Blister pack for smoking articles

A blister pack comprising a blister tray formed with a trough formation shaped to accommodate an array of at least three smoking articles, with said trough formation being surrounded by a planar land to which a peelable or rupturable backing film is laminated so as to define an individually sealed compartment with said array of smoking articles being individually accessible by rupturing or peeling away that portion of the backing film covering the array, the array of smoking articles being arranged in at least two layers, with the number of smoking articles in each layer progressively decreasing by one, with the walls of the trough being fluted to accommodate the smoking articles in a snug complemental fit.

A package comprising a tray formed with a plurality of sub-trays, each sub-tray having a trough formation shaped to accommodate at least one smoking article, with adjacent trough formations being surrounded and spaced apart from one another by planar lands to which a peelable or rupturable backing film is laminated so as to define a plurality of individually sealed compartments, with a fold line being defined in the land between each trough formation for allowing the sub-trays to be inwardly folded into a mutually nested position to define a cylindrical package, with the outer walls of the package being constituted by the backing film.

A smoking article package comprising a self supporting tray formed of a thermo-plastic material defining an elongate trough formation containing an array of between two and ten smoking articles, said trough formation being contiguous with and surrounded by a planar land, and a peelable or rupturable backing film laminated to said planar land so as to encapsulate said array of smoking articles in said trough formation, said array of smoking articles being accessible by rupturing or peeling away the backing film from the tray.