WO2013068939A1 - Package of tobacco articles with a sliding opening - Google Patents

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WO2013068939A1
WO2013068939A1 PCT/IB2012/056225 IB2012056225W WO2013068939A1 WO 2013068939 A1 WO2013068939 A1 WO 2013068939A1 IB 2012056225 W IB2012056225 W IB 2012056225W WO 2013068939 A1 WO2013068939 A1 WO 2013068939A1
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Marco Ghini
Andrea Biondi
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    • B65CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65DCONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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    • B65D85/08Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular
    • B65D85/10Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for compressible or flexible articles rod-shaped or tubular for cigarettes
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  • This invention relates to a slide-open package for smokers' articles.
  • cigarettes packets Packages for cigarettes and similar smokers' articles (hereinafter referred to as "cigarettes packets") made in the form of hard, hinged-lid packets are very widespread in the market because they are simple to make, easy and practical to use and provide good mechanical protection to the cigarettes they contain.
  • a hard, slide-open cigarette packet comprises an inner container which accommodates a group of cigarettes wrapped in a sheet of metallized wrapping paper and which is designed to be received in an outer container in such a way that it can slide relative to the outer container between a closed position where the inner container is completely inside the outer container, and an open position where the inner container is partly outside the outer container.
  • the sliding movement of the inner container relative to the outer container may be a translating movement between the two containers or a rotating movement between the two containers about a hinge which connects the two containers.
  • hard cigarette packets which slide open by a translating movement are described in patent documents FR2499947A1 , US4534463A1 , US5080227A1 and ⁇ 169163 ⁇ .
  • An embodiment of a hard cigarette packet which slides open by a rotating movement is described in patent document WO2006021581 .
  • the inner container has the shape of a parallelepiped, with two parallel major side walls opposite one another and two parallel minor side walls interposed between the major side wails. Cut out from each of the major side walls, near the minor side wall positioned inside the outer container, there is a respective retaining tab which projects outwards of the inner container from the edge where the major side wall and the minor side wall meet.
  • the outer container also has the shape of a parallelepiped, with two parallel major side walls opposite one another, one minor side wall and an opening which is opposite the minor side wall and through which the inner container is slidably mounted.
  • a retaining tab Connected to each major side wall, at the edge of the selfsame major side wall delimiting the opening there is a retaining tab which projects from the respective major side wall inwardly of the outer container to engage a corresponding retaining tab of the selfsame inner container to limit the outward travel of the inner container and prevent the inner container from being pulled out of the outer container completely. More precisely, as the inner container is partly pulled out of the outer container in order to open the cigarette packet, the retaining tabs of the inner container must progressively occupy the space between the corresponding retaining tabs of the outer container and the adjacent side walls of the outer container itself.
  • the disadvantage lies in the fact that when the packets are opened, that is to say, while the inner container is progressively pulled out of the outer container, the free edges of the retaining tabs of the inner container sometimes do not move into the correct position described above and, instead, get stuck against the retaining tabs of the outer container, preventing the inner container from coming out of the outer container as far as necessary. Disclosure of the invention
  • the aim of this invention is to provide a smokers' articles slide-open package which is free of the above mentioned disadvantage.
  • the invention accordingly provides a smokers' articles slide-open package as claimed in the appended claims.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a hard, slide-open cigarette packet made in accordance with this invention, in the closed configuration;
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an embodiment, in the open configuration, of the cigarette packet of Figure 1 made in such a way that it can be opened slidably by a translating movement;
  • FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an embodiment, in the open configuration, of the cigarette packet of Figure 1 made in such a way that it can be opened slidably by a rotating movement;
  • FIG. 4 is an exploded perspective view of the packet of Figures 1 and 2, with the inner container fully pulled out of the outer container, and with some of the interna! components of the packet shown by dashed lines;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figures 1 , 2 and 4 in a partly open configuration
  • FIG. 6 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 5, in a fully open configuration
  • FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of a variant of the packet of Figures 1 -6, with the inner container fuliy pulled out of the outer container, and with some of the internal components of the packet shown by dashed lines;
  • FIG. 7a is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 7, in a dosed configuration
  • FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 7, in a partly open configuration
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 7, in a fully open configuration
  • FIG. 10 is a plan view of a blank used to make an inner container of the cigarette packet of Figures 1-6;
  • FIG. 11 is a plan view of a blank used to make an outer container of the cigarette packet of Figures 1 -6;
  • FIG. 12 is a plan view of a blank used to make an inner container of the cigarette packet of Figures 7-9;
  • FIG. 13 is a plan view of a blank used to make an outer container of the cigarette packet of Figures 7-9;
  • FIG. 14 is a perspective view of a variant of the cigarette packet of Figures 6- 3, in a partly open configuration
  • FIG. 15 is a perspective view of a variant of the cigarette packet of the preceding figures, in a partly open configuration
  • FIG. 16 is a scaled-up view of a detail from Figure 15,
  • the numeral 1 in Figures 1-6 denotes in its entirety a hard cigarette packet which opens slidably by a linear movement.
  • the cigarette packet 1 comprises (see Figure 2 in particular) a wrapped group 2 of cigarettes, that is a cigarette group (not illustrated) wrapped in a sheet of metallized wrapping paper, and a hard outer case 3 made of paperboard or the like, accommodating the wrapped group 2 and in turn comprising a hard inner container 4, in which the wrapped group 2 is placed directly, and a hard outer container 5, which slidably accommodates the inner container 4 to allow the selfsame inner container 4 to slide relative to the outer container 5 in such a way as to move with a linear movement between a closed position (illustrated in Figure 1 ), where the inner container 4 is fully inserted inside the outer container 5, and an open position (illustrated in Figure 2), where the inner container 4 is partly outside the selfsame outer container 5 so that a user has direct access to the wrapped group 2.
