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US 6,505,735 B1Granted
Label for resealing a pack of smoking articles
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorMichael Patrick Parker
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Abstract
A label (7) for resealing an enclosure of a cigarette pack is provided with a pull tab (10) defined by a cut (16) through one layer (14) of a two-layer structure (14, 15), the tab surface (19) being non-adhesive but at least part of the corresponding surface of the major portion of the label being permanently tacky (18).
Claims15
A pack for smoking articles, said pack comprising:
- a lamella as part of a resealable closure of an access aperture in the pack, said lamella having two layers, with a major portion of the lamella being separated from a minor portion by a cut through the thickness of a first of the layers, the major portion being at least over part of its surface permanently tacky for adhesion to an area of the pack adjacent to the aperture, with a corresponding surface of the minor portion not being permanently tacky, wherein the permanently tacky surface extends beyond the openable edges of the aperture and the minor portion acts as a lift tab for the closure.
A pack for smoking articles, said pack comprising:
- a pack having an access opening;
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- a lamella covering the access opening and adhering by a permanently tacky adhesive to a surface of the pack adjacent to the access opening, said lamella including a major portion and a minor portion, and having two layers of material with a line of partial severance defining a boundary between the major portion and the minor portion of said lamella, wherein said permanently tack adhesive is located on at least part of the surface of said portion for adhesion of said major portion to the surface of the pack, while said minor portion is free of the permanently tacky adhesive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.