Cigarette package and method for production thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9889983-B2
Application number	US-201314394724-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2013
Priority date	Apr 25, 2012
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

The invention relates to a (cigarette) package consisting of an outer package ( 10 ) and two inner packages ( 11, 12 ). The latter can be moved by a pivoting movement about a respective articulation joint in the region of an outer base wall ( 40 ) out of the closed position (upright within the outer package ( 10 )) into an oblique open position. To this end a covering tab ( 28 ) which closes off the cup-shaped inner package ( 11, 12 ) on the upper face is automatically moved out of the closed position, such that the oblique inner package ( 11, 12 ) is ready for the removal of the contents of the packaging.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A packaging for cigarettes, comprising an outer packaging and at least one inner packaging arranged in said outer packaging, for holding the cigarettes, wherein the inner packaging can be pivoted about a joint line in the region of an outer base wall of the outer packaging from a closed position within the outer packaging into an obliquely oriented open position partially outside the outer packaging, and wherein the inner packaging and the outer packaging are formed or folded in accordance with the principle of longitudinal folding, and a blank of the inner packaging is formed such that, an inner base wall is adjoined, at both sides, to folding lobes for mutually opposite side walls and for mutually opposite outer and inner walls, and wherein:
a) the side walls of the inner packaging are of single-layer form and the outer wall and the inner wall are of double-layer form owing to approximately complete overlap of external and internal outer lobes and external and internal inner lobes, which are connected to the side walls,
b) a blank of the outer packaging has folding lobes for a front wall and for an opposite rear wall, respectively, said folding lobes being arranged to both sides of an outer base wall and being integrally connected to the latter,
c) a top wall of the outer packaging is integrally connected to the front wall or to the rear wall,
d) the top wall is connected to the rear wall or to the front wall by a connecting tab,
e) the inner packaging is cup-shaped and is closed at a top side when in the closed position within the outer packaging, by tabs of the inner packaging, which tabs open up the top side of the inner packaging during the movement into the open position,
f) a cover lobe is connected to the internal inner lobe of the double-layer inner wall, and
g) a retaining limb of the cover lobe is fastened to the top wall of the outer packaging, wherein the retaining limb remains fastened to the top wall when the inner packaging is in the closed position and in the open position, wherein the cover lobe serves as an upper cover of the inner packaging when the inner packaging is in the closed position, and serves as a limitation means for the oblique orientation of the inner packaging when the latter is in the open position,
h) wherein the cover lobe comprises an opening joint forming a delimitation with respect to the retaining limb, a rim joint situated at the height of an upper free rim edge of the external inner lobe, and a main joint situated between the opening joint and the rim joint such that, when the inner packaging is in the closed position, the cover lobe is substantially parallel to the top wall of the outer packaging between the opening joint and the main joint and, when the inner packaging is in the closed position, the cover lobe is substantially perpendicular to the top wall of the outer packaging between the main joint and the rim joint.

2. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein:
a) the inner base wall is directly adjoined by the folding lobes for the side walls and the double-layer outer wall and the double-layer inner wall,
b) the outer lobes of the outer wall are connected to the respectively adjacent side wall via rounded edges or via oblique edges.

3. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outer wall and the inner wall are formed with different height dimensions, such that the outer wall substantially corresponds to an inner height dimension of the outer packaging and the inner wall is recessed in relation to the top wall of the outer packaging, such that a cigarette block when placed in the inner packaging projects, at a top side, beyond the inner wall when the inner packaging is in the open position.

4. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the inner packaging is closed at the top side during production by tabs of the inner packaging, which tabs open up the top side of the inner packaging during the movement into the open position.

5. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , the inner packaging when in the open position can be closed by the cover lobe arranged on the inner wall and by an opposite corner lobe which is connected to the internal outer lobe of the double-layer outer wall, wherein the corner lobe lies against the inner side of the cover lobe when the inner packaging is in the closed position.

6. The packaging as claimed in claim 5 , wherein:
a) during the production of the packaging, the corner lobe is connected to the cover lobe by glue-on-glue points,
b) the corner lobe is connected to the outer lobe by residual connections,
c) the residual connections can be severed when the packaging is opened for the first time.

7. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cover lobe extends substantially over a full width and depth of an open side of the inner packaging and is, by way of a partial region, connected to the top wall of the outer packaging in a region of the retaining limb by glue.

8. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the cover lobe is composed of thin cardboard and has multiple transversely oriented linear joints formed by material deformation, said linear joints comprising a main joint for deflection of the cover lobe into the region of the internal inner lobe of the inner wall and a rim joint for deflection of the cover lobe on the upper edge of the inner lobe in the open position of the inner packaging.

9. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein one recess and one punched hole are formed in the region of the outer packaging at diametrically opposite positions of the front wall and of the rear wall, such that they interact with counterpart recesses and punched holes of the inner packaging to provide tactile and/or audible identification of the open position of the inner packaging.

10. The packaging as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the outer base wall of the outer packaging has, owing to a U-shaped punching of each inner packaging, associated articulated tabs with a linear joint transversely in the outer base wall, wherein each inner packaging is fastened by way of an inner base wall to the associated articulated tab by glue.

11. A packaging for cigarettes, comprising an outer packaging and at least one inner packaging arranged in said outer packaging, for holding the cigarettes, wherein the inner packaging can be pivoted about a joint line in the region of an outer base wall of the outer packaging from a closed position within the outer packaging into an obliquely oriented open position partially outside the outer packaging, and wherein the inner packaging and the outer packaging are formed or folded in accordance with the principle of longitudinal folding, and a blank of the inner packaging is formed such that, an inner base wall is adjoined, at both sides, to folding lobes for mutually opposite side walls and for mutually opposite outer and inner walls, and wherein:
a) the side walls of the inner packaging are of single-layer form and the outer wall and the inner wall are of double-layer form owing to approximately complete overlap of external and internal outer lobes and external and internal inner lobes, which are connected to the side walls,
b) a blank of the outer packaging has folding lobes for a front wall and for a rear wall, respectively, said folding lobes being arranged to both sides of an outer base wall and being integrally connected to the latter,
c) a top wall of the outer packaging is integrally connected to the front wall or to the rear wall,
d) the top wall is connected to the rear wall or to the front wall by a connecting tab;
e) one recess and one punched hole are formed in the region of the outer packaging at diametrically opposite positions o

Assignees

• Jt Int Sa

Inventors

• Buse Henry
• Hein Viktor
• Roesler Burkard

Classifications

• B65D85/1063 Primary

  so as to form two cigarette-compartments interconnected by a hinge-portion · CPC title

• B31B50/74

  Auxiliary operations · CPC title

• B65D85/1036

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

• B31B50/26

  Folding sheets, blanks or webs · CPC title

• B31B50/262

  involving folding, leading, or trailing flaps of blanks · CPC title