  • a closed position illustrated in Figure 1
  • an open position illustrated in Figure 2
  • the inner container 4 has the shape of a parallelepiped and has a bottom wall 6, a top face 7 and two parallel major side walls 8 opposite one another and two parallel minor side walls 9a and 9b interposed between the major side walls 8.
  • the top face 7 defines, in proximity of the minor sidewall 9a, an extraction area 0 extending also to part of the major side walls 8 and designed to be positioned, when the inner container 4 is at its open position, outside the outer container 5 to allow the cigarettes (not illustrated) to be taken out of the inner container 4 by the user after opening the wrapper enclosing the wrapped group 2.
  • the extraction area 10 is protected by a removable cap 0' ( Figure 2), which covers the portion of the top face 7 over the area 10 and two upper portions of the major side walls 8 and which is connected to the rest of the major side walls 8 by lines of weakness (tear lines) which allow the smoker to tear the cap 0' off after pulling the inner container 4 partly out of the outer container 5.
  • a removable cap 0' Figure 2
  • Figure 2 covers the portion of the top face 7 over the area 10 and two upper portions of the major side walls 8 and which is connected to the rest of the major side walls 8 by lines of weakness (tear lines) which allow the smoker to tear the cap 0' off after pulling the inner container 4 partly out of the outer container 5.
  • the outer container 5 also has the shape of a parallelepiped, with a bottom wall 12, a top wall 13, two parallel major side walls 14 opposite one another, one minor side wall 15 and an opening 16 which is opposite the minor side wall 15 and through which the inner container 4 is slidably mounted.
  • each major side wall 14 Connected to each major side wall 14, at the edge of the selfsame major side wall 14 delimiting the opening 16, there is a retaining tab 17 which projects from the respective major side wall 14 inwardly of the outer container 5 to engage a corresponding retaining tab 11 of the inner container 4 to limit the outward travel of the inner container 4 while the inner container 4 is being pulled out and thus to prevent the inner container 4 from being pulled out of the outer container 5 completely.
  • the minor side wall 5 of the outer container 5 has a hole 15a in it which, in the example illustrated, is located in a zone relatively close to the wall 13 of the outer container 5, and whose shape and size are such as to allow a user to apply, through the selfsame minor side wall 15, a pushing action on the minor side wall 9b of the inner container 4 in such a way as to cause the inner container 4 to slide towards its open position.
  • the cigarette packet 1 can be opened by sliding with a translating movement; that is to say, the inner container 4 moves relative to the outer container 5 between the open and closed positions by a translation (that is, a linear movement along a direction parallel to the major transversal edges).
  • the cigarette packet 1 can be opened by sliding with a rotating movement; that is to say, the inner container 4 moves relative to the outer container 5 between the open and closed positions by a rotation about a hinge (not illustrated) of the type described in patent EP 781554B1 , which connects the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 to the bottom wall 12 of the outer container 5.
  • the difference between the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1 , 2 and 4-6 and the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figure 3 is that in the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figure 3 the inner container 4 is hinged ⁇ that is, connected) to the outer container 5 along the hinge, whereas in the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1 , 2 and 4-6, the inner container 4 is inserted in the outer container 5 but the two containers 4 and 5 are not connected to each other in any way.
  • the sliding movement between the two containers 4 and 5 is a rotation about the hinge
  • the sliding movement between the two containers 4 and 5 is a linear movement.
  • the containers 4 and 5 of the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1-6 are obtained from corresponding blanks 20 and 21 , respectively, of known type, illustrated in Figures 10 and 11 , respectively.
  • Each of the blanks 20 and 21 comprises a plurality of panels, which, where possible, are denoted by primed reference numerals which are the same as the unprimed reference numerals denoting the corresponding walls of the respective container 4 or 5.
  • the blank 20 has two Iongitudinal lines of weakness 22 and a plurality of transversal lines of weakness 23 which define, between the two longitudinal lines of weakness 22, a panel 10a constituting the removable cap 10', a panel 8' constituting one major side wail 8, a panel 6' constituting the bottom wall 6, a panel 8" constituting the other major side wall 8 and a panel 10b constituting the rest of the removable cap 10'.
  • the panel 8' has a pair of side flaps 9' constituting an outer part of the minor side walls 9, located on opposite sides of the panel 8' and separated from the panel 8' by the Iongitudinal lines of weakness 22.
  • the panel 8"' has a pair of side flaps 9"' constituting an inner part of the minor side walls 9, located on opposite sides of the panel 8" and separated from the panel 8" by the Iongitudinal lines of weakness 22.
  • the side flaps 9" of the panel 8" have a pair of tabs 24, each of which is separated from the respective side flap 9" by one of the transversal lines of weakness 23.
  • a window F which defines a respective retaining tab 1 1 a, 11b.
  • the blank 21 has two transversal lines of weakness 25 and a plurality of Iongitudinal lines of weakness 26 which define, between the two transversal lines of weakness 25, a panel 14' constituting one of the major side walls 8, a panel 15' constituting the minor side wail 15 and a panel 14" constituting the other major side wall 8.
  • Each panel 14' or 14" has a respective retaining tab 17 located on the side opposite the panel 15' and separated from the respective panel 14' or 14" by a longitudinal line of weakness 26.
  • the transversal dimension of the tabs 17 in the direction of the transversa! lines of weakness 25 is preferably smaller than the transversal dimension of the panel 15'.
  • the panel 14' has a pair of side flaps 2' and 13', which are located on opposite sides of the panel 14', are separated from the panel 14' by the transversal lines of weakness 25, have a rectangular shape and constitute an internal portion of the walls 12 and 13.
