Smoking article package
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorsPierre Radyn Swart, Hugh Dermot Roe
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Abstract
The invention relates to a soft-cup package (29) for smoking articles wherein the outer wrap material (10) is a paperboard or cardboard material having the ability to collapse along lines of weakening (26, 28) in the side panels (16, 20) as smoking articles are removed from the package (29). The invention also includes further means of collapse along lines of weakening (14.2, 18.2) in the base panel (14.1, 18.1). Retaining means may he provided by a collapsed side panel (20) and a dummy stamp or seal (34) across the top walls of the package (10) to hold captive the remaining exposed smoking articles (46).
Claims18
A smoking article package comprising an inner wrap containing a bundle of smoking articles, an outer wrap overlying the inner wrap, the outer wrap being a creased board material folded to define a parallelepipedal box having an open end, and an overwrap film overwrapping the box, the outer wrap comprising front and rear major panels, opposing side panels and a base panel, each side panel having a base with two corners and being provided with a crease line extending substantially parallel to a longitudinal edge of a side panel, the crease line bifurcating towards the corners at the base of each side panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.