Abstract:
The disclosure relates to containers and blanks for forming the containers. The disclosed methods involve forming the containers, loading the containers with cylindrical articles such as cigarettes and dispensing the articles from the containers. The containers may include a box and a telescoping closure sleeve for selectably exposing a circular aperture in a side wall of the box. An inner wall of the box provides a curved surface for aligning an individual article or cigarette so that it may be dispensed through the aperture. The methods and structures disclosed here permit the container to be accessed and the articles or cigarettes to be dispensed, one at a time, by manipulating the container with one hand. A window in the sleeve permits the contents of the container to be viewed through an opening in the box.
Abstract:
A limited-life reusable hard pack for encasing a soft pack of cigarette. The reusable hard pack permits easy access to the cigarette by the feature of a sliceable interior wall attached to a pivotable bottom wall that when moved relative to the exterior walls of the hard pack pushes the soft pack upward and beyond the top of the hard pack. An overhang on a top wall extends across and beyond one side wall to prevent the bottom wall from pivoting downward, beyond the bottom plane of the hard pack. The opposite side of the top wall leaves a gap through which cigarette may be removed without opening to top closure. One such hard pack is collapsed and inserted into a standard ten-pack carton.
Abstract:
An inner wrapping for cigarette shoulder boxes is designed in such a way that, on the one hand, maximum moisture and aroma retention is guaranteed, but on the other hand the design of the inner wrapping is in keeping with processing by machine and favorable handling. The upper wall of the inner wrapping (25) is provided with an extraction orifice (28) which leads up to one of the ends of the cigarettes (24) and which is covered by a closing flap (35) which in the closed position covers the edge regions of the orifice.
Abstract:
A package for cigarettes and the like includes an article container box having an open top through which the cigarettes are removed from the container box. The package further includes two side box sections having facing open sides. The two side box sections symmetrically enclose the container box when in a closed position. The two side box sections are hinged together at the juncture of their floors for pivotal movement in a fan-like movement between a closed position covering the open top of the container box and an open position uncovering the open top of the container box. The container box and each of the side box sections include interacting stop flanges which limits the pivotal movement of side box sections, when in the open position, to an open-most position whereat each of the side box section still receives a portion of the container box.
Abstract:
A paperboard cigarette pack resembling a cigarette case is provided. The pack has a caddy member and a cover member hinged to the caddy member along one side. The cover member folds over the caddy member in nesting engagement.
Abstract:
A package formed from a folded blank for containing cigarettes. The package has side surfaces, front and rear surfaces interconnecting the side surfaces, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The top surface of the package has a crease line formed therein spaced from and extending parallel to the plane of the front surface and first and second slots extending from ends of the crease line towards the rear surface. A portion of the blank forming one of the side surfaces has a first crescent-shaped part formed therein by a groove extending between an end of the first slot spaced intermediate the crease line and the rear surface and the intersection of the front, the top, and the one side surface. Another portion of the blank forms a crescent-shaped part protruding from the portion of the blank forming the top surface. The second part is separated from the top surface by the second slot and is connected to the portion of the top surface located between the crease and the front surface. Portions of the blank when folded being folded over the first and the second crescent-shaped parts to maintain the package closed. The top surface is foldable about the crease line to open the package.