  • the panel 5' has a pair of side flaps 12" and 3", which are located on opposite sides of the panel 15', are separated from the panel 15' by the transversal lines of weakness 25, have a triangular shape and constitute a further interna! portion of the walls 2 and 13.
  • the panel 14" has a pair of side flaps 12"' and 13"', which are located on opposite sides of the panel 14", are separated from the panel 14" by the transversal lines of weakness 25, and constitute an external portion of the walls 12 and 13.
  • the side flaps 12' and 12" and the side flaps 13' and 3" are shaped in such a way that they do not overlap when they are folded against the side flaps 12"' and 13"' to form the walls 12 and 13 of the inner container 4.
  • the tabs a and 1 1b of the blank 20 are substantially in the shape of a right-angle trapezium, whose major base 11 c coincides with the longitudinal line of weakness 22 furthest from cap 10'.
  • the portions of the tabs 11a and 1 1 b facing towards the panel 6' constituting the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 are laterally delimited by respective rectilinear edges 1d perpendicular to the line of weakness 22, whereas the portions labelled 11e of the tabs 11 a and 1 1b, furthest away from the panel 6', are inclined at an angle a to the major base 1 1c.
  • the tabs 17 of the blank 21 are substantially in the shape of a rectangle (with some shape irregularities described below), one of whose major sides is a folding side located along a longitudinal line of weakness 26 which separates each tab 17 from a respective panel 14', 14" constituting one of the major side walls 8 of the outer container 5.
  • each tab 17 has a first indentation 17a having a pointed shape, with the tip directed towards the line 26.
  • the first indentations 17a are located, relative to the transversal lines of weakness 25, substantially at the same level as the hole 15a.
  • Each tab 17 also has, again along the major, free edge side, next to the first indentation 17a, a second indentation 17b which is shaped to match the tabs 11a and 1 1 b of the blank 20 and which is located in the proximity of the transversal line 25 adjacent to the flaps 12' and 12"'.
  • each tab 17 situated between the indentations 17a and 17b forms an appendage 17c, which is co-planar with the tab 17, protrudes from the indented edge of the selfsame tab 17 and has a substantially triangular shape, with a rounded vertex 17d located at the same level as the major, free edge side.
  • each appendage 17c is provided with a small boss 17e, whose purpose will become clearer as this description continues, and which (purely by way of an example) has a circular shape and whose convexity protrudes from the face of the blank 21 which defines the inside surface of the outer container 5.
  • each of the retaining tabs 11 a and 11b of the inner container 4 moves with its inclined portion 11 e into contact with a retaining tab 17 ( Figure 5) and, more specifically, with the vertex 17d of the appendage 17c forming part of the selfsame tab 17.
  • each appendage 17c is tucked in between a retaining tab 1 1a, 1b and a major side wall 8 of the inner container 4.
  • the purpose of the bosses 17e is to increase the effect just described by pushing the appendages 7c towards the inside of the outer container 5, adding their action to the elastic force described above.
  • Pulling the inner container 4 out of the outer container 5 can then proceed as described (pushing action through the hole 15a) until the vertex 17d of each appendage 17c abuts against the hinge zone (along the major base 1 1 c) of the respective tab 11 a, 1 1 b or until one edge of the tab 11 a, 1 1 b abuts against the hinge zone (along the major folding side) of the tab 17: whether one or the other of these events occurs depends on the size of the tabs 11 a, 1 1b and 17 and their component parts.
  • the packet 1 of this invention overcomes the disadvantage described above with reference to the prior art because it eliminates the possibility of the free edges of the retaining tabs of the inner container jamming against the free edges of the retaining tabs of the outer container in such a way as to prevent the inner container from coming far enough out of the outer container or causing the tabs 1 1 a, 11 b and 17 to crumple and thus damaging the packet 1 ,
  • the containers 4 and 5 of the variant embodiment of the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 7-9 are obtained from corresponding blanks which differ in some respects from the blanks 20 and 21 described above and used to make the containers 4 and 5 of the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1-6.
  • the retaining tabs 1 1 1 a and 11 b have the shape of an isosceles trapezium in which both the portions of the tabs 1 1 a and 11b facing towards the panel 6' constituting the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 and the portions of them furthest away from panel 6', a!l labelled 1 1 f, are inclined at an angle to the major base 1 1 c.
  • the tabs 17 of the blank 21 used in this variant embodiment are also substantially in the shape of a rectangle but, on their major, free edge side, they have two first indentations 17a having a pointed shape, with the tip directed towards the line 26, between which there is a second indentation 17b having an arcuate shape.
  • the appendage 17f has a substantially trapezoidal shape, in particular, the shape of a scalene trapezium.
  • each appendage 17f is provided with a small boss 17e which (purely by way of an example) has a circular shape and whose convexity protrudes from the face of the blank 21 which defines the inside surface of the outer container 5.
  • the packet 1 of the variant embodiment of Figure 14 differs from the packet 1 of Figures 6-9 only in that in each tab 17 one of the appendages 17f (the top one in the drawing) is folded by 180° about a fold line which substantially coincides with the base of it opposite the rounded vertex 17g, and the fold is made in such a way that the folded appendage 17f itself is positioned in contact with the inside surface of the outer container 5. There are no bosses 17e on the appendages 17f.
  • the function of the folded appendages 17f is the same as that fulfilled by the bosses 17e of Figures 6-9, that is to say, thanks to their thickness, that of pushing the other appendages 17f towards the inside of the outer container 5 to make them move past the retaining tabs 11a and 11b
  • the packet 1 of the variant embodiment of Figures 15 and 16 differs from the packet 1 of Figures 6-9 in that one appendage 17h, whose features are exactly the same as those of the above mentioned appendage 17c of Figures 4-6, of the appendages 17f of Figures 7-9 and of the bottom appendage 17f of Figure 14, is formed on the tabs 11a, 11 b and not on the tabs 17.
