Patent ID: 6216861
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A pack which contains elongate smoking articles encased in an inner wrapping, said pack comprising:a paperboard outer container havinga generally rectangular base,four hingedly connected side walls upstanding from said base and extending uninterruptedly to a top of the pack, anda top panel member which, when the pack is formed, only partially closes off the top of the pack, said top panel member comprising a single top panel hingedly connected to one of said side walls and one or more securing panels hingedly connected to said top panel an adhesively secured to an inside of one or more of said side walls; andwherein said side walls are a predetermined height which is selected to be substantially a same predetermined height as the smoking articles and are secured with respect to the base;wherein access to the smoking articles is made beside the top panel member; andwherein a junction between adjoining pairs of side walls is contoured.