Patent ID: 6742651
Filing Date: 2004-06-01
Classification: B65D

Abstract:
A multipack (10), for a group of laterally arranged cigarette hinge-lid packs, that is surrounded by a single-piece blank which forms a lower box part (11) having a large, upright front wall (14) and rear wall (15), a base wall (18) and narrow upright side walls (16, 17),which also forms an upper lid (12) for closing the box part (11), said lid (12) comprising a lid front wall (25), a lid top wall (32), lid side walls (27, 28) and a lid rear wall (26) and connected to the rear wall (15) of the box part (11) with an articulation line (46), and which also forms a collar (13) having a region which projects from the box part (11) and which is enclosed by the lid (12) when the latter is in a closed position, said group of hinge-lid cigarette packs being laterally arranged within the multipack (10) in two rows of five hinge-lid cigarette packs each placed one above the other such that upright longitudinal edges of every two hinge-lid cigarette packs, laterally arranged one above the other, abut upright longitudinal edges (41, 42) of the blank of the multipack (10), wherein: a) the upright longitudinal edges (41, 42) of the multipack blank have a round-corner configuration with rounded regions (71, 72, 73, 74), b) the upright longitudinal edges of the cigarette packs have a round-corner configuration, c) said laterally arranged hinge-lid cigarette packs of said group lie with their upright round-corner longitudinal edges abutting the rounded longitudinal edges (71, 72, 73, 74) of the multipack blank, and d) the rounded regions (71, 72, 73, 74) of the multipack blank have radii that conform to radii of the rounded edges of the cigarette packs.