  • the tabs 17 also have at least one boss 17e, and in particular two bosses, located above and below the respective tabs 11 a, 1 1b (or in any case at any other position such as not to interfere with the movements of the appendages 17h and, more generally speaking, of the tabs 11a, 1 1 b), having (purely by way of an example) a circular shape with convexity protruding from the face of the blank 21 which defines the inside surface of the outer container 5.
  • each tab 17 As illustrated in Figure 16, as the inner container 4 is pulled out of the outer container 5, the folded portion of each tab 17, pushed towards the inside of the outer container 5 itself by the bosses 7e, remains spaced from the major side wall 14 near it, allowing the adjacent appendage 17h (and part of the respective tab 1 1a, 1 1 b) to be tucked surely and freely in the space between the tab 17 and the wall 14.
  • the packet 1 in all of its embodiments, might be provided with a single internal retaining tab 11 and a single externa! retaining tab 17, both shaped in one of the ways described above and designed to engage one another.
  • appendages 17c and 17f might differ in shape from those illustrated and described above and might be present, in combination with the respective tabs 11 a, 1 1 b and 17, in a number different from that considered in this description (for example, there might be three or more appendages 17c, 17f placed side by side, each associated with a respective tab 11 a, 11 b, 17).
  • the form of the cigarette packet 1 might be reproduced to make a carton (not illustrated) of cigarette packets, the carton being substantially the same as the cigarette packet 1 described above, excepting only that it contains a group of cigarette packets instead of the group of cigarettes.

Abstract

A smokers' articles package (1 ) comprises an inner container (4) which accommodates a group (2) of smokers' articles and has two opposite, parallel major side walls (8), and an outer container (5) which has two opposite, parallel major side waits (14) and accommodates the inner container (4) slidably between two positions where it is, respectively, inserted inside or partly outside the outer container (5); at least one of the major side walls (8) of the inner container (4) has an inner retaining tab (11a, 11 b) projecting outwards of the inner container (4), and at least one of the major side walls (14) of the outer container (5) has an outer retaining tab (17) which projects from the major side wall (14) inwards of the outer container (5) and which, as the inner container (4) is pulled out, engages a corresponding inner retaining tab (11a, 11b) of the inner container (4), to prevent the inner container (4) from being pulled out of the outer container (5) completely; within each pair of inner and outer retaining tabs (11a, 11b; 17) designed to engage each other, one retaining tab (11a, 11 b; 17) is provided with at least one appendage (17c, 17f, 17h) which is co-planar therewith, which projects from an edge of the respective tab (11a, 11 b; 17) and which is capable of being tucked in between the other retaining tab (11a, 11b; 17) and a major side wall (8, 14) of one of the containers (4, 5).

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PACKAGE OF TOBACCO ARTICLES WITH A SLIDING OPENING
Technical field
This invention relates to a slide-open package for smokers' articles. Background art
Packages for cigarettes and similar smokers' articles (hereinafter referred to as "cigarettes packets") made in the form of hard, hinged-lid packets are very widespread in the market because they are simple to make, easy and practical to use and provide good mechanical protection to the cigarettes they contain.
In addition to hard, hinged-lid cigarette packets, hard, slide-open (or siidable) cigarette packets comprising two containers inserted one inside the other in partly separable manner have also been proposed. In other words, a hard, slide-open cigarette packet comprises an inner container which accommodates a group of cigarettes wrapped in a sheet of metallized wrapping paper and which is designed to be received in an outer container in such a way that it can slide relative to the outer container between a closed position where the inner container is completely inside the outer container, and an open position where the inner container is partly outside the outer container. The sliding movement of the inner container relative to the outer container may be a translating movement between the two containers or a rotating movement between the two containers about a hinge which connects the two containers.
Some embodiments of hard cigarette packets which slide open by a translating movement are described in patent documents FR2499947A1 , US4534463A1 , US5080227A1 and ΠΊ 169163Β. An embodiment of a hard cigarette packet which slides open by a rotating movement is described in patent document WO2006021581 .
The inner container has the shape of a parallelepiped, with two parallel major side walls opposite one another and two parallel minor side walls interposed between the major side wails. Cut out from each of the major side walls, near the minor side wall positioned inside the outer container, there is a respective retaining tab which projects outwards of the inner container from the edge where the major side wall and the minor side wall meet.
The outer container also has the shape of a parallelepiped, with two parallel major side walls opposite one another, one minor side wall and an opening which is opposite the minor side wall and through which the inner container is slidably mounted. Connected to each major side wall, at the edge of the selfsame major side wall delimiting the opening there is a retaining tab which projects from the respective major side wall inwardly of the outer container to engage a corresponding retaining tab of the selfsame inner container to limit the outward travel of the inner container and prevent the inner container from being pulled out of the outer container completely. More precisely, as the inner container is partly pulled out of the outer container in order to open the cigarette packet, the retaining tabs of the inner container must progressively occupy the space between the corresponding retaining tabs of the outer container and the adjacent side walls of the outer container itself.
Packets of the type described above, as they are currently made, have a disadvantage which has up to now prevented their more widespread use in the market. The disadvantage lies in the fact that when the packets are opened, that is to say, while the inner container is progressively pulled out of the outer container, the free edges of the retaining tabs of the inner container sometimes do not move into the correct position described above and, instead, get stuck against the retaining tabs of the outer container, preventing the inner container from coming out of the outer container as far as necessary. Disclosure of the invention
The aim of this invention is to provide a smokers' articles slide-open package which is free of the above mentioned disadvantage.
