Spacing support for packets for smoking articles, spacing kit, package containing said spacing kit and method to assemble a spacing kit

A spacing kit comprising:

• a plurality of packets (100) for smoking articles, each having the shape of a parallelepiped and comprising two opposite side walls of greater extension (101), two opposite side walls of smaller extension (102), a lower wall (103) and a top wall (104),
• two containing drawers (12) adjacent to each other, which each define a housing (13) extending in a longitudinal direction (X) and containing a row consisting of multiple packets (100), the packets (100) in the spacing kit thus being arranged on two adjacent rows and supported in an orderly manner,
• wherein each containing drawer (12) comprises a bottom wall (14), intended to come into contact with one of the side walls of smaller extension (102) of said packet (100), and a pair of side walls (15) each overlapping respective side walls of greater extension (101) of the packets (100) arranged in the same row,
• wherein said side walls (15) and said bottom wall (14) are joined so as to define an access aperture (17) of said containing drawer (12) by means of which the packets (100) can be introduced and extracted from the housing (13), the packets being accommodated in the latter so that the other side wall of smaller extension (102) of the packets (100) is exposed and accessible directly from the outside at the access aperture (17),
• wherein at least one of the two side walls (15) of each containing drawer (12) comprises a plurality of positioning elements (18) projecting toward the inside of said housing (13) and made as pre-cut fins (19) integrated into the side wall (15), said positioning elements (18) being configured to delimit positioning compartments (26) in which each of said packets (100) is stably arranged and held in a static manner, in said longitudinal direction (X) with respect to said housing (13), said positioning elements (18) being arranged one after the other at a fixed distance (D), which is at least equal to or greater than a typical size of the packet (100), measured in said longitudinal direction (X), defined as the height of the side walls of smaller and greater extension (101, 102), so as to arrange and hold the packets (100) in their respective positioning compartments (26) at a constant pitch with respect to each other, which is coordinated with said distance (D),
• wherein each of said positioning elements (18) consists of a pair of fins (19), each fin (19) being joined to said side wall (15) by a respective joining line (20), and the fins (19) of the same pair are separated from each other by a cutting line (21);
• wherein said joining lines (20) and said cutting line (21) are reciprocally parallel to each other and are also parallel to the longitudinal direction (X).