Hinge-lid pack for cigarettes or the like

Hinge-lid pack, consisting of foldable material, such as cardboard or the like, of essentially cuboid shape, especially for receiving a cigarette group wrapped in an inner blank, with a pack part and with a hinge lid which is articulated on a rear wall of the latter and which, in the closed position, surrounds a collar connected to the pack part, characterized:

• in that vertical longitudinal edges (26,27;
• 28,29;
• 30) of the pack part (10), of the hinge lid (11) and of the collar (22) are rounded, the radius of the rounded portions corresponding approximately to that of a cigarette;
• in that a bottom wall (15) and a lid top wall (21) with rounded corners (37,38) fit flush against the associated walls positively in accordance with the dimensions of the rounded portions of the longitudinal edges (26 to 29) and without being connected to these;
• and in that side walls (13) and lid side walls (18,19) are formed respectively from side tabs (31,32) and lid side tabs (33,34) which lie on top of one another and the width of which is such that they overlap one another only in the region outside the rounded portions of the longitudinal edges (26 to 29);
• and further characterized in that bottom corner tabs (39), adjoining the inner side tabs (32), and lid corner tabs (40), adjoining the inner lid side tabs (33), are made with less width than the width of the bottom wall (15) and lid top wall (21), respectively so that they have a width approximately equal to the width of the side tabs (31) and lid side tabs (33) between the rounded portions of the longitudinal edges (26 to 29). and the width of which is such that they overlap one another only in the region outside the rounded portions of the longitudinal edges (26 to 29).