The invention accordingly provides a smokers' articles slide-open package as claimed in the appended claims.
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The invention is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate non-limiting embodiments of it, and in which:
- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hard, slide-open cigarette packet made in accordance with this invention, in the closed configuration;
- Figure 2 is a perspective view of an embodiment, in the open configuration, of the cigarette packet of Figure 1 made in such a way that it can be opened slidably by a translating movement;
- Figure 3 is a perspective view of an embodiment, in the open configuration, of the cigarette packet of Figure 1 made in such a way that it can be opened slidably by a rotating movement;
- Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view of the packet of Figures 1 and 2, with the inner container fully pulled out of the outer container, and with some of the interna! components of the packet shown by dashed lines;
- Figure 5 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figures 1 , 2 and 4 in a partly open configuration;
- Figure 6 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 5, in a fully open configuration;
- Figure 7 is an exploded perspective view of a variant of the packet of Figures 1 -6, with the inner container fuliy pulled out of the outer container, and with some of the internal components of the packet shown by dashed lines;
- Figure 7a is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 7, in a dosed configuration;
- Figure 8 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 7, in a partly open configuration;
- Figure 9 is a perspective view of the cigarette packet of Figure 7, in a fully open configuration;
- Figure 10 is a plan view of a blank used to make an inner container of the cigarette packet of Figures 1-6;
- Figure 11 is a plan view of a blank used to make an outer container of the cigarette packet of Figures 1 -6;
- Figure 12 is a plan view of a blank used to make an inner container of the cigarette packet of Figures 7-9;
- Figure 13 is a plan view of a blank used to make an outer container of the cigarette packet of Figures 7-9;
- Figure 14 is a perspective view of a variant of the cigarette packet of Figures 6- 3, in a partly open configuration;
- Figure 15 is a perspective view of a variant of the cigarette packet of the preceding figures, in a partly open configuration; and
- Figure 16 is a scaled-up view of a detail from Figure 15,
Detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention
The numeral 1 in Figures 1-6 denotes in its entirety a hard cigarette packet which opens slidably by a linear movement.
The cigarette packet 1 comprises (see Figure 2 in particular) a wrapped group 2 of cigarettes, that is a cigarette group (not illustrated) wrapped in a sheet of metallized wrapping paper, and a hard outer case 3 made of paperboard or the like, accommodating the wrapped group 2 and in turn comprising a hard inner container 4, in which the wrapped group 2 is placed directly, and a hard outer container 5, which slidably accommodates the inner container 4 to allow the selfsame inner container 4 to slide relative to the outer container 5 in such a way as to move with a linear movement between a closed position (illustrated in Figure 1 ), where the inner container 4 is fully inserted inside the outer container 5, and an open position (illustrated in Figure 2), where the inner container 4 is partly outside the selfsame outer container 5 so that a user has direct access to the wrapped group 2.
The inner container 4 has the shape of a parallelepiped and has a bottom wall 6, a top face 7 and two parallel major side walls 8 opposite one another and two parallel minor side walls 9a and 9b interposed between the major side walls 8. The top face 7 defines, in proximity of the minor sidewall 9a, an extraction area 0 extending also to part of the major side walls 8 and designed to be positioned, when the inner container 4 is at its open position, outside the outer container 5 to allow the cigarettes (not illustrated) to be taken out of the inner container 4 by the user after opening the wrapper enclosing the wrapped group 2. Before the packet 1 is opened for the first time, the extraction area 10 is protected by a removable cap 0' (Figure 2), which covers the portion of the top face 7 over the area 10 and two upper portions of the major side walls 8 and which is connected to the rest of the major side walls 8 by lines of weakness (tear lines) which allow the smoker to tear the cap 0' off after pulling the inner container 4 partly out of the outer container 5.
As shown in Figures 4, 5, 6 and 10, 12, 14, there is a respective inner retaining tab 11 which is cut out from each of the major side walls 8, near the minor side wall 9b and which projects outwards of the inner container 4 from the edge where the major side wail 8 and the minor side wall 9b meet.
As illustrated in Figures 1 and 3-6, the outer container 5 also has the shape of a parallelepiped, with a bottom wall 12, a top wall 13, two parallel major side walls 14 opposite one another, one minor side wall 15 and an opening 16 which is opposite the minor side wall 15 and through which the inner container 4 is slidably mounted.
Connected to each major side wall 14, at the edge of the selfsame major side wall 14 delimiting the opening 16, there is a retaining tab 17 which projects from the respective major side wall 14 inwardly of the outer container 5 to engage a corresponding retaining tab 11 of the inner container 4 to limit the outward travel of the inner container 4 while the inner container 4 is being pulled out and thus to prevent the inner container 4 from being pulled out of the outer container 5 completely. The minor side wall 5 of the outer container 5 has a hole 15a in it which, in the example illustrated, is located in a zone relatively close to the wall 13 of the outer container 5, and whose shape and size are such as to allow a user to apply, through the selfsame minor side wall 15, a pushing action on the minor side wall 9b of the inner container 4 in such a way as to cause the inner container 4 to slide towards its open position.
