Patent ID: 6244435
Filing Date: 2001-06-12
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A soft pack of cigarettes being wrapped up with an inner metallic foil wrapper, a middle flexible paper wrapper, and an outer wrapper of transparent film of a polymeric material, comprising:a rectangular inner metallic foil wrapper comprised of a layer of paper and metallic material layer, having wider parts and narrower parts which will be placed on the wider fore and rear sides and narrower left and right sides of a pack of cigarettes, respectively, and upper and lower extensions which are folded and form a top end closure and bottom end closure, respectively, when said inner wrapper is folded and filled with cigarettes to form a pack,said top end closure being composed of tucks which are the extensions of the narrower sides of said inner wrapper and flaps which are the extensions of the wider sides of said inner wrapper,dividing part being comprised of any one of said tucks of the inner wrapper and some parts of said flaps thereof which are enclosed by two vertical dividing lines and one horizontal dividing line of perforations or slits,said two vertical dividing lines being provided on each flaps and extending, perpendicular to the horizontal dividing line, from the upper end edge of said inner wrapper to the horizontal dividing line, respectively, such that said dividing lines are coincident with or adjacent to the end edge of the tuck when said tuck and flaps are folded and overlaid to form the top end closure, andsaid horizontal dividing line being parallel to and coincident with or adjacent to the upper horizontal fold line, and extending perpendicular to and between said vertical dividing lines,a rectangular outer wrapper having wider parts and narrower parts which will be placed on the wider fore and rear sides and narrower left and right sides of a pack of cigarettes, respectively, and upper and lower extensions which are folded and form a top end closure and bottom end closure, respectively, when said outer wrapper is folded and wraps a pack of cigarettes,said top end closure being composed of tucks which are the extensions of the narrower sides of said outer wrapper and flaps which are the extensions of the wider sides of said outer wrapper,a tear tape in the form of a narrow strip of polymeric material being attached to the inner side of said outer wrapper, in parallel with and spaced inwardly from one of horizontal end edges of said outer wrapper,a sealing strip of paper or polymeric material being attached, across the top end closure of said inner wrapper, to the upper end part of the middle wrapper; anda portion of adhesive having known nontoxic, tacky, cohesive properties, being provided between the inner surface of the tuck of the outer wrapper and the outer surface of the folded dividing part of the inner wrapper.