Container of cigarettes

a container and cigarettes technology, applied in the field of containers of cigarettes, can solve the problems of inability to reuse, high price of containers, and poor quality of rigid reusable boxes, and achieve the effect of greatly simplifying the packaging of each pack

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-10-13
GD SPA
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[0009] It is an object of the present invention to at least partly eliminate the aforementioned drawbacks by enabling manufacturers to dispense with high-cost packaging while still providing the consumer with packets of the same appearance and mechanical strength, and which are equally easy to use.
[0011] Since the necessary mechanical strength during use is provided entirely by the reusable box, into which each packet is inserted when used, the package of each packet can be greatly simplified and preferably limited to the airtight overwrapping alone.

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Such a packet is obviously relatively expensive, particularly in view of the fact that the outer wrapping, which is normally the most expensive part of the packet after the cigarettes, cannot be reused.
However, the quality of the rigid reusable box is relatively not very good due to the fact that the rigid reusable box has to be make by the consumer using the flat blank; furthermore, the user could have some problems in making the rigid reusable box using the flat blank.

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[0017] Number 1 in FIG. 1 indicates as a whole a container of cigarettes, hereinafter referred to as a “carton”, comprising an outer package 2, a number of packets 3 of cigarettes housed inside outer package 2, and at least one reusable box 4 housed inside outer package 2 side by side with packets 3 and arranged with packets 3 in a given order.

[0018] As shown more clearly in FIG. 4, box 4 is a closed box comprising a lid 5, which can be opened for access to an opening 6 shaped and sized to allow the passage of a packet 3, and the inner shape of box 4 and the outer shape of each packet 3 are substantially complementary, so that a packet 3 can be inserted completely and closed inside box 4, and so that each packet 3 acts as a refill for box 4.

[0019] In the example shown in the accompanying drawings, carton 1 is a conventional carton in the form of an elongated rectangular parallelepiped, box 4 is a hinged-lid box in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped, and each packet 3 has an ...

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Abstract

A container (1) of cigarettes, having an outer package (2) housing a reusable box (4), and a number of packets (3) of cigarettes arranged, with the box (4), in a given order and which act as a refill for the box (4).

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TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a container of cigarettes. [0002] More specifically, the present invention relates to a container of cigarettes comprising an outer package and a number of packets of cigarettes arranged in a given order inside said outer package. BACKGROUND ART [0003] Known containers of cigarettes of the above type, normally referred to as “cartons”, comprise a number of packets, each of which is used individually and therefore structured to withstand for a given length of time the stress to which a packet of cigarettes is subjected in use, and to preserve, for a relatively long time prior to use, the original characteristics of the cigarettes in the packet, regardless of external environmental conditions. [0004] This is normally achieved by providing each packet of cigarettes with a package comprising an inner foil wrapping, a rigid or soft outer wrapping designed to withstand mechanical stress during use, and a transparent outer overwrappin...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B65D5/42B65D77/04B65D85/10
CPCB65D5/4233B65D85/1072Y02W30/807Y02W30/80B65D85/10B65D5/42
Inventor PETRUCCI, LUCADRAGHETTI, FIORENZO
Owner GD SPA
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