleeve for a first stretch which at least partly covers the window and the sleeve rises above the internal drawer for a second stretch.

6. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein the side wall includes a flexible supporting tape wrapped around the longitudinal axis and defining the internal surface facing towards the internal space inside the sleeve and an outside surface facing towards the outer wrapper when the sleeve is inserted in the outer wrapper.

7. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein the sleeve includes a fastening tape applied to a flexible supporting tape, the flexible supporting tape forming the side wall of the sleeve, and wherein the plurality of elongate cavities project from the side wall via the fastening tape, the plurality of elongate cavities each having an opening accessible from a free upper edge of the sleeve.

8. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of elongate cavities includes a supporting base at an end opposite to an opening of the elongate cavity and facing towards an inside of the elongate cavity.

9. The packet according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of elongate cavities extend along a respective longitudinal axis for a stretch that is smaller than or equal to the second stretch.

10. The packet according to claim 5 , wherein the sleeve includes a fastening tape applied to a flexible supporting tape to form the plurality of elongate cavities and one dimension of the fastening tape, measured along the longitudinal axis of the sleeve is equal to the second stretch.

11. The packet according to claim 8 , wherein the supporting base is made by a folded portion of a fastening tape or of a flexible supporting tape.

12. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of elongate cavities are positioned entirely above the internal drawer.

13. The packet according to claim 1 , wherein the plurality of elongate cavities are positioned to have no overlap with the internal drawer along the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.

Assignees

• Gd Spa

Inventors

• Corte Coi Giulia
• Cucchi Manuele
• Polloni Roberto
• Federici Luca

Classifications

• B65D85/1009 Primary

  provided with proffering means (B65D85/1054 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B65D85/1036 Primary

  Containers formed by erecting a rigid or semi-rigid blank · CPC title