In the embodiment illustrated in Figures 1 , 2 and 4-6, the cigarette packet 1 can be opened by sliding with a translating movement; that is to say, the inner container 4 moves relative to the outer container 5 between the open and closed positions by a translation (that is, a linear movement along a direction parallel to the major transversal edges). In the embodiment illustrated in Figure 3, on the other hand, the cigarette packet 1 can be opened by sliding with a rotating movement; that is to say, the inner container 4 moves relative to the outer container 5 between the open and closed positions by a rotation about a hinge (not illustrated) of the type described in patent EP 781554B1 , which connects the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 to the bottom wall 12 of the outer container 5. in other words, the difference between the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1 , 2 and 4-6 and the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figure 3 is that in the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figure 3 the inner container 4 is hinged {that is, connected) to the outer container 5 along the hinge, whereas in the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1 , 2 and 4-6, the inner container 4 is inserted in the outer container 5 but the two containers 4 and 5 are not connected to each other in any way. Owing to this difference, in the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figure 3, the sliding movement between the two containers 4 and 5 is a rotation about the hinge, whereas in the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1 , 2 and 4-6, the sliding movement between the two containers 4 and 5 is a linear movement.
The containers 4 and 5 of the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1-6 are obtained from corresponding blanks 20 and 21 , respectively, of known type, illustrated in Figures 10 and 11 , respectively. Each of the blanks 20 and 21 comprises a plurality of panels, which, where possible, are denoted by primed reference numerals which are the same as the unprimed reference numerals denoting the corresponding walls of the respective container 4 or 5.
With reference to Figure 10, the blank 20 has two Iongitudinal lines of weakness 22 and a plurality of transversal lines of weakness 23 which define, between the two longitudinal lines of weakness 22, a panel 10a constituting the removable cap 10', a panel 8' constituting one major side wail 8, a panel 6' constituting the bottom wall 6, a panel 8" constituting the other major side wall 8 and a panel 10b constituting the rest of the removable cap 10'.
The panel 8' has a pair of side flaps 9' constituting an outer part of the minor side walls 9, located on opposite sides of the panel 8' and separated from the panel 8' by the Iongitudinal lines of weakness 22. The panel 8"' has a pair of side flaps 9"' constituting an inner part of the minor side walls 9, located on opposite sides of the panel 8" and separated from the panel 8" by the Iongitudinal lines of weakness 22. The side flaps 9" of the panel 8" have a pair of tabs 24, each of which is separated from the respective side flap 9" by one of the transversal lines of weakness 23. Inside each panel 8' and 8", in the proximity of the longitudinal line of weakness 22 furthest from the cap 10', there is formed a window F which defines a respective retaining tab 1 1 a, 11b.
With reference to Figure 1 1 , the blank 21 has two transversal lines of weakness 25 and a plurality of Iongitudinal lines of weakness 26 which define, between the two transversal lines of weakness 25, a panel 14' constituting one of the major side walls 8, a panel 15' constituting the minor side wail 15 and a panel 14" constituting the other major side wall 8. Each panel 14' or 14" has a respective retaining tab 17 located on the side opposite the panel 15' and separated from the respective panel 14' or 14" by a longitudinal line of weakness 26.
The transversal dimension of the tabs 17 in the direction of the transversa! lines of weakness 25 is preferably smaller than the transversal dimension of the panel 15'.
The panel 14' has a pair of side flaps 2' and 13', which are located on opposite sides of the panel 14', are separated from the panel 14' by the transversal lines of weakness 25, have a rectangular shape and constitute an internal portion of the walls 12 and 13. The panel 5' has a pair of side flaps 12" and 3", which are located on opposite sides of the panel 15', are separated from the panel 15' by the transversal lines of weakness 25, have a triangular shape and constitute a further interna! portion of the walls 2 and 13. The panel 14" has a pair of side flaps 12"' and 13"', which are located on opposite sides of the panel 14", are separated from the panel 14" by the transversal lines of weakness 25, and constitute an external portion of the walls 12 and 13. The side flaps 12' and 12" and the side flaps 13' and 3" are shaped in such a way that they do not overlap when they are folded against the side flaps 12"' and 13"' to form the walls 12 and 13 of the inner container 4.
The tabs a and 1 1b of the blank 20 (Figure 10) are substantially in the shape of a right-angle trapezium, whose major base 11 c coincides with the longitudinal line of weakness 22 furthest from cap 10'. The portions of the tabs 11a and 1 1 b facing towards the panel 6' constituting the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 are laterally delimited by respective rectilinear edges 1d perpendicular to the line of weakness 22, whereas the portions labelled 11e of the tabs 11 a and 1 1b, furthest away from the panel 6', are inclined at an angle a to the major base 1 1c.
The tabs 17 of the blank 21 (Figure 11 ) are substantially in the shape of a rectangle (with some shape irregularities described below), one of whose major sides is a folding side located along a longitudinal line of weakness 26 which separates each tab 17 from a respective panel 14', 14" constituting one of the major side walls 8 of the outer container 5.
The other major side of the rectangle is a free edge where each tab 17 has a first indentation 17a having a pointed shape, with the tip directed towards the line 26. The first indentations 17a are located, relative to the transversal lines of weakness 25, substantially at the same level as the hole 15a.
Each tab 17 also has, again along the major, free edge side, next to the first indentation 17a, a second indentation 17b which is shaped to match the tabs 11a and 1 1 b of the blank 20 and which is located in the proximity of the transversal line 25 adjacent to the flaps 12' and 12"'.
The portion of each tab 17 situated between the indentations 17a and 17b forms an appendage 17c, which is co-planar with the tab 17, protrudes from the indented edge of the selfsame tab 17 and has a substantially triangular shape, with a rounded vertex 17d located at the same level as the major, free edge side.
A substantially central zone of each appendage 17c is provided with a small boss 17e, whose purpose will become clearer as this description continues, and which (purely by way of an example) has a circular shape and whose convexity protrudes from the face of the blank 21 which defines the inside surface of the outer container 5.
in use, to open the packet 1 , it is necessary to push the minor side wall 9b of the inner container 4 with a finger through the hole 15a of the minor side wall 15 in such a way as to cause the inner container 4 to slide towards its open position.
