Packaging for products of the tobacco industry, and method and apparatus for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12179994-B2
Application number	US-202017781656-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 8, 2020
Priority date	Dec 12, 2019
Publication date	Dec 31, 2024
Grant date	Dec 31, 2024

Abstract

A packaging for products of the tobacco industry, wherein the packaging has a box portion and a lid which is pivotably arranged on the box portion by means of a line hinge, and wherein a packaging content is arranged in the box portion, and wherein the packaging has a collar which at least partially surrounds the packaging content at several sides and which protrudes with the packaging content from the box portion which is open at the top. There is provision for walls of the collar to extend from a front side of the box portion up to the region of an opposing rear side of the box portion on which the line hinge is also located. A method and an apparatus for producing such a packaging.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A packaging for products of the tobacco industry, wherein the packaging ( 10 ) has a box portion ( 11 ) and a lid ( 12 ) which is pivotably arranged on the box portion ( 11 ) by means of a line hinge ( 13 ), and wherein a packaging content ( 15 ) is arranged in the box portion ( 11 ), and wherein the packaging ( 10 ) has a collar ( 20 ) which at least partially surrounds the packaging content ( 15 ) at several sides and which protrudes with the packaging content ( 15 ) from the box portion ( 11 ) which is open at the top, wherein walls of the collar ( 20 ) extend from a front side of the box portion ( 11 ) up to the region of an opposing rear side of the box portion ( 11 ) on which the line hinge ( 13 ) is also located,
wherein, to delimit walls of the collar ( 20 ), there are formed in the material of the collar ( 20 ) weakening lines ( 32 , 33 ) which are configured to lead to a material weakening along the respective weakening line ( 32 , 33 ), wherein the collar ( 20 ) has differently constructed weakening lines ( 32 , 33 ) of which at least some lead to a differing degree of material weakening, and
wherein the collar ( 20 ) has a collar front wall ( 21 ), collar side walls ( 22 ) and collar rear walls ( 23 ) which extend along corresponding walls of the box portion ( 11 ), namely along a box front wall ( 24 ), box side walls ( 25 ) and a box rear wall ( 26 ), and in that in the transition from the collar side walls ( 22 ) to the collar rear walls ( 23 ) and/or in the transition from the collar side walls ( 22 ) to the collar front wall ( 21 ) differently constructed weakening lines ( 32 , 33 ) which lead to a differing degree of material weakening are arranged.

2. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, in a packaging ( 10 ) with chamfered packaging edges ( 27 ) or in a packaging ( 10 ) with right-angled packaging edges ( 27 ), there is arranged between the collar side walls ( 22 ) and the collar rear walls ( 23 ) an oblique collar edge wall ( 34 , 37 ) which extends when viewed from above obliquely with respect to the respective collar side walls ( 22 ) and the collar rear walls ( 23 ), and in that the weakening lines ( 32 ) between the collar side walls ( 22 ) and the respective oblique collar edge wall ( 34 , 37 ) have a lower degree of material weakening than the weakening lines ( 33 ) between the oblique collar edge walls ( 34 , 37 ) and the collar rear walls ( 23 ).

3. The packaging as claimed in claim 2 , wherein, in a packaging ( 10 ) with chamfered packaging edges ( 27 ), there is arranged in each case between the collar side walls ( 22 ) and the collar front wall ( 21 ) an oblique collar edge wall ( 34 ) which extends when viewed from above obliquely with respect to the respective collar side walls ( 22 ) and the collar front wall ( 21 ), and in that the weakening lines ( 32 ) between the collar front wall ( 21 ) and the adjacent oblique collar edge wall ( 34 ) in each case have a lower degree of material weakening than the weakening lines ( 33 ) between the oblique collar edge walls ( 34 ) mentioned and the respective adjacent collar side wall ( 22 ).

4. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, in a packaging ( 10 ) with rounded packaging edges ( 27 ), there is arranged in each case between the collar side walls ( 22 ) and the collar rear walls ( 23 ) a curved intermediate collar wall ( 36 ) which has preferably parallel creases which are arranged with short spacings as weakening lines, and in that weakening lines ( 32 ) in the transition from the collar side walls ( 22 ) to the respective intermediate collar wall ( 36 ) have a lower degree of material weakening than weakening lines ( 33 ) in the transition from the respective intermediate collar walls ( 36 ) to the collar rear walls ( 23 ).

5. The packaging as claimed in claim 4 , wherein, in a packaging ( 10 ) with rounded packaging edges ( 27 ), there is arranged in each case between the collar side walls ( 22 ) and the collar front wall ( 21 ) a curved intermediate collar wall ( 36 ) which has preferably parallel creases which are arranged with short spacings as weakening lines, and in that weakening lines ( 32 ) in the transition from the collar front wall ( 21 ) to the adjacent intermediate collar walls ( 36 ) have a lower degree of material weakening than weakening lines ( 33 ) in the transition from the intermediate collar walls ( 36 ) mentioned to the adjacent collar side wall ( 22 ).

6. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein weakening lines ( 33 ) with a larger degree of material weakening may be formed by scoring the material of the collar ( 22 ) and weakening lines ( 32 ) with a lower degree of material weakening may be formed by creasing the material of the collar ( 20 ).

7. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, as a result of the use of the weakening lines ( 32 , 33 ) with a differing degree of material weakening, the folding behavior of the blank for the collar ( 20 ) can be influenced in such a manner that walls of the collar ( 20 ) which are located at weakening lines ( 32 ) with a lower degree of material weakening are more difficult to fold than walls of the collar ( 20 ) which are located at weakening lines ( 33 ) with a higher degree of material weakening.

8. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the collar rear walls ( 20 ) extend together over at least 10% of the width of the rear wall ( 26 ) of the box portion ( 11 ).

9. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the collar rear walls ( 20 ) extend together over at least 20% of the width of the rear wall ( 26 ) of the box portion ( 11 ).

10. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the collar rear walls ( 20 ) extend together over at least 30% of the width of the rear wall ( 26 ) of the box portion ( 11 ).

Assignees

• Focke & Co

Inventors

• Förstmann Dirk
• Schneider Christoph

Classifications

• B65D85/1054

  combined with an outer sleeve connected to the lid · CPC title

• B31F1/08

  Creasing (corrugating B31F1/20; zig-zag folding B65H45/20 {; combined with folding B31F1/0012, B31F1/0022; grooving by cutting B26D3/06, B26D3/08; by milling grooves B23C3/30; of plastics material B29C53/06}) · CPC title

• B65D85/1056 Primary

  characterized by the lid · CPC title

• B31B50/26

  Folding sheets, blanks or webs · CPC title

• B31B50/14

  Cutting, e.g. perforating, punching, slitting or trimming (cutting window openings B31B50/83) · CPC title