Package for tobacco-related articles
AssigneeReemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
InventorNovak Slavomir
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Abstract
A package for tobacco-related articles including an outer shell, a swivelable lid, and an inner shell adapted to accommodate a plurality of smoking or tobacco-related articles and mounted in the outer shell. The inner shell is moveable towards the top side of the outer shell from a retracted position to an advanced position, which enables access to the smoking articles. A sound-producing mechanism produces a sound when the inner shell is moved from the retracted position to the advanced position and/or in the other direction. The sound-producing mechanism includes at least one part arranged at the inner shell, which interacts in a sound-producing manner with a counterpart arranged at an inner face of the outer shell.
Claims18
A package for tobacco-related articles, comprising:
- an outer shell having a front wall, a rear wall, two lateral walls opposite to each other connecting the front wall and the rear wall, as well as a top side;
- a lid adapted to close the top side of the outer shell when in a closed state, the lid being swivelably connected to the rear wall or one of the lateral walls of the outer shell at a hinge line and being swivelable about the hinge line for transfer from the closed state to an opened state;
- an inner shell adapted to accommodate a plurality of tobacco-related articles and shiftably mounted in the outer shell, wherein the inner shell is moveable towards the top side of the outer shell from a retracted position to an advanced position, which enables access to the smoking articles;
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- a sound-producing mechanism adapted to produce a sound when the inner shell is moved from the retracted position to the advanced position and/or from the advanced position to the retracted position,
- wherein the sound-producing mechanism includes at least one part arranged at the inner shell, said part being adapted to interact in a sound-producing manner with a counterpart arranged at an inner face of the outer shell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.