As it slides, each of the retaining tabs 11 a and 11b of the inner container 4 moves with its inclined portion 11 e into contact with a retaining tab 17 (Figure 5) and, more specifically, with the vertex 17d of the appendage 17c forming part of the selfsame tab 17.
Thanks to the inclination of the portions 11e and to the substantially triangular shape of the appendages 17c, the contact between each of the retaining tabs 11a, 1 1 b and the corresponding appendage 17c occurs substantially at a single point and is therefore very unstable. Since the appendages 17c, under the elastic action applied to the tabs 1 when the tabs 17 are folded during erection of the outer container 5, tend to bend inwards towards the inside of the outer container 5, the appendages 1 c themselves, immediately after the moment of contact between the retaining tabs 11 a, 1 1 b and the corresponding appendages 17c - as the inner container 4 continues to slide into the outer container 5 - move past the tabs 1 1 a and 1 1b to a position under the tabs 11a and 11 b (Figure 6) and in contact with the wrapped group 2 of cigarettes inside the inner container 4. In other words, each appendage 17c is tucked in between a retaining tab 1 1a, 1b and a major side wall 8 of the inner container 4. The purpose of the bosses 17e is to increase the effect just described by pushing the appendages 7c towards the inside of the outer container 5, adding their action to the elastic force described above.
Pulling the inner container 4 out of the outer container 5 can then proceed as described (pushing action through the hole 15a) until the vertex 17d of each appendage 17c abuts against the hinge zone (along the major base 1 1 c) of the respective tab 11 a, 1 1 b or until one edge of the tab 11 a, 1 1 b abuts against the hinge zone (along the major folding side) of the tab 17: whether one or the other of these events occurs depends on the size of the tabs 11 a, 1 1b and 17 and their component parts.
According to what is described above, the packet 1 of this invention overcomes the disadvantage described above with reference to the prior art because it eliminates the possibility of the free edges of the retaining tabs of the inner container jamming against the free edges of the retaining tabs of the outer container in such a way as to prevent the inner container from coming far enough out of the outer container or causing the tabs 1 1 a, 11 b and 17 to crumple and thus damaging the packet 1 ,
What is described above also applies equally well to the packet 1 of Figure 3, where the inner container 4 moves relative to the outer container 5 between the open and closed positions by a rotation about a hinge (not illustrated) which connects the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 to the bottom wall 12 of the outer container 5. As described in patent GB2448816B, the differences between the blanks used to make the packets (which open, respectively, by translation and rotation of the inner container relative to the outer container) do not regard the zones where the retaining tabs 1 1 and 17 are located, and which can be made and caused to operate in both of the packets in the same way.
The containers 4 and 5 of the variant embodiment of the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 7-9 are obtained from corresponding blanks which differ in some respects from the blanks 20 and 21 described above and used to make the containers 4 and 5 of the cigarette packet 1 illustrated in Figures 1-6.
As regards the blank 20, the difference lies in the fact that, in Figure 12, the retaining tabs 1 1 a and 11 b have the shape of an isosceles trapezium in which both the portions of the tabs 1 1 a and 11b facing towards the panel 6' constituting the bottom wall 6 of the inner container 4 and the portions of them furthest away from panel 6', a!l labelled 1 1 f, are inclined at an angle to the major base 1 1 c.
The tabs 17 of the blank 21 used in this variant embodiment (Figure 3) are also substantially in the shape of a rectangle but, on their major, free edge side, they have two first indentations 17a having a pointed shape, with the tip directed towards the line 26, between which there is a second indentation 17b having an arcuate shape. Each indentation 17a, together with the adjacent indentation 1 b, forms an appendage 17f, which is co- pianar with the tab 1 , protrudes from the indented edge of the selfsame tab 7 and has a substantially triangular shape, with a rounded vertex 17g located at the same level as the major, free edge side. In another alternative embodiment, the appendage 17f has a substantially trapezoidal shape, in particular, the shape of a scalene trapezium.
A substantially central zone of each appendage 17f is provided with a small boss 17e which (purely by way of an example) has a circular shape and whose convexity protrudes from the face of the blank 21 which defines the inside surface of the outer container 5.
The use and operation of the packet 1 of the variant embodiment just described is similar to that described with reference to Figures 1-6, and differs in that both of the appendages 17f, by effect of the elastic force applied to the tabs 7 and under the action of the bosses 17e, move towards the inside of the outer container 5, past the retaining tabs 1 1 a and 11 b (Figure 9) to a position under the tabs 11 a and 11 b themselves and in contact with the wrapped group 2 of cigarettes inside the inner container 4. In other words, both appendages 17f are tucked in between a retaining tab 11 a, 1 1 b and a major side wall 8 of the inner container 4.
Pulling the inner container 4 out of the outer container 5 ends the moment the vertices 17g of the appendages 17f abut against the hinge zone (along the major base 1 c) of the respective tab 11 a, 11 b or until one edge of the tab 1 1a, 1 1 b abuts against the hinge zone (along the major folding side) of the tab 17: whether one or the other of these events occurs depends on the size of the tabs 1 and 17 and their component parts.
The packet 1 of the variant embodiment of Figure 14 differs from the packet 1 of Figures 6-9 only in that in each tab 17 one of the appendages 17f (the top one in the drawing) is folded by 180° about a fold line which substantially coincides with the base of it opposite the rounded vertex 17g, and the fold is made in such a way that the folded appendage 17f itself is positioned in contact with the inside surface of the outer container 5. There are no bosses 17e on the appendages 17f.
The function of the folded appendages 17f is the same as that fulfilled by the bosses 17e of Figures 6-9, that is to say, thanks to their thickness, that of pushing the other appendages 17f towards the inside of the outer container 5 to make them move past the retaining tabs 11a and 11b The packet 1 of the variant embodiment of Figures 15 and 16 differs from the packet 1 of Figures 6-9 in that one appendage 17h, whose features are exactly the same as those of the above mentioned appendage 17c of Figures 4-6, of the appendages 17f of Figures 7-9 and of the bottom appendage 17f of Figure 14, is formed on the tabs 11a, 11 b and not on the tabs 17. The tabs 17 also have at least one boss 17e, and in particular two bosses, located above and below the respective tabs 11 a, 1 1b (or in any case at any other position such as not to interfere with the movements of the appendages 17h and, more generally speaking, of the tabs 11a, 1 1 b), having (purely by way of an example) a circular shape with convexity protruding from the face of the blank 21 which defines the inside surface of the outer container 5.
As illustrated in Figure 16, as the inner container 4 is pulled out of the outer container 5, the folded portion of each tab 17, pushed towards the inside of the outer container 5 itself by the bosses 7e, remains spaced from the major side wall 14 near it, allowing the adjacent appendage 17h (and part of the respective tab 1 1a, 1 1 b) to be tucked surely and freely in the space between the tab 17 and the wall 14.
It should be noted that the packet 1 , in all of its embodiments, might be provided with a single internal retaining tab 11 and a single externa! retaining tab 17, both shaped in one of the ways described above and designed to engage one another.
Obviously, in light of the above, it should be noted, lastly, that the appendages 17c and 17f might differ in shape from those illustrated and described above and might be present, in combination with the respective tabs 11 a, 1 1 b and 17, in a number different from that considered in this description (for example, there might be three or more appendages 17c, 17f placed side by side, each associated with a respective tab 11 a, 11 b, 17).
Thanks to the numerous advantages offered by the cigarette packet 1 described above, the form of the cigarette packet 1 might be reproduced to make a carton (not illustrated) of cigarette packets, the carton being substantially the same as the cigarette packet 1 described above, excepting only that it contains a group of cigarette packets instead of the group of cigarettes.

Claims

1. A smokers' articles slide-open package, comprising:
a parallelepiped-shaped inner container (4) which accommodates a group
(2) of smokers' articles and has two opposite, parallel major side walls (8); and
a parallelepiped-shaped outer container (5) which has two opposite, parallel major side walls (14) and slidably accommodates the inner container (4) to allow the inner container (4) to slide between a closed position, where the inner container (4) is inserted inside the outer container (5), and an open position, where the inner container (4) is partly outside the outer container (5);
at least one of the major side walls (8) of the inner container (4) having an inner retaining tab {11a, 11 b) projecting outwards of the inner container {4) from a connecting edge between a major side wall (8) and a minor side wall (9b) of the selfsame inner container (4);
and at least one of the major side walls (14) of the outer container (5) having an outer retaining tab (17) which is connected to a major side wall (14) of the outer container (5) along the edge of the major side wall (14), which projects from the major side wall (14) inwards of the outer container (5) and which, as the inner container (4) is pulled out, engages a corresponding inner retaining tab ( 1a, 11 b) of the inner container (4), to limit outward travel of the inner container (4) and prevent the inner container (4) from being pulled out of the outer container (5) completely; the smokers' articles package being characterized in that within each pair of inner and outer retaining tabs (11a, 11b; 17) designed to engage each other, one retaining tab (11a, 1 b; 17) is provided with at least one appendage (1 c, 17f, 17h) which is co-planar therewith, which projects from an edge of the respective tab (11a, 11b; 17) and which is capable of being tucked in between the other retaining tab (11a, 11b; 17) and a major side wall (8, 14) of one of the containers (4, 5).
2. The smokers' articles package according to claim 1 , characterized in that a zone of each appendage (17c, 17f) associated with a retaining tab (17) of the outer container (5) has a boss (17e) protruding from a face of a blank (21) the outer container (5) is made from, that face defining the inside surface of the selfsame outer container (5).
3. The smokers' articles package according to claim 1 , characterized in that at least one zone of each retaining tab (17) of the outer container (5) has a boss (17e) protruding from a face of the blank (21 ) the outer container (5) is made from, that face defining the inside surface of the selfsame outer container (5).
4. The smokers' articles package according to any of the claims from 1 to 3, characterized in that the appendages (17c, 17f, 17h) have a substantially triangular shape.
5. The smokers' articles package according to any of the claims from 1 to 3, characterized in that the appendages (17c, 17f, 17h) have a substantially trapezoidal shape.
6. The smokers' articles package according to any of the claims from 1 to 5, characterized in that each retaining tab (17) has an appendage ( 7c).
7. The smokers' articles package according to any of the claims from 1 to 5, characterized in that each retaining tab (17) has two appendages (17f) placed side by side.
8. The smokers' articles package according to claim 7, characterized in that one of the appendages (17f) is folded by 180° about a fold line which substantially coincides with the base of it opposite its vertex (17g), the folded appendage (17f) being positioned in contact with the inside surface of the outer container (5).
9. The smokers' articles package according to any of the claims from 1 to 8, characterized in that the inner container (4) is capable of sliding relative to the outer container (5), with a linear movement between a closed position where the inner container (4) is completely inside the outer container (5), and an open position where the inner container (4) is partly outside the outer container (5).
10. The smokers' articles package according to any of the claims from 1 to 8, characterized in that the inner container (4) is capable of sliding relative to the outer container (5), with a rotational movement about a hinge which connects a bottom wall (6) of the inner container (4) to the bottom wall (12) of the outer container (5), between a closed position where the inner container (4) is completely inside the outer container (5), and an open position where the inner container (4) is partly outside the outer